a consensually-agreed position among scholars of communication and aging is that while psychological and physical health mutually impact each other, the quality of language to and from older adult individuals shape each of these—and are shaped by them. encounters with others inside and outside of one’s age ingroup involve stereotyped expectations with regard to language and other speech behavio...

objectives: the purpose of this research was to identify and present environmental aspects that affect elders presence and participation in urban public spaces. methods & materials: the current research is an analytic- descriptive type in survey beds. statistical sample of this research were elders over 65 years of shiraz city that attended and participated in urban public places. data of this ...

objectives: the present study aimed at studying the health status of the elderly supported by imam khomeini relief foundation in birjand in 2007. methods & materials: this descriptive analytical study was done on 250 elderly people who were supported by imam khomeini committee in birjand. for data collection the comprehensive health questionnaire of the elderly was used. the questionnaire was f...

objective(s): in the current study, the effects of selected folk medicinal herbs were evaluated in d-galactose-induced aging in male mice.   materials and methods: male balb/c mice were randomly divided into 12 groups composing sham, control, and treated groups. aging was induced by administration of d-galactose (500 mg/kg/day for 6 weeks). a positive control group was assigned that received vi...

introduction: raising the knowledge of skeletal and soft tissue changes with aging has been highly essential due to an increasing demand for aesthetic facial surgery following aging. the aim of this study is to evaluate the three dimensional computed tomographic images and process of changes in mandible with aging. materials and methods: in this descriptive study, the facial ct scans were obtai...

this study was conducted to evaluate the effect of purslane hydro alcoholic extract on blood urea nitrogen (bun), creatinine (cr) and kidney histopathology of kidney aging model induced by d-galactose in female mice. in this experimental study, 72 female naval medical research institute (nmri) mice (30-35 g) were randomly divided into six groups including: control, purslane, d-galactose, d-gala...

in this paper, the effect of prestrain on strain aging of low carbon steels, in the temperatures of 100°c and 200°c and the aging time of 50 minutes, and also the effect of aging temperature on strain aging in a constant aging time and prestrain, are investigated. the results of experiments show that with increasing the amount of prestrain, the increase in yield stress and ultimate tensile stre...

BACKGROUND: Seed aging is an important problem in developing countries which seeds stored in inappropriate condition. OBJECTIVES: Current research was carried out to study the effect of seed aging on quantitative parameters of wheat seeds (Chamran cultivar). METHODS: Experiment was carried out based on randomized complete block desi...

use of plant growth promoting bacteria (pgpb) and high quality of seed as agricultural inputs play important roles in sustainable crop production. to study the effects of different levels of seed aging and pgpb's application on field emergence, seedling establishment and yield of two red kidney bean cultivars in field conditions, an experiment was carried out as factorial based in a rcbd d...