Post-coma children usually fail to be constructively engaged with their surrounding environment, due to extensive motor disabilities and lack of speech. In fact, they may pose serious challenges to daily life contexts (i.e., home, medical and rehabilitative settings), since they are frequently unable to correctly manage the positive stimulation by their-own and they are inadequate to be involve...

Introduction Promoting "community participation" in managing social services is a new orthodoxy among governments and international organizations. It has circumnavigated the globe, appearing in countries as varied as the United States and Malawi, Nicaragua and Bosnia-Herzegovina. It is a buzzword in international development work, edging out the "poverty alleviation" and "human capital" themes ...

introduction: prefabricated metal and ceramic posts can be used with different kinds of core materials as an alternative to the conventional casting post and cores. it is unclear how these post and core systems can withstand different kind of forces in the mouth. the purpose of this study was to compare the fracture strength of endodontically treated, crowned maxillary incisors restored with ca...

introduction: tonsillectomy is one of the most common surgeries in the world and the most common problem is post-tonsillectomy pain and bleeding. the relief of postoperative pain helps increase early food intake and prevent secondary dehydration. one method for relieving pain is peritonsillar injection of epinephrine along with an anesthetic, which has been shown to produce variable results in ...

In this review, the development of MOFs and MOF-based materials for application in non-Li rechargeable batteries has been highlighted together with describing various persisting challenges their corresponding remedies these materials.

OBJECTIVE To describe illness cognitions two months and two years post stroke and to investigate changes in illness cognitions over time. We also examined the associations between illness cognitions and life satisfaction at two months and two years post stroke and investigated if changes in illness cognitions predicted life satisfaction two years post stroke, taking demographic and stroke-relat...