Introdouction: The aim of this study was to compare information regarding pharyngeal airway sizes in adolescent subjects with different malocclusion classes obtained from lateral cephalograms and 3–dimensional (3D) cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) scans. Materials and methods: In this prospective cross-sectional study, CBCT scans and lateral cephalograms of 35 subjects, taken with...

OBJECTIVE Although dementia and nutritional status have been shown to be strongly associated, differences in body composition (BC) among older people with dementia have not yet been firmly established. The aim of this study was to assess BC through conventional and vector bioimpedance analysis (BIA and BIVA, respectively) in a sample of institutionalized older men with and without dementia, in ...

PURPOSE COPD is a progressive disease, which can take different routes, leading to great heterogeneity. The aim of the post-hoc analysis reported here was to perform continuous analyses of advanced lung function measurements, using linear and nonlinear regressions. PATIENTS AND METHODS Fifty-one COPD patients with mild to very severe disease (Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Dis...

A hometown is the place to which an individual has affective bond resulting from either being born there or living for lived a long time. This article investigates people's intention support revival of tourism in their hometowns post-COVID-19. The research hypothesises that individuals are affected by threat ontological security, freedom movement, and information, this synthetic will affect hom...

introduction: this study aims at examining the difference of pharyngeal airways in patients with different occlusion postures, hoping to im prove diagnostic methods and provide a stable treatment plan for orthodontic patients. materials and methods: the data were ga-thered through cbct radiographies of patients from a specialized center for radiology. in each occlusion group according to the pe...

Recent studies suggest climate change consensus messages may cause psychological reactance for conservatives. However, it remains unknown how much this impacts the effectiveness of messaging. Using data from a recent meta-analysis on interventions, current paper seeks to add context debate over reactance. We integrated 20 experiments (N = 19,200 participants) that test (compared control conditi...