Simulation training may be useful in the preclinical operative dentistry curriculum; however, the optimal timing and duration of training have not been defined. This study compared eight hours of adjunctive computerized dental simulator (CDS) training at two different time points to traditional teaching alone. First-year dental students (n=75) were randomized to CDS training (n=39) or tradition...

OBJECTIVE To explore the quality (accuracy, balance, practical context) of tabloid articles reporting on nutrition research, and public attitudes towards it. DESIGN A qualitative multi-method study consisting of a systematic analysis of tabloid articles and a series of focus groups with members of the public. SETTING Tabloid newspapers (nationwide). Focus groups were conducted at a UK unive...

Three hundred thirty-nine college students were surveyed regarding their usual drinking behavior, alcohol expectancies, desired identity of power, and experience with alcohol-related violence. Eight percent indicated having been in a fight in a bar, and 16% indicated having been in a fight while drinking in the previous year. Male heavy drinkers were more likely than female heavy drinkers to ex...

To identify the gender-specific influence of dominant laterality of motor abilities on taekwondo techniques performed to the right and left body side, thirty-nine male and eighteen female taekwondoists (age range 10±2 years) underwent two testing sessions to evaluate ambidexterity: (1) motor abilities measured on the left and the right body side; (2) quality of performance of taekwondo leg tech...

The present issue opens the thirtieth volume of Acta Myologica, and, just as people celebrate the appearance of a new century a year ahead of time, we will not wait until the end of the third decade of this journal's appearance , but will hail the first issue, that comes with an XXX printed on its cover, with a short account of the journal's history. Almost 30 years ago, two experts in neuromus...

This article is an expanded version of my talk given at the International Conference “Algebra and Number Theory” dedicated to the 80th anniversary of V. E. Voskresenskĭı, which was held at the Samara State University in May 2007. The goal is to give an overview of results of V. E. Voskresenskĭı on arithmetic and birational properties of algebraic tori which culminated in his monograph [Vo77] pu...

We discuss the development of the theory of electroweak radiative corrections and its role in testing the Standard Model, predicting the top quark mass, constraining the Higgs boson mass, and searching for deviations that may signal the presence of new physics. Dedicated to my unforgettable friends and collaborators: M.A.B. Bég, R.E. Behrends, J.J. Giambiagi, and J.J. Sakurai, in memoriam. to a...

This paper summarizes the progress over approximately thirty-year’s work of the author in developing a model of photosynthesis involving chlorophyll on polymeric substrates that would photosensitize endergonic electron transfer. The system finally achieved might, with proper modifications, serve as a means of generating power from solar energy. DOI: 10.1134/S000629791403002X

In this paper, I give a personal view on the development of the field of spatial econometrics during the past 30 years. I argue that it has moved from the margins to the mainstream of applied econometrics and social science methodology. I distinguish three broad phases in the development, which I refer to as preconditions, take off and maturity. For each of these phases I describe the main meth...