History of falling is an important fall risk factor. If a relationship between fall history and self-perceived motor fitness could be established, then treating it as a correctable risk of re-fall due to falls may be possible. We conducted a cross-se...
This study investigates the potential of passive monitoring of gait and turning in daily life in people with multiple sclerosis (PwMS) to identify those at future risk of falls. Seven days of passive monitoring of gait and turning were carried out in...
4 September 2021
Background: Falling is a serious issue among elderly community dwellers, often resulting in disability. We aimed to investigate the risk factors for falls among elderly community dwellers. Methods: We recruited 232 participants from multiple communit...
Falls among older adults represent a critical global public health problem, as they are one of the main causes of disability in this age group. We have developed an automated approach to identifying fall risk using low-cost, accessible technology. Tr...
Osteoporosis and the risk of falls increase the risk of fractures and events of falls. Prescriptions and programs for different forms of exercise have different impacts on the risk of falls, and exercises from multiple categories of whole-body vibrat...
Multiple sclerosis (MS) impacts balance and walking function, resulting in accidental falls. History of falls and clinical assessment are commonly used for fall prediction, yet these measures have limited predictive validity. Falls are multifactorial...
Falling is inevitable for legged robots when deployed in unstructured and unpredictable real-world scenarios, such as uneven terrain in the wild. Therefore, to recover dynamically from a fall without unintended termination of locomotion, the robot mu...
Background: Orthostatic hypotension (OH) is a common blood pressure abnormality in older adults that makes them prone to balance disorders and falls. The maintenance of balance relies on a complex regulatory system. The use of computerized dynamic po...
3 October 2020
Falls in the elderly are associated with morbidity and mortality. Research about fall risk factors in Spanish care facilities is scarce. This study aimed to assess the prevalence of falls among residents living in long-term care Spanish institutions...
Background/Objectives: In recent decades, the number of patients with chronic cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) has increased, and CVD survivors are more likely to be old and frail and to have multiple comorbidities. A better understanding of geriatric...
26 July 2020
Purpose: Risk of falls is a common sequela affecting patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD). Although motor impairment and dementia are correlated with falls, associations of brain structure and cognition deficits with falls remain unclear. Mat...
Death from falls accounts for a significant number of injuries and fatalities globally, often linked to suicides, workplace accidents, or substance abuse, and rarely to homicidal causes. Injuries from falls vary based on height, impact point, and sur...
Background/Objectives: Falls are a leading cause of morbidity in older adults, particularly those with multiple comorbidities. A multidisciplinary approach addressing physical, psychological, and environmental factors is essential for reducing fall r...
Academics often comment that their teaching affects their research, but how this manifests is often implicit. In this essay, I explicitly explore the artistic, scholarly, and curatorial research instantiated by an undergraduate class titled “Tr...
To investigate the dynamic response and failure mechanism of tempered glass subjected to falling-ball impact, a controlled falling-ball impact experimental platform was established. Strain gauges were arranged at multiple locations on the glass surfa...
Multiple forms of endemic malaria existed in the Mediterranean Basin from the 3rd millennium BCE until eradication regimes were imposed in the 20th century, with major societal health impacts across the history of the region. Little attention has bee...
Background: Falls are common among individuals with multiple sclerosis (MS), yet standard clinical mobility assessments—such as the Timed Up and Go (TUG)—may not fully capture the complexities of real-world ambulation, leading to suboptim...
Multi-cohort stands are increasingly recognized and valued because of their biological functioning, biological diversity, and resistance and resiliency to perturbations. These forest ecosystems are epitomized by multiple age classes, and often contai...
This article explores the sculptural programme of the west portal of Saint-Martin-de-Besse, which places Penance and the Eucharist sacraments at the centre of its polysemic narratives, forming chiastic sequences. Concerned with the fall of humankind...
24 July 2012
A 16-year-old girl with a history of a recent fall from the third floor was transferred to the emergency room. On presentation, the patient, who had sustained multiple facial fractures, was in clinical shock with a blood pressure 80/40 mm Hg, heart r...
Background/Objectives: Conventional time-based sit-to-stand measures may not fully reflect lower-limb neuromuscular capacity. This study examined whether relative sit-to-stand (STS) power provides explanatory capacity compared with STS time in the fu...
The use of statins for primary prevention in older adults remains controversial. In this manuscript, we present a case of an 81-year-old woman with a history of HTN, HLD, Alzheimer’s dementia and osteoporosis, who presented to a geriatrics clin...
