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The intention of this research is to develop methods for measuring functional dependency and sequencing of coupled tasks in engineering design so as to improve the design process.

The Katz ADL is a scale that measures functional dependency in six basic activities: transferring, dressing, bathing, going to the toilet, feeding, and continence.

As a possible mechanism, we hypothesized that the dose-time dependency effect of static stretch might have important implications when measuring functional parameters of the MTU and performance.

HES does not record specific clinical measures of functional dependency (eg, Barthel Index).

The FAST was chosen because of its utility in the advanced stages of dementia and its prognostic value; a FAST stage 7c combined with functional dependency (measured here by the AKPS) is predictive of an average survival of <6 months [ 48].

It would appear that both residents and physicians undervalue the health aspects used to construct the objective measure, i.e., functional dependency, multimorbidity, and cognitive impairment.

The creation of a five-tier discharge institution levels represents a pragmatic approach to create an outcome that reflects increase in care need (within HES) as a proxy measure for increase in functional dependency.

1. Functional dependency: Functionality and sequential dependency are the primary concerns of designers.

Carer burden (normative need) was assessed by measuring the severity of dementia and functional dependency of the care recipient, as well as carers' subjective ratings of burden.

IPR is a meaningful extension of the centrality measures in complex network, which considers usage reliability of components and functional dependency between components to increase importance measures usefulness.

In view of the negative impact of functional dependency, this paper attempts to provide an alternative importance measure called Improved-PageRank (IPR) for measuring the importance of components in mechatronics systems.