OBJECTIVES Owing to a lack of data, our aim was to evaluate and compare the impact of various common neurological diseases on the risk for falls in independent community dwelling senior citizens. DESIGN Prospective case-controlled study. SETTING General hospital. PARTICIPANTS Of 298 consecutive patients and 214 controls enrolled, 228 patients (aged 74.5±7.8; 61% women) and 193 controls (a...

Litter-dwelling thrips are an important component of soil macroinvertebrates in tropical and subtropical regions. However, little is known about assemblage composition, seasonal abundance and vertical distribution of litter-dwelling thrips. A survey of forest litter-dwelling thrips and other soil macroinvertebrates was conducted in an urban forest remnant at Guangzhou, China during 2004-2005 an...

Food availability and acquisition are critical components of a stopover site’s suitability, but we know relatively little about how changes in food availability affect the stopover ecology of migrating landbirds. we examined fruit and arthropod availability in three habitats, studied foraging behavior and diet, and investigated use versus availability for passerines migrating through southweste...

Citation: Liguori C, Izzi F, Mercuri NB and Placidi F (2017) Commentary: Sleep Changes without Medial Temporal Lobe or Brain Cortical Changes in Community-Dwelling Individuals with Subjective Cognitive Decline. Front. Neurol. 8:262. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2017.00262 Commentary: Sleep Changes without medial temporal lobe or Brain Cortical Changes in Community-Dwelling Individuals with Subjective Cog...

BACKGROUND Disability in Activities of Daily Living (ADL) is an adverse outcome of frailty that places a burden on frail elderly people, care providers and the care system. Knowing which physical frailty indicators predict ADL disability is useful in identifying elderly people who might benefit from an intervention that prevents disability or increases functioning in daily life. The objective o...

Many aspects of cave animal biology cannot be understood through field observations alone. Access to some subterranean habitats is often technically challenging, rendering long-term monitoring cave-dwelling species or investigating their difficult. Also, contemporary research questions and methods require sampling individuals at certain life stages, most adapted have lengthy spans are not acces...

this is a cross-sectional study aiming at analyzing the relation between falling and domestic environmental -risk factors in community-dwelling elderly.the study consisted of 243 randomly chosen community-dwelling elderly over 65 years of age living around a health care center in central selcuklu, konya. data were collected with a questionnaire form including socio-demographic and other charact...

Abstract There are two difficulties in designing a future home for urban dwellers. First is the uneven understanding between physical built environment and everyday activities led by technological development. Second vague family living culture spatial arrangement of dwelling. The invention new digital technologies, such as big data, artificial intelligence (AI), internet things (IoT), has enti...