IN the United Kingdom facilities available for child dental care are among the best provided by any country. This, however, is all that is comforting about our present situation. The sheer quantity of dental treatment required by our child population is so great that we cannot adequately cope. What is more, unless we have universal fluoridation within the next five or ten years and unless we ra...

Background The use of chiral auxiliaries in the synthesis of enantiomerically pure compounds has found wide application for a variety of reactions over the last three decades. Despite the extensive developments in this area by many academic and industrial research groups, new auxiliary controlled reactions continue to evolve frequently [1]. First objectives in this area have been to develop chi...

This paper proposes an analysis of English, French, and German auxiliaries in the context of parallel grammar development. We present an LFG implementation of the analysis which factors out language particular morphological wellformedness conditions from linguistically generalizable contributions of auxiliaries. Auxiliaries are treated as feature carrying elements, rather than as raising verbs....

In a 1982 paper in the journal Glossa, Pullum outlined a set of arguments for treating English infinitival to as a defective auxiliary verb. Twenty years later, in his entry on infinitival constructions in The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (CGEL, 2002), Huddleston argues that several distributional facts about auxiliaries fit poorly with this hypothesis. He proposes, on the basis of...

Wells and Local ( 1983) intend to propose a thoroughly pragmatics-based explanationfor the unacceptability ofcertain instances ofaccented injinitival to, have, and be in English, in reaction to Zwicky and Levin’s (1980) argumentsfor a constraint couched in syntactic terms. A comparison ofthe two accounts serves as the vehicle for a discussion ofseveral larger issues: choosing between theoretica...

There has been a marked increase of women in dentistry in Brazil and in many countries around the world. The behavioral mechanisms behind the choice of career differ between men and women, and the inclination to care for others is thought by some to be more present in women than it is in men. This article discusses the reasons that lead women to choose dentistry as a profession in Brazil and th...

The aim of this paper is to describe and analyse the oral health situation in Syria in the last two decades and to propose recommendations for improvement of the current situation. The epidemiological data on caries of the last two decades did not indicate a decrease in the DMFT value of various age groups, nor was a decrease in the percentage of untreated caries apparent. The unequal distribut...

This paper contains an investigation of some aspects of Romanian modality constructed with auxiliaries. These forms can be combined either with the infinitive, or with overt (imperfective /perfective) aspectual morphology. In the latter case, they might give rise to interpretations which have been classified in Romanian grammars as presumptive (broadly described as referring to probability, unc...

This paper describes the behavior of 30 dental assistants over 72 appointments in the management of threeto Five-year-old children. Guidance, empathy, verbalization, and physical contact were major provider categories; a dichotomous measure of fear-related behavior was derived from child categories. The distribution of duration and Frequency of behaviors within each category indicate that the a...