Disgust sensitivity and concern with contamination have been frequently associated with Spider and Blood-Injection-Injury (BII) Phobias. This study assessed the domain specificity of disgust sensitivity and concern with contamination in 29 Non-Phobic Controls, 25 clinical Spider Phobics, 26 clinical BII Phobics, and 27 persons who met clinical criteria for Spider Phobia and BII Phobia. On self-...

Objectives. This study aimed to describe the cross-sectional and longitudinal association between alcohol intake and gait parameters in older persons. Methods. Community-dwelling persons aged 65-70 years (N = 807). Information on health, functional status, and alcohol use was self-reported at baseline and at 3-year follow-up, whereas gait speed and stride-to-stride variability were measured whi...

BACKGROUND There are a number of informal trading sites across cities in sub-Saharan Africa, of which the markets of Warwick is one example. Since the informal economy is an important contributor to a city's economy as well as a source of employment, it is important for these sites to be accessible for all persons. Whilst the South African government has put structures in place to identify and ...

Visual surveillance systems often require exact localization of tracked persons on the ground plane of the monitored scene. This becomes a challenging task in a cluttered environment, where persons not only overlap each other in the image plane but are also at times partially occluded by furniture or similar objects. In contrast to many multi-camera or stereo approaches to overcome these diffic...

PURPOSE Persons with mild dementia experience multiple losses and manifest depressive symptoms. This research study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a support group led by a social worker for Chinese persons with mild dementia. RESEARCH METHODS Participants were randomly assigned to either a ten-session support group or a control group. Standardized assessment tools were used for data c...

To establish whether there is new evidence to inform changes to WHO 2003 recommendations for micronutrient intake in persons with HIV/AIDS, we conducted a narrative review of the literature published from 2003 to 2010. Although the review focused on new randomized controlled trials of multiple micronutrients in HIV-infected adults, including pregnant and lactating women, we also considered rand...

We examine the determinants of happiness from a comparative perspective. We use data from the 2002 International Social Survey Programme with roughly 40,000 individuals nested within 30 countries. We apply a multi-level modeling approach to formulate the specific interactions between the macro and micro. We focus on public social expenditures and taxes as proxy measures of state intervention at...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Little is known about the role of microinfarcts in dementia and cognition. We examined microinfarcts and dementia, global cognition, and 5 cognitive systems in community-dwelling older persons. METHODS Four hundred twenty-five subjects enrolled in the Religious Orders Study underwent annual clinical evaluations, including 19 neuropsychological tests and assessment for d...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether robotic therapy can reduce motor impairment and enhance recovery of the hemiparetic arm in persons with chronic stroke. DESIGN Pre-posttest design. SETTING Rehabilitation hospital, outpatient care. PARTICIPANTS Volunteer sample of 20 persons diagnosed with a single, unilateral stroke within the past 1 to 5 years, with persistent hemiparesis. INTERVENTIONS Ro...

few studies use modern approaches to develop a quality of life (qol) questionnaire with acceptable construct validity, especially in iran. our main objective was to construct a new validated and uni-dimensional questionnaire, based on whoqol-100, using the rasch analysis.in a population-based, cross-sectional study in 2007, 500 tehran residents aged≥18 were randomly sampled. the persian version...