QUALITY OF LIFE PROFILES AND THEIR ASSOCIATIONS WITH DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS AND COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT OF COMMUNITY-DWELLING OLDER ADULTS IN HONG KONG

Quality of life profiles and their associations with depressive symptoms and cognitive impairment of community-dwelling older adults in Hong Kong

BackgroundThis study aimed to (1) explore the quality of life (QoL) profiles of older adults in Hong Kong and (2) examine their association with predictors (age, sex, body mass index, and depressive symptoms) and distal outcome (cognitive impairment) using a person-centered approach.MethodsA total number of 328 community-dwelling older adults in Ho

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Semantic Feature Learning via Dual Sequences for Defect Prediction

Software defect prediction (SDP) can help developers reasonably allocate limited resources for locating bugs and prioritizing their testing efforts.Existing methods often serialize an Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) obtained from the program source code into a token sequence, which is then inputted into the deep learning model to learn the semantic feat

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