The failure of medium voltage (MV) cables in North Queensland has led Ergon Energy to consider the relative economics of refurbishment or replacement. In order to provide data to inform decision making, an accelerated ageing program has been designed to investigate the ageing of new, field aged, and refurbished cables. This paper describes the considerations affecting the design of the ageing e...

DNA damage has been implicated in ageing, but direct evidence for a causal relationship is lacking, owing to the difficulty of inducing defined DNA lesions in cells and tissues without simultaneously damaging other biomolecules and cellular structures. Here we directly test whether highly toxic DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) alone can drive an ageing phenotype using an adenovirus-based system ...

introduction: women are facing inequalities including health, thus their health deserves attention. investigating people’s health status from their viewpoints is an important measure in terms of public health of society and an indicator to determine the efficiency of health system.  this study aimed at evaluating the self-assessed health of older women living in shiraz and yasuj. methods: this ...

introduction: ageing brings different experiences for individuals. any individual learn about ageing from childhood whatever formal or informal. no matter they learn, what and how they learn is important. this study aimed to assess impact of an educational program on ageism in those people lower 20 years of age. methods: this interventional study was conducted among school and university studen...

 Background: According to previous studies, most of the speech recognition disorders in older adults are the results of deficits in audibility and auditory temporal resolution. In this paper, the effect of ageing on timecompressed speech and auditory temporal resolution by word recognition in continuous and interrupted noise was studied. Methods: A time-compressed speech test (TCST) w...

This research was carried out to study the effect of ageing on antioxidant and biochemical changes of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) seeds. The experiment laid out in completely randomized design (CRD) with four replications in Islamic Azad University, Boroujerd Branch, Boroujerd, Iran in 2015. The seeds of wheat (cv Sardari) were harvested at maturity and ageing treatments were done at 43° C wit...