By EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Hardwood lumber drying in the South is subject to hot and humid weather that promotes enzymatic stain in sapwood. Research has long studied the problem and certain remedies have been proposed. Chemical dipping is the most commonly used method of preventing enzymatic stain. However, its application is only topical and does not prevent stain. A private operator, Danny Elder o...

BACKGROUND Underreporting of elder mistreatment by health professionals is a significant problem. PURPOSE To investigate differences in elder mistreatment reporting threshold between hospice/palliative care (HPC) professionals and Adult Protective Services (APS); explore factors for not reporting elder mistreatment. DESIGN Cross-sectional questionnaire. SETTING/PARTICIPANTS Four HPC teams...

Although tremendous growth has occurred in the breadth and depth of topics investigated within the elder abuse literature, identification of the theoretical underpinnings of elder abuse research, practice, and policy has lagged behind the empirical output. Many academicians as well as practitioners fail to acknowledge explicitly the influence of theory on their research, teaching, programmatic,...

This cross-sectional study aimed to determine the profile of physical abuse against older people who underwent forensic examination at the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Recife, Pernambuco State, Brazil. The cases, with data from 1,027 forensic reports, were described according to characteristics of the incident, victim, and aggressor. Most cases of violence were produced by mechanical energ...

BACKGROUND Hydroxychloroquine may result in cutaneous dyschromia. Older individuals who are the victims of elder abuse can present with bruising and resolving ecchymoses. PURPOSE The features of hydroxychloroquine-associated hyperpigmentation are described, the mucosal and skin manifestations of elder abuse are reviewed, and the mucocutaneous mimickers of elder abuse are summarized. CASE RE...

BACKGROUND As Malaysia is fast becoming an ageing nation, the health, safety and welfare of elders are major societal concerns. Elder abuse is a phenomenon recognised abroad but less so locally. This paper presents the baseline findings from the Malaysian Elder Mistreatment Project (MAESTRO) study, the first community-based study on elder abuse in Malaysia. DESIGN Cross-sectional study, analy...

Abstract: Some people automatically and involuntarily ”see” mental images of numbers in spatial arrays when they think of numbers. This phenomenon, called number forms, shares three key characteristics with the other types of synaesthesiae, within-individual consistency, between-individual variety, and mixture of regularity and randomness. An experiment was conducted to investigate whether ment...

Over the years a number of powerful people detectors have been proposed. While it is standard to test complete detectors on publicly available datasets, it is often unclear how the di erent components (e.g. features and classi ers) of the respective detectors compare. Therefore, this paper contributes a systematic comparison of the most prominent and successful people detectors. Based on this e...

In this paper we give a new approach to the concepts of glyph and character, applied to the study of the Unicode encoding. After a thorough discussion of these two concepts, we describe the other fundamental ingredients of the encoding: privileged glyphs, character descriptions, combining characters, and properties. In each case we try to show the importance of the given notion and at the same ...