OBJECTIVE Dental plaque accumulation and inadequate personal oral hygiene (OH) are known major risk factors of periodontitis. Nevertheless, the magnitude of their effects has not yet been the subject of a meta-analysis. MATERIAL AND METHODS The Medline and Scopus databases were searched up to May 2016. Observational studies were eligible if they assessed associations between OH and periodonti...

The objective of this study was to identify risk factors for abuse and IPV related injury among an urban population. This study reports an additional analysis of a case-control study conducted from 1994 to 2000 in 11 USA metropolitan cities where of 4746 women, 3637 (76.6%) agreed to participate. Control group women (N = 845) were identified through random digit dialing. Significant risk factor...

BACKGROUND A number of studies have reported complication after reduction of nasal bone fractures. Among complicated cases, some showed improvement in shape of the nose with passage of time. Therefore, we examined these changes using computed tomography (CT) images taken over intervals. METHODS CT scans of 50 patients with new nasal bone fractures were reviewed, and the images were compared a...

AMUDALA BHASKER, AJAY BABU. Tiered-Service Fair Queueing (TSFQ): A Practical and Efficient Fair Queueing Algorithm. (Under the direction of Professor George N. Rouskas.) A router in today’s Internet has to satisfy two important properties in order to efficiently provide the Quality of Service (QoS) requested by the users. It should be fair among flows and also have low operational complexity. T...

BACKGROUND Self-assessments of health are a strong predictor of mortality. Whether self-assessment of health provides additional information beyond a physician's assessment is unclear. METHODS We analyzed data on 14,530 US adults from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. General self-rated health (GSRH)-"In general, would you say your health is Excellent, Very Good, Goo...

OBJECTIVE To determine variability in interpretation of chest radiographs among tuberculosis specialists, radiologists, and respiratory specialists. DESIGN Observational study. SETTING Tuberculosis and respiratory disease services, Samara region, Russian Federation. PARTICIPANTS 101 clinicians involved in the diagnosis and management of pulmonary tuberculosis and respiratory diseases. M...

OBJECTIVES To determine awareness about hepatitis C among 4th -year medical students at Dammam University, on hepatitis C and possible associated factors. MATERIALS AND METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted using a self-administered questionnaire comprising questions on awareness of hepatitis C virus (HCV) transmission, screening of the population, symptoms, complications, prevention,...

We describe a new operating system scheduling algorithm that improves performance isolation on chip multiprocessors (CMP). Poor performance isolation is the phenomenon where an application’s performance is determined by the behavior of other simultaneously running, or co-running, applications. This phenomenon is caused by unfair, co-runner-dependent allocation of shared cache on CMPs, which cau...

The objective of this study was to analyze the hygienic-sanitary conditions establishments that process açaí in city Belém, order verify if are accordance with determinations normative instruments. work takes as basic guidelines Resolution Collegiate Directory RDC 275 2002. methodology used elaboration a checklist, applied 17 establishments, following topics parameters: equipment, furniture and...