In the June 2014 issue, Premkumar et al. presented a fascinating account of self-directed learning scores in dental students.1 Their account is comprehensive, and the take-home message is clear: students’ self-directed learning scores fall during their predoctoral years. Like all research, their account begs the question as to what, if anything, can be done about this. In some ways, it may not ...

Art and science of dentistry is constantly changing, broadening the knowledge of etiopathogenesis of oral diseases, development of new diagnostic tools and introducing new therapeutic modalities. In these days of competition and evidence based practice it becomes mandatory for a clinician to keep abreast with new developments to continue in the profession. This calls for lifelong learning. To m...

AdS/CFT-correspondence establishes a relationship between supersymmetric gravity (SUGRA) on Anti-de-Sitter (AdS) space and supersymmetric Yang-Mills (SYM) theory which is conformaly invariant (CFT). The AdS space is the solution of the Einstein-Hilbert equations with a constant negative curvature. Why is this relationship important? What kind of relationship is this? How does one find it? The p...

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The aim of this work was to evaluate the immunogenicity and neutralizing activity of sheep pox virus (SPPV; genus Capripoxvirus, family Poxviridae) structural proteins as candidate subunit vaccines to control sheep pox disease. SPPV structural proteins were identified by sequence homology with proteins of vaccinia virus (VACV) strain Copenhagen. Four SPPV proteins (SPPV-ORF 060, SPPV-ORF 095, S...