objective: oral hygiene must start at a young age. childhood is the perfect time to start the conversion of knowledge into creative thinking and subsequent health care activity. this study aimed to assess the efficacy of oral hygiene instruction via an educational film for oral health promotion of elementary students. methods: in this experimental, interventional, before and after study, data w...

BACKGROUND Effectiveness of Chlamydia screening programs is determined by an adequate level of participation and the capturing of high-risk groups. This study aimed to evaluate the contribution of automated reminders by letter, email and short message service (SMS) on package request and sample return in an Internet-based Chlamydia screening among people aged 16 to 29 years in the Netherlands. ...

In recent months, the FDA has begun a crackdown on misleading nutrition and health claims on the front of food packages by issuing warning letters to manufacturers and promising to develop stricter regulatory standards. Leading nutrition policy experts Marion Nestle and David Ludwig have called for an even tougher approach: a ban on all nutrition and health claims on the front of food packages....

VEGA is an interactive geometric modelling system which has been developed at Carnsgie-Meilon University primarily for education in architecture and the arts. Its educational use is twofold: first as a medium for description and manipulation of form to aid in creative work and second as a base package of procedures that may be used by advanced architecture students in the creation of specialize...

Genetic Programming and Evolutionary Programming are fields studying the application of artificial evolution on evolving directly executable programs, in form of trees similar to Lisp expressions (GP-trees), or Finite State Automata (FSA). In this exercise, we study the performance of these methods on several example problems, and draw conclusions on the suitability of the representations with ...

The rapid development of educational technologies, combined with the Internet boom at a worldwide level, gives rise to favorable conditions for the establishment of a new model of university training. The first part of this work will give a description of the major components of the new virtual university. The second part will attempt a critical approach of the sense of virtual university from ...

In recent years an expanding number of robotics software platforms have emerged, with Microsoft expressing its interest in the field by releasing its own in 2006. This fact has created a highly competitive environment, as the majority of the products are mostly incompatible to each other, with every platform trying to establish itself as the field’s standard. Thus, the question that arises is w...

Simulation of traffic control is very important nowadays for dealing with increasing urban traffic. It helps to construct the strategy of traffic lights switching and determine alternative path in the case of an accident or traffic jam. In the paper we present the application of simulation tool DYNASIM being used by French company DYNALOGIC. It has big number of alternative possibilities in mod...