Introduction: Bite wing radiographs are indicated in children with closed posterior contacts. Given the fact that nowadays bitewing radiographs are taken using both paper loop and film holder, the aim of this study is the evaluation of acceptance and diagnostic quality of two methods. Materials and Methods: This study is a sort of diagnostic accuracy test that was performed on 20 6-8 year old ...

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is characterised by reduced erythropoietin production and anaemia. The introduction in the late 1980s of recombinant human erythropoietin transformed the quality of life and the blood transfusion requirements of patients with advanced CKD, and several erythropoietin analogues or derivatives with the collective name of erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESAs) are now...

Critiquing is a powerful form of feedback often used by conversational recommender systems. There are two main types of critiquing; unit and compound. Unit critiques allow the user to provide limited feedback at the feature-level by constraining a single feature’s value space. Compound critiques, on the other hand, allow the user to manipulate multiple features simultaneously and therefore can ...

Since its introduction in the first Human Development Report in 1990, the Human Development Index (HDI) has attracted great interest in policy and academic circles, as well as in the media and national audiences around the world. Its popularity can be attributed to the simplicity of its characterization of development an average of achievements in health, education and income – and to its under...

On November 20, 2009, the Industrial Wind Action Group (IWAG) posted an editorial that, in part, lists a number of concerns about Berkeley Lab’s efforts to investigate the presence of residential property value impacts associated with U.S. wind power facilities. 1 That editorial follows from more-extensive review comments provided on September 11, 2009 by the Industrial Wind Action Group. 2 The...

As mentioned in our paper, we study a new problem, aesthetic critiques generation, which is different from conventional image captioning. Many recent works [1, 2] started to argued that conventional evaluation criteria (BLEU, METEOR and CIDEr) borrowed from machine translation community are unsuitable for image captioning task. How to choose a suitable criterion is still a tricky problem in ima...

in this article the rationality of faith in plantinga's three major works is studied – the three works in which the author, while responding to the critiques, presents his viewpoints. in this contribution, plantinga's line of argumentation in these books is sought and then, having explained his views, they are being analyzed. hence, first his analogical argument is criticized and then...