INTRODUCTION The Orthognathic Quality of Life Questionnaire (OQLQ) was developed in 2000 and validated in 2002, aiming at assessing the impact and the benefits of orthosurgical treatment on patients' quality of life. OBJECTIVE Cross-culturally translate into Brazilian Portuguese and back-translate into English a quality of life instrument, assuring maintenance of its properties. METHODS At ...

Various questionnaires are used in patients who undergo rhinologic surgeries but a unique comprehensive questionnaire is needed to evaluate quality of life (QOL) in rhinologic surgeries. The purpose of this study was to prepare a comprehensive questionnaire and compare QOL among four common rhinologic surgeries including functional endoscopic sinus surgery, septoplasty, septorhinoplasty, and se...

BACKGROUND To create and find accurate and reliable instruments for the measurement of physical activity has been a challenge in epidemiological studies. We investigated the reliability and validity of two different physical activity questionnaires in 71 adolescents aged 13-18 years; the WHO, Health Behaviour in Schoolchildren (HBSC) questionnaire, and the International Physical Activity Questi...

The author conducted a questionnaire survey of the 592 U.S. Air Force personnel involved in transporting and identifying the bodies of the almost 1,000 persons who died in Jonestown, Guyana; 225 (38%) of the personnel involved returned the questionnaire, as well as 76 (22%) of 352 individuals who were not involved in the operation. The Guyana respondents reported significantly more short-term d...

We review the present status of theoretical predictions for both closed (J/ψ) and open heavy quark production in high energy collisions, and their comparisons to experimental data.

This talk summarizes recent progress in top quark physics studies for high energy linear electron-positron colliders as presented at the LCWS2000 Workshop at Fermilab. New results were presented for top pair production at threshold and in the continuum, as well as for top production at γγ colliders.

The transverse polarization (or transversity) distributions ∆T q(x), introduced 20 years ago by Ralston and Soper [1] and studied in more detail in the last decade [2], are one of the three sets of leading-twist quark and antiquark distribution functions – the other two are the momentum distributions q(x) and the helicity distributions ∆q(x). (Note that ∆T q is often called h1). Formally ∆T q i...

Article history: Received 9 October 2015 Received in revised form 20 November 2015 Accepted 14 December 2015 Available online 17 December 2015

A particularly simple confinement scenario [1] is available in the minimal Coulomb gauge. It attributes confinement of color to the long range of the color-Coulomb potential Vcoul(R). This quantity is the instantaneous part of the 4-4 component of the gluon propagator, Dμν(x) ≡ 〈gAμ(x) gAν(0)〉, namely D44(x, t) = Vcoul(|x|)δ(t) +P (x, t). The vacuum polarization term P (x, t) is less singular t...