Currently, ‘dark tourism’ is gaining popularity as a new tourism concept. Dark tourism is different from simple leisure, and its purpose is based on the succession of local grief or praying for dead people. ICT can be made more effective by optimising the potential of dark tourism. In this study, dark tourism will be analysed in terms of ICT.

The australopithecine anterior pillars defined by Rak (The Australopithecine Face, New York: Academic Press, 1983) were re-examined in the fossil hominids of southern Africa. The structure and extent of this buttressing pillar was found to be variable among Australopithecus africanus and A. robustus specimens. A reduced anterior pillar was observed in Homo habilis, and a morphological equivalen...

Background: Botulinum toxin type A (BoT-A) has gained significant clinical interest in the management of masticatory muscle pain in temporomandibular disorders (TMD). This may be due to clinical success of BoT-an in treatment of other neuromuscular and refractory chronic pain disorders in the head and neck region, and the limited understanding of the underlying pathophysiology of masticatory mu...

PURPOSE This study assessed the impact of mandibular bone height on masticatory performance following treatment with a mandibular conventional denture (CD) or implant-retained overdenture (IOD). MATERIALS AND METHODS Evaluation of masticatory performance in 63 participants was made with original CDs and 6 months after treatment completion with new dentures; 25 patients received a mandibular C...

Measuring personality is a complex task. Besides difficult content-based problems there are some psychometric issues to be met, i. e. socially desirable answering tendencies. The present study uses simulation-based objective personality measurement to meet these psychometric issues. Computer-based “guard” and “stray” scenars are developed and tested in two samples of Special Forces applicants r...

BACKGROUND Masticatory functioning alters with age. However, mastication has been found to be related to, for example, cognitive functioning, food intake, and some aspects of activities of daily living. Since cognitive functioning and activities of daily living show a decline in older adults with dementia, improving masticatory functioning may be of relevance to them. A possible way to improve ...

The human skull is gracile when compared to many Middle Pleistocene hominins. It has been argued that it is less able to generate and withstand high masticatory forces, and that the morphology of the lower portion of the modern human face correlates most strongly with dietary characteristics. This study uses geometric morphometrics and finite element analysis (FEA) to assess the relationship be...