The purposes of this study were to investigate patterns and causes of weight loss among
elderly long-term care residents and to examine the relationship between weight changes
and the nursing home survival. The study was designed to accomplish five objectives: 1)
to examine the rate and degree of the first...
Obesity is a major public health problem and is a risk factor for hypertension, diabetes, heart disease and cancer. In addition, the prevalence of obesity appears to be increasing worldwide, making it important to determine the nature and extent of obesity in populations at risk. The aim of this study...
The nuclear industry has long relied upon bounding parametric analyses in predicting the safety margins of reactor designs undergoing design-basis accidents. These methods have been known to return highly-conservative results, limiting the operating conditions of the reactor. The Best-Estimate Plus Uncertainty (BEPU) method using a modernized version of the Code-Scaling,...