OBJECTIVES To examine the relationship between functional limitations and pain across a spectrum of age, ranging from mid life to advanced old age. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING The 2004 Health and Retirement Study (HRS), a nationally representative study of community-living persons aged 50 and older. PARTICIPANTS Eighteen thousand five hundred thirty-one participants in the 2004 ...

Dislocations act in semiconductors as combined positron traps, consisting of a shallow precursor state, which is related to regular parts of the dislocation line, and bound vacancy-like defects. The motion of dislocations during plastic deformation generates a high number of point defects. The clustering of vacancies to stable voids is regarded as a primary process of the jog dragging mechanism...

Purely gravitational perturbations are considered in a thin rotating disk composed of several gas and stellar components. The dispersion relation for the axisymmetric density waves propagating through the disk is found and the criterion for the local axisymmetric stability of the whole system is formulated. In the appropriate limit of two-component gas we confirm the findings of Jog & Solomon (...

We attach an inexpensive pressure sensor to the side of a personal digital assistant and use it as three input devices at once. Users can squeeze the device to provide near-continuous input to applications. At the same time the drivers interpret a sudden full squeeze as the push of a virtual button. A user’s sudden pressure release while squeezing is detected as the push of a second virtual but...

The Humphrey 30-2 visual field was examined 9 times before and after an 8-km jog in one subject, whose contrast sensitivity had been found to improve after jogging. The mean deviation improved statistically significantly suggesting better sensitivity of the visual system after jogging. Our results suggest that in some individuals physical exercise influences the factors which lie behind the vis...