Vision-based fall detection systems have experienced fast development over the last years. To determine the course of its evolution and help new researchers, the main audience of this paper, a comprehensive revision of all published articles in the m...
Fall of Ground (FoG) incidents remain a major safety and operational challenge in underground mining, particularly in structurally complex ground conditions. This study characterizes FoG occurrences at the East Sary-Oba Mine in central Kazakhstan. To...
Falls are a foremost source of injuries and hospitalization for seniors. The adoption of automatic fall detection mechanisms can noticeably reduce the response time of the medical staff or caregivers when a fall takes place. Smartphones are being in...
Pheromone receptors (PRs) found in the antennae of male moths play a vital role in the recognition of sex pheromones released by females. The fall armyworm (FAW), Spodoptera frugiperda, is a notorious invasive pest, but its PRs have not been reported...
By incorporating a growing number of sensors and adopting machine learning technologies, wearable devices have recently become a prominent health care application domain. Among the related research topics in this field, one of the most important issu...
In the past decade, Spodoptera frugiperda has emerged as a significant invasive pest globally, posing a serious threat to agriculture due to its broad diet, migratory behavior, and ability to cause extensive plant damage. While extensive research has...
The fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (J.E. Smith), is a voracious insect pest that is difficult to control due to resistance to insecticides and Bt proteins. We assessed cross-resistance, resistance mechanism, and fitness costs based on the life...
Intuitionistic falling shadow is introduced, and applied to
This experimental study presents an analysis of the air–water flow in rectangular free-falling jets. The measurements were obtained downstream of a 1.05 m wide sharp-crested weir. The properties of the air–water flow were registered in se...
To evaluate the value added by information reported in narratives (extracted through text mining techniques) in enhancing the characterization of falls patterns. Data on falls notified to the Risk Management Service of a Local Health Authority in Ita...
The results of the energetic characterization of two drip-type rainfall simulators, differing in the length of their capillary tubes, are presented. The rainfall kinetic power and momentum were measured using a single capillary tube and applying weig...
High temperatures complicate the direct measurements needed for continuous characterization of the properties of molten materials such as glass. However, the assumption that geometrical changes when the molten material is in free-fall can be correlat...
Analysis of freely moving Drosophila captures complex movement behaviors. However, previous experiments have been limited by the inability to distinguish between falls and downward jumps (downjumps). Here, individual flies moving freely in a culture...
Falling is a significant health problem. Fall detection, to alert for medical attention, has been gaining increasing attention. Still, most of the existing studies use falls simulated in a laboratory environment to test the obtained performance. We a...
The properties of the starch-amylolytic complex of commercial low-extract rye flour were determined based on the traditional method, such as falling number and amylograph test as well as differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The starch, pentosans...
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Background/Objectives: Many clinical tools are used to assess fall risk in Parkinson’s disease (PD). We examined whether tools that discriminate people with a history of falls also predict future falls. Methods: Six electronic databases were se...
3 November 2021
Falls are a complex problem, given their multifactorial nature, the comorbidities involved, and due to the dependency of older persons living in nursing homes. Risk, fear of falling, falls themselves, and their recurrence are the main factors behind...
Falls are among the top 10 causes of years lived with disability in people aged 75 and over. Preventive programs like case management (CM) are crucial. Objectives: To evaluate the effects of a multifactorial fall prevention program based on CM on phy...
Background/Objectives: Falls and upper limb injuries (ULI) are prevalent in older adults, yet whether ULI independently predisposes to subsequent falls remains poorly characterized. This nationwide cohort study evaluated the association between ULI a...
Background: Free fatal falls (FFF) are a frequent occurrence in forensic medicine. Many variables, such as the victim’s sex, BMI, intoxication, height of the fall, and mental illness, can influence injury patterns. Previous studies identified f...
Background/Objectives: Inflammatory sarcopenia, characterized by muscle weakness exacerbated by chronic systemic inflammation, has emerged as a critical factor in fall risk among older adults. While previous studies have examined sarcopenia and infla...
Background/objectives: Falls are a leading cause of traumatic injury and hospitalization for adults over the age of 65. While common, bed-related falls are relatively understudied when compared to ambulatory falls. The aim of this study is to charact...
This study aimed to characterize the risk of falling in low-, moderate- and high-risk participants from two different geographical locations using a portable force-plate. A sample of 390 older adults from South and North America were matched for age,...
Background/Objectives: Inpatient falls are an important patient-safety concern in rehabilitation hospitals; however, factors determining whether a fall results in fracture remain poorly understood. This study investigated clinical factors associated...
To understand the impact of falls on gait in those with poor sight, we examined how gait changed after falls in older adults with varying degrees of visual impairment from glaucoma. Participants were classified as fallers or non-fallers based on pros...
