BACKGROUND Early childhood caries (ECC) is a serious public health problem in China. Few studies, however, have described the incidence of ECC in China. The purpose of this study was to assess the prevalence and incidence of ECC among preschool children in Wenzhou China. METHODS Preschool children aged 3-4 years old were surveyed and followed up when they reached 5-6 years of age in the city ...

For the research and development of new battery materials, achieving high reproducibility performance parameters in laboratory test cells is great importance. Therefore, present work, three typical small-format lithium-ion (coin cell, Swagelok cell EL-CELL ECC-PAT-Core) were tested compared with regard to their (discharge capacity, internal resistance coulombic efficiency). A design experiments...

Context: Test-Driven development (TDD) is a software development approach where test cases are written before actual development of the code in iterative cycles. TDD has gained attention of many software practitioners during the last decade since it has suggested several benefits in the software development process. However, empirical evidence of its dominance in terms of internal code quality,...

The response patterns of plasma cortisol and plasma free cortisol have been studied in 20 consecutive patients undergoing cardiac surgery involving the use of heart-lung bypass. Sixteen consecutive patients undergoing closed mitral valvotomy have been used as controls. Total plasma cortisol levels fell at the onset of extracorporeal circulation (ECC) and did not rise significantly throughout th...

We report a simple, sensitive, and selective electrochemical method for trypsin detection that can cover a wide range of concentrations. The method is based on the proteolytic generation of an electroactive species (P) by trypsin followed by a signal-amplified electrochemical measurement of P using electrochemical-chemical (EC) or electrochemical-chemical-chemical (ECC) redox cycling. The detec...

The aim of this study was to investigate the organ doses of patients undergoing computed tomography (CT) examination using the wide bore General Electric (GE) “Light Speed RT” unit. The head, chest and pelvic regions of the Rando-phantom were scanned with 120 kV, 200 mA, and 2.5 mm slice thickness for helical and axial modes. Thermoluminescent Dosimeter (TLD) pairs were used for the dosimetry o...

Timo Ojasto 2007. The effect of different accentuated eccentric load levels in eccentricconcentric loading contractions on acute neuromuscular, growth hormone and blood lactate responses during a hypertrophic protocol. Science of Sport Coaching and Fitness Testing, Department of Biology of Physical Activity, University of Jyväskylä. 92 pp. When accentuated load is applied during the eccentric (...

introduction the main goal of this study was to perform quality control test on all radiography units operating in golestan province of iran. materials and methods forty-four x-ray units were examined based on general accepted programs for quality control. eight parameters including kvp accuracy, kvp reproducibility, ma-time reciprocity, exposure linearity, exposure reproducibility, timer accur...

Abstract We propose a power-aware ECC (Error Correction Code) register without hurting the reliability of data caches. The ECC register replaces the complicated ECC array used in traditional data caches. While the traditional ECC in the ECC array is dedicated to one cache line, the proposed ECC register is shared by all the cache lines, which significantly reduces leakage power consumed in the ...