Dental care professionals and child protection: case scenarios and discussions

Any concerns about paediatric patients in general dental practice can be stressful for all involved. Barriers to the reporting of concerns by dental teams are known to exist. Anything that can help ease those situations can only be beneficial. In this article we look at three scenarios that could arise which I am often asked about during teaching and training sessions on safeguarding and child protection for dental teams. They can be discussed at team meetings and training, so that if they are ever to happen for real, everyone will know exactly what to do. This article cannot be completely prescriptive as there will be local variations, but it gives general guidance on issues raised by the scenarios. If you already have a child protection policy in your practice, make sure you know what it says; and if you don't this article will point the way to further resources for developing one

Surface evolution during crystalline silicon film growth by low-temperature hot-wire chemical vapor deposition on silicon substrates

We investigate the low-temperature growth of crystalline thin silicon films: epitaxial, twinned, and polycrystalline, by hot-wire chemical vapor deposition (HWCVD). Using Raman spectroscopy, spectroscopic ellipsometry, and atomic force microscopy, we find the relationship between surface roughness evolution and (i) the substrate temperature (230–350 °C) and (ii) the hydrogen dilution ratio (H2/SiH4=0–480). The absolute silicon film thickness for fully crystalline films is found to be the most important parameter in determining surface roughness, hydrogen being the second most important. Higher hydrogen dilution increases the surface roughness as expected. However, surface roughness increases with increasing substrate-temperature, in contrast to previous studies of crystalline Si growth. We suggest that the temperature-dependent roughness evolution is due to the role of hydrogen during the HWCVD process, which in this high hydrogen dilution regime allows for epitaxial growth on the rms roughest films through a kinetic growth regime of shadow-dominated etch and desorption and redeposition of growth species

Seeing Color: Implications of the European Union\u27s New Common Practice for Transatlantic Trademark Registration by United States Trademark Holders

This Note explores two issues related to the EU’s new common practice: (1) whether the new common practice will deter ongoing efforts to integrate trademark registration and protection at the international level; and (2) whether U.S. trademark holders, when expanding business into the EU, should register through the Madrid Protocol and obtain Community Trade Mark or register through a country’s trademark office. This Note argues that the new trademark practice hinders international efforts for standardizing trademark registration and that U.S. trademark holders should claim color when registering their marks with the EU

Seeing Color: Implications of the European Union\u27s New Common Practice for Transatlantic Trademark Registration by United States Trademark Holders

This Note explores two issues related to the EU’s new common practice: (1) whether the new common practice will deter ongoing efforts to integrate trademark registration and protection at the international level; and (2) whether U.S. trademark holders, when expanding business into the EU, should register through the Madrid Protocol and obtain Community Trade Mark or register through a country’s trademark office. This Note argues that the new trademark practice hinders international efforts for standardizing trademark registration and that U.S. trademark holders should claim color when registering their marks with the EU

Quantitative Genetic Analysis of Third Metacarpal Morphometry in Baboons (\u3cem\u3ePapio hamadryas\u3c/em\u3e)

Osteoporosis is a very disabling disease in humans, and not until recently with the advent of modern technology has it been researched in a manner beneficial to medical applications. Initially, the use of animals in osteoporosis research served primarily as an avenue for testing and research. Recently the use of nonhuman primates has expanded the research potential for such studies on related individuals more similar to humans. Baboon colonies provide researchers with accessible nonhuman primate populations in which pedigrees can be determined and biomedical studies can be performed. This study is based on 186 hand-wrist radiographs of two baboon subspecies, Papio hamadryas cynocephalus and P.h. anubis, collected at the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research in San Antonio, Texas. The records of the baboons from which the radiographs were taken were arranged into pedigrees. The third metacarpal of each radiograph was digitized on a video analysis system using x,y coordinates at 1.0 mm intervals to establish cortical bone area measurements. Subsequent analysis of these measurements established first and second moments of area and radii of gyration. Computer analysis using the program Maxlikh2 , similar to Fischer\u27s Fundamental theorem, determined heritability estimates from the measurements along the parameters of the pedigrees for seven quantitative traits. Heritability is a function of degree of genetic inheritance of a complex trait, in this case radii of gyration of cortical bone. Multivariate analysis using variables mean, sex, age, sex/age interaction, and phenotypic variance and yielded heritability and standard error estimates for the quantitative traits kmax, kmin, area, length, subperiosteal-medullary width, kmax\length, and kmin\length. Quantitative traits are significantly heritable. Cortical bone morphology of baboon third metacarpals may provide a methodology for identifying risk factors associated with developing osteoporosis. The study of bone heritability in primates contributes a new application for osteoporosis research. Studies of bone heritability in baboons could lead to the use of such studies as models for human osteoporosis

Emotion Processing and its Relationship to Social Functioning in Schizophrenia Patients

Schizophrenia patients have demonstrated deficits in affect recognition. Whether this deficit is part of a general difficulty in face perception or a specific problem in affect recognition is debatable. However, there is little research investigating the functional consequences of difficulties in identifying emotion in schizophrenia patients. We tested 20 chronic, medicated schizophrenia patients and 27 normal control participants on a battery of face recognition and affect recognition tasks. A subset of 14 patients was rated on the Social Dysfunction Index. Results demonstrated that schizophrenia patients were less accurate than normal control participants on face recognition, facial affect recognition and vocal affect recognition tasks, but among schizophrenia patients, only affect recognition performance was related to social functioning. These results suggest that schizophrenia patients have general face processing deficits, but affect recognition deficits may lead to more problems in social behavior.Psycholog

Access to Justice & Academic Law Libraries

A review of current A2J efforts, including lessons learned and best practices from Fordham Law School\u27s parole Information Project

Increasing student engagement with a community college music curriculum

Abstract This case study is an examination of a cohort of 15 music majors at Los Angeles City College (LACC), a two-year, open-enrollment, public community college. The majority of students enter the music program having had limited exposure to classical music. Given these students low cultural capital, they start on the periphery of the theory and performance communities of music practice (CoMPs). As they gradually engage with the CoMPs and become legitimate peripheral participants through situated learning, students are able to learn to appreciate, value, acquire additional capital, and become more engaged with the Western classical music components of the curriculum. The theoretical basis for the study comes from Bourdieu’s theory of cultural capital, which provides the foundation of the exploration of the relationship between LACC music student capital and the institutional capital of the music curriculum, and Lave and Wenger’s concepts of situated learning and communities of practice, which provide the foundation for exploring why the interviewed LACC music students appear to enter CoMPs at different rates and with different levels of engagement. The 15 participants in the study were a cohort of transfer-oriented students in their last semester of studies, selected through a purposeful sampling strategy to match the demographic characteristics of a typical cohort of music majors. Qualitative data were collected through individual semi-structured interviews with each of the participants, which allowed for a comparative analysis of student journeys through the music program. The data suggest that students increase their engagement with the music curriculum when they define their identity by engaging in CoMPs, recognize the connections between theory and performance, and value the curriculum as a whole in helping them reach their musical goals. A significant finding of the research is the influence of emotional experiences in helping students engage with and connect the theory and performance curriculum. Recommendations are that music programs should support the formation of CoMPs, engage students early on with performance classes, create opportunities for students to have emotional experiences in the classroom, and use faculty brokers to bridge the boundaries between the theory and performance curriculum