Adults ( N = 54, 80.78 ± 6.08 years) who reported falling during the previous 12 months participated in a 12-week wobble board training program with internal focus or external (EF) instructions. Verbal manipulation checks were performed after sessions as self-report of attentional foci used. The percentage which participants using an EF (EF SR ) was subsequently calculated. Mean velocity and me...

A new isocoumarin derivative, similanpyrone C (1), a new cyclohexapeptide, similanamide (2), and a new pyripyropene derivative, named pyripyropene T (3) were isolated from the ethyl acetate extract of the culture of the marine sponge-associated fungus Aspergillus similanensis KUFA 0013. The structures of the compounds were established based on 1D and 2D NMR spectral analysis, and in the case of...

We present detections of absorption from the ground state and excited states of C I in the z = 1.9731 damped Lyα system of the QSO 0013−004. The excitation temperature between the J = 0 and J = 1 fine-structure levels of C I is 11.6 ± 1.0 K. We estimate other contributions to the excitation of the C I fine-structure levels, and use the population ratio of the excited state to the ground state t...

0013-7944/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier Ltd http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.engfracmech.2012.04.030 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 858 534 5930; fa E-mail addresses: [email protected] (C. Nielsen) The fracture behavior of poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) is studied using double cleavage drilled compression (DCDC) experiments. Increasing sample thickness is found to increase the stresses requir...

We prove that the multiplicity of an arbitrary dominant weight for an integrable highest weight representation of the affine Kac-Moody algebra A (1) r is a polynomial in the rank r. In the process we show that the degree of this polynomial is less than or equal to the depth of the weight with respect to the highest weight. These results allow weight multiplicity information for small ranks to b...

OBJECTIVE This subgroup analysis of a phase-3 study evaluated the efficacy and safety of oxybutynin chloride topical gel (OTG) in women with overactive bladder syndrome (OAB). STUDY DESIGN Women (n = 704) with urgency-predominant urinary incontinence received OTG or placebo for 12 weeks. The primary endpoint was change from baseline to last observation in number of daily incontinence episodes...

Stochastic scheduling problems are difficult stochastic control problems with combinatorial decision spaces. In this paper we focus on a class of stochastic scheduling problems, the quiz problem and its variations. We discuss the use of heuristics for their solution, and we propose rollout algorithms based on these heuristics, which approximate the stochastic dynamic programming algorithm. We s...

Tinea incognita is a dermatophyte infection of the skin whose clinical presentation has been modified by the misuse of steroids or, as has been described recently, calcineurin inhibitors. We report a case of pustular psoriasis treated with an antipsoriatic cream, composed of topical steroids and a vitamin D3 derivative, which gave rise to a tinea incognita. Our case underlines that clinical fea...