introduction: non-ossifying fibroma (nof) is a relatively common benign and non-neoplastic lesion in long bones of children and adolescents. as far as very few cases of nof have been reported in jaws and what was managed to be found regarding all reported cases having occurred only in the mandible, in this article we are going to report a case of maxillary nof in a 38-year-old female.

abstract introduction moyamoya is a rare chronic progressive occlusive cerebrovascular disease that its manifestation varies from stroke, progressive learning impairment and transient ischemic attack to headache and seizure. there is no known medical treatment and surgery usually is needed. the incidence of this disease is about 1 person in 10 million people and angiographic picture of this dis...

BACKGROUND The present study investigated associations in gender dyads of parents' and adolescents' time spent on television and video viewing (TV/DVD), and computer and electronic game use (PC/games) at the ages of 11 and 13 years. Possible mediating effects of parental modelling and parental regulation in the relationship between parental education and adolescents' prospective TV/DVD and PC/g...

Implementation of evidence-based practice (EBP) is a complex task. This study, conducted in an acute geriatric setting, aims to compare self-reported capability beliefs on EBP between health professionals and students, and to compare the use of EBP between health professional groups. Occupational therapists, physicians, physiotherapists and registered nurses with three or more months' employmen...

Sixteen years after the publication of the Standish Group’s first CHAOS report in 1994, there is little cause for celebration. True, system development project (SDP) success rates have improved to 32% from the benchmark low of 16.2%; however, when 68% of projects are either cancelled or seriously challenged with regard to budget, schedule, or project scope, there is considerable room for improv...

Intelligence analysts rely on reports that are subject to many varieties of uncertainty, such as noise in sensors; deception or error by human sources; or cultural misunderstanding. To be effective, intelligence analysts must understand the relationship between reports, the events or situations reported upon, and the hypotheses of interest to which those events or situations are evidential. Com...

As advertising becomes more crucial to video games’ success, developers risk promoting their products beyond the features that they can actually include. For features of interactive storytelling, the effects of making such exaggerations are not well known, as reports from industry have been anecdotal at best. In this paper, we explore the effects of making exaggerated claims for interactive sto...

1. Difference between presentations and reports First, please note that the goals of presentations and reports in this seminar are different:  Presentations: Present to the audiences and let them understand your topic.  Reports: Show your own critical thinking and new ideas on this topic based on the papers you read. Therefore, a presentation is like “an introduction to one topic”, but a repo...

This study investigated how player emotions during game-play, measured through self-report and physiological recordings, predict playing time and game preferences. We distinguished between short-term (immediately after game-play) and long-term (after 3 weeks) playing time and game preferences. While pleasure was most predictive for short-term playing time and game preferences, arousal, particul...