Undernutrition of long-stay hospital patients and those in surgical units is well documented.
This study was designed to determine the extent of the problem in elderly people admitted to …

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) longitudinal (T 1 ) and transverse (T 2 ) relaxation
parameters have been evaluated for protein solutions, cellular suspensions and tissues using …

Background Frailty assessment is a critical approach in assessing the health status of older
people. The clinical tools deployed by geriatricians to assess frailty can be grouped into two …

• Computed tomography (CT) of the neck was used to identify deep-neck abscess formation.
Twenty-two patients were screened by CT for deep-neck abscesses. Each patient …

We consider the free-convective flow from a heated sphere, in the Boussinesq approximation,
at high Grashof number. The characteristics of the boundary layer close to the surface of …

A cross-sectional study of postural sway analysis in older non-fallers, once-fallers and
multiple-fallers using five common standing tests was conducted. Eighty-six older subjects with an …

The authors review the pathophysiology and assess the role of radiologic studies in the
evaluation of four patients with acute cellulitis of the mandibular spaces-Ludwig angina.

Predisposing factors, onset of symptoms to diagnosis interval, computerized tomography
findings and the impact of computerized tomography on the outcome were studied …

Acanthamoeba castellanii differentiates when placed in a starvation medium. The mature
cysts formed are characterized by a cellulosic wall synthesized from endogenous sources …

A particulate enzyme system was prepared from encysting cells of Acanthamoeba
castellanii (Neff) which catalyzed the incorporation of 14 C-labeled glucose from UDP-[ 14 C]glucose …