Dr. Ettinger is Professor, Department of Prosthodontics and Dows Institute for Dental Research, University of Iowa; Dr. Chalmers is Associate Professor, Geriatric and Special Care Program, Preventive and Community Dentistry, University of Iowa; and Dr. Frenkel is Advisor in Community Dentistry (SW Region), SW Dental Postgraduate Deanery, Bristol Dental Hospital, Bristol, England. Direct corresp...

Objectives: To estimate the rates of symptomatic respiratory, gastrointestinal and urinary infections in patients hospitalized with acute heart failure to describe clinical characteristics these patients. Methodology: A cross sectional study was conducted a large tertiary care cardiology hospital due non-infective causes were invited participate. Trained research assistants collected data using...

Silver is a naturally occurring element. Similar to other metals, the ionized form of silver (Ag(+1)) has known antimicrobial properties. A number of wound dressings incorporating silver ion or silver compounds have recently been developed and marketed. In addition, the antimicrobial effects of silver are currently being promoted in consumer products such as clothing and household appliances. T...

As bloggers and mobile phone eye-witnesses increasingly supplement the ‘news,’ it is more important than ever to understand how professional journalists develop their expertise. In this paper, we examine an intermediate level reporting practicum course to explore the learning processes therein. Using a new method called Epistemic Network Analysis, we also explore emergent relationships within d...

We give a combinatorial proof that k l-k-1 l + t q q q q a polynomial in q with nonnegative coefficients for nonnegative integers a, b, k, lwith a>~b and l~>k. In particular, for a=b=n and l=k, this implies the q-log-concavity of the Gaussian binomial coefficients k , which was conjectured q by BUTLER (Proc.

As part of a study of species important in automotive exhaust chemistry, the reactivity of atomic N and NO on Pt~335! at low temperature has been studied. The atomic N was produced by dissociating adsorbed NO with a 76 eV electron beam. Cross sections for electron-stimulated desorption and dissociation are estimated for NO on terrace and step sites. Terrace NO is at least five times more likely...

3 Centralized CDS Construction 335 3.1 Guha and Khuller’s Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336 3.2 Ruan’s Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338 3.3 Cheng’s Greedy Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340 3.4 Min’s Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341 3.5 Butenko’s Algorithm . . . . . . ....

Mungbean yellow mosaic India virus (MYMIV) is a bipartite Geminivirus, which causes severe yield loss in soybean (Glycine max). Considering this, the present study was conducted to develop large-scale genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers and identify potential markers linked with known disease resistance loci for their effective use in genomics-assisted breeding to impart du...