AIM The aim of the present study was to identify the trends in tooth loss among patients attending four general dental practices in the south Indian State of Kerala. METHODS AND MATERIALS The reasons for extraction of permanent teeth among patients who had attended the four clinics during a one-month period were categorized as follows: (1) dental caries and their sequelae, (2) periodontal dis...

The computerization of SaO2 recording during polysomnographic monitoring allows the construction of a diagram expressing the percentage of TIB spent at different steps in saturation. We studied the value of this diagram in three groups of male patients: (1) nine healthy subjects (all volunteers); (2) 25 patients with COPD who had a mean daily SaO2 of 92.3 +/- 1.3 percent; and (3) 25 patients wi...

Methods for estimating nonresponse bias are reviewed and several methods are tried on the 1980 GSS. The results indicate that various estimating procedures are inappropriate and that even the more promising techniques can provide faulty estimates of nonresponse bias. By its nature, nonresponse bias is very difficult to assess accurately and no simple, certain method exists. Tom W. Smith is Seni...

Nutritional assessment was carried out on fifty haemodialyzed patients by demographic, anthropometric, biochemical and dietary indices. The mean age of the patients was 49 years with a male to female ratio of 2.3:1. The duration of dialysis ranged from 6 to 40 months with a mean of 25 months. Fifty percent of the patients were moderately nourished based on their body weight 44%, body mass index...

This cross-sectional pilot study investigated the relationship between weight status using body mass index (BMI) and percent body fat in preadolescent boys and examined grouping of boys based on BMI and percent body fat. Height and weight were measured to calculate BMI in 50 white 8- to 10-year-old preadolescent boys. Percent body fat was measured using air-displacement plethysmography. Boys we...

Toxocariasis is a zoonotic disease in that IgM titers can remain high for long periods making difficult to determine the stage of the disease. The aim of this study is to investigate the applicability of indirect ELISA, associated with urea, to discriminate between the acute and chronic toxocariasis. IgG avidity was evaluated in 25 BALB/c mice experimentally infected with 1000 Toxocara canis eg...

The referendum on yesterday’s ballot w h ich recommended the adoption o f a bilateral freeze on nuclear weapons was passed overwhelm ingly by the student body. The final ta lly showed those favor­ ing the referendum w inn ing by a margin o f 2770, o r 76.9 percent, to 832, o r 231 percent. 53 percent o f the student body voted in the elec­ tion. people were not really aware o f the issue.” The ...

A fter four years of hardly keeping up with inflation, Indiana cropland values jumped around 10% in the year ending in June 1994 according to the Purdue land values survey. The USDA reported a 7.8% increase for the year ending January 1. Likely causes of strength in the land market include low interest rates (affecting both borrowers and equity investors), generally good yields in Indiana in 19...

A parametric study of twenty-five reinforced concrete ring deep beams using finite element analysis is presented in this study. This paper took into account the kind loading (partial and complete), diameter, depth, width beam, as well NO. supports. When compared to equivalent concentrated central loading, acting a partial distributed 25-100 percent length span increased capacity load by about 3...