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A systematic literature review of attrition between waves in longitudinal studies in the elderly shows a consistent pattern of dropout between differing studies (2005)
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Chatfield, M. D., Brayne, C. E., & Matthews, F. E. (2005). A systematic literature review of attrition between waves in longitudinal studies in the elderly shows a consistent pattern of dropout between differing studies. Journal of clinical epidemiology, 58(1), 13-19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2004.05.006

Longitudinal studies of the elderly are complicated by the loss of individuals between waves due to death or other dropout mechanisms. Factors that affect dropout may well be similar from one study to another. This article systematically reviews all... Read More about A systematic literature review of attrition between waves in longitudinal studies in the elderly shows a consistent pattern of dropout between differing studies.

Diseases and impairments as risk factors for onset of disability in the older population in England and Wales: Findings from the medical research council cognitive function and ageing study (2005)
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Spiers, N. A., Matthews, R. J., Jagger, C., Matthews, F. E., Boult, C., Robinson, T. G., & Brayne, C. (2005). Diseases and impairments as risk factors for onset of disability in the older population in England and Wales: Findings from the medical research council cognitive function and ageing study. The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences, 60(2), 248-254. https://doi.org/10.1093/gerona/60.2.248

Background. This paper reports the association between self-reported diseases and impairments and 2-year onset of disability in a prospective study of people aged 65 years or older in five urban and rural centers in England and Wales (Medical Researc... Read More about Diseases and impairments as risk factors for onset of disability in the older population in England and Wales: Findings from the medical research council cognitive function and ageing study.

Challenges in the epidemiological investigation of the relationships between physical activity, obesity, diabetes, dementia and depression (2005)
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Brayne, C., Gao, L., & Matthews, F. (2005). Challenges in the epidemiological investigation of the relationships between physical activity, obesity, diabetes, dementia and depression. Neurobiology of Aging, 26(SUPPL.), 6-10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2005.09.030

There are many challenges facing epidemiologists wishing to investigate relationships between physical activity, obesity, diabetes, dementia and depression, all of which are complex fields in their own right. There is a large literature investigating... Read More about Challenges in the epidemiological investigation of the relationships between physical activity, obesity, diabetes, dementia and depression.

The incidence of dementia in England and Wales: Findings from the five identical sites of the MRC CFA study (2005)
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Matthews, F., Brayne, C., Arie, T., Bond, J., Copeland, J., Day, N., …Parker, C. (2005). The incidence of dementia in England and Wales: Findings from the five identical sites of the MRC CFA study. PLoS Medicine, 2(8), 0753-0763. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020193

Background: Although incidence of dementia is known to vary between nations, variation within country has not been explored because most incidence studies are single site or have insufficient numbers to compare sites. Few countries have conducted mul... Read More about The incidence of dementia in England and Wales: Findings from the five identical sites of the MRC CFA study.

Brain donation for research: consent and re-consent post Alder Hey. (2005)
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Barnes, L., Matthews, F. E., Barber, B., Davies, L., Lloyd, D., Brayne, C., & Parry, B. (2005). Brain donation for research: consent and re-consent post Alder Hey

Background: Recent scandals relating to the unconsented retention and use of human organs in the UK have led to widespread changes to governance and ethical frameworks for research throughout England and Wales. Ethics committees now ask for proof of... Read More about Brain donation for research: consent and re-consent post Alder Hey..

Imagining England in Richard Morison's pamphlets against the Pilgrimage of Grace (1536) (2005)
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Mottram, S. (2005). Imagining England in Richard Morison's pamphlets against the Pilgrimage of Grace (1536). Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 36, 41-67. https://doi.org/10.1353/cjm.2005.0004

This article contests the assumptions of the social historians Foucault, Anderson, Gellner, and Habermas, all of whom date the origins of nationhood in Western Europe to the eighteenth century, and argue that nationhood superseded empire at this time... Read More about Imagining England in Richard Morison's pamphlets against the Pilgrimage of Grace (1536).

The efficacy of knowledge management for personalised healthcare (2005)
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Bali, R. K., Dwivedi, A., & Naguib, R. N. (2005). The efficacy of knowledge management for personalised healthcare. Studies in health technology and informatics, 117, 104-107

This chapter examines some of the key issues surrounding the incorporation of the Knowledge Management (KM) paradigm for personalised healthcare. We discuss the complex nature of KM, some essential concepts necessary to make personalised healthcare a... Read More about The efficacy of knowledge management for personalised healthcare.

Clinical knowledge management: An overview of current understanding (2005)
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Bali, R. K., & Dwivedi, A. (2005). Clinical knowledge management: An overview of current understanding. Studies in health technology and informatics, 114, 315-318

This chapter outlines contributions to a workshop for ICMCC 2005. We details some of the central issues surrounding the incorporation of the Knowledge Management (KM) paradigm for the healthcare and clinical sectors. The complex nature of KM is discu... Read More about Clinical knowledge management: An overview of current understanding.

Israeli democracy at the crossroads (2005)
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Cohen-Almagor, R. (2005). Israeli democracy at the crossroads. Israel affairs, 11(1), 254-275. https://doi.org/10.1080/1353712042000324553

This article considers some of the issues raised by the contributors to this issue of the journal. I speak of the harms of concentrated media ownership and then discuss health rights, arguing that democracy should not neglect its elderly citizens, at... Read More about Israeli democracy at the crossroads.

Introduction to the special issue on Advances in clinical and Healthcare Knowledge Management (2005)
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Bali, R., Feng, D., Burstein, F., & Dwivedi, A. (2005). Introduction to the special issue on Advances in clinical and Healthcare Knowledge Management. IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, 9(2), 157 - 161. https://doi.org/10.1109/TITB.2005.849395

Clinical and health-care knowledge management (KM) as a discipline has attracted increasing worldwide attention in recent years. The approach encompasses a plethora of interrelated themes including aspects of clinical informatics, clinical governance... Read More about Introduction to the special issue on Advances in clinical and Healthcare Knowledge Management.

Blackboard: a virtual learning environment or an administrative tool? (2005)
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Loke, J. (2005). Blackboard: a virtual learning environment or an administrative tool?. Journal of Instructional Science and Technology, 8(1),

This paper is intended as a contribution to the debate about the use of Blackboard (Bb) as a Virtual Learning Environment in a blended approach to learning in a higher educational institution. The use of a case study seems necessary to illustrate the... Read More about Blackboard: a virtual learning environment or an administrative tool?.

Experiences of embedding Information Technology into discipline based teaching (2005)
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Gordon, N. (2005). Experiences of embedding Information Technology into discipline based teaching. Innovation in teaching and learning in information and computer sciences, 4(1), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.11120/ital.2005.04010002

In this paper we will reflect upon some of the experiences that the author had whilst supporting the embedding of Information Technology (I.T.) into a U.K. mathematics department’s undergraduate teaching. The paper includes some examples of the kinds... Read More about Experiences of embedding Information Technology into discipline based teaching.

Aspects of the linear groups GL(n,2) (2005)
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Gordon, N. A., Jarvisy, T. M., & Shawy, R. (2005). Aspects of the linear groups GL(n,2). Journal of combinatorial mathematics and combinatorial computing, 53, 13 - 31

We provide tables which summarize various aspects of the Önite linear groups GL(n; 2); n < 7; in their action upon the vector space Vn = V (n; 2) and upon the associated projective space PG(n 1; 2): It is intended that the tabulated results should be... Read More about Aspects of the linear groups GL(n,2).