Missing tooth with diastema presents a great esthetic challenge for the prosthodontists to restore the edentulous space. The use of a conventional fixed partial denture (FPD) to replace the missing tooth may result in too wide anterior teeth leading to poor esthetics. This is because of the excess space available for pontic, which makes the incorporation of the diastema in the planned prosthesi...

Introduction India’s success in attaining universal health coverage will critically depend on its health system’s ability to deliver clinical services in rural areas. So far, attempts to increase rural recruitment of doctors through incentives or compulsion have been unsuccessful. In 2010, we conducted a Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) in the states of Uttarakhand and Andhra Pradesh to underst...

This intensely human and at times moving document should he read by all psychiatrists, general practitioners, psychiatric social workers, Local Authority Mental Health Committee members and the framers of our new National Health Service. It contains the edited writings of a sufferer from a severe obsessive compulsive state, whose main symptoms are fear of open spaces and a compulsion to indecen...

The American cultural imaginary is hungry for death, and thus representations of death are prominently repeated serialized in US literature media. Stella Castelli shows how culture fetishizes as part a repetition compulsion which stems from the inability language to satisfactorily grasp death. Taking an intermedial approach, she investigates forms tropes born this preoccupation with conceptuali...

anxiety is one of the most common reactions that parents show while understanding their children's intellectual disability due to down syndrome. anxiety leads parents not to develop appropriate relations with their children, subsequently their psychological health are at risk. the present study was aimed to determine the effect of problem-focused coping strategy training on psychological sympto...

When huge face database has to be searched for face detection time becomes the deciding factor for certain applications such as airport security checks where face detection within a short span of time is desirable. Genetic algorithm helps in close match in a very large face database based on heuristic search. PCA based features is a compulsion from the point of view of low dimension and space l...

Compulsive buying is an abnormal form of consumer spending which afflicts many individuals who, as a result, often find themselves in deep debt. An instrument to assess compulsive spending behavior is developed and the reliability and validity of the scale and its subscales are evaluated. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses confirm five hypothesized dimensions comprising compulsive spe...