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MEASUREMENTS Sociodemographic characteristics, morbidity, and functional status of new residents were determined upon admission to examine patterns in the cohorts' profiles. RESULTS The proportion of residents aged 85 years and older increased from 45.1% to 53.8% over 16 years. The proportions of individuals with seven or more chronic conditions (from 14.1% to 22.1%) and with nine or more prescription medications (from 44.9% to 64.2%) have also increased in parallel over time. Hypertension, osteoarthritis, and dementia were the most prevalent conditions captured, with the proportion of incoming residents with dementia increasing from 42.3% to 54.1% between 2000 and 2015. Newly admitted residents were more likely to have extensive physical and cognitive impairments upon admission. CONCLUSION Admission trends show that new residents were older and had greater multimorbidity and limitations in physical functioning over time. © 2020 The American Geriatrics Society.All extant holocephalans (Chimaeroidei) have lost the ability to make individual teeth, as tooth germs are neither part of the embryonic development of the dental plates, nor of their continuous growth. Instead, a hypermineralized dentine with a unique mineral, whitlockin, is specifically distributed within a dentine framework into structures that give the dental plates their distinctive, species-specific morphology. Control of the regulation of this distribution must be cellular, with a dental epithelium initiating the first outer dentine, and via contact with ectomesenchymal tissue as the only embryonic cell type that can make dentine. Chimaeroids have three pairs of dental plates within their mouth, two in the upper jaw and one in the lower. In the genera Chimaera, Hydrolagus and Harriotta, the morphology and distribution of this whitlockin within each dental plate differs both between different plates in the same species and between species. Whitlockin structures include ovoids, rods and tritoral pads, witures that contribute to the wear resistant oral surface. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. This article is protected by copyright. check details All rights reserved.OBJECTIVE Patient's engagement in their own treatment has been shown to improve clinical outcomes. A better understanding of the association between self-management in multiple sclerosis (MS) and potentially modifiable psychological factors may provide clinicians with strategies to design and stimulate better patient activation for self-managing health. Therefore, in this study, we examined whether cognitive factors, namely, self-efficacy, acceptance of illness, optimism, and health locus of control (HLC) are associated with self-management in MS. METHODS This is a cross-sectional study. A total of 382 patients with MS who completed the MS Self-Management Scale-Revised and the questionnaires that measure self-efficacy, optimism, illness acceptance, and HLC were included in the study. RESULTS A hierarchical multiple regression revealed that power of others' HLC (b = 0.42, p ≤ 0.001), optimism (b = 0.27, p ≤ 0.01), internal HLC (b = -0.11, p = 0.017), and self-efficacy (b = 0.11, p = 0.031), together with control variables (longer disease duration and higher disability) explained 30% of the variance in the dependent variable. CONCLUSIONS In the case of MS, self-management is associated with patient's perception that healthcare professionals control their health, higher self-efficacy, optimism, and surprisingly, lower internal HLC. The results of this study indicate the vital role of the healthcare staff in encouraging the patients with MS toward activities related to self-management and provide new insights on the psychological intervention aimed at improving self-management by patients. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.The plasma membrane (PM)-localized receptor kinase FLAGELLIN SENSING 2 (FLS2) recognizes bacterial flagellin or its immunogenic epitope flg22 and initiates microbe-associated molecular pattern-triggered immunity, which inhibits infection by bacterial pathogens. The localization, abundance, and activity of FLS2 are under dynamic control. Here, we demonstrate that Arabidopsis thaliana EXO70B1, a subunit of the exocyst complex, plays a critical role in FLS2 signaling that is independent of the truncated Toll/interleukin-1 receptor-nucleotide binding sequence protein TIR-NBS2 (TN2). In the exo70B1-3 mutant, the abundance of FLS2 protein at the PM is diminished, consistent with the impaired flg22 response of this mutant. EXO70B1-GFP plants showed increased FLS2 accumulation at the PM and therefore enhanced FLS2 signaling. The EXO70B1-mediated trafficking of FLS2 to the PM is partially independent of the PENETRATION 1 (PEN1)-containing secretory pathway. In addition, EXO70B1 interacts with EXO70B2, a close homolog of EXO70B1, and both proteins associate with FLS2 and contribute to the accumulation of FLS2 at the PM. Taken together, our data suggest that the exocyst complex subunits EXO70B1 and EXO70B2 regulate the trafficking of FLS2 to the PM, which represents a new layer of regulation of FLS2 function in plant immunity. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.Effective legume-rhizobia symbiosis depends on efficient nutrient exchange. Rhizobia need to synthesize iron-containing proteins for symbiotic nitrogen fixation (SNF) in nodules, which depends on host plant-mediated iron uptake into the symbiosome. We functionally investigated a pair of vacuolar iron transporter like (VTL) genes, GmVTL1a/b in soybean (Glycine Max), and evaluated their contributions to SNF, including investigations of gene expression patterns, subcellular localization and mutant phenotypes. While both GmVTL1a/b genes were specifically expressed in the fixation zone of the nodule, GmVTL1a was the lone member to be localized at the tonoplast of tobacco protoplasts, and shown to facilitate ferrous iron transport in yeast. GmVTL1a targets the symbiosome in infected cells as verified by in situ immunostaining. Two vtl1 knockout mutants had lower Fe concentrations in nodule cell sap and peribacteroid units than in wild-type plants, suggesting that GmVTL1 knockout inhibited Fe import into symbiosomes.