This paper reports findings from a qualitative study of views and understandings of dietary practices in middle class families. Thirty five parents/main food providers of boys and girls aged 13/14 years, living in Eastern Scotland, were interviewed about their and their teenagers' everyday lives, food, health and family practices. One of our aims was to understand more about the social and cult...

Reinforcing the small water cycle is considered to be a holistic approach both resource and landscape management. In an agricultural landscape, this can accomplished by incorporating conservation practices; their incorporation reduce surface runoff, increase infiltration, holding capacity of soil. Some typical practices include: tillage, contour farming, residue incorporation, reducing field si...

i ntroduction: deep and long-lasting anesthesia is essential throughout endodontic treatment. this study was conducted to compare the effect of adding fentanyl to epinephrine-containing lidocaine on depth and duration of local anesthesia in painful maxillary molars with irreversible pulpitis (irp). methods and materials: this randomized double-blind, clinical trial with parallel design was cond...

runoff production process is a key hydrological component illustrating watersheds health. water infiltration in soil is also one of the determinant factors on runoff generation for which many techniques were used to improve it. however, the role of microorganisms for the improvement of water infiltration in soil has been less considered. the present study therefore tried to investigate the effe...

Abstract Over the past 30 years, farming in Alpine region has undergone important changes: average number of animals per farm and use external inputs have increased while diversity practices decreased, becoming similar to intensive farming. This change led a reduction supply agroecosystem services sustainability mountain livestock sector. In this study, we investigated rotational grazing as alt...

BACKGROUND AND AIM: The effectiveness of buccal or lingual (B/L) infiltration of 4% articaine as supplemental injection for pulp anesthesia of mandibular teeth was confirmed in previous studies. However, this study was aimed to compare the effectiveness of 2% lidocaine as inferior alveolar nerve block (IANB) versus B/L infiltration of 4% articaine for pulp anesthesia, as primary injection in ma...

background: oral manifestations are frequently the initial signs of acute leukemia, prompting the patient to consult the dentist first. the gingival tissue is one site commonly involved either by leukemic infiltration or by inflammatory reactive hyperplasia, causing gingival enlargement. the gingival infiltration may also be present without gingival enlargement. early recognition of clinical fi...

An introduction and overview of the Special Issue on Evidence-based Best Practices in the Public Vocational Rehabilitation Program that Lead to Employment Outcomes is provided and briefly discussed.