Durum wheat in olive orchard: more income for the farmers?

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Breeding for agroforestry: is it only breeding for shade?

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Patterns of rotavirus vaccine uptake, use, and effectiveness in privately-insured US children, 2006-2010

Objectives. Our study examines predictors and timeliness of rotavirus vaccine administration among privately-insured US infants and children from 2006 to 2010. We also calculate direct, indirect, total, and overall rotavirus vaccine effectiveness estimates as well as the number of rotavirus and acute gastroenteritis hospitalizations prevented among infants and children aged 8 to 20 months. Methods. Bivariate analyses and multivariable log-risk models were used to determine predictors of rotavirus vaccine series initiation and completion among infants in the MarketScan Research Databases. Vaccine effectiveness estimates were derived using Cox proportional hazards regression, stratifying by calendar year and adjusting for month of birth. Incidence rate differences were calculated to determine the absolute number of rotavirus and acute gastroenteritis hospitalizations prevented in the cohort. Results. Most infants received the rotavirus vaccines at the recommended ages, but more infants completed the series for monovalent rotavirus vaccine than pentavalent rotavirus vaccine or a mix of the two vaccines (87% versus 79% versus 73%). In multivariable analyses, the strongest predictors of rotavirus vaccine series initiation and completion were receipt of the diphtheria, tetanus and acellular pertussis vaccine (Initiation: RR=7.50, 95% CI=7.30-7.71; Completion: RR=1.26, 95% CI=1.23-1.29), visiting a pediatrician versus family physician (Initiation: RR=1.51, 95% CI=1.49-1.52; Completion: RR=1.13, 95% CI=1.11-1.14), and living in a large metropolitan versus smaller metropolitan, urban, or rural area. Direct vaccine effectiveness of one or more doses of any rotavirus vaccine in preventing rotavirus gastroenteritis hospitalizations in children 8 to 20 months ranged from 87 to 92% for each calendar year, 2007-2010. Accounting for indirect protection increased the total vaccine effectiveness by an additional 3 to 8%. Failing to account for indirect protection underestimated the absolute number of rotavirus gastroenteritis hospitalizations prevented in rotavirus-vaccinated children by 1.5 to 5.3-fold. Conclusions. Accounting for only the direct effectiveness of the rotavirus vaccine severely underestimated the total number of rotavirus gastroenteritis hospitalizations prevented by the US rotavirus vaccine program. Interventions to further increase rotavirus vaccine coverage should consider targeting family physicians and encouraging completion of the vaccine series.Doctor of Philosoph

Maxillary Sinusitis as a Complication of Zygomatic Implants Placement: A Narrative Review

Aims: The aim of this review is to consider maxillary sinusitis as a complication of zygomatic implants placements. Maxillary sinusitis a common complication but in the literature there are no reviews that focus only on this condition and its possible treatment. This review was carried out with to highlight the main findings of the literature on this topic and to improve knowledge in this field. Methods: The search strategy resulted in 155 papers. After selection of the inclusion criteria only 11 papers were examined. From the papers these, 12.3% patients presented maxillary sinusitis but only four studies evaluated sinusitis (both clinical and radiological evaluation). The most common treatment used by the authors were antibiotics alone or combined with functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS). Results: The literature shows an absence of precise and shared guidelines diagnosis and post-operative follow-up, and of the treatment of maxillary sinusitis following zygomatic implantology. It has not been determined if the surgical placement of ZIs is better than the other techniques for treatment of the onset of maxillary sinusitis in the post-operative period. Conclusion: To date there are no shared protocols for maxillary sinusitis treatment. In our experience, and according to the literature in the presence of risk factors such as age, comorbidities, smoking, nasal septal deviation or other anatomical variants, we suggested that FESS is performed at the same time as placement of zygomatic implants

Incidência de fungos e desempenho de sementes de mamona.

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Testing of Drilled Shafts Socketed Into Limestone

Construction of the first phase of the South Parking Garage at the Tampa International Airport in Florida was completed in December 1991. A full-scale field load testing program was used in design of the drilled shaft foundations, with specific goals of determining the bond strength and characterizing the load-displacement behavior of the rock sockets. The displacement behavior and bond strength of the test shafts were predicted from elastic solutions and semiempirical methods. Input parameters included the rock uniaxial compressive strength and elastic modulus. The load test results are compared to the predictions herein, and the practical application of these comparisons is demonstrated by a sample evaluation of a drilled shaft supporting the South Parking Garage

Jacob’s Disease: Case Series, Extensive Literature Review and Classification Proposal

Jacob’s disease is a rare entity consisting of the formation of a pseudojoint between an abnormal coronoid process of the mandible and the inner surface of the zygomatic bone. First described by Jacob in 1899, its diagnosis and definition have never been entirely univocal. In this paper, we present three emblematic cases and an extensive review of the literature on Jacob’s disease. Given the variability observed in the presentation of the disease, we have developed a proposal for the classification, here reported