Traumatic dental and facial injuries are frequent in sports and often cause esthetic, functional, psychological, and economic problems. The term "weekend warrior" is used to describe people who participate in physically demanding activities only on the weekend, or part-time. In this prospective cohort study, we examined the prevalence of dental trauma and knowledge of traumatic dental injuries ...

In the fall of 1998, the Army Research Laboratory started a Science and Technology Objective entitled, “Collaborative Technology for the Warfighter.” Later, the Battle Command Battle Laboratory at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, was added as a partner to provide operational expertise and as a test site for a major component, the automation of the Military Decision-Making Process utilizing group suppo...

We show that candidate contact binary asteroids can be efficiently identified from sparsely sampled photometry taken at phase angles α > 60◦. At high phase angle, close/contact binary systems produce distinctive lightcurves that spend most of the time at maximum or minimum (typically >1mag apart) brightness with relatively fast transitions between the two. This means that a few (∼5) sparse obse...

one of the basic rituals of islam is fasting during ramadan. in this month, all able-bodied muslims abstain from food, fluids, smoking, and oral medications from sunrise to sunset. according to the quran, if fasting poses major health risks to individuals, fasting during this holy month is not allowed. this study aimed to evaluate the effects of fasting on maternal and fetal health. therefore, ...