background: the purpose of this study was to determine the effect of three chewing gums and paraffi n on the remineralization and the hardness of demineralized enamel. materials and methods: a total of 12 subjects wore intraoral palatal appliances with two demineralized bovine enamel slabs. the study consisted of four experimental periods each lasting 21-days, during which subjects were assigne...

Time-of-day modelling is an additional step to the conventional four-step Travel Demand Models (TDMs). Here, target obtain more detailed outputs over temporal dimension. With this step, daily (24-hour) travel demand distributed into a discrete number of time-windows.This paper aims identify most precise time windows that maximise trips fall within given time-window and minimise trip-tailing ass...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to assess antipsychotic adherence patterns and all-cause and schizophrenia-related health care utilization and costs sequentially during critical clinical periods (i.e., before and after schizophrenia-related hospitalization) among Medicaid-enrolled patients experiencing a schizophrenia-related hospitalization. METHODS All patients aged ≥ 18 years with a schizophre...

Medical nutrition therapy plays an important role in the management of diabetes. The purpose of this study was to estimate the nutrient contents of diabetic diet in Jordanian hospitals. Seven-day diabetic menus of ten Jordanian hospitals were weighed in two different periods (summer and winter). Results on six nutrients were determined: energy, protein, fat, carbohydrate, cholesterol and dietar...

The South China Sea summer monsoon (SCSSM) is crucial for the East Asian system, which has been detected from plenty of aspects, while its prediction relatively less investigated on subseasonal timescale. 1–31-day predictions SCSSM, including fundamental dynamic and thermodynamic characteristics, indices, onset date associated circulations, are examined diagnosed different climate systems, i.e....