This is a summary of the weather conditions in southeast Kansas during 2019/2020 growing season. The wet pattern that began 2019 continued into spring 2020, creating adverse for crop establishment. Dry dur­ing summer and fall limited pasture production. Temperatures were very near 10-year averages at each location.

BACKGROUND Falls are a leading cause of unintentional injury among adults age 65 years and older. Loose, unsecured rugs and damaged carpets with curled edges, are recognized environmental hazards that may contribute to falls. To characterize nonfatal, unintentional fall-related injuries associated with rugs and carpets in adults aged 65 years and older. METHODS We conducted a retrospective an...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To examine themes associated with falls specific to older adult patients diagnosed with cancer. DESIGN Prospective, exploratory, qualitative study. SETTING A senior adult oncology program at a cancer and research center in the southeastern United States. SAMPLE Men and women aged 70 years and older with any cancer diagnosis who had experienced a fall within three months...

Most of the known prohead maturation proteases in double-stranded-DNA bacteriophages are shown, by computational methods, to fall into two evolutionarily independent clans of serine proteases, herpesvirus assemblin-like and ClpP-like. Phylogenetic analysis suggests that these two types of phage prohead protease genes displaced each other multiple times while preserving their exact location with...

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE Falls are common in nursing homes and cause a high burden of injuries. The objective of this study was to analyze factors associated with serious consequences of falls in nursing home residents. DESIGN Prospective observational study. SETTING Falls were recorded over 1 year, covering all residents from 528 nursing homes in Bavaria, Germany. PARTICIPANTS The database c...

this study aimed to examine the relationship between pigments and seed fall rate of iranian castor genotypes and genetic diversity, specifically 28 castor genotypes (27 native and 1 modified), a randomized complete block design with three replications was conducted in 2014 and 2015 at the research farm of islamic azad university in damghan, northern iran. during the growth period, the following...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether previously reported racial differences in fall rates between White and Black/African American is explained by differences in health status and neighborhood characteristics. DESIGN Prospective cohort. SETTING Community. PARTICIPANTS The study included 550 White and 116 Black older adults in the Greater Boston area (mean age: 78 years; 36% men) who were Englis...

A variety of approaches for generating moving adaptive methods are summarized and compared. They basically fall into two groups: the velocity and the location based methods. The features, including the advantage and weakness, of each group are addressed. Brief numerical results are presented for several commonly used approaches to highlight their features and performance.  2003 IMACS. Publishe...