Insects often encounter starvation stress, especially during invasion spread or population outbreaks. The fall webworm, Hyphantria cunea (Drury) (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae), is an important invasive pest in China, and the starvation resistance of its la...
An oligometastatic cancer state was first postulated in the 1990s by Hellman and Weichselbaum and described limited metastatic spread to a single or few sites of disease. It was hypothesized that this metastatic entity falls along a continuum of the...
Petrarch’s Liber sine nomine is a collection of satirical letters against the Avignon Curia, remarkable for its stylistic refinement. It offered later readers multiple possibilities of interpretation and reuse, serving both as a rhetorical mode...
Bacterial organisms have undergone homologous recombination (HR) and horizontal gene transfer (HGT) multiple times during their history. These processes could increase fitness to new environments, cause specialization, the emergence of new species, a...
Aerial manipulators have seen a rapid uptake for multiple applications, including inspection tasks and aerial robot–human interaction in building and construction. Whilst single degree of freedom (DoF) and multiple DoF rigid link manipulators (...
In the whole service life of building clusters, they will encounter multiple hazards, including the disaster chain of earthquakes and building debris. The falling debris may block the post-earthquake roads and even severely affect the evacuation, eme...
18 March 2022
This study examines the levels of social interaction, depression, and homeboundness, and the effects of social interaction and depression on homeboundness in community-dwelling older adults living alone. Survey data were collected from 6444 older adu...
5 January 2022
Cognitive dysfunction commonly occurs among older patients during admission and is associated with adverse prognosis. This study evaluated clinical characteristics and outcome determinants in hospitalized older patients with cognitive disorders. The...
Over five million cases of skin cancer are diagnosed each year in the United States with melanoma the third most common cancer in young adults. While publications have shown that sunburns increase the risk of developing melanoma throughout the lifeti...
This study analyzes the progression, utilization, and inherent challenges of traditional non-linear static procedures (NSPs) such as the capacity spectrum method, the displacement coefficient method, and the N2 method for evaluating seismic performan...
Red beds are Meso–Cenozoic continental sedimentary strata that are mainly composed of gravel stone, sandstone, siltstone, mudstone, and shale and occasionally have interlayers of limestone, halite, and gypsum. As a typical rock mass, red beds a...
Meals comprising a staple grain, a main, and side dishes (SMS meals) promote good dietary intake, yet limited studies have examined their multifactorial relationship with dietary intake. We investigated how demographic characteristics, lifestyle, and...
Background: tixagevimab/cilgavimab, distributed under the name “Evusheld”, was the first available pre-exposure prophylaxis for COVID-19 other than vaccination. It received an EUA from the FDA after sufficient trial data showed efficacy i...
Background/Objectives: Childhood hemophilia, a hereditary bleeding disorder predominantly affecting males, arises due to gene mutations encoding clotting factors VIII or IX. Intracranial hemorrhage represents a significant and life-threatening compli...
Background and Clinical Significance: Early lead failure after dual-chamber pacemaker implantation is rare but clinically significant, particularly when associated with thromboembolic complications. Technical pitfalls at the time of implantation, suc...
Objective: Intolerance of uncertainty (IU) is a transdiagnostic cognitive construct associated with anxiety, emotional dysregulation, and psychopathology across multiple clinical conditions. This study aimed to adapt the Intolerance of Uncertainty In...
The current clinical model for genetic testing is based on clinical-criteria/family-history (FH) and a pre-defined mutation probability threshold. It requires people to develop cancer before identifying unaffected individuals in the family to target...
The primary aim of this study was to examine the relationships between smoking status and health-related physical fitness and balance ability in older males residing in Taiwan. This investigation adopted a cross-sectional design, utilizing data from...
Background: The role of the periarticular muscles of the knee joint in ensuring body balance is still ambiguous. Therefore, we conducted clinical and biomechanical assessments on 52 older adults (36 women and 16 men, age of 67.58 ± 7.30 years,...
After the fall of communism, Romania embarked on a comprehensive land restitution process through Law No. 18/1991, aiming to re-establish private ownership rights, particularly for agricultural and forestry lands. Divergent historical legacies across...
Background: Sarcopenia is highly prevalent among hospitalized older adults and is associated with poor clinical outcomes. Multiple diagnostic criteria exist, but the comparative implications of different handgrip strength (HGS) thresholds and measure...
This paper presents a systematic reward engineering methodology for training a Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) quadrotor navigation policy in the Webots simulator, using a hierarchical architecture in which a PID controller handles low-level stabi...