A giant submandibular sialolith - How to manage?

The presence of a sialolith is one of the most common diseases of salivary gland. It is relatively common in submandibular salivary glands and its duct. This case report is of a patient who presented at our unit with a history of severe pain and swelling on floor of the mouth, which was clinically and radiographically diagnosed as a sialolith. The diagnostic and treatment protocol in managing a patient with a giant sialolith is enumerated in this manuscript

Efficient Portfolios Versus Efficient Market

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Evidence That The Common Stock Market Adjusts Fully For Expected Inflation

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A COMPARATIVE STUDY IN THE DIABETES MELLITUS PATIENTS FOR ORAL MANIFESTATION AT TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL IN NORTH KARNATAKA

ABSTRACTObjective: Diabetes mellitus is the leading health problem across the world. It is associated with several complications such as retinopathy, neuropathy,oral manifestations, chronic macrovascular and microvascular complications. Our objective is to compare these oral manifestations in controlled anduncontrolled diabetic patients.Methods: A study was conducted on total of 100 diabetic patients. The patients were divided into two groups: Group I (n=50) consists of controlleddiabetic patients and Group II (n=50) consists of uncontrolled diabetic patients. Before, the start of the study proper oral examination was donefor both the groups. Samples were collected and were subjected to microbial examination. Comparison between both the groups was done for oralmanifestations.Results: It showed that uncontrolled diabetic patients had a higher incidence of oral manifestations such as hyposalivation, parotid enlargement,burning sensation of mouth, taste alterations, sialorrhea, dental carries, and microbial lesions than controlled diabetes patients.Conclusion: Uncontrolled diabetic patients had higher risk of oral manifestations than controlled diabetic individuals.Keywords: Diabetes mellitus, Retinopathy, Neuropathy, Oral manifestations, Periodontitis, Hyposalivation

ROBO-CALLING PREVENTION WITH SOFTWARE-DEFINED NETWORKING IN A WIDE AREA NETWORK POLICY FOR UNIFIED COMMUNICATION

Techniques are described herein for blocking robo-calls, spam calls, and telemarketing calls, which are becoming an industry menace. Such calls are blocked by tightly integrating a Software-Defined Networking in a Wide Area Network (SDWAN) controller with a Do Not Call registry. Analytics are used to analyze traffic call patterns, security insights are leveraged such as known malicious Internet Protocol (IP) and domain addresses, and a Call Barring feature may also be applied. This information may be pushed to edge devices to ensure robo-calls do not terminate on SDWAN-led voice endpoints

Viewing Spatial Consequences of Budgetary Policy Changes

While the research community is often very concerned with the distributional effect of public policy decisions, the geographic distribution of the affected populations is often overlooked. This paper argues that seemingly geographically neutral policies have spatial consequences and that the choice of how to measure them is important. We suggest that maps produced by geographical information systems (GIS) provide a powerful tool for communicating these ideas to policy makers. We further suggest that GIS supplemented by spatial statistics yield geographic information that can perform a valuable function in policy debates. We use the recent proposed changes in Medicaid expenditures in Ohio to illustrate how geographic information provides insights into the spatial consequences of these changes by introducing a simple method to weight the impact of expenditure changes.This study was supported, in part, by funding from The Health Foundation of Greater Cincinnati

The rationale behind interfirm tender offers : Information or synergy?

This paper investigates the rationale behind interfirm tender offers by examining the returns realized by the stockholders of firms that were the targets of unsuccessful tender offers and firms that have made unsuccessful offers. Our results suggest that the permanent positive revaluation of the unsuccessful target shares [documented by Dodd and Ruback (1977) and Bradley (1980)] is due primarily to the emergence of and/or the anticipation of another bid that would ultimately result in the transfer of control of the target resources. We also find that the rejection of a tender offer has differential effects on the share prices of the unsuccessful bidding firms depending upon whether the tender offer process results in a change in the control of target resources. On the basis of these results we conclude that acquisitions via tender offers are attempts by bidding firms to exploit potential synergies, not simply superior information regarding the `true' value of the target resources.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/25256/1/0000699.pd