On July 13, 2010, in Barcelona, Spain, immediately before the IADR General Session, IADR President David M. Williams will host a symposium, Global Oral Health Inequities: The Research Agenda. Task groups have been formed on dental caries, periodontal disease, oral infections, oral cancer, craniofacial developmental abnormalities, and implementation and delivery. Each task group will be reportin...

Mental model ascription can be defined as inferring features of another human or artificial agent that cannot be directly observed, such as that agent’s beliefs, plans, goals, intentions, personality traits, mental and emotional states, and knowledge about the world. This capability is an essential functionality of intelligent agents if they are to engage in sophisticated collaborations with pe...

In-person semi-structured interviews were conducted with 7 homeowners selected by 6 state homeownership programs as representing good examples of homeownership by individuals with developmental disabilities. Recurring themes were found in the choice of a home, advantages and disadvantages of homeownership, handling problems, community relationships, finances, supports, future plans, and homeown...

Environmental issues and relevant policy plans are steadily involving the circular economy (CE) concept into business development. Such significant approaches to achieve environmentally sustainable economic development, they supported reinforced by dissatisfaction with linear traditional approach of “take-make-dispose” model. This production model is bounded on large quantities directly accessi...

The Cambrian explosion is named for the geologically sudden appearance of numerous metazoan body plans (many of living phyla) between about 530 and 520 million years ago, only 1.7% of the duration of the fossil record of animals. Earlier indications of metazoans are found in the Neoproterozic; minute trails suggesting bilaterian activity date from about 600 million years ago. Larger and more el...

We study the coarsening of solutions of two models of multicomponent phase separation. One is a constant mobility system; the other is a degenerate mobility system. These models are natural generalizations of the Cahn-Hilliard equation to the case of a vector-valued order parameter. It has been conjectured that the characteristic length scale `(t) grows like t as t→∞ for the first case and ` ∼ ...

social and cultural harms of female students such as abnormal behavior, less useful leisure, identity confusion, drug use, sex crimes, political apathy or aggression, etc. can be observed among university students which are generally caused by external factors. studies in this field are few especially for female students. subjects are also non-functional and the results are unclear and they are...

In this paper we present a decision-theoretic model of social power and social dependence that accounts for origins of different choices available in different situations. According to the model almost every group activity, whether it is cooperation or exploitation, has its origins in resolving some dependence or power relation. The model is intended for self-interested agents and explains powe...