This case report describes the treatment of a patient with a horizontally impacted maxillary central incisor, a canine in the same quadrant, and an inclusion tendency. Due to severe crowing in the maxilla and the Class II molar relationship on the impaction side, a 2-stage treatment plan was developed. In the first stage, the right first premolar and deciduous canine were extracted; this allowe...

We studied the results of the Visual Association Memory Test (VAMT) in differentiating Alzheimer's disease (AD) and vascular dementia (VaD). In addition, other basic neuropsychological tests, including the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) and the Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR) were also used. Generally, with the VAMT, AD patients had a worse performance than VaD patients. Particularly among...

Oncology involves a therapeutic area with complex and individual disease states and disease progression and there is a limited number of anticancer drugs available. The drugs are usually administered in empirical complex dosing regimens which result in highly variable success rates. The following two approaches to achieve a more streamlined and rational drug development and drug treatment seem ...

OBJECTIVE This study has aimed to determine the capacity and clinical impact of the (18)F-FDG-PET to detect previously unsuspected second primary tumors. MATERIAL AND METHODS This is a retrospective cross-sectional study of 1984 consecutive scans performed between March 2004 and March 2005, identifying those studies that had reported the presence of hypermetabolic lesions, that had not been p...

Given the vital role of early adopters during the early stage of wood-pellet heating development, this study aims to explore the factors that explain the overall satisfaction among the early adopters of this type of heating as well as the problems experienced with wood-pellet heating in Norway. Ordinal regression was used to analyze empirical data which was collected from a mail survey in autum...

Table 2: Increases in average annual number of cases of cancer and changes due to increase in Executive Summary 1. Cancer prevention must be future oriented because: • for 80 percent of those who will be suffering from cancer in 10 years time, cancer has already been initiated and has already been diagnosed in 10 percent of them; • put another way, the process of developing cancer is already un...

The aim of this work was to study the effect of sodium chloride replacement with potassium chloride on quality changes of hot smoked Kilka during storage at ± 4°C. To achieve this, after initial preparation, samples were exposed to brining process in two salts. This study was designed in two stages: in the first stage, different levels of salt replacement were used to select the best smoked tre...

In order to investigate drought stress and plant density the yield, yield components and protein of spotted bean grain (cultivar Talash), an experiment was carried out as split plots in randomized complete blocks with three replications in Yasouj, in 2012. Factors of the test including irrigation in three levels; without stress (control treatment), water stress in vegetative stage (interrupting...