Recent guidelines have advocated against the use of vitamin D supplementation as a means to prevent falls in older adults. However, meta-analyses of the available trials have reached divergent conclusions, and the key design features of these trials...
The article presents a method of shaping unconventional building envelopes characterized by their effective solar performance in a temperate climate. An analysis related to the impact of geometric shape on the solar direct radiation falling on buildi...
8 January 2023
Falling events are a global health concern with short- and long-term physical and psychological implications, especially for the elderly population. This work aims to monitor human activity in an indoor environment and recognize falling events withou...
Investing in the stock market has always been an exciting topic for people. Many specialists have tried to develop tools to predict future stock prices in order to make high profits and avoid big losses. However, predicting prices based on the dynami...
Introduction: The objective was to study the association of frailty status in hospitalized elderly patients with risk of fall in an acute geriatric unit and to characterize elderly “fallers” using a comprehensive gerontological assessment...
As important components of the equatorial current system in the Indian Ocean, Wyrtki jets (WJs) play a significant role in distributing heat and matter in the East and West Indian Oceans. By dividing the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and...
In 2024, eight Soyuz launch vehicles launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome created 40 falling sites in Central and Northern Kazakhstan. During field work at all falling sites, the area of disturbances was assessed. The average area of zones containin...
This study analyzes the air–water flow properties in overflow nappe jets. Data were measured in several cross-sections of rectangular free-falling jets downstream of a sharp-crested weir, with a maximum fall distance of 2.0 m. The flow properties wer...
A neighborhood’s built environment can challenge the mobility of older mobility-challenged adults (due to knee osteoarthritis and falls), reducing their participation and quality of life. The Built Environment in Falls and arthrITis (BE-FIT) st...
A method to predict the swellability of clay-sand mixtures is proposed. This model is a modified form of the Studds (1997) prediction model for clay-sand mixtures. The new proposed model uses the laboratory fall cone penetration technique to produce...
The Functional Gait Assessment (FGA) was cross-culturally adapted into Greek, according to international guidelines. The final Greek version of the scale (FGAGR) was evaluated for its reliability and was correlated with the mini-Balance Evaluation Sy...
Maintaining autonomy is one of the principal objectives for seniors and people with psychiatric disorders. Podiatric medical care can help them maintain autonomy. This work aimed to characterize and quantify the support of the toes in a psychiatric p...
Background: Free fatal falls (FFF) represent a distinct form of blunt force trauma (BFT) that is frequently encountered in forensic practice. Distinguishing FFF injuries from other forms of BFT, such as motor vehicle accidents (MVAs), can pose challe...
Slips are a leading cause of injury and hospitalization among at-risk individuals. Replicating real-world slips by experimental, mechanical perturbations is essential for characterizing reactive balance mechanisms activated during near-fall situation...
In 1991, a group of Rastafarians in the village of Bullet Tree Falls, Belize, started out adhering to the principles of piety and protest that characterized the Rastafarians when began in Jamaica in the 1930s. After being Rastafarian for several year...
24 September 2022
The use of individual fall protection equipment is one of the most commonly applied methods of protecting workers whose worksites are located above the floor level. The safety of the user in such a situation depends on both the proper selection and c...
Background: The number of senior chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients is steadily increasing worldwide. Falls are more frequent in this group than in the general population, and they are associated with a variety of complications ranging from minor...
Background/Objectives: Toileting-related falls may arise from interacting urinary symptoms, impaired mobility and balance, cognitive or psychological factors, environmental hazards, and caregiver limitations that are often managed separately. This st...
Weather variability in subtropical environmental conditions of the southeastern U.S. impact sweet corn production in the region, which is one of the most important in the country. Understanding sweet corn performance under these environmental conditi...
Over the last few years, the use of smartwatches in automatic Fall Detection Systems (FDSs) has aroused great interest in the research of new wearable telemonitoring systems for the elderly. In contrast with other approaches to the problem of fall de...
This paper describes a wearable Fall Detection System (FDS) based on a body-area network consisting of four nodes provided with inertial sensors and Bluetooth wireless interfaces. The signals captured by the nodes are sent to a smartphone which simul...
Campus stairwells, characterized by their crowded nature during certain short periods of time, present a high risk for falls that can lead to dangerous stampedes. Accurate fall detection is crucial for preventing such accidents. However, existing res...
To characterize seasonal carbonaceous aerosol pollution in Taiyuan, a typical city in North China that mainly relies heavily on coal, a total of 124 PM2.5 samples were collected from August 2018 to the next May. The annual mean PM2.5 concentration wa...
Osteoporosis is a prevalent health concern among older adults and is associated with an increased risk of falls that may result in fracture, injury, or even death. Identifying the risk factors for falls and assessing the complexity of postural contro...
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