objective: to determine the prevalence and correlated factors of self-reported oral malodor in thai dental patients from chulalongkorn dental hospital. materials and methods: a self-administered questionnaire was developed to assess the self-reported perception of oral malodor in 839 patients. significant associations between self-perceived oral malodor and sociodemographics, oral problems and ...

It is now nearly three years since our last newsletter. During that time we have continued to collect more samples from volunteers and enlarged our collection of photos for the face genetics project to nearly 2000. Most importantly, a subset of 2039 of our samples has been extensively analysed, and, after several revisions and adjustments, the results have appeared on 19 March as a major paper ...

In recent years, the notion that computers and robots will attain superhuman levels of intelligence in the next few decades, ushering in a new “posthuman” era in evolutionary history, has gained widespread attention among technology enthusiasts, thanks in part to books such as Ray Kurzweil’s The Singularity Is Near. This paper describes an introductory-level AI course designed to examine this i...

A preliminary analysis of fields around 20 mainly radio– quiet QSOs (RQQs) at intermediate redshift is summarized. We find overdensities of faint sources around 50% of our observed QSOs suggesting that they are located in groups or even clusters of galaxies.

Цель исследования. Определить роль различных методов поддержки, таких как энтеральное зондовое и полное паренте: ральное питание в разных фазах течения острого панкреатита (ОП). Материал и методы. У 774 больных с ОП (средний возраст — 45,3±4,7 лет) проведен сравнительный анализ влияния различных способов нутритивной поддержки на секре: торную активность поджелудочной железы (ПЖ) и течение ОП. К...

We consider the future dynamics of a transient phantom dominated phase of the universe in LQC and in the RS braneworld, which both have a non-standard Friedmann equation. We find that for a certain class of potentials, the Hubble parameter oscillates with simple harmonic motion in the LQC case and therefore avoids any future singularity. For more general potentials we find that damping effects ...

People tend to grossly underestimate the trustworthiness of other people. We tested whether this cynicism grows out of an asymmetry in the feedback people receive when they decide to trust others. When people trust others, they painfully learn when other people prove to be untrustworthy; however, when people refrain from trusting others, they fail to learn of instances when the other person wou...

Using a representative sample of the U.S. adult population, we analyze which payment methods consumers use to pay other (p2p) and how these choices depend on transaction demographic characteristics. We construct random matching model with diverse preferences over for p2p payments. The is calibrated share payments made cash, checks, electronic technologies from 2015 2019. find about two-thirds h...