THE MOBILIZE BOSTON STUDY: DESIGN AND METHODS OF A PROSPECTIVE COHORT STUDY OF NOVEL RISK FACTORS FOR FALLS IN AN OLDER POPULATION

The MOBILIZE Boston Study: Design and methods of a prospective cohort study of novel risk factors for falls in an older population

Abstract Background Falls are the sixth leading cause of death in elderly people in the U.S.Despite progress in understanding risk factors for falls, many suspected risk factors have not been adequately studied.Putative risk factors for falls such as pain, reductions in cerebral blood flow, somatosensory deficits, and foot disorders are poorly unde

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Imputation by feature importance (IBFI): A methodology to envelop machine learning method for imputing missing patterns in time series data.

A new methodology, imputation by feature importance (IBFI), is studied that can be applied to any machine learning method to efficiently fill in any missing or irregularly sampled data.It applies to data missing completely at random (MCAR), missing not at random (MNAR), and missing at random (MAR).IBFI utilizes the feature importance and iterativel

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Preference for Religious Coping Strategies and Passive versus Active Coping Styles among Seniors Exhibiting Aggressive Behaviors

This article is theoretical and empirical.The theoretical part presents issues related to experiencing stress (including ways of coping with experienced problems) and the relationships between preference for various coping strategies trip in the woods sierra nevada and human behavior.The empirical part presents the results of research on the relati

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