PREDICTING FALLS IN OLDER ADULTS: AN UMBRELLA REVIEW OF INSTRUMENTS ASSESSING GAIT, BALANCE, AND FUNCTIONAL MOBILITY

Predicting falls in older adults: an umbrella review of instruments assessing gait, balance, and functional mobility

Abstract Background To review the validated instruments that assess gait, balance, and functional mobility to predict falls in older adults across different settings.Methods Umbrella review of narrative- and systematic reviews with or without meta-analyses of all study types.Reviews that focused on older adults in any settings and included validate

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Research and application of mine-used cooling water tower based on counterflow closed heat exchange principle

In order to solve the high heat generation of equipment in coal mines, which causes a heavy burden on the water supply and drainage system, as well as the easy scaling problem of Scalp Remedies equipment heat exchangers, an innovative solution based on reverse flow closed-type cooling tower was proposed.This solution was developed by using Fluent s

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MAp34 Regulates the Non-specific Cell Immunity of Monocytes/Macrophages and Inhibits the Lectin Pathway of Complement Activation in a Teleost Fish

The lectin pathway of the complement system is one of the main components of innate immunity, which plays a pivotal role in the defense against infectious microorganisms and maintains immune homeostasis.However, its control mechanisms remain unclear in teleost fish.In this study, we described the identification and functional characterization of a

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Cooperative Smooth Nonsingular Terminal Sliding Mode Guidance with Tracking Differentiator for Active Aircraft Defense

Aimed at the poor performance of guidance algorithms designed based on a linearized model in active defense under large leading angle deviation, both-way and one-way cooperative sliding mode guidance algorithms based on the smooth nonsingular terminal sliding mode for the defense missile are Memory card Accesories proposed.The relative kinematics a

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