An efficient approach to reliability analysis of deteriorating structural systems is presented, which considers stochastic dependence among element deterioration.
To efficiently model dependence among component deterioration states, a hierarchical structure is defined.
Sampson et al. (1997) identified associations among neighborhood deterioration, violence, and low collective efficacy (social control of neighborhoods through residents' collective effort); we observed that a heightened susceptibility to pollution, associated with violence exposures or fear thereof, may lead to synergistic health effects of social and physical environmental conditions.
Finally, our review could not determine if the ChEI's effects were due to stability of BPSD among the treatment group versus deterioration among the placebo group, or if their effects reflected a true improvement in treatment groups.
With increasing age, arterial structure and function change, progressively leading, among other deteriorations, to arterial stiffening [ 3, 4].
Many diseases associated with mental deterioration among aged patients can be effectively treated using neurological treatments.
Ms. Callies pointed out that the drag on small-company performance was not limited to the first quarter; margin deterioration among these concerns was a constant through the second half of 1997 as well.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is currently comparing two drugs for the treatment of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a condition that causes vision deterioration among the elderly.
Relative to native-born whites, there is no evidence of earnings deterioration among newly arriving white immigrants in 1970 census (1965 1969 immigrants), 1980 census (1975 1979 immigrants), or 1990 census (1985 1989 immigrants).
Dr. Elizabeth Lombardo, a psychologist in Wexford, Penn and the author of A Happy You: Your Ultimate Prescription for Happiness, says she's noticed deterioration among her patients: "It's like alcoholism.
