This paper reports on an empirical investigation of the relationship between print and hypertext reading skills. Subjects in the study were university students at a public Midwestern university. A repeated-measures, counter-balanced design was employed. Subjects were categorized as highand low-ability readers based on a standardized measure of reading achievement. Experimental tasks required su...

Content contribution from individuals is critical to the viability of online communities. In this study we identify the factors that are associated with the quantity and the quality of content sharing in a photo sharing community, where the act of content creation is decoupled from the act of content sharing. We draw on theories of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, and find that the prospect ...

To investigate the prevalence of pain in older people (75+), compare those in pain to those without regarding demographics, social network, functional limitations, fatigue, sleeping problems, depressed mood and quality of life (QOL), and identify variables associated with pain, a cross-sectional, prospective survey was conducted in an age-stratified sample of 4,093 people aged 75-105 years old....

Townsend (1963), in his book "The Last Refugea survey of residential institutions and homes for the aged in England and Wales", painted a disturbing picture of the care received by old people in this country. The purpose of this investigation was to see whether it was possible to make an objective assessment of the adequacies, or the inadequacies, of the residential care given to old people. Th...

OBJECTIVE to investigate variations in the masseteric myotatic reflex (jaw-jerk) and the silent period from the 5th to the 9th decades of life. SUBJECTS AND METHODS electromyographic data were recorded from the masseter muscle of the preferred chewing side by surface electrodes, using a computerized recording and analysis system. Chin taps were applied with a neurologist's hammer during mandi...

We examined memory for pictures and words in middle-age (45-59 years), young-old (60-74 years), old-old (75-89 years), and the oldest-old adults (90-97 years) in the Louisiana Healthy Aging Study. Stimulus items were presented and retention was tested in a blocked order where half of the participants studied 16 simple line drawings and the other half studied matching words during acquisition. F...

Injury to the cervical cord is common but may be overlooked The first important requirement in managing any patient with an injury to the cervical spine is to make the diagnosis: failure to do this in a patient with traumatic spinal instability may lead to increased neurological deficit. In one large series of such injuries the diagnosis was missed in the accident and emergency department in on...

In this context the extended family is defined as a group of relatives comprising more than an immediate family who live in ?ne, two or more households and who see each other every day or nearly every day. Within this group the old person, particularly the old woman, is supported to the end of life. The remarkable thing about old age is that it does not signify abrupt change but emphasises the ...

Three out of four fatal accidents in the home involve people aged 65 years or more, and in more than half the victim is over 75. In 1964 3 % of all the deaths of men and 4.8% of all the deaths of women of 65 and over were attributable to accidents rather than disease (Boucher, 1966). Old people spend relatively little time out of doors. We recognize that they are specially at risk in traffic, y...

? must we shut them away? Dr. Norman Capstick outlines a scheme which would save many old people from the isolation of an institution, but still enable them to receive the care and treatment that they need The aim of keeping old people in the community is partly to avoid resignation to an institutional life, with its loss of independence, and also because a hospital is essentially a therapeutic...