VALUE ADDED IN FOOD MANUFACTURING AND RETAILING: A RATIO ANALYSIS OF MAJOR U.S. STATES

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Escáneres intraorales vs impresiones convencionales para diagnóstico y tratamiento odontológico

Objective: To compare methods and identify the advantages and disadvantages of digital flow. Method: Bibliographic documentary type, by means of a search of articles in databases such as: PubMed. Results: 27 were selected as they contained the necessary information to fulfill the main objective of this review. Conclusion: Impression taking is still considered to be uncomfortable for the patient causing in many from nausea to difficulty breathing and choking, creating bad experiences that generate mistrust in the patient when in the dental environment, while the scanner generally does not originate this type of problems.Objetivo: Comparar métodos e identificar las ventajas y desventajas del flujo digital. Método: De tipo bibliográfica documental, mediante una búsqueda de artículos en bases de datos como: PubMed. Resultados: Fueron seleccionados 27 ya que contenían la información necesaria para cumplir con el objetivo principal de esta revisión. Conclusión: la toma de impresión todavía se considera que es incómodo para el paciente provocando en muchos desde nauseas hasta dificultad para respirar y atragantamientos, creando malas experiencias que generan desconfianza en el paciente cuando se encuentra en el ambiente odontológico, mientras que el escáner generalmente no origina este tipo de problemas

Multi-Party Elections in the Arab World: Institutional Engineering and Oppositional Strategies

Recent moves toward multi-party competition for elected legislatures in numerous Arab countries constitute a significant departure from earlier practices there, and create the basis for democratic activists to gradually chip away at persistent authoritarian rule. This article explores the institutional mechanisms by which incumbent authoritarian executives seek to engineer these elections. It documents examples of rulers changing electoral systems to ensure compliant legislatures, and demonstrates the prevalent use of winner-takes-all electoral systems, which generally work to the regimes\u27 advantage. I then review various strategies of opposition forces--boycotts, non-competition agreements, election monitoring, and struggles over election rules--and the dilemmas that these entail. Surmounting differences in terms of ideologies, as well as short-term political goals and prospects, is a central challenge. The future should see greater electoral participation among opposition activists, along with cleaner elections. As vote coercion and ballot box stuffing is restricted by opposition pressures, electoral institutions will take on greater importance, and struggles for proportional representation are likely to increase