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Oral health-related quality of life following dental treatment under general anaesthesia for early childhood caries - a UK-based study.
Objective
To assess parental reports of changes in oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) of young children in the UK with early childhood caries (ECC) following dental treatment under general anaesthesia (DGA). To compare the impact of oral rehabilitation (OR) and extraction-only (Exo) treatment approaches on this.
Methods
Data were collected using the proxy reported components of the Child Oral Health-Related Quality of Life (COHRQoL®) questionnaire: the Parent-Caregivers Perceptions questionnaire (P-CPQ) and Family Impact Scale (FIS), from a convenience sample of parents of children receiving DGA at a UK Paediatric Dental Department. Mean scores and prevalence impacts were compared pre- and postoperatively with mean change score and effect sizes calculations.
Results
Seventy-eight parents were recruited (51 children undergoing OR, 27 Exo) with 6 lost to follow-up (92.3%). Following treatment, changes in mean P-CPQ and FIS scores were statistically significant (P < 0.0001) with medium to large effect sizes (0.45–1.39). The differences in change scores between the two treatment approaches were not statistically different.
Conclusion
DGA for young children with early childhood caries resulted in substantial improvements in parent's ratings of their child's OHRQoL and of the impact on their families. Larger cohort studies are needed to validate these preliminary findings
Development of food mass mix from brazil nut and peach palm fruit flours.
The forest Amazon offers a natural resources variety. Among the vegetal resources used, the Brazil nut, Bertollethia excelsa H.B.K and peach palm fruit (Bactris gasipaes, Kunth) are distinguished. The Brazil nut has a high fat amount (60% to 70%) and protein (15% to 20%). This content gives it lots of sulfur amino acids. The peach palm has considerable amounts of vitamin A (17.18 RE/g) is still high in fiber (2%). Seeking to utilize fruits potential, aimed at production and characterization of pasta mixed using ingredients Brazil nut, peach palm and wheat flour
Sensory evaluation and cooking properties of macaroni at basis of brazil nut (Bertholetia excelsa) and peach palm fruit (Bactris gasipaes, Kunt) flours.
The Brazil nut tree, Bertholletia excelsa HBK, is explored throughout the Amazon region and its main characteristic is high content of lipids and proteins, they consist of sulfur amino acids of high biological value. The peach palm, Bactris gasipases, Kunth, is a native palm to the same region, that is grown for heart-of-palm extraction. Their fruits are mostly protein, vitamin A and fiber. The way of adding commercial value from co-products to Brazil nut processing is flour productian. That way the Brazil nut flour, for its high nutritional value and pleasant taste was used in macaroni production, along with peach palm fruit flour to improve the nutritianal properties of final product
GLADE: A galaxy catalogue for multimessenger searches in the advanced gravitational-wave detector era
We introduce a value-added full-sky catalogue of galaxies, named as Galaxy List for the Advanced Detector Era, or GLADE. The purpose of this catalogue is to (i) help identifications of host candidates for gravitational-wave events, (ii) support target selections for electromagnetic follow-up observations of gravitational-wave candidates, (iii) provide input data on the matter distribution of the local Universe for astrophysical or cosmological simulations, and (iv) help identifications of host candidates for poorly localized electromagnetic transients, such as gamma-ray bursts observed with the InterPlanetary Network. Both being potential hosts of astrophysical sources of gravitational waves, GLADE includes inactive and active galaxies as well. GLADE was constructed by cross-matching and combining data from five separate (but not independent) astronomical catalogues: GWGC, 2MPZ, 2MASS XSC, HyperLEDA, and SDSS-DR12Q. GLADE is complete up to
dL=37+3−4Mpc in terms of the cumulative B-band luminosity of galaxies within luminosity distance dL, and contains all of the brightest galaxies giving half of the total B-band luminosity up to dL=91Mpc. As B-band luminosity is expected to be a tracer of binary neutron star mergers (currently the prime targets of joint GW+EM detections), our completeness measures can be used as estimations of completeness for containing all binary neutron star merger hosts in the local Universe
The Fermi level effect in III-V intermixing: The final nail in the coffin?
Copyright 1997 American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. This article appeared in Journal of Applied Physics 81, 2179 (1997) and may be found at
The Heat of Nervous Conduction: A Thermodynamic Framework
Early recordings of nervous conduction revealed a notable thermal signature
associated with the electrical signal. The observed production and subsequent
absorption of heat arise from physicochemical processes that occur at the cell
membrane level during the conduction of the action potential. In particular,
the reversible release of electrical energy stored as a difference of potential
across the cell membrane appears as a simple yet consistent explanation for the
heat production, as proposed in the "Condenser Theory." However, the Condenser
Theory has not been analyzed beyond the analogy between the cell membrane and a
parallel-plate capacitor, i.e. a condenser, which cannot account for the
magnitude of the heat signature. In this work, we use a detailed electrostatic
model of the cell membrane to revisit the Condenser Theory. We derive
expressions for free energy and entropy changes associated with the
depolarization of the membrane by the action potential, which give a direct
measure of the heat produced and absorbed by neurons. We show how the density
of surface charges on both sides of the membrane impacts the energy changes.
Finally, considering a typical action potential, we show that if the membrane
holds a bias of surface charges, such that the internal side of the membrane is
0.05 C m more negative than the external side, the size of the heat
predicted by the model reaches the range of experimental values. Based on our
study, we identify the change in electrical energy of the membrane as the
primary mechanism of heat production and absorption by neurons during nervous
conduction
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