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This paper provides a comprehensive and uniform description that accounts for the use of all the participial periphrastic constructions in Biblical Hebrew and calls into question the claim that a second ('preterite') function of the construction was developed in Late Biblical Hebrew. We define the syntagm and give criteria for distinguishing true participial periphrastic constructions from superficially similar constructions. We then show that close attention to situation aspect and (un)boundedess provides a unified and sound account of every occurrence of the syntagm in the Hebrew Bible. We conclude that, unless the situation is bounded by an adverbial phrase, every participial periphrastic construction is unbounded which semantically distinguishes the construction from wayyiqtol. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a study investigated the association of the failure to complete performance-based measures (PBM) with poor health status and an increased risk of death among the elderly. The authors studied infeasibility in PBMs and whether missing data were informative. They also compared the characteristics of people from the clinical examination in the Canadian Study of Health and Aging-2 who were able to perform both the Functional Reach and Timed Up and Go with those who could not.