introduction: adenotonsillar hypertrophy (ah) is considered the most common cause of upper respiratory tract obstruction among children. it results in a spectrum of symptoms from mouth breathing, nasal obstruction, hyponasal speech, snoring, and obstructive sleep apnea (osa) to growth failure and cardiovascular morbidity. adenotonsillectomy is a typical strategy for patients with ah, but may le...

This poster presents a study about the influence of gender related factors, age, body weight, time of service in the profession and practice of physical exercise on the prevalence of discomfort/pain complaints in dental professionals. The scope of this study was limited to 123 subjects, 84.24% of professionals in the public dental clinics, who answered the multidimensional analytical work quest...

Objectives: Due to the global pandemic caused by coronavirus (COVID-19), many remote-audiovisual teaching methods have been introduced. Remote-audiovisual may lead changes in teacher’s voice usage patterns. Therefore, it is necessary compare between and traditional face-to-face regards factors that affect problems subjective evaluation. Methods: This study investigated whether there was signifi...

Possible explanations for the acceptance or rejection of technological innovations have become a crucial topic in research. Depending on the type of technology, a variety of factors affect acceptance motives. This paper looks into the influence of technical-self efficacy (TSE) on acceptance of technology infrastructure. An empirical study (n=137 participants) was conducted to study effects of T...

Certain visual stimuli, such as striped patterns and filtered noise, have been reported to be uncomfortable. Some filtered noise patterns judged as uncomfortable are those with a relative decrease in contrast amplitude at high spatial frequencies, compared with the statistics typical of natural images. Decreased amplitude at high spatial frequencies is a characteristic often associated with per...