Electric pulp testing (EPT) has been available for more than a century and used in dental practices worldwide. This article provides an overview of this diagnostic aid. The PubMed database from 1953 was used initially; the reference list for pulp testing featured 1071 articles, and for EPT identified 121 papers. A forward search was undertaken on these articles and using selected author names. ...

Starting from the generate-recognise model of free recall, we will be addressing two points. First, we will discuss whether the enactment effect, i.e. better memory of self-performed actions (SPTs) compared to watched experimenter-performed actions (EPT) and to verbal tasks (VT) is due to enhanced relational and/or item information of SPTs. Second, we will propose that at least two different ty...

OBJECTIVE This position statement aimed to update the evidence-based position statement published by The North American Menopause Society (NAMS) in 2010 regarding recommendations for hormone therapy (HT) for postmenopausal women. This updated position statement further distinguishes the emerging differences in the therapeutic benefit-risk ratio between estrogen therapy (ET) and combined estroge...

The extramedullary plasmacytomas is a plasma cell tumour arising outside the bone marrow and constitutes around 4 % of all plasma cell neoplasms. The Extramedullary Plasmacytoma of the Trachea (EPT) is an extremely rare condition and presents as a tracheal expanding mass. The most common symptoms consist of coughing, dyspnoea, voice change, stridor and expiratory wheezing. The diagnosis is done...

Biomonitoring is critical for characterizing and monitoring status, spatial patterns, long-term trends in the ecological condition of freshwater ecosystems. The selection cost-effective bioindicators a step establishing such programs. Key indicator considerations are reliable response to anthropogenic disturbances, high benefit-cost-ratio sensitivity at multiple extents. We evaluated non-linear...

Considerando os mais de cem anos da oferta Educação Profissional e Tecnológica (EPT) em nível federal, no Brasil, o artigo objetiva compreender a trajetória atual Rede Federal Profissional, Científica decorrer do século XX XXI, com ênfase nos cenários históricos que exigiram mudanças nas políticas públicas possibilitaram verticalização ofertas cursos nessas instituições. Trata-se uma investigaç...

Introduction MR-based Electric Properties Tomography (EPT) provides a noninvasive means to assess electric tissue properties, such as conductivity and permittivity, and provides a framework for an accurate determination of local SAR [1]. Furthermore, it may provide a diagnostic parameter in oncology and cardiology. Recently, simplified EPT reconstruction methods based on the pure image phase in...

For many years, the photovoltaics (PV) community has relied on the concept of energy payback time (EPT) as a means of quantifying the ratio of energy generated from a PV panel or system over its lifetime, compared to the energy that was required to fabricate it. Few other energy technologies are so judged and this paper argues that the EPT concept is obsolete, misleading and may possibly even c...