OBJECTIVE To evaluate the influence of the periodontal disease (PD), a chronic infection, in patients with chronic craniofacial pain complaints. METHOD Twenty patients with chronic craniofacial pain and PD (CFP group) and 20 patients with PD (PD group) were assessed before and after periodontal treatment (baseline, 30 and 180 days after treatment). The parameters evaluated were: plaque index,...

Cross-section data on secondary level student choices provide evidence on factors influencing the decision to study economics. Such evidence makes a key contribution to the broader debates on why student numbers have been falling in economics and why women are reluctant economists. Greater mathematical aptitude and prior knowledge of the subject influence the decision to study economics, and a ...

Let (f, M, X,P) be a Ponomarev-system. We prove that f is a compact-covering mapping iff P is a strong k-network of X. Furthermore, f is a compact-covering, s-mapping iff P is a point-countable cfp-network (or pointcountable strong k-network) of X. As an application of these results, a pointcountable cover of a space is a strong k-network iff it is a cfp-network, where “point-countable” can not...

background: mycobacterium (m.) bovis is the agent of bovine tuberculosis (tb) in a range of animal species, including humans. recent advances in immunology and the molecular biology of mycobacterium have allowed identification of a large number of antigens with the potential for the development of a new tb vaccine. the esat-6 and cfp-10 proteins of m. bovis are important structural and function...

Fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) efficiency measurements based on acceptor photobleaching of yellow fluorescent protein (YFP) are affected by the fact that bleaching of YFP produces a fluorescent species that is detectable in cyan fluorescent protein (CFP) image channels. The presented quantitative measurement of this conversion makes it possible to correct the obtained FRET signal...

Freight transportation performs a critical role in the supply networks of global economy and is heavily influenced by activities industrial manufacturing sectors, contributing significantly to their carbon footprint (CFP). This research evaluates lifecycle-based CFP emissions freight transport seven selected countries (China, Japan, United States, Canada, Brazil, Great Britain, Germany) over fi...

This paper proposes a route multicast scheme for the moving agent such as a robot or telematics built on top of a wireless network which runs CFP (Contention Free Period) and CP (Contention Period) alternately. With the mappings of route multicast to CFP, error report to CP, and retransmission to redundant bandwidth of CFP, the proposed scheme can guarantee timely delivery of route information ...

We report the development of a suite of six integrative vectors for construction of single copy transcriptional fusions with the gfpmut3, cfp and iyfp reporter genes in Bacillus subtilis. The promoter fusions are constructed using the highly efficient ligation-independent cloning (LIC) technique making them suitable for high-throughput applications. The plasmids insert into the chromosome by a ...