Objectives: Falling down is one of the most common problems that involve old people. It may affect the physical, emotional and social aspects of individual’s health and may cause economical and social problems for individuals and society. Methods & Materials: In a cross sectional study, 750 old people with ages of 55 or more, living in the city of Shiraz (409 female, 341 male, mean age...

  Background and Aim: Falls are one of the major health problems among older adults, affecting the quality of life and leads to serious problems in societies. The purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence of falling down among older people living in Khoramabad and determine related risk factors.   Material and Method: In this descriptive cross-sectional study, 400 older adults age...

a phase-locked loop (pll) based frequency synthesizer is an important circuit that is used in many applications, especially in communication systems such as ethernet receivers, disk drive read/write channels, digital mobile receivers, high-speed memory interfaces, system clock recovery and wireless communication system. other than requiring good signal purity such as low phase noise and low spu...

Purpose: To report a case of Purtscher’s Retinopathy in a patient with falling down. Case Report: A 25-year-old man with no history of specific disease referred to the ophthalmology clinic of Imam Hossein Hospital 2 days after falling due to a sudden vision loss in his right eye. Best-corrected visual acuity was counting finger 1m in the right and 10/10 in the left eye and Marcus Gunn pupil was...

The population of elderly people has growing trend in the developed or developing countries. Since the elderly are mainly associated with disability, this group of people exposed to dangerous events such as falling down. It is therefore needed to take care of these people against dangerous events. Intelligent video monitoring is a approach that may be able to give quick notification to the care...