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Using the NANA toolkit at home to predict older adults' future depression
Background: Depression is currently underdiagnosed among older adults. As part of the Novel Assessment of Nu-trition and Aging (NANA) validation study, 40 older adults self-reported their mood using a touchscreen computer over three, one-week periods. Here, we demonstrate the potential of these data to predict future depression status.
Methods: We analysed data from the NANA validation study using a machine learning approach. We applied the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator with a logistic model to averages of six measures of mood, with depression status according to the Geriatric Depression Scale 10 weeks later as the outcome variable. We tested multiple values of the selection parameter in order to produce a model with low deviance. We used a cross-validation framework to avoid overspecialisation, and receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC) analysis to determine the quality of the fitted model.
Results: The model we report contained coefficients for two variables: sadness and tiredness, as well as a constant. The cross-validated area under the ROC curve for this model was 0.88 (CI: 0.69â0.97).
Limitations: While results are based on a small sample, the methodology for the selection of variables appears suitable for the problem at hand, suggesting promise for a wider study and ultimate deployment with older adults at increased risk of depression.
Conclusions: We have identified self-reported scales of sadness and tiredness as sensitive measures which have the potential to predict future depression status in older adults, partially addressing the problem of underdiagnosis
Risk Factors for Nipah Virus Encephalitis in Bangladesh1
Patients in Goalando were likely infected by direct contact with fruit bats or their secretions, rather than through contact with an intermediate host
Search for the lepton-flavor-violating decays Bs0âe±Όâ and B0âe±Όâ
A search for the lepton-flavor-violating decays Bs0âe±Όâ and B0âe±Όâ is performed with a data sample, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.0ââfb-1 of pp collisions at âs=7ââTeV, collected by the LHCb experiment. The observed number of Bs0âe±Όâ and B0âe±Όâ candidates is consistent with background expectations. Upper limits on the branching fractions of both decays are determined to be B(Bs0âe±Όâ)101ââTeV/c2 and MLQ(B0âe±Όâ)>126ââTeV/c2 at 95% C.L., and are a factor of 2 higher than the previous bounds
Branching fraction and CP asymmetry of the decays B+âK0SÏ+ and B+âK0SK+
An analysis of B+ â K0
SÏ+ and B+ â K0
S K+ decays is performed with the LHCb experiment. The pp
collision data used correspond to integrated luminosities of 1 fbâ1 and 2 fbâ1 collected at centre-ofmass
energies of
â
s = 7 TeV and
â
s = 8 TeV, respectively. The ratio of branching fractions and the
direct CP asymmetries are measured to be B(B+ â K0
S K+
)/B(B+ â K0
SÏ+
) = 0.064 ± 0.009 (stat.) ±
0.004 (syst.), ACP(B+ â K0
SÏ+
) = â0.022 ± 0.025 (stat.) ± 0.010 (syst.) and ACP(B+ â K0
S K+
) =
â0.21 ± 0.14 (stat.) ± 0.01 (syst.). The data sample taken at
â
s = 7 TeV is used to search for
B+
c
â K0
S K+ decays and results in the upper limit ( fc · B(B+
c
â K0
S K+
))/( fu · B(B+ â K0
SÏ+
)) <
5.8 Ă 10â2 at 90% confidence level, where fc and fu denote the hadronisation fractions of a ÂŻb
quark
into a B+
c or a B+ meson, respectively
A study of CP violation in B-+/- -> DK +/- and B-+/- -> D pi(+/-) decays with D -> (KSK +/-)-K-0 pi(-/+) final states
A first study of CP violation in the decay modes B-+/- -> [(KSK +/-)-K-0 pi(-/+)](D)h(+/-) and B-+/- -> [(KSK +/-)-K-0 pi(-/+)](D)h(+/-), where h labels a K or pi meson and D labels a D-0 or (D) over bar (0) meson, is performed. The analysis uses the LHCb data set collected in pp collisions, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3 fb(-1). The analysis is sensitive to the CP-violating CKM phase gamma through seven observables: one charge asymmetry in each of the four modes and three ratios of the charge-integrated yields. The results are consistent with measurements of gamma using other decay modes
Statistical strategies for avoiding false discoveries in metabolomics and related experiments
Measurement of the B0âB0 oscillation frequency Δmd with the decays B0âDâÏ+ and B0â J/ÏKâ0
The B
0
âB
0
oscillation frequency Δmd is measured by the LHCb experiment using a dataset corresponding
to an integrated luminosity of 1.0 fbâ1
of protonâproton collisions at â
s = 7 TeV, and is found to be
Δmd
=0.5156±0.0051 (stat.)±0.0033 (syst.) psâ1
. The measurement is based on results from analyses
of the decays B
0
â D
âÏ
+ (D
â
â K
+Ï
âÏ
â) and B
0
â J/ÏK
â0
(J/Ï âÎŒ
+Ό
â,K
â0
â K
+Ï
â) and
their charge conjugated modes