167 research outputs found
Caries classification and management in the context of the CariesCare International (CCI™) consensus:a clinical case study
The objective of this clinical case study is to illustrate the caries management four-step structured process, leading to
personalised interventions specifc for each individual patient’s risks and needs, according to CariesCare International, derived
from the International Caries Classifcation and Management System (ICCMS) for clinical practice. An 18-year-old female was
diagnosed with higher caries risk at the individual level, and with several caries lesions at different severity stages, some likely
active and others likely inactive. A care plan was co-created with the patient and delivered to obtain optimal health outcomes.
Several issues pertinent to patient-centred care are discussed, including caries management at the individual and the tooth
surface level, the preservation of tooth structure, patient’s caries risk management, and prevention and control of caries
lesions. The patient’s perspective is taken into account and the health outcome focus of the system is highlighted
Information Rx: Prescribing Good Consumerism and Responsible Citizenship
Recent medical informatics and sociological literature has painted the image of a new type of patient—one that is reflexive and informed, with highly specified information needs and perceptions, as well as highly developed skills and tactics for acquiring information. Patients have been re-named “reflexive consumers.” At the same time, literature about the questionable reliability of web-based information has suggested the need to create both user tools that have pre-selected information and special guidelines for individuals to use to check the individual characteristics of the information they encounter. In this article, we examine suggestions that individuals must be assisted in developing skills for “reflexive consumerism” and what these particular skills should be. Using two types of data (discursive data from websites and promotional items, and supplementary data from interviews and ethnographic observations carried out with those working to sustain these initiatives), we examine how users are directly addressed and discussed. We argue that these initiatives prescribe skills and practices that extend beyond finding and assessing information on the internet and demonstrate that they include ideals of consumerism and citizenship
Genetic identification of an oxyurid from a captive, black-handed spider monkey—implications for treatment and control
Bostonia: The Boston University Alumni Magazine. Volume 17
Founded in 1900, Bostonia magazine is Boston University's main alumni publication, which covers alumni and student life, as well as university activities, events, and programs
Regional food trade and policy in West Africa in relation to structural adjustment
Drell-Yan lepton pairs are produced in the process through an intermediate boson. The lepton angular distributions are used to provide information on the electroweak-mixing parameter via its observable effective-leptonic , or . A new method to infer , or equivalently, the W-boson mass M_W, is developed and tested using a previous CDF Run II measurement of angular distributions from electron pairs in a sample corresponding to 2.1 fb-1 of integrated luminosity from collisions at a center-of-momentum energy of 1.96 TeV. The value of is found to be 0.2328 +- 0.0011. Within a specified context of the standard model, this results in = 0.2246 +- 0.0011 which corresponds to a W-boson mass of 80.297 +- 0.055 GeV/c^2, in agreement with previous determinations in electron-position collisions and at the Tevatron collider
Third-Party Effects
Most theories about effects of social embeddedness on trust define mechanisms that assume someone’s decision to trust is based on the reputation of the person to be trusted or on other
available information. However, there is little empirical evidence about how subjects use the information that is available to them. In this chapter, we derive hypotheses about the effects of
reputation and other information on trust from a range of theories and we devise an experiment that allows for testing these hypotheses simultaneously. We focus on the following mechanisms: learning, imitation, social comparison, and control. The results show that actors learn particularly from their own past experiences. Considering third-party information, imitation seems to be especially important
Measurement of the forward-backward asymmetry of top-quark and antiquark pairs using the full CDF Run II data set
Citation: Aaltonen, T., Amerio, S., Amidei, D., Anastassov, A., Annovi, A., Antos, J., . . . Zucchelli, S. (2016). Measurement of the forward-backward asymmetry of top-quark and antiquark pairs using the full CDF Run II data set. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 93(11). doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.93.112005We measure the forward-backward asymmetry of the production of top-quark and antiquark pairs in proton-antiproton collisions at center-of-mass energy s=1.96 TeV using the full data set collected by the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) in Tevatron Run II corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 9.1 fb-1. The asymmetry is characterized by the rapidity difference between top quarks and antiquarks (?y) and measured in the final state with two charged leptons (electrons and muons). The inclusive asymmetry, corrected to the entire phase space at parton level, is measured to be AFBtt=0.12±0.13, consistent with the expectations from the standard model (SM) and previous CDF results in the final state with a single charged lepton. The combination of the CDF measurements of the inclusive AFBtt in both final states yields AFBtt=0.160±0.045, which is consistent with the SM predictions. We also measure the differential asymmetry as a function of ?y. A linear fit to AFBtt(|?y|), assuming zero asymmetry at ?y=0, yields a slope of ?=0.14±0.15, consistent with the SM prediction and the previous CDF determination in the final state with a single charged lepton. The combined slope of AFBtt(|?y|) in the two final states is ?=0.227±0.057, which is 2.0? larger than the SM prediction. © 2016 American Physical Society
Structural change, land use and the state in China
Rapid economic growth involves significant changes in land use patterns. The paper uses the recent history of Chinese economic growth to highlight and interrogate the implication of such changes within the context of structural transformation. It argues that though land use change is an important underlying dimension of the massive structural transformation accompanying China’s explosive economic growth, the dominant theoreti
Search for a low-mass neutral Higgs boson with suppressed couplings to fermions using events with multiphoton final states
Citation: Aaltonen, T., Amerio, S., Amidei, D., Anastassov, A., Annovi, A., Antos, J., . . . Zucchelli, S. (2016). Search for a low-mass neutral Higgs boson with suppressed couplings to fermions using events with multiphoton final states. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 93(11). doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.93.112010A search for a Higgs boson with suppressed couplings to fermions, hf, assumed to be the neutral, lower-mass partner of the Higgs boson discovered at the Large Hadron Collider, is reported. Such a Higgs boson could exist in extensions of the standard model with two Higgs doublets, and could be produced via pp?H±hf?W?hfhf?4?+X, where H± is a charged Higgs boson. This analysis uses all events with at least three photons in the final state from proton-antiproton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV collected by the Collider Detector at Fermilab, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 9.2 fb-1. No evidence of a signal is observed in the data. Values of Higgs-boson masses between 10 and 100 GeV/c2 are excluded at 95% Bayesian credibility. © 2016 American Physical Society
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