An 18-year-old girl was referred to the Department of Oral Medicine with upper lip swelling. She was in good general health and laboratory tests were within the normal range. Histopathologic diagnosis did not reveal the presence of granulomas. This is consistent with the finding that 30% of patients with orofacial granulomatosis do not have granulomas on their biopsies. The patient was treated ...

A word from a list is more likely to be recalled if it was self-generated rather than read. This finding--the generation effect--has been attributed to semantic memory and, more particularly, to the enhanced activation of the semantic features comprising a word's representation in the subjective lexicon. Three experiments showed that a similar generation effect occurs for meaningful but not for...

The aim of this study is to estimate dietary intake of benzoic acid and its salts through food additives in adult population of South East Serbia. Information on dietary intake among 620 adults (aged 18-65) was collected using a food frequency questionnaire, and 748 food samples were analyzed. The mean estimated intake of benzoic acid -0.32 mg/kg of body weight (bw) per day was below acceptable...

The tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) is the most widely consumed fresh vegetable in the industrialized world and it is found at the base of the pyramid of the Mediterranean diet [4]. It is also widely used for the production of derived products such as juice, purées, ketchup or soups [5,6]. The tomato is known to be beneficial for health, especially with regard to the development of chronic deg...

In this chapter we describe experience in the design and installation of a low-cost multi-touch table in a rural island community. We will discuss the creation of the table including: pragmatic challenges of installation, and then reinstallation as the physical fabric of the multi-purpose building (café, cinema, meeting area and cattle market) altered; technical challenges of using off-the-shel...

In this paper, we develop a structural model of household behavior in an environment where there is uncertainty about brand attributes, and both prices and advertising signal brand quality. Four quality signaling mechanisms are at work in the model: 1) price signals quality, 2) advertising frequency signals quality, 3) advertising content provides direct (but noisy) information about quality, a...