Acutely infected teeth: to extract or not to extract?

Should we extract teeth to avoid tooth-implant combinations?

The controversy over combining teeth and implants for support of fixed partial dentures still remains after almost three decades of debate. The aim of this review was to evaluate what support that could be found in the literature for extracting teeth in favour of implants, and to elucidate whether tooth-implant prostheses were inferior to solely implant supported constructions in terms of survi...

To use or not to use the force: How B lymphocytes extract surface-tethered antigens

Using an exquisite cell imaging approach based on DNA nanosensors, Spillane and Tolar (2016. J. Cell Biol. https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.201607064) explore how the physical properties of antigen-presenting cell surfaces affect how B cells internalize surface-tethered antigens. Soft and flexible surfaces promote mechanical force-mediated antigen extraction, whereas stiff surfaces lead to enzyme-me...

Folic Acid Supplementation: to Advise or not to Advise?

Analytical Features to Extract Harmonic or Rhythmic Information

This work aims to evaluate the effectiveness of EDS as a tool to automatically extract descriptors for real-world problems, such as melody extraction, chord recognition, and sound classification, comparing its performance and development time to traditional approaches. Each of these problems constitutes a case study, and along with the comparative results we present some remarks about the descr...

Learning to Extract Folktale Keywords

Manually assigned keywords provide a valuable means for accessing large document collections. They can serve as a shallow document summary and enable more efficient retrieval and aggregation of information. In this paper we investigate keywords in the context of the Dutch Folktale Database, a large collection of stories including fairy tales, jokes and urban legends. We carry out a quantitative...