BACKGROUND: To date only a few studies have evaluated the long-term influence of smoking and smoking cessation on periodontal health. The present study, therefore, was undertaken with the aim to prospectively investigate the influence of smoking…
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Using a two-stage growth curve analysis, change over time in performance on tests in the Halstead-Reitan Battery and Average Impairment Rating (AIR) was assessed for 53 individuals who varied in age and health status. In the first stage of the…
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One conception of aging and cognitive deterioration is that cognitive decline becomes common with age, and dementia may be regarded as one extreme of the continuum. An alternative conception is that the cognitive process is spared by the aging…
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Loneliness is an indicator of social well-being and pertains to the feeling of missing an intimate relationship (emotional loneliness) or missing a wider social network (social loneliness). The 11-item De Jong Gierveld Loneliness Scale has proved to…
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Over the past 10-15 years, there has been increasing interest in the health problems of performing artists. In this review, I will discuss the major playing-related disorders seen in instrumental musicians. Among the 672 instrumentalists evaluated,…
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A aposentadoria, de maneira geral, tem sido um dos principais problemas com que se debatem os gerentes que já atingiram a marca dos 60 anos de idade. Contudo, a despeito da ampliação de estudos sobre esta temática, na perspectiva do sujeito, a…
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Particular emphasis in the United States has been placed on deficiencies in science education. These deficiencies have been widely publicized and the importance must be emphasized; however this is not an isolated problem. Similar deficiencies exist…
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Maternal incompetence in childrearing is described in three widely different cultural settings in the southern Negev area of Israel. It is suggested that this incompetence stems from "abandonment" of the parents by traditional family support systems…
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In songbirds, as in mammals, basal ganglia-forebrain circuits are necessary for the learning and production of complex motor behaviors; however, the precise role of these circuits remains unknown. It has recently been shown that a basal…
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We discuss a Bayesian discovery procedure for multiple comparison problems. We show that under a coherent decision theoretic framework, a loss function combining true positive and false positive counts leads to a decision rule based on a threshold…
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Coastal lakes are ecosystems of significant value generating many ecological, social and economic benefits. Increasing demands resulting from urban development and other human activities within coastal lake catchments have
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The findings in a 4-yr survey of 82 patients with abdominal tuberculosis are described and compared with those encountered in previous surveys. Fourteen cases of intestinal, 11 of mesenteric-lymphnodal, and 57 of peritoneal tuberculosis were…
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In this article, abduction is introduced in relation to theorizing in grounded theory. Theoretical insights are inevitable cornerstones of the development of a grounded theory and abduction is worked out as a type of inference that characterizes…
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Increasing usage of computer simulation as a method of pursuing science makes methodological reflection immanently important. After discussing relevant philosophical positions Winsberg's view of simulation modeling is adapted to conceptualize…
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This paper investigates the irregular shape packing problem. We represent the problem as an ordered list of pieces to be packed where the order is decoded by a placement heuristic. A placement heuristic from the literature is presented and modified…
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Harvard professor Henry Chesbrough takes a look at leading-edge companies' latest moves to harvest ideas from outside and to benefit from sharing their own R&D with others-even with competitors.
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Pi t ch c an be conceptualized as a bidimensional quant i ty, reflecting both the overall pi t ch level of a tone (tone height) and i t s position in the octave (tone chroma). Though such a conceptualization has been well suppor t ed for perception…
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