Melatonin is a hormone synthesised and secreted by the pineal gland and other organs. Its secretion, controlled by an endogenous circadian cycle, has been proven to exert immunological, anti-oxidant, and anti-inflammatory effects that can be beneficial in the treatment of certain dental diseases. This article is aimed at carrying out a review of the literature published about the use of melaton...

considering the importance of randomized clinical trials (rcts) in the evidence-based approach, the objective of this study was critical appraisal of reporting rcts in iranian dental journals.after adequate searching, 113 rct articles published during 2003-2010 were reviewed for quality of reporting with the consort scale. the quality of each paper was assessed on 20.although statistical analys...

Objective: The Core Clinical Journals (CCJ) list, produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), has been used clinicians and librarians for half a century two main purposes: narrowing literature search to clinically useful journals identifying high priority titles library collections. After documentation low usage existing CCJ, review was undertaken assess current validity, followed ...

A previous longitudinal study about using microbiome as a caries indicator has successfully predicted early childhood (ECC) in healthy individuals, but there is no evidence to verify the composition of core microbiota and its pathogenicity vitro vivo. Biofilm acidogenicity, S. mutans count, biofilm were estimated by pH evaluation, colony-forming unit, quantitative PCR, respectively. Extracellul...

This paper compares the CORE rankings of computing conferences and journals to the frequency of citation of those journals and conferences in the Australasian Computer Science Conference (ACSC) 2006, 2007 and 2008 proceedings. The assumption underlying this study is that there should be a positive relationship between citation rates and the CORE rankings. Our analysis shows that the CORE rankin...

With 23 core econometrics journals now in operation, this study fills a gap the literature by cataloguing editorial specifications of each journal, and, more importantly, assessing their impact based on citations to research published over 15-year period beginning 2001 and ending 2015. Our investigation reveals that about one-half all publish an online format only, while others both in-print. A...

What is the current level of knowledge development on RFID technology, the technology at the core of the “Internet of Things” within the AIS basket of top journals? And what are the potential future research directions on RFID technology within this outlet? To answer these questions, we conducted a comprehensive review of articles published between 2000 and 2011 in journals within the AIS baske...