It is unknown what disadvantages are faced by patients deciding for a prosthodontic treatment by inexperienced students. Commonly, the related extra effort and time are compensated by cost reduction of treatment fees. Thereby, the dental schools subsidize treatments to teach clinical prosthodontics. The aim of this study was to clarify the benefits to patients as well as the efforts of the dent...

In this paper, we study the asymmetric information between asset managers and investors in socially responsible investment (SRI) market. Specifically, investigate lack of transparency extra-financial communicated by managers. Using a unique international panel dataset approximately 1500 equity mutual funds, provide empirical evidence that some portray themselves as yet do not make tangible deci...

carotid body tumors (cbts) are rare, slow-growing tumors that should be considered in evaluating every lateral neck mass. this single center study was performed to define demographic features, clinical characteristics and remedies of iranian patients with cbt. a retrospective review of prospectively collected data was done on 45 patients with 50 cbts who have been referred to sina hospital, teh...

As businesses cut jobs and benefits including health insurance, patients may come to your practice with financial problems in addition to their medical ones. Assisting these patients without hurting your practice requires a little prevention and preplanning and some extra attention from your office staff. The good news is that the policies and procedures you put in place during these tough time...

Intra-regional, extra-regional and international health mobility are important phenomena for regional and national healthcare planning. Pediatric data on this topic are scarce. We therefore conducted a systematic literature search on the PubMed database. Because of the insufficiency of published data we also resorted to conference proceedings and publications retrieved by Google Scholar and Goo...

is one of the major crimes in financial market. The objective of this project was to develop a bill-counterfeit prevention (BCP) algorithm used in multi-function peripherals (MFPs) that automatically detects reproduction of U. our technique has achieved a detection rate of 78.3% in U.S. banknotes. In summary, our technique can be potentially used in detecting banknote reproduction such that ext...

The grief of parents following a late miscarriage, stillbirth or neonatal death is commonly profound and long-lasting. It affects their physical, emotional and sometimes financial well-being and has negative effects on their children and the extended family. Parents often feel isolated once they return home, as friends and family are often unable to offer support. Care from the primary care tea...