In order to introduce this Special Issue, some motivational facts are given [...]

BACKGROUND To evaluate the torque expression of self ligating (SL) orthodontic brackets and conventionally ligated brackets and the torque expression in active and passive SL brackets. MATERIAL AND METHODS Our systematic search included MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, PsychINFO, Scopus, and key journals and review articles; the date of the last search was April 4th 2016. We graded the methodological...

From 1999-2001 three different varieties of wheat [Contur (susceptible to Fusarium), Batis and Petrus (less susceptible to Fusarium)] were cultivated under organic and conventional conditions in order to determine mycotoxin burden. Soil quality, preceding crop and weather conditions were comparable in the different production systems. The wheat batches were analysed for moulds, and the contents...

Concern over the quality of health care is a recurring topic in the United States. A “state of the science” invitational conference on quality health care, titled “Measuring and Improving Health Care Quality, Towards Meaningful Solutions To Pressing Problems, Nursing’s Contribution to the State of the Science” was held April 18–20, 2002 in Philadelphia at the Annenberg Center for Public Policy,...

(http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&pub=xa-4a9be9465d42784c) Four papers from Columbia University’s Electrical Engineering department have been accepted to the 2016 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) (http://isscc.org) . The ISSCC is the international flagship conference in the field of solid-state integrated circuits design where the latest advances in integrated...

INTRODUCTION We recently published an article in the International Journal of Surgical Case Reports titled: "Scrotal dartos-fascio-myo-cutaneous flap for penis elongation after catastrophic iatrogenic skin shaft sub-amputation: A case of recovery using an extremely adaptable flap". PRESENTATION OF CASE We propose a comment on a recent article titled "A case report of a complete degloving inju...

Mr. Melvin submitted as a summary of the material presented in his talk the executive summary of Task B of Phase 1 of a DOT contract titled Advanced Anthropometric Test Device Development Program. His summary is titled, ''Review of Biomechanical Impact Response and Injury in the Automotive Environment" and was co-authored by Kathleen Weber. "This review includes literature through 1984 and is d...

discourse.cpp is a short collection of computer-generated poetry edited by computational linguist Aurélie Herbelot. The poetry was produced by a program, named O.S. le Si, that was derived from Herbelot’s research on context-based ontology extraction from text (Herbelot and Copestake 2006; Herbelot 2009). In this case, Herbelot provided 200,000 pages fromWikipedia for the program to parse and o...