objective: despite great advances made in dental composite resins, their use is associated with some concerns regarding their mechanical properties such as their flexural strength. considering the introduction of different composite resins into the market, there is a need to compare their mechanical properties and particularly flexural strength. this study aimed to compare the flexural strength...

sons and five daughters-five of whom survived. The youngest girl married a Dozent of Heidelberg, whilst the eldest married Johann Conrad Peyer-who described the 'patches' named after him. Wepfer was a popular man who was consulted from far and wide in Switzerland and Germany-as a map on page 37 shows. The medico-literary memoirs of the Wepfer family were bought by the Medical Faculty of Leyden ...

BACKGROUND After hospital discharge, community pharmacists are often the first health care professionals the discharged patient encounters. They reconcile and dispense prescribed medicines and provide pharmaceutical care. Compared to the roles of general practitioners, the pharmacists' needs to perform these tasks are not well known. OBJECTIVE This study aims to a) Identify community pharmaci...

P. Michel , M. Arnold, H.-J. Hungerbühler, F. Müller, C. Staedler, R. W. Baumgartner, D. Georgiadis, P. Lyrer, H. P. Mattle, R. Sztajzel, B. Weder, B. Tettenborn, K. Nedeltchev, S. Engelter, S. A. Weber, R. Basciani, J. Fandino, F. Fluri, R. Stocker, E. Keller, M. Wasner, M. Hänggi, Y. Gasche, R. Paganoni, L. Regli, for the Swiss Working Group of Cerebrovascular Diseases with the Swiss Society ...

A short-term longitudinal study with 4and 5-month-old infants investigated whether infants’ prior experience with contingency or noncontingency in social interactions with specific others affects infants’ preference for these others in subsequent interactions. On Session 1 infants were simultaneously presented with social interaction from two strangers via video, one was interacting contingentl...

While today’s general purpose manipulators contain six degrees of freedom, effective reduction in degrees of freedom occurs from singularity regions and from workspace obstacles. It is argued that the future general purpose manipulators will contain seven degrees of freedom, and that one particular kinematic design is superior to other possible 7 degree of freedom kinematic designs. Considerati...

State educational spending policies strongly impact the funding of local schools. While some US states have removed school spending authority from local residents, others continue to encourage local control. In this paper we explore the effects of changes in state educational spending policies on Tiebout sorting by examining the location choice of young and elderly households, both within and a...

Any elementary textbook on statistical mechanics will try to convince you that energy is everything w.r.t. phase separation. The goal of this thesis is to show otherwise.

Objectives Switzerland has optimal conditions for research of language-based cultural influences on low back pain (LBP). The aim of this study was to compare LBP treatment outcomes after chiropractic care between patients from the German- and French-speaking regions of Switzerland. Methods Baseline Numeric Rating Scale for pain (NRS), demographic, and Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) data were...

OBJECTIVE No current studies have compared North American with European body composition parameters, i.e., fat-free mass (FFM), body fat (BF), and percentage of BF (%BF) in large populations. This study compared FFM, BF, and %BF values derived from two bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) equations (Geneva and National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey [NHANES]) in Swiss subjects and co...