OBJECTIVES We aimed to disentangle the effects of obesity and mobility limitation on cervical and breast cancer screening among community dwelling women. METHODS The data source was the French national Health and Disability Survey - Household Section, 2008. The Body Mass Index (BMI) was used to categorize obesity status. We constructed a continuous score of mobility limitations to assess the ...

a 40-day-old male holstein breed calf with a complaint of inability of moving the tongue in and out aswell as difficulties with breastfeeding was referred to the veterinary clinic. a notch in the middle of thetongue tip was evident during oral examination. in addition, a thin tissue band between the ventral surface of the tongue and floor of the oral cavity was seen in the calf. a diagnosis of ...

Understanding the relationship between mobility and the family and work transitions experienced by individuals approaching retirement is an important research topic. Both family transitions, such as divorce, widowhood or children leaving home, and work transitions, particularly retirement, influence where individuals will reside and, as they age, how much assistance they may need. This paper us...

“Restoration of (wheeled) mobility in SCI rehabilitation” was the theme of a recent International Congress in Amsterdam, April 2004. Restoration of mobility in spinal cord injury (SCI) in its ultimate form would be to remove the cause of the mobility limitation, i.e., curing the SCI. Despite a large and basic research effort on neural regeneration on spinal cord repair and on damage preventive—...

Ad hoc networks are gaining increasing popularity in recent years because of their ease of deployment. No wired base station or infrastructure is supported, and each host communicates one another via packet radios. In ad hoc networks, routing protocols are challenged with establishing and maintaining multihop routes in the face of mobility, bandwidth limitation and power constraints. In this pa...