Carious lesions are distributed nonuniformly across tooth surfaces of the complete dentition, suggesting that the effects of risk factors may be surface-specific. Whether genes differentially affect caries risk across tooth surfaces is unknown. We investigated the role of genetics on two classes of tooth surfaces, pit and fissure surfaces (PFS) and smooth surfaces (SMS), in more than 2,600 subj...

Improving Accuracy of SMS based FAQ Retrieval Aparna Joshi Department of Information Technology Army Institute of Technology, Pune University of Pune Maharashtra, India _______________________________________________________________________________________ Abstract: Short messaging service (SMS) is a convenient technology for a user to get the needed information delivered on demand. The automat...

BACKGROUND As healthcare services become progressively more stretched, there is increasing discussion of ways in which technological adjuncts may be used to deliver more cost-efficient services. Before widespread implementation, however, the use of these adjuncts requires proper scrutiny of their effects on psychological practice. AIMS This research examined the effectiveness of SMS reminders...

As a participant of FIRE 2012 monolingual English SMS based FAQ Retrieval Task, we proposed a theme matching scheme [1]. Once again the scheme is implemented for the same task in FIRE 2013 having different set of SMS and FAQ queries. An SMS text usually consists of certain noisy terms due to the limitations of characters allowed in an SMS, lack of screen space and unintended typographical error...

Emotional numbing symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are negatively associated with relationship satisfaction in combat veterans and their romantic partners. Many speculate that one mechanism of this association may be decreased disclosure by veterans, but previous studies lacked appropriate data to test this hypothesis. In a sample of 224 OIF/OEF-era National Guard service member...

The capacity of spent mushroom substrate (SMS) as a sorbent of fungicides was evaluated for its possible use in regulating pesticide mobility in the environment. The sorption studies involved four different SMS types in terms of nature and treatment and eight fungicides selected as representative compounds from different chemical groups. Nonlinear sorption isotherms were observed for all SMS-fu...

BACKGROUND No study comparing short message service (SMS) texts and telephone counseling for patients undergoing total knee replacement (TKR) has been reported. PURPOSE The purpose of the study was to provide postdischarge telephone counseling and SMS texts to TKR patients and to analyze the effects of these services on their knee function (KF), activities of daily living (ADL), and life sati...

In this paper, we present a scheme for secure SMS communication. The suggested scheme is based on private key crypto-system. This secure SMS will be suitable to work on android platform. The Android platform has been dealt as a topic of mobile security because Android is an open platform whose sources can be observed by anyone. The malicious code inserted in any application can perform to inter...

As the use of mobile phones grows, spams are becoming increasingly common in mobile communication such as SMS, calling for research on SMS spam detection. Existing detection techniques for SMS spams have been mostly adapted from those developed for other contexts such as emails and the web without taking into account some unique characteristics of SMS. Additionally, spamming tactics is constant...

Sphingomyelin synthase (SMS) plays an important role in plasma atherogenic lipoprotein metabolism, inflammation, and the development of atherosclerosis. To understand whether the impaired apoB secretion and inflammation response is a direct result from lack of SMS activity, in this study, we prepared a series of compounds that inhibit SMS activity. Further, we characterized Dy105, the most pote...