Diabetes Mellitus and Depression as Risk Factors for Dementia: SADEM Study

Aim: 3Evidence indicates that the comorbidity of dementia with diabetes and depression may affect most cognitive functions. Our chief interest was to examine the patterns of cognitive functioning in individuals diagnosed with dementia, diabetes, and depression as compared with dementia plus diabetes (DDM), or dementia plus depression (DD) and healthy controls

Pain and the risk for falls in community-dwelling older adults: systematic review and meta-analysis

Objective: To conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis to establish the association between pain and falls in community dwelling older adults. Data Sources: Electronic databases from inception until 1st March 2013 including Cochrane Library, CINAHL, EBSCO, EMBASE, PubMed and PsycINFO. Study Selection: Two reviewers independently conducted the searches and completed methodological assessment of all included studies. Studies were included that (a) focussed on older adults over 60 years old, (b) recorded falls over 6 or more months, (c) identified a group with and without pain. Studies were excluded that (d) included participants with dementia, a neurological condition (e.g. stroke), (e) participants whose pain was caused by a previous fall, (f) individuals with surgery/ fractures in the past 6 months. Data extraction: One author extracted all data and this was independently validated by another author. Data synthesis: 1,334 articles were screened and 21 studies met the eligibility criteria. 50.5% of older adults with pain reported one or more fall over 12 months compared to 25.7% of controls (p<0.001). A global meta-analysis with 14 studies (n=17,926) demonstrated that pain was associated with an increased odds of falling (OR: 1.56, 95% Confidence Interval (CI): 1.36 to 1.79, I2=53%). A subgroup meta-analysis incorporating studies that monitored falls prospectively established that the odds of falling was significantly higher in those with pain (n=4,674; OR: 1.71, CI: 1.48 to 1.98, I2=0%). Foot pain was strongly associated with falls (n=691; OR: 2.38, CI: 1.62 to 3.48, I2=8%) as was chronic pain (n= 5,367; OR 1.80, CI: 1.56 to 2.09, I2=0%). Conclusion: Community dwelling older adults with pain were more likely to have fallen in the past 12 months and fall again in the future. Foot and chronic pain were particularly strong risk factors for falls and clinicians should routinely enquire about these when completing falls risk assessments

Flood Induced land cover change detection using multitemporal etm+ imagery.

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Estimating Rangeland Vegetation Frequency & Density Using Low-altitude Aerial Photographs

Remote sensing and aerial photography are means of exploring, studying and estimating vegetation variables such as species frequency and density in forests and rangelands. Common remote sensing images usually offer general information about vegetation parameters. For detailed information about vegetation (e.g. estimation of vegetation density and/or frequency), larger scale images are needed. The present research was conducted to estimate the density of rangeland vegetation in Inche Boroon area, north of Gorgan city. Using aerial photographs acquired from digital camera mounted on a tittered balloon in different flight altitudes, density and frequency of the main shrub species of the studied region, Halocnemum strobilaceum, were estimated on photographs at different scales (from 1:50 &ndash; to 1:1000) and were compared with field measurements. Results showed no significant difference between the field and image estimation of density below 1:600 (heights lower than 75 m) but at lower scales the difference was significant. No significant difference between field and image estimation of shrub frequency was also observed up to the scale of 1:1000. Due to the wider field of view of photographs at smaller scales, flight heights of 75 m and 130 m are thus suggested as the appropriate heights to estimate Halocnemum strobilaceum density and frequency respectively in the study area

Effect of Soil Properties Modifier on Physiological Responses of Lycium depressum Stocks to Drought Stress

