BACKGROUND To evaluate the antiplaque effects of an alcohol-free mouthrinse containing essential oils-Listerine Zero (LZ)-and an alcohol-based essential oils mouthrinse (EO+) compared with a positive control of 0.20% chlorhexidine mouthrinse (CHX) and a negative control of a placebo solution (saline), using an in vivo plaque regrowth model of three days. METHODS The study was designed as a do...

This panel discussion was a follow-up to the first edition of the ICFHR series, which was promoted as an international conference after 10 intensive and productive editions of the International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition initiated in 1990 in Montreal. It is essential, however, to recall that research on handwritten character recognition began some 40 years ago, and was exp...

Recent findings show that approximately 87% of the U.S. population fail to meet the vegetable intake recommendations, with unpleasant taste of vegetables being listed as the primary reason for this shortfall. In this study, spice and herb seasoning was used to enhance palatability of vegetables, in order to increase consumer acceptance. In total, 749 panelists were screened and recruited as spe...

Legumes play a very important nutritional role in the diet of millions populace around world as major sources protein and minerals (FAO, 2016). In developed countries, plant proteins are now considered component than nutrients. The aim this study is to produce ‘kangu’ from bambara nut maize composite flour. This examined chemical properties ‘Kangu,’ value added snack produced using flour Bambar...

General Comments A response to each of the review's terms of reference is provided below. Provided here are general comments pertinent to all terms of reference. The overall approach to discard estimation was designed-based as opposed to model-based. The former makes no attempt to explain discarding as a function of influential factors whereas the latter does. Discarding is a function of proces...

OBJECTIVES Overactive bladder (OAB) is a pathology impairing patients' quality of life and with a high percentage of patients who are refractory to medication. In this paper, technical opinion of an «expert panel» is assessed in order to gain the most reliable professional consensus on scientific evidence available on the criteria of use of Onabotulinumtoxin A (OnabotA) in OAB. MATERIAL AND M...

Article history: Received 20 June 2011 Received in revised form 5 July 2011 Accepted 5 July 2011 Available online 9 September 2011 The Delphi techniquewas largely developed to avoid the problems of freely interacting groups such as dominant individuals and pressure to conform to the majority view. Our review of the social psychological literature reveals some obstacles to Delphi achieving its f...

The continued rise of e-commerce is the main driver of the rapid growth of global online purchase. Consumers can nearly buy everything they want at one occasion through online shopping. The purchase behavior models which focus on single product category are insufficient to describe online shopping behavior. Therefore, analysis of multi-category purchase gets more and more popular. For example, ...

The methanol extract of kirinyuh leaves ( Chromolaena odorata (L). R.M.King & H.Rob. ) is able to inhibit the growth gram-positive Staphylococcus aureus so that it has potential as an active substance for hand washing soap. In this study, liquid soap was made with a concentration 0.01% leaf using base gelling agent Carbopol. optimum Carbopol viscosity 2217 cPs 0.6%. preparation analyzed inc...

“Free sorting”, in which subjects are asked to sort a set of items into groups “most similar” items, is increasingly popular as technique for profiling sets foods. However, free sorting implies an unrealistic model sample similarity: that similarity purely binary (is/is not similar) and fully transitive (similarities {A, B} {B, C} imply C}). This paper proposes new method rapid testing—the “fre...