PURPOSE This study evaluates how various microbial- and salivary-related risk factors influenced the hazard for caries development in preschool children. METHODS The study population consisted of 131 subjects (age: 0.5 to 6.0 yrs). Oral examination, including two bacterial tests and buffering capacity test, was conducted at six month intervals over 24 months. A survival analysis was used to d...

Mitochondria have been proposed as targets for toxicity in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a progressive, fatal adult-onset neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the selective loss of motor neurons. A decrease in the capacity of spinal cord mitochondria to buffer calcium (Ca 2 ) has been observed in mice expressing ALS-linked mutants of SOD1 that develop motor neuron disease with man...

Melanin is a fungal extracellular redox buffer which, in principle, can neutralize antimicrobial oxidants generated by immunologic effector cells, but its source of reducing equivalents is not known. We wondered whether Fe(II) generated by the external ferric reductase of fungi might have the physiologic function of reducing fungal melanin and thereby promoting pathogenesis. We observed that ex...

The aim of this study was to compare tooth surface pH after drinking orange juice or water in 39 patients with dental erosion and in 17 controls. The following investigations were carried out: measurement of pH values on selected tooth surfaces after ingestion of orange juice followed by ingestion of water (acid clearance), measurement of salivary flow rate and buffering capacity. Compared with...

In this paper we propose a multi-set modulation technique to increase the hiding capacity within a binary document image. As part of this technique we propose an Automatic Threshold Calculation and Threshold Buffering, Shifted Space Distribution and Letter Space Compensation technique. The Automatic Threshold Calculation is used to distinguish word spaces from letter spaces. The Threshold Buffe...

The influence of lipid composition, internal pH and internal buffering capacity on the retention properties of vincristine loaded into large unilamellar vesicle (LUV) systems in response to transmembrane pH gradients has been assessed. It is shown that increasing the (saturated) acyl chain length of the phosphatidylcholine molecule, increasing the internal buffering capacity, and decreasing the...

As and when the mobile users are increasing in day by day the demands of video traffic over mobile networks keep on rising, so the wireless link capacity cannot satisfying the demands of mobile user due to the variation in the link status and many disruptions, it causes long time buffering to mobile user. To overcome from this a framework is proposed for the efficient utilization of wireless li...

The aim of this article is to present a validated model study the influence humidity on formaldehyde sorption building material and effect moisture buffering capacity hygroscopic porous indoor air environment. New empirical formulas proposed describe diffusion partition coefficients as functions based previous experimental data are incorporated in coupled pollutants transport simulation model. ...