IntroductionThe aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of soil conditioners on physiological responses (stomatal resistance, leaf temperature, chlorophyll, percentage of root colonization, carotenoids, proline) of Lycium depressum Stocks to drought stress. The experiments were performed in semi-controlled greenhouse conditions.Materials and MethodsThe experiment was conducted as a factorial experiment based on a completely randomized design including the main factor, irrigation at 4 levels (100, 75, 50 and 25% of field capacity) and the sub-factor of soil conditioners. In each combined treatment, 5 repetitions of irrigation and soil remediation and a total of 160 pots were used. Subsoil treatments including hydrogel and nitrobacter, mycorrhiza and zeolite were added to each pot. 500 cuttings of the target plant were planted in the greenhouse. The grown cuttings were transferred to the pots where the experiments were carried out. At each irrigation level, 40 pots containing 4 kg of vegetation soil of the target species were considered and the agricultural capacity (FC) of the target soil was determined in the soil laboratory. A total of 160 pots were placed in the greenhouse for testing. The main treatment of the experiment included irrigation levels (100, 75, 50 and 25% of the crop capacity) and sub-treatments of soil conditioners including Stacosorb hydrogel in the amount of 3 grams per kilogram of soil in each pot in the lower part of the plant roots. Zeolite with the industrial name of mineral zeolite (Mineral Zeolite) was added in the amount of 8 grams in each pot in the lower part of the root of the plant. Nitrobacter (a collection of strains of Azotobacter sp, Azospirillum sp and Bacillus sp with the brand name Nitrobacter Diane) was added to the amount of 3 cc in each pot in the upper region of the plant roots. Addition of mycorrhiza (the mycorrhiza used in this experiment was Glomus mosseae and was prepared as soil containing mosseae fungi) in the amount of 10 grams per pot in the lower part of the plant roots. After adding soil conditioners, irrigation was done according to the crop capacity in 4 irrigation levels, in the determined treatments.Results and DiscussionMeasurement of physiological characteristics showed different responses in each of the variables. Carotenoid changes in 50% irrigation showed the lowest value (p<0.05) and the control treatment without mycorrhiza showed the highest value in the measurement of chlorophyll and carotenoid at 100 and 75% irrigation levels. The results of measuring colonization percentage, stomatal resistance and leaf temperature showed the lowest value in 25% irrigation. In the control treatment, proline parameters and root colonization percentage increased under the influence of drought stress, and stomatal resistance parameters, leaf temperature and chlorophyll decreased under the influence of drought stress. With intensification of drought stress, chlorophyll and carotenoid contents of the plant increased and the amount of proline decreased in Nitrobacter treatment with mycorrhiza, which was significantly different from the control treatment. In the control treatment with mycorrhiza, with increasing drought stress, the leaf temperature increased and the amount of proline decreased, which was different from the control treatment. Aperture resistance decreased from 48 m2 / mol.s 100% irrigation level to 44 m2 / mol.s 25% irrigation, leaf temperature at 100% irrigation level in mycorrhizal-free hydrogel modifier from 26 ° C Decreased to 21.57 ° C in 25% irrigation, at 100% irrigation level in non-mycorrhizal zeolite modifier the amount of chlorophyll b + a from 0.6 mg / g to 1.20 mg / g in 25% irrigation increased. The amount of carotenoids at 100% irrigation level in zeolite modifier with mycorrhiza increased from 0.1 mg / g to 0.2 mg / g in 25% irrigation in control treatment with mycorrhiza at 100% irrigation level compared to the level Irrigation increased by 50% and root colonization by 1.5%. The amount of proline in mycorrhiza-free hydrogel treatment was measured at 100% 2.77 μmol / g irrigation and at 50% irrigation level 2.66 μmol / g. Reduction of proline at 50% irrigation level indicates that the hydrogel modifier has increased the resistance of Lycium depressum Stocks to drought stress.ConclusionThe results of this study showed that the increase in drought causes changes in the physiological performance of the plant and the use of soil conditioners under drought stress due to the improvement of the physiological parameters, will increase the resistance of the plant by 50%. Nitrobacter treatments without mycorrhiza, hydrogel and zeolite with mycorrhiza and without mycorrhiza, due to further improvement of physiological parameters, is recommended to plants in nature

A systematic review and meta-analysis of osteoporosis and low bone mass in patients with schizophrenia: implications for physical therapy practice

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