UNLABELLED Historically, shade change assessment associated with vital bleaching treatment regimens has been visually evaluated through the use of shade guide tabs. Innovations in the industry of dentistry have brought forth new technologies capable of measuring such changes via the capture and analysis of reflected wavelengths of light. CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE This article introduces the use o...

The aim of the study was to explore secondary traumatic stress experienced by nurses working in mental health services in Kigali, Rwanda. A quantitative study was conducted at Ndera Psychiatric Hospital, Kigali, Rwanda, using a convenience sample of 50 nurses who provided mental health care to trauma survivors and mentally ill patients. A questionnaire was compiled consisting of the Trauma Atta...

Objective The aim of this study was to evaluate the electrochemical behavior a cobalt-chromium (Co-Cr) dental alloy after immersion in denture cleansers. Method: Twenty-four specimens (Ø13x2mm) Co-Cr were produced and divided into three groups (n=8) according their experimental condition. group 1 (control group) composed only distilled water, 2 received hygienic tablet (Corega Tabs™) at moment ...

This study is about the adaptation of Attitude Behavioural Scale (ABS) section a Pupils’ Attitudes Towards Technology (PATT) instrument for Omani context. mixed methods research design and it consists three phases. Phase 1 reported in this article. started with selection PATT-USA as model to adapt, validate Bilingual Scale-Arabic/English (TABS) (see Annexure 1). Particular individuals we select...

The sun’s total radiation alone exceeds the world population’s entire energy consumption by 7.500 times and ignites secondary renewable sources. end buildings use for heating amounts to 28% of Germany’s consumption. With ongoing trend digitalization transition German supply away from fossil fuels consequent political dependency, electric heat pumps photovoltaic (PV) systems have become increasi...

Abstract Moving past the conventional focus on ministerial portfolios, this paper investigates how coalition governments allocate and share responsibility for individual policy issues. Sharing induces coalescing parties to collaborate issues, which addresses problem of autonomy. Consequently, I argue that incumbent in contentious salient This claim is corroborated based a newly elicited dataset...

An implantable manually-actuated drug delivery device, consisting of a refillable drug reservoir, flexible cannula, check valve, and suture tabs, was investigated as a new approach for delivering pharmaceuticals to treat chronic ocular diseases. Devices are fabricated by molding and bonding three structured layers of polydimethylsiloxane. A 30 gauge non-coring needle was used to refill the rese...

Internet has embarked comforting impact on people’s lives across the globe as personal tasks such as cash transactions, mails, fax, data storage or retrieval etc. are now preferably being done electronically using personal computers/cell phones/TABs etc. This, however, has also elevated issues vis-à-vis availability, legitimacy, and renunciation of information causing discomfort in information ...

The inherent complexity of ontologies poses a number of cognitive and perceptual challenges for ontology authors. We investigate how users deal with the complexity of the authoring process by analysing how one of the most widespread ontology development tools (i.e. Protégé) is used. To do so, we build Protégé4US (Protégé for User Studies) by extending Protégé in order to generate log files that...