Mortality after first-ever stroke or TIA related to pre-stroke executive performance.
In this community-based sample of elderly men, free from stroke/TIA at baseline, pre-stroke executive function, as measured by TMT-A and -B, predicted survival independent of education, social group and traditional stroke risk factors, as described in previous studies, 15 18 whereas MMSE had no predictive power in this respect.
Those who want the old judges restored by a stroke of the executive pen also want to see the back of President Musharraf immediately.
"It is not the president's prerogative to simply make this the law by the stroke of the executive pen," Lee continued.
The process for relief for this remaining category of cases can be swiftly initiated with the stroke of the executive pen, moving the nation closer to concluding a shameful chapter in the chronicles of federal drug sentencing policy.
If the FHFA directed them to do so they could issue principal reductions, negotiate lower interest rates, push refinancing deals through the system, and dramatically reduce foreclosures.That would do far more than last week's settlement deal can ever hope to accomplish -- without Congressional approval, with a stroke of its executive's pen.
Due to the large sample size, the results enable us to explore the effects of age at stroke on attention, executive function, and neurobehavioral outcome.
Significant predictors of death or dementia in descending order included three or more cardiovascular risk factors, the presence of CIND at baseline, previous disabling stroke, baseline CAMCOG executive and memory function scores, Geriatric Depression Scale score and age.
His death followed a second stroke, said Rachel McLain, his executive assistant.
In a pragmatic stroke, Mr. Perdue issued an executive order that the new flags be flown but that the flags they replace be retained and preserved.
Never as large as Chinatown, the Japanese community of San Francisco was wiped out at a single stroke by the infamous Executive Order 9066 of 1942, which sent them, foreign-born and citizen alike, into "relocation centres".
