Although space loss is a common situation in children and adolescents, there are different occlusal orthodontic situations that occur concomitantly with loss. For this reason, the present study aimed to discuss maintainers pediatric dentistry. Thus, types of maintainers, their functionality, cases can should be applied, especially effects/consequences, were discussed. In methodology, literature...

objectives this study aimed to examine the effect of a hospital-based educational program based on the constructs of the health belief model (hbm) on self-care behaviors of patients with hf. methods this controlled quasi-experimental study consisted of 84 patients with hf (42 patients in an intervention group and 42 in a control group) who were admitted to two large, specialized, referral hospi...

Many of successes in maintaining legacy software in Japan are due to low turnover rate of maintainers. However, future successes are not guaranteed because the wages system in Japan has begun changing and people are now getting to move between companies. Here, the organizations' demands for capturing and quantifying the maintainers' experiences in software evolution are growing much important t...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the median survival time of fixed and removable space maintainers related to age groups, gender, and their distribution in upper and lower dental arches. The adherence of patients to a periodic recall program and the success rate of different types of space maintainers related to different arches were also evaluated. This study included 663 patients aged be...

Two research gaps in prior studies on knowledge sharing in virtual communities (VCs) are identified. First, prior studies have focused on VCs with no explicit rewards system, whereas VCs using a competition-based reward system (e.g., transactional VCs) is not explored. Second, prior studies have concentrated on the determinants of initial participation rather than sustained participation. In th...