PURPOSE The purpose of this study is to describe characteristics of middle-age inpatients' (ages 45-64) fallers and their fall and fall injury risk factors. BACKGROUND Middle-age falls were 42-46% of inpatient falls. Studies related to inpatient falls have not targeted this population. METHODS A 439 retrospective chart review was performed. Middle-age fall and injury rates were compared wit...

and were discussed at different stages by the project members. I owe them all recognition for their input, as well as to Dr Richard Reece, who attended the spring 2007 plenary meeting at Woolstone (Oxon.). The main ideas were presented in 2006 to the members of the Globalization Discussion Group at the Instituto de Historia (CSIC). I particularly thank Antonio Lafuente for his remarks on post-m...

As the title indicates, this short book is intended to summarize the medieval contribution to what is now commonly referred to as cognitive psychology— " the psychology of how we acquire, process, and remember information about the world " (p. 1). The book focuses on developments that occurred in the Latin West with the recovery of Aristotle's De Anima in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries an...

Horses have been valued for their diversity of coat colour since prehistoric times; this is especially the case since their domestication in the Caspian steppe in ~3,500 BC. Although we can assume that human preferences were not constant, we have only anecdotal information about how domestic horses were influenced by humans. Our results from genotype analyses show a significant increase in spot...

Measles is caused by a paramyxovirus (RNA family) closely related inter alia to the viruses causing canine distemper and rinderpest in cattle. The antibody response to its infection causes lifelong immunity. There are no known extra-human reservoirs of the virus, and infected fluids quickly lose their infectivity on drying outside the body. The virus was first identified by Enders and Peebles i...

MARIE-CHRISTINE POUCHELLE, The body and surgery in the Middle Ages, transl. Rosemary Morris, Cambridge and Oxford, Polity Press, 1990, 8vo, pp. vii, 276, illus., £35.00. The original edition of this book appeared first in 1983. This English translation follows that of Jacquart's book on sexuality in the Middle Ages: clearly Polity Press have found a niche in the English-reading market. Ultimate...

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