Agamben (1998) through the figure of ‘refugee’ illustrates his construct on bare life, camp, state exception, sovereignty. The narratives encamped refugees portray them as homines sacri ‘zoe’ sans ‘bios’ living at level necessity. Refugees are subjected to modern day techniques sovereignty including violence which Foucault (2007) dubbed ‘governmentality’ employed control, dominate and subdue th...

We provide empirical evidence on the consequences of the “revolving door” phenomenon at the SEC. If future job opportunities make SEC lawyers exert more enforcement effort to showcase their expertise, then the revolving door phenomenon will promote more aggressive regulatory activity (the “human capital” hypothesis). In contrast, SEC lawyers can relax enforcement efforts in order to curry favor...

The objective of this research was to determine if gutta-percha points with calcium hydroxide [Ca(OH)2] improve the apical seal after root canal filling and if the master point does it alone. Human single recently extracted teeth were biomechanically prepared and the root canals filled by the lateral condensation technique with ZOE and gutta-percha points, with or without calcium hydroxide. The...

AIM To compare mineral trioxide aggregate (MTA) with calcium hydroxide when used as pulp-capping materials in human teeth. METHODOLOGY Eleven pairs of maxillary third molars in subjects between 20 and 25 years of age were subjected to mechanical pulp exposure. The exposed pulps were capped with MTA or calcium hydroxide, covered with ZOE and restored with amalgam. A total of 14 teeth were extr...

We present a new code (companion) that identifies bound systems of particles in O(N logN) time. Simple binaries consisting of pairs of mutually bound particles and complex hierarchies consisting of collections of mutually bound particles are identifiable with this code. In comparison, brute force binary search methods scale as O(N2) while full hierarchy searches can be as expensive as O(N3), ma...

Title: The theoretical and empirical basis of a BioPsychoSocial (BPS) Risk Screener for detection of older peoples' health related needs, planning of community programs, and targeted care interventions Authors: Zoe Hildon ([email protected]) Chuen Seng Tan ([email protected]) Farah Shiraz ([email protected]) Wai Chong Ng ([email protected]) Xiaodong Deng ([email protected]...

Mineral trioxide aggregate (MTA) was developed in early 1990s and has been successfully used for root perforation repair, root end filling, and one-visit apexification. MTA is composed mainly of tricalcium silicate and dicalcium silicate. When MTA is hydrated, calcium silicate hydrate (CSH) and calcium hydroxide is formed. Formed calcium hydroxide interacts with the phosphate ion in body fluid ...