Correction to: Age-Appropriate Wisdom?

Wisdom and life satisfaction in old age.

According to previous research findings, objective life conditions such as physical health, socioeconomic status, financial situation, the physical environment, and social involvement cannot fully explain the well-being of older persons. Instead, personality characteristics and developmental influences appear to have a stronger impact. This study combines personality and individual development ...

Interrogating the age-old wisdom of exercise.

W e have long known that exercise is good for us. Hippocrates declared more than 25 centuries ago that " if we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health. " There is now a wealth of evidence indicating that the benefits of physical activity extend across multiple organ systems and span t...

Age correction in monitoring audiometry: method to update OSHA age-correction tables to include older workers

OBJECTIVES The US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Noise Standard provides the option for employers to apply age corrections to employee audiograms to consider the contribution of ageing when determining whether a standard threshold shift has occurred. Current OSHA age-correction tables are based on 40-year-old data, with small samples and an upper age limit of 60 years. By ...

Appropriate background correction for DTPA aerosol clearance.

Measurement of the clearance rate of inhaled aerosols of 99mTc-diethylenetriamine pentaacetic acid (DTPA) from distal airway to pulmonary capillary is a sensitive technique for the detection of lung injury. As the solute diffuses across the blood-gas barrier, the concentration in circulating blood increases, giving rise to a background signal superimposed on the signal from residual DTPA in the...

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