A national oral health pathfinder survey has been conducted by our research team in Turkey, in collaboration with the WHO European Region. Some of the data obtained by this survey were for CPITN values for age groups above 10 years, and can be summarized as follows: formula: (see text) These findings demonstrate that preventive periodontal therapy and community-based prophylaxis methods, will u...

Group communication will undoubtedly be a useful paradigm for many applications of wireless networking in which reliability and timeliness are requirements. Moreover, location-awareness is clearly central to mobile applications such as traffic management and smart spaces. In this paper, we introduce our definition of proximity groups in which group membership depends on location and then discus...

Challenges for the Implementation of the First Large-Scale Rheumatic Heart Disease Screening Program in Brazil: The PROVAR Study Experience Julia Pereira Afonso dos Santos,1 Gabriel Assis Lopes do Carmo,1 Andrea Zawacki Beaton,2 Tainá Vitti Lourenço,1 Adriana Costa Diamantino,1 Maria do Carmo Pereira Nunes,1 Craig Sable,2 Bruno Ramos Nascimento1 Hospital das Clínicas da Universidade Federal de ...

In a series of 301 renal homograft recipi· ents, 17 (5.6%) had acute pancreatitis at some time after transplantation. Eleven of these patients died, for a mortality of 64.7%. In each instance, pancreatitis was a major factor in a complex chain of lethal events to which immunosuppression invariably con· tributed. An additional 43 patients (14.3%) developed asymptomatic hyperamylasemia after tran...

Cancers are due to an uncontrolled proliferation of abnormal cells. It is not inco*1' ceivable that the matrix in which these new growths take place may be influence by factors which affect the general physical state. Such factors include the nervo115 system and endocrine glands, which in their turn can undoubtedly come unde| emotional influences. It is a speculative possibility therefore that ...

Magnetic soft materials (MSMs) and magnetic shape memory polymers (MSMPs) have been some of the most intensely investigated newly developed material types in last decade, thanks to great versatile potential their innovative characteristic behaviors such as remote nearly heatless transformation case MSMs. With regard a number properties recovery ratio, manufacturability, cost or programming pote...

Cultural Tourism implies “A type of tourism activity in which the visitor’s essential motivation is to learn, discover, experience and consume tangible intangible cultural attractions/products a destination. Kerala, referred as ‘God’s Own Country’, enjoys unique geographical features its classical art forms, colourful festivals, exotic cuisine etc., are some marvels that attract travellers. Tho...

The article is devoted to the burials of X—XI centuries, where deceased were found in a sitting position. Despite fact that this custom itself undoubtedly Norman origin, issue ethnic and social attribution most complexes from territory Southern Rus’ has not received appropriate attention among researchers. Information was collected on 17 burials, which, according some researchers, carried out H...

When one thinks of "power", one often assumes that a person is the source of it and that some mystical charismatic element is at work. Of course, with some people this is undoubtedly so; they derive power from how other people perceive them. In organizations, however--says this author--power is not so much a question of people but of positions. Drawing a distinction between productive and oppre...