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Qiwei Li, Elias Mpofu, Cheng Yin and Keith W. Turner
Objectives: Fall preventive programs aim to reduce risks for mortality from fall-related injuries among older adults. However, the covariation between personal perceptions of falls and factors and confidence of self-management in falls (CSMoF) is still u...
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Silvia Giovannini, Fabrizio Brau, Vincenzo Galluzzo, Domenico Alessandro Santagada, Claudia Loreti, Lorenzo Biscotti, Alice Laudisio, Giuseppe Zuccalà and Roberto Bernabei
A fall is an event where a person unintentionally and traumatically finds themselves on the floor or a lower level. Falls are very common, especially in the older adult population. One in four people falls at least once a year after age 65. Because of fa...
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Dianelis Falls Valdivieso, Mabel Teresa Chaos Yeras
Pág. Pág. 42 - 51
El centro histórico de la ciudad de Camagüey, declarado Patrimonio Cultural de la Humanidad en el 2008, es un exponente de valores arquitectónicos que responden a diferentes etapas, dentro de ellas destaca la arquitectura del Movimiento Moderno y en espe...
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Dianelis Falls Valdivieso
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El centro histórico de Camagüey, declarado Patrimonio Cultural de la Humanidad en 2008, atesora un número considerable de edificios correspondientes al Movimiento Moderno, construidos en la década de 1950, que sufren actualmente modificaciones para satis...
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Yue Ting Tang and Roman Romero-Ortuno
The prevention of falls in older people requires the identification of the most important risk factors. Frailty is associated with risk of falls, but not all falls are of the same nature. In this work, we utilised data from The Irish Longitudinal Study o...
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Fernanda Rodrigues, João Santos Baptista and Débora Pinto
The construction industry has one of the highest occupational accident incidence rates among all economic sectors. Currently, building information modelling (BIM) appears to be a valuable tool for analysing occupational safety issues throughout the const...
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Emre Caner Akcay and David Arditi
Fall-related accidents have received more attention in building construction than in civil construction as fall-from-heights is more common in building construction. In addition to social costs, construction companies face a significant financial burden ...
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Rahul Soangra, Vennila Krishnan, Joby John, Ehsan Rashedi and Alison McKenzie
Stroke survivors are at high risk of falling during turning. The kinematics of performing a 360° turn have not been fully analyzed among individuals after stroke. Quantitative differences in the parameters of turning between healthy older adults and thos...
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Andrzej Mroczkowski
(1) Background: The aim of this article is to investigate the susceptibility to head injuries in physical education students who do not train a specific sports discipline and those who use the fall performed backward with side aligning of the body techni...
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Azliyana Azizan,Asilah Anum,Noor Amiera Alias
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Diabetes elderly may experience fear of falls, poor balance and weaker lower limb strengths. The tasks to complete in their daily activities will become very challenging. Therefore, this study aims to compare the physical and cognitive functions towards ...
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Marisol Lara,Sergio A. Sepúlveda,Constanza Celis,Sofía Rebolledo,Pablo Ceballos
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The urban expansion of Santiago city includes areas with geomorphological and geological conditions with potential to be affected by landslide processes. This work presents compiled landslide susceptibility maps for the Andean foothills of Santiago city,...
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Tendai Makoni,Delson Chikobvu
AbstractAccurate tourism volatility forecasts for popular tourist destinations, like the Victoria Falls Rainforest, are vital to tourism destination managers and policymakers. The Victoria Falls Rainforest in Zimbabwe is under the town of Victoria Falls ...
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V. L. Gor?bets,S. I. Muzykina,M. I. Muzykin
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Giuseppe Cesarelli, Rita Petrelli, Sarah Adamo, Orjela Monce, Carlo Ricciardi, Emanuele Cristallo, Maria Ruccia and Mario Cesarelli
Among the issues on which health directions focus, fall risk is one of major importance since it affects patients hospitalized in both acute and rehabilitative hospitals. In this context, few publications have proposed a managerial approach aimed at (a) ...
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Rainer Poisel, Nikolaus Hoedlmoser and Bernhard Grasemann
In the former quarry near Spitz an der Donau (Austria), many rockfalls have occurred during operation as well as after closure. They have endangered a railway, the Wachau bicycle route, an important road, and the left Danube riverbank. Thus, future detac...
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Daniel Marshall, Carol-Anne Nicol, Robert Greene, Rick Sawyer, Armond Stansell and Ross Easterbrook
Gold, present as electrum, in the Battle Gap, Ridge North-West, HW, and Price deposits at the Myra Falls mine, occurs in late veinlets cutting the earlier volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) lithologies. The ore mineral assemblage containing the electrum...
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Martin J.-D. Otis, Abid Adjelane, Eric Jomphe and Khaled Youssef
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Daniela Micucci, Marco Mobilio and Paolo Napoletano
Smartphones, smartwatches, fitness trackers, and ad-hoc wearable devices are being increasingly used to monitor human activities. Data acquired by the hosted sensors are usually processed by machine-learning-based algorithms to classify human activities....
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Woohyoung Jeon, Ahmed Ramadan, Jill Whitall, Nesreen Alissa and Kelly Westlake
Falls in older adults are leading causes of fatal and non-fatal injuries, negatively impacting quality of life among those in this demographic. Most elderly falls occur due to unrecoverable limb collapse during balance control in the single-limb support ...
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Nirmalya Thakur and Chia Y. Han
Falls, highly common in the constantly increasing global aging population, can have a variety of negative effects on their health, well-being, and quality of life, including restricting their capabilities to conduct activities of daily living (ADLs), whi...
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