The objective of this study was to assess the patients' perception of the esthetic and functional outcomes of orthognathic surgery in terms of satisfaction or dissatisfaction among a convenient sample of Saudi patients. Data of fifty patients who had undergone orthognathic surgery in three major surgical centers in Riyadh city were collected. The responses of the pre-surgical, surgical and the ...

BACKGROUND Adolescent health needs, behaviours and expectations are unique and routine health care services are not well geared to provide these services. The purpose of this study was to explore the perceived reproductive health problems, health seeking behaviors, knowledge about available services and barriers to reach services among a group of adolescents in Sri Lanka in order to improve rep...

Background: In recent years, particular attention is the mental health of infertile couples. In fact, for many infertile couples experiencing infertility are severe distresses. The aim of this study is Assessment of infertility effect on various aspects of mental health of infertile people. Materials and Methods: In this review study, books, articles and some sites that are related to mental he...

Background: Tuberculosis remains a major health problem affecting about a third of the world population despite a number of preventive and control measures taken in the past few decades. Eighty-five percent of all tuberculosis cases are concentrated in Asia and Africa due to lack of education and health care infrastructure. Objective: To determine factors affecting low tuberculosis case detecti...

Road condition data are very important in transportation management system. Conventional data collection approach is time-consuming and labor intensive. This paper reports the developed techniques for 3D road surface reconstruction in support of unpaved road distress assessment using imagery acquired from a Unmanned Aviation Vehicle (UAV)-based imaging system. This system, produced in a project...

Nowadays, plagiarism has been presented as one of the main distresses that the information technology revolution has lead into our society for which using pattern matching algorithms and intelligent data analysis approaches, these practices could be identified. Furthermore, a fast document copy detection algorithm could be used in large scale applications for plagiarism detection in academia, s...