The Tokyo Oldest Old Survey on Total Health (TOOTH): A longitudinal cohort study of multidimensional components of health and well-being

Abstract Background With the rapid worldwide increase in the oldest old population, considerable concern has arisen about the social and economic burden of diseases and disability in this age group.Understanding of multidimensional structure of health and its life-course trajectory is an essential prerequisite for effective health care delivery.The

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Simultaneous Learning and Filtering without Delusions: A Bayes-Optimal Derivation of Combining Predictive Inference and AdaptiveFiltering

Predictive coding appears to be one of the fundamental working principles of brain processing.Amongst other aspects, brains often predict the sensory consequences of their own actions.Predictive coding resembles Kalman filtering, where incoming sensory information is filtered to produce prediction errors for subsequent adaptation and learning.Howev

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Wildfire cause analysis: four case-studies in southern Italy

Forest fires in Italy are mainly caused by humans, and directly depend PASSIONFLOWER on social behavior, whether voluntary (arson) or involuntary (negligence).Despite the progress in knowledge made with studying the physical facets of the phenomenon, causes and motives of human-related fire remain mostly unknown.This paper proposes the implementati

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