One in two marriages in the United States ends in divorce. Close to 30% of children under 18 live in single-parent households. Disruption of many traditional households raises the question of how divorce affects children’s later outcomes. This paper investigates the impacts of parental divorce on children’s educational and labor market outcomes, and studies the mitigating effects associated wit...

The UK has a rich calendar of folkloric traditional customs that continue to occur in our communities, even when their purpose is archaic or unknown. Folk Horror most associated with cinema and television, filmmakers consciously use as “summoning,” epitomize the horror landscape, isolation characters “skewed moral beliefs” (Scovell, “The Chain”). Though scholarship new emerging, this paper aims...

Nowadays, in endodontic field mineral trioxide aggregate (MTA; Dentsply, Tulsa Dental, Tulsa, OK, USA) has been introduced and widely used in many indications such as root-end filling, perforation repair, apexification, and pulp capping. Traditionally, various materials, such as amalgam, zinc oxide eugenol (ZOE), Intermediate Restorative Material (IRM; Dentsply Caulk, Milford, DE, USA), and sup...

10h15 " Emotion and Information: What is effective reassurance in Low Back Pain Consultations? " Nicola Holt – United Kingdom 10h15 " Influence of emotional stress on pain " Linda Hermans-Belgium 10h35 " Preoperative Pain Neuroscience Education for Lumbar Radiculopathy " Adriaan Louw – South Africa & U.S.A. 10h35 " What trait anxiety and sensory processing profile characteristics do patients wi...

G. R. White University of Sussex, Brighton, UK Abstract In order to design new methodologies for evaluating the user experience of video games, it is imperative to initially understand two core issues. Firstly, how are video games developed at present, including components such as processes, timescales and staff roles, and secondly, how do studios design and evaluate the user experience. This c...

PURPOSE The purposes of this investigation were to 1) measure success of a primary tooth pulpotomy technique that applies formocresol in the sub-base without the common five-minute application of a formocresol impregnated cotton pellet; and 2) compare success rates of the pulpotomy procedure using traditional criteria found throughout the literature with new criteria recently established, exclu...

introduction: perforations of the pulpal floor create problems during endodontic treatment and often results in secondary periodontal involvement with eventual loss of teeth. the purpose of this study was to evaluate the ability of mineral trioxide aggregate (mta), amalgam, zinc oxide and eugenol (zoe) and portland cement to seal furcal perforations in extracted human molars using dye penetrati...

introduction the materials used for obturation of root canal system may be extruded through apical foramen into the periapical tissue. therefore, biocompatibility of these materials is very important. the purpose of this study was to evaluate the in vivo biocompatibility of three conventional endodontic sealers: ah26, roth 801, and zoe after their subcutaneous implantation in rats. methods twen...