background: fear of falling is common amongst older adults, especially those who live in nursing homes. this study aimed to determinate factors associated with fear of falling and functional independence in older adults living in nursing homes. methods: this was a cross-sectional study using a convenience sampling method to enroll 200 older adults living in nursing homes from 25 senior centers ...

Based on the theory of a falling shadow which was first formulated by Wang [15], a theoretical approach of the pseudo ideal structure in pseudo d-algebras is established. Several properties are investigated, and relations among a falling pseudo d-subalgebra, a falling pseudo BCK-ideal and a falling pseudo d-ideal are discussed. A characterization of a falling pseudo d-ideal is provided. Conditi...

Canopy interception plays an important role in determining the amount of rainfall reaching the forest floor. During a rainfall event, water either penetrates the canopy falling directly to the understory of the forest floor, or is intercepted by the canopy. From there it can drip to the ground surface, flow down tree stems, or be held and evaporated. The portion that falls directly to the groun...

This paper investigates a clustering instability of a freely falling granular jet composed of 100 microm glass spheres. The granular flow out of a circular nozzle starts out spatially uniform and then, further downstream, breaks up into well-defined clusters. An optical method is used that measures inhomogeneities in the flow in order to quantify the growth of the clusters. The role of air is i...

background and aim: the elderly afflicted with hearing loss experience the consequent problems of falling and imbalance. some rea­sons have been reported for the relationship between hearing loss and imbalance. however, a large part of the population of the elderly does not experience hearing assessments and if such assessments are done, the right rehabilitation services are not offered. this s...

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Consider a slinky that is held at one end while the rest of it is allowed to hang freely. If the slinky is released, then as it falls due to gravity it also shrinks in extent due to the contracting force in the slinky itself. A few years ago it was discovered that the net effect of these two changes exactly counteract each other at the bottom extent of the slinky and therefore the bottom of the...