BACKGROUND AND AIM: Effective and acceptable preventive dental services are hard to achieve in conjunction with treatment services. The Oral Health Office of Fars Province in Iran established the Oral Health Park in a deprived part of the city of Shiraz to attract families and school children to receive preventive services. No other treatment was provided in the setting. The aim of this study w...

Urban green spaces provide a context where constant association with these spaces can result in reducing the incidence or diminishing the effect of many diseases. Different studies assessed the relationship between using urban green spaces and health benefits considering influential quantitative aspects. This research tries to look differently at this issue by connecting the urban green spaces ...

The carabid genus Orthogonius MacLeay is treated, based mainly on materials collected in Thailand through the TIGER project (the Thailand Inventory Group for Entomological Research). Among 290 specimens, 20 species are identified in total, 10 of them are new species: Orthogonius taghavianaesp. n. (Nakhon Nayok: Khao Yai National Park), Orthogonius coomanioidessp. n. (Phetchabun: Thung Salaeng L...

R. G. Moore, V. Brouet, R. He, D. H. Lu, N. Ru, J. -H. Chu, I. R. Fisher, and Z. -X. Shen Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305, USA and Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Université Paris-Sud, Bât 510, UMR 8502,...

city parks play an important role in the welfare of metropolitan people. higher species richness of birds can be considered as a reflection of the health of the park and may satisfy visitors to a higher extent being in a more natural environment. we studied the influence of area and shape of city parks on bird species richness and diversity. 13 parks from among the 35 main city parks in isfahan...

Christopher M. S. Sears,* Eric Colby, R. J. England, Rasmus Ischebeck, Christopher McGuinness, Janice Nelson, Robert Noble, Robert H. Siemann, James Spencer, Dieter Walz, Tomas Plettner, and Robert L. Byer Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Hans-Kopfermann-Strasse 1, D-85748 Garching, Germany Stanford University, Stanford,...

Invited ta Accelerator Ph 2, 2004. Correspond E-mail addr Work suppo contract numbe Support by gratefully ackno cations of parallel computational methods to charged-particle beam dynamics A. Kabel , Y. Cai, M. Dohlus, T. Sen, R. Uplenchwar Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestr. 85, D-22603 Hamburg, Germ...

After a short introduction of a new nonconforming linear finite element on quadrilaterals recently developed by Park, we derive a dual weighted residual-based a posteriori error estimator (in the sense of Becker and Rannacher) for this finite element. By computing a corresponding dual solution we estimate the error with respect to a given target error functional. The reliability and efficiency ...

Pulmonary Vein Isolation Alone Versus Additional Linear Ablation in Patients With Persistent Atrial Fibrillation Converted to Paroxysmal Type With Antiarrhythmic Drug Therapy: A Multicenter, Prospective, Randomized Study Hee Tae Yu, MD, PhD; Jaemin Shim, MD, PhD; Junbeom Park, MD, PhD; In-Soo Kim, MD; Tae-Hoon Kim, MD; Jae-Sun Uhm, MD, PhD; Boyoung Joung, MD, PhD; Moon-Hyoung Lee, MD, PhD; Youn...

The generation of ecosystem services depends on both social and ecological features. Here we focus on management, its ecological consequences, and social drivers. Our approach combined (1) quantitative surveys of local species diversity and abundance of three functional groups of ecosystem service providers (pollinators, seed dispersers, and insectivores) with (2) qualitative studies of local m...