OBJECTIVES To investigate the construct validity of a bathroom scale measuring balance in elderly people. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Participants were recruited via nursing homes and an organization that provides exercise classes for community-dwelling elderly people. PARTICIPANTS Nursing home patients were compared with active community-dwelling elderly people. Eligibility cri...

BACKGROUND Policy makers struggling to protect the 153 million orphaned and separated children (OSC) worldwide need evidence-based research on the burden of potentially traumatic events (PTEs) and the relative risk of PTEs across different types of care settings. METHODS The Positive Outcomes for Orphans study used a 2-stage, cluster-randomized sampling design to identify 1,357 institution-dw...

Mould development is a determinant of poor indoor air quality. Data on mould contamination from nationwide population-based studies are scarce. We investigated determinants in the participants French CONSTANCES cohort who answered dedicated follow-up questionnaire 2019. Participants reported mouldy odour, presence visible and size area (spots, <0.2 m2, [0.2 m2–1 m2], ]1 m2–3 m2] or >3 m2) bathr...

Total water cycle management (TWCM) discussion mostly limits the role of residential rainwater harvesting to providing an alternate water supply to a fraction of fit-for-purpose end uses. However, with operational improvements, greater outcomes can be achieved. By increasing the portion of roof area connected and developing adaptive rainwater diversion (ARD), reliable stormwater management outc...

Whether the highly centralised nervous systems of chordates and protostomes arose from a common ancestral precursor or independently has been a long-standing debate. Now, analysis of neural gene expression in an evolutionarily important chordate outgroup--the sand-dwelling, hemichordate acorn worms--reveals the presence of a central and peripheral nervous system, suggesting a common origin of c...

This paper will discuss the future use of the dwelling as a place for cooperative work. It is our opinion that the development of the communication technologies and the architectural design has to be treated in parallel when we discuss new forms of living and work habits. Our analysis is built on a theoretical framework that is reflected through earlier experiences in IT technology in domestic ...