The Third Age is now considered by many to be the “golden years” of adulthood. It is generally defined as the span of time between retirement and the beginning of age-imposed physical, emotional, and cognitive limitations, and today would roughly fall between the ages of 65 and 80+. This is a period of adulthood when typically there are fewer responsibilities (e.g., career and family-rearing) t...

Review scope Included studies assessed VTE prophylaxis in hospitalized patients with > 50% of the study population ≥ 75 years of age or reported a subgroup analysis for patients ≥ 75 years of age. Exclusion criteria were studies of patients with a single disease, head-tohead comparisons of unfractionated and low-molecular-weight heparin, exclusion of patients > 80 years of age, and not reportin...

Results During March 2010, a cluster of 6 patients with CRKP was detected. Patients with CRKP were placed under strict contact isolation. Admission and periodic active surveillance cultures showed a downward trend of CRKP clinical cases over the following months to zeros in July and August. All patients had prolonged hospital stay before CRKP detection and the majority had recent history of car...

Under 5 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 5.7 5 to 9 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 6.9 10 to 14 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 7.4 15 to 19 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 6.6 20 to 24 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

spectrophotometry Alexander Gray, Mehdi Balooch, Stephane Allegret, Stefan De Gendt, and Wei-E Wang Department of Physics, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA n&k Technology, Inc., 80 Las Colinas Lane, San Jose, California 95119, USA STMicroelectronics, 850 Rue Jean Monnet, 38926 Crolles Cedex, France Interuniversity Microelectronics Center (IMEC vzw), Kapeldreef 75, 3001 Leu...

Under 5 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 4.8 5 to 9 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 5.3 10 to 14 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 6.5 15 to 19 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 7.2 20 to 24 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....