In this investigation the denture retention was measured and the influence of denture -retention on ima'sticatory efficiency was examined. The investigation was iperf armed on 36 comiplete denture wearers. The test of masticatory efficiency wals used according to Ni'kšić (1965). The meaisuriinig of denture retention was made by specially constructed mechanical scale, which wa's designed so that...

AIM To investigate the importance of attachment types on the retention loss of extracoronal attachment-retained removable partial dentures depending on the usage period. MATERIALS AND METHODS In order to observe the retention loss of 5 different attachments (OT Strategy, OT Strategy-metal protected, Vario-stud-snap and Vario-soft 3 and ERA-RV) over time, attachment-retained partial dentures r...

This report investigates 2nd Fall and 3rd Fall retention rates by Expected Family Contribution (EFC) for recent full-time, first-time (FTFT) freshman cohorts. This report serves as an update to, and extension of, prior retention by EFC reports that focused on 2 Fall Retention as the sole dependent variable. Sub-groups of interest including First Generation students, minority ethnicity students,...

BACKGROUND Poor retention in HIV care of mother-baby pairs remains a public health challenge in the elimination of mother-to-child transmission (eMTCT) of HIV. We determined the rate of non-retention and time to non-retention of mother-baby pairs and associated factors in Gulu district, Northern Uganda. METHODS Mother-baby pairs enrolled into the eMTCT programme at Gulu Regional Referral Hosp...

The main purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of staffs' customer orientation on customer satisfaction, commitment and retention. For this aim, the model of customer orientation of service staff, offered by Thurau was combined with customer orientation model of Donavan and Hoctt and a new model was devised for Mellat Banks of North West of Iran. The trend of this research is applied,...

BACKGROUND Transverse nasal crease is an uncommonly reported entity. It likely represents an embryologic fault line. Transverse nasal milia have also been reported in the same location, both as an isolated finding and in a transverse nasal crease. This observation suggests they are variants of the same entity. OBSERVATIONS Two cases, one of transverse nasal crease with milia and one of transv...

Comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography coupled with time-of-flight mass spectrometry (GC×GC/TOF-MS) has been applied to metabolomics analyses recently. However, retention time shifts in the two-dimensional gas chromatography will introduce difficulty to compare compound profiles obtained from multiple samples. In this work, a novel two-stage peak alignment algorithm has been developed...

BACKGROUND Recruitment and retention of talent is central to the research performance of universities. Existing research shows that, while men are more likely than women to be promoted at the different stages of the academic career, no such difference is found when it comes to faculty retention rates. Current research on faculty retention, however, focuses on careers in science, technology, eng...

A novel one-transistor dynamic random access memory (1T DRAM) cell has been proposed for a low-voltage operation and longer data retention time. The proposed 1T DRAM cell has three features compared with a conventional 1T DRAM cell: low body doping concentration, a recessed gate structure, and a P poly-Si gate. Simulation results show that the proposed 1T DRAM cell has < 1-ns program time and >...

The paper presents results from an experimental and numerical study of wind-induced flows and transportation patterns in highway wet detention ponds. The study presented here is part of a general investigation on road runoff and pollution in respect to wet detention ponds. The objective is to evaluate the quality of long term simulations based on historical rain series of the pollutant discharg...