Physiological factors associated with falls in an elderly population

SR Lord, RD Clark, IW Webster - Journal of the American …, 1991 - Wiley Online Library
Objective: To determine whether a battery of 13 sensorimotor, vestibular, and visual tests
discriminates between elderly fallers and elderly non‐fallers. Design: One‐year prospective …

Postural stability and associated physiological factors in a population of aged persons

SR Lord, RD Clark, IW Webster - Journal of gerontology, 1991 - academic.oup.com
A battery of 13 visual, vestibular, sensorimotor, and balance tests was administered to 95
elderly persons (mean age 82.7 years) to examine the relationships between specific …

Multivariate models for predicting abstention following intervention to stop smoking by general practitioners

RL Richmond, LA Kehoe, IW Webster - Addiction, 1993 - Wiley Online Library
Predictors of successful smoking cessation were examined in a randomized controlled trial
of 450 smokers who received an intervention by their general practitioner (GP). Pretreatment …

Postural stability, falls and fractures in the elderly: results from the Dubbo Osteoporosis Epidemiology Study

SR Lord, IW Webster, PN Sambrook… - Medical Journal of …, 1994 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To assess measures of postural stability in a large popula‐tion of persons aged
over 60 years in order to compare performance between fallers and non‐fallers and relate …

Porewater flow in permeable sediments

M Huettel, IT Webster - The benthic boundary layer: Transport …, 2001 - books.google.com
… Between A,= 0.6 and 60, the simulations of Webster and Taylor indicate the horizontal and
… In laboratory flume experiments and using bromide as tracer, Webster et al.(1996) showed …

Clinical parameters associated with falls in an elderly population

RD Clark, SR Lord, IW Webster - Gerontology, 1993 - karger.com
Eighty-one elderly residents of a hostel for the aged (mean age 83.3 years) underwent clinical
medical assessments to examine susceptibility to falling. The medical examination was …

Modelling the effect of salinity on radium desorption from sediments

IT Webster, GJ Hancock, AS Murray - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 1995 - Elsevier
The desorption of the four naturally occurring radium isotopes 223 Ra, 224 Ra, 226 Ra, and
228 Ra from estuarine sediments is investigated. These isotopes are created within …

Multi-azole resistance in Aspergillus fumigatus

SJ Howard, I Webster, CB Moore, RE Gardiner… - International journal of …, 2006 - Elsevier
Azole resistance in Aspergillus spp. is unusual. We report a patient who received long-term
treatment with itraconazole and voriconazole for bilateral chronic cavitary aspergillosis with …

Transitions between Auhcoseira and Anabaena dominance in a turbid river weir pool

BS Sherman, IT Webster, GJ Jones… - Limnology and …, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
The transitions between the diatoms Aulacoseira spp. (Melosira) and the cyanobacteria
Anabaena spp. as dominant phytoplankton species in a turbid‐river weir pool are shown to …

Permeable marine sediments: overturning an old paradigm

…, G Taghon, W Van Raaphorst, I Webster… - EOS, Transactions …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
Sandy sediments, which cover about 70% of continental shelves and most beaches, are
often thought of as geochemical deserts that harbor no life because they are usually poor in …