Previous research has demonstrated that extinction in the form of re-presentation of expelled bites is an effective intervention for treating food expulsion. The current study compared the effectiveness of re-presenting expulsions with a spoon to re-presenting with a Nuk brush for a 4-year-old boy with a feeding disorder. Fewer expulsions were observed when using the brush for re-presentation, ...

In this paper, we describe how to enhance the quality of brush-style-font expression, which are scratched look and blurred look, with regard to a form as a pattern of a Chinese character. The previous version of the system uses only a parameter similar to pen pressure, however actual calligraphic art requires more various factors in order to realize the expression. Our novel approach considers ...

It is now firmly established that disaccharidases are an intrinsic part of the mammalian intestinal (1) and renal (2) brush border. Isolated brush borders of hamster and rabbit intestine (3-6) are studded with knobs (65 A in diameter) or doughnut-shaped particles (45-110 A in diameter) respectively, when viewed as negatively stained preparations . Isolated brush borders of rabbit kidney do not ...

OBJECTIVE Mechanical techniques, including scaling with metal, plastic, or ultrasonic instruments, rubber cup polishing, air-powder abrasive system and brushing with a conventional or a rotating brush, have been used for the debridement of dental implants. Recently, rotating brushes with titanium bristles (titanium brush) have been introduced for the debridement of implant surface when peri-imp...

Two assays were developed to quantitate the adherence of an Escherichia coli strain (RDEC-1) known to colonize the mucosal surface of the small intestine of rabbits to brush borders isolated from rabbit intestinal epithelial cells. In the first assay, the mean adherence per rabbit brush border was determined by counting the number of organisms adhering to each of 40 brush borders under phase mi...

Technologies ranging from solvent extraction and drug delivery to tissue engineering are beginning to benefit from the unique ability of “smart polymers” to undergo controllable structural changes in response to external stimuli. The prototype is poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (P(NIPAAm)) which exhibits an abrupt and reversible hydrophilic to hydrophobic transition above its lower critical solutio...

Objective: Foreign body swallowing is a common pediatric problem. A foreign body in the pharynx is a medical emergency that requires urgent intervention. Evaluation and treatment of pharyngeal foreign bodies is much more difficult in children than in adults and sometimes requires hospitalization and removal of the foreign bodies under general anesthesia due to children’s lack of cooperation. Fi...

Conductive transport of chloride ion is important in controlling ion and fluid secretion by exocrine tissues. The current study was directed at identifying proteins in the intestinal brush-border membrane that may be involved with conductive chloride transport. Reaction of total brush-border membrane protein with phenyl-isothiocyanate inhibited conductive chloride transport into brush-border me...