PURPOSE To analyze the cutoff severity of early lesions according to recovery rate after fluoride treatment. METHODS 100 specimens were demineralized over 3 to 40 days. Specimens were immersed in 2% sodium fluoride solution for 4 minutes, and then in artificial saliva for the rest of the total 24 hours. After 10-time repetition of this cycle, the deltaF recovery rates (R(deltaF,) %) were calc...

Anthropometry is a simple and cost-efficient method for the assessment of body composition. However prediction equations to estimate body composition using anthropometry should be 'population-specific'. Most popular body composition prediction equations for Japanese females were proposed more than 40 years ago and there is some concern regarding their usefulness in Japanese females living today...

Why is it important to know the percentage of people with food allergy in the community? Individuals with food allergy develop symptoms after eating foods that for the vast majority of the population are part of a healthy diet. The only way for the allergic individual to manage food allergy is to avoid eating the food that causes the allergic reaction. The level of avoidance required may seriou...

In a study of 142 Japanese men from a cross-section of the workforce of a technology development company, we found that the percentage of CD56+ cells was inversely correlated with the number of hours worked per week. A low CD56+ cell percentage was associated with longer weekly working hours and shorter daily sleeping hours.

A challenge for ground-based gravitational wave detectors such as LIGO and Virgo is to understand the origin of non-astrophysical transients that contribute to the background noise, obscuring real astrophysically produced signals. To help this effort, there are a number of environmental and instrumental sensors around the site, recording data in “channels”. We developed a method called the used...

Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Departamento de Engenharia Agrícola, Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brasil. Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri, Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias, Departamento de Zootecnia, Diamantina, Minas Gerais, Brasil. Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Escola de Medicina Veterinária, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Zootecnia, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brasil....