Maintaining and controlling postural balance is important for activities of daily living, with poor postural balance being predictive of future falls. This study investigated eyes open and eyes closed standing posturography with elderly adults to identify differences and determine appropriate outcome measure cut-off scores for prospective faller, single-faller, multi-faller, and non-faller clas...

The interplay between the resultant of the hydrodynamic forces on a falling particle and of its weight represents the physical mechanism of sediment motion in streams. Transport of sediment occurs because of interaction of fluids with loose material of confined boundaries, which create a very complex set of conditions. The loose boundaries deform due to erosion and deposition. Moreover, the cas...

A method is presented by which combined S-band polarimetric weather radar and UHF wind profiler observations of precipitation can be used to extract the properties of liquid phase hydrometeors and the vertical velocity of the air through which they are falling. Doppler spectra, which contain the air motion and/or fall speed of hydrometeors, are estimated using the vertically pointing wind profi...