In 2010, the Alzheimer’s Association and the Alzheimer’s Impact Movement, a separately incorporated advocacy affiliate, worked with Congress to develop the National Alzheimer’s Project Act (NAPA). Signed into law on Jan. 4, 2011, NAPA led to the creation of a national strategic plan to address the rapidly escalating Alzheimer’s crisis and fundamentally changed the way the nation addresses Alzheimer’s and all other dementia. Visit alz.org/napa to learn more.
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The complete workflow is depicted in Fig. 1. To investigate the association between NPIs and AD, we initially conducted preprocessing and integration of biomedical triples...
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