The bridge between oral and systemic health has been reinforced during the past decade by multiple publications describing this important connection in both dental and medical journals. The oral focus of these publications has been on periodontal diseases, which are the most common dental conditions. It is known that a number of systemic diseases, including diabetes, can increase an individual’...

BACKGROUND The current analyses focus on the need for services from the perspective of individuals considering preventive measures. A new approach imported from social and health psychology is used for assessing subjective need. This indicator is used for predicting actual health behaviour under field conditions and simultaneously other relevant background variables are taken into account. ME...

abstract controversy has not been yet resolved among l2 researchers as how to enhance higher-order thinking skills (hotss) in efl contexts. responding to the growing need to foster thinking skills, many l2 educators have recently attempted to investigate the effect of diverse teaching strategies on hots. yet, few studies have focused on the infusion of gardner’s (1999) theory of multiple intell...

further to emerging the environmental protection thoughts in the 1970's, most of the governments in the developed countries have been faced with social pressures for taking actions in order to stop the degradation in the environment and the quality of life. in response to such a societal desire, those governments have approved the requirement of environmental impact statement for the proje...

The Need to Utilize Chaos Management Techniques in Elementary School Preparedness Assessment Program   M. H. Hassani Shalmaani, Ph.D.*   One of the most important programs in the Ministry of Education is the health and academic preparedness assessment program. It is assumed that any assessment program is so dynamic and unpredictable that makes systematic planning impossible. Thi...

nowadays environmental risk assessment is under consideration alike a useful tool in studies for environmental risk management of projects with high level of potential of destruction and hazards. projects of gas transportation pipelines, unlike technical and economical justification in the field of energy supplying for societies, by having danger on environment, need to the continuous studies o...