iran's economy dependence on oil revenues has caused some impacts in the form of commodity price fluctuations on current revenues. accordingly, in the past few years especially in the second development plan, the government included encouragements and reduced the country's dependence on oil revenues in its agenda. agricultural export, especially livestock and poultry export has a proper status ...

The objective of this study was to assess the effectiveness of oral hygiene education kits (OHE kits) and 0.05% sodium fluoride mouth rinse among visually impaired students (VIS) in Bangkok, Thailand. Seventy-five VIS aged 10-12 years were included in the study and examined for plaque index (PI), gingival index (GI) and mutans streptococci (MS) salivary levels at baseline and after intervention...

AIM AND OBJECTIVE To figure out, analyze and assess the effectiveness of powered toothbrush (Braun/Oral-B two-dimensional) and manual toothbrush (Oral-B40 Regular Advantage Plus) on supragingival plaque and gingival health. MATERIALS AND METHODS The efficacy of powered toothbrush to that of manual one was compared by using a randomized clinical trial over a 4 weeks period in controlling plaqu...

Cordell soybean is a newly released cultivar resistant to Heterodera glycines (SCN) races 3 and 5. The hectarage infested with these races and with other races that can parasitize Cordell in Tennessee is not known. A survey of races in Tennessee soybean fields with sampling weighted by soybean hectarage on a county basis was conducted in 1988. The SCN race plus female development on Bedford and...

BACKGROUND Lower body mass index (BMI) is associated with worse pulmonary function in cystic fibrosis (CF). HYPOTHESIS lean body mass (LBM) is more strongly associated with pulmonary function than BMI is. METHODS Anthropometrics, body composition by dual x-ray absorptiometry, and pulmonary function were determined in pancreatic insufficient CF (PI-CF) youth. Sex and age-adjusted Z-scores (B...

BACKGROUND The pulsatility index (PI) and resistive index (RI) are used as markers of peripheral vascular resistance. Recently intrarenal PI and RI were introduced for the evaluation of the severity of acute and chronic renal failure, as well as for the diagnosis of renal artery stenosis and kidney graft rejection. In the present study, we evaluated intrarenal PI and RI in patients with essenti...

Abstract Using the 1.32 $$\hbox {pb}^{-1}$$ pb - 1 statistics collected at $$J/\psi $$ J / ψ peak with KEDR detector VEPP-4M $$e^{+}e^{-\, }$$ e +</...

Validation of a 5-covariate prognostic index (PI;) (performance status, stage, residual tumor size, histolÃ3gica!grade, and ascitcs) derived from a group of 268 Dutch patients with advanced ovarian carcinoma was performed in a similar study of 301 Danish patients. Analysis of survival suggested an alternative 4-covariate PI (performance status, residual tumor size, age, weight/body surface) for...

Purpose A novel index, the periodontal inflamed surface area (PISA), represents the sum of the periodontal pocket depth of bleeding on probing (BOP)-positive sites. In the present study, we evaluated correlations between PISA and periodontal classifications, and examined PISA as an index integrating the discrete conventional periodontal indexes. Methods This study was a cross-sectional subgro...