introduction: quality of life is defined as the sense of well-being and satisfaction with daily performances influenced by dental and oral conditions. oral diseases are very common and have impacts on different aspects of individual's life and can change their performances. in other word, they can change the quality of life. the real impact of health and disease on daily performances is conside...

1 The retirement of George Perry and Bill Brainard gives us an opportunity to say publicly what we have often said privately: Brookings Papers is an important national institution. It is important because it has set the right tone for US macro policy. George and Bill are both Keynesians, not just in the narrow tradition of IS-LM models with Phillips Curves, but also in their broader methodologi...

Unilateral condylar hyperplasia is the main cause of mandibular asymmetry. Radionuclide bone scanning is a useful procedure for functional evaluation of temporomandibular joint. In this study, 39 patients with normal bone scan and no facial asymmetry were studied. All patients were below 22 years of age. Normal condylar uptake was determined in this group of patients. Right & left condyla...

Bill Martin studied biology at Texas A&M and the University of Hannover. He did his PhD at the Max-Planck Institute for Breeding Research in Cologne under the generous supervision of Heinz Saedler, who discovered the transposons known as IS elements. After fi nishing his PhD in 1988, he did his postdoctoral work on chloroplastcytosol isoenzymes, endosymbiosis, and gene transfer at the Universit...

question of his own to address. He thus switched to investigating the origins of complex innate behaviour, using the sexual behaviour of Drosophila as a model system. In the short time since, Dickson’s progress has been astounding. His group has been focussing on the role of the fruitless gene, which is known to be differently spliced in males and females. The significance of this observation h...

W elcome to the first National Child Protection Clearinghouse Newsletter for 2004. In this edition we are pleased to feature overviews of the Queensland Inquiry into the Abuse of Children in Foster Care (by Katie Kovacs), and treatment programs for sexually abusive young people in Australasia (by Karen Flanagan), as well as articles on the Parents Under Pressure Program (by Paul Harnett, Sharon...

introduction: guidelines and rules are very important in patients' behaviors’ domain but this guidelines sets aren’t used practically and coherently in iran`s rules as a title of patients' rights prism. the purpose of this study is to determine the amount of patients' awareness hospitalized in training hospitals of isfahan city from patients' rights prism. methods: this study has been done as a...