PURPOSE It is known that submaximal eccentric exercise does not confer as strong a protective effect as maximal eccentric exercise. This study tested the hypothesis that four bouts of submaximal eccentric exercise would confer a similar protective effect to one bout maximal eccentric exercise. METHODS Thirty untrained men were placed into 4 x 40% (40%) or control (CON) groups (n = 15 per grou...

BACKGROUND Severe tooth decay is known to affect the health and well-being of young children. However, little is known about the influence of Severe Early Childhood Caries (S-ECC) on childhood nutritional status. The purpose of this study was to contrast ferritin and haemoglobin levels between preschoolers with S-ECC and caries-free controls. METHODS Children were recruited as part of a large...

BACKGROUND The prevalence of early childhood caries (ECC) varies with geographical region and population. The Uygur people, one of 55 officially recognized ethnic minorities in China, have a population of 10,069,346. We performed a preschool-based cross-sectional study of 670 Uygur children from the southern region of Xinjiang, China, to investigate the prevalence and severity of ECC and to ide...

BACKGROUND Early childhood caries (ECC) is a severe type of dental caries affecting infants and pre-school children. Because of the infectious nature of the disease, the immunologic response by the host plays an essential role in its development. OBJECTIVE This study investigated the association between the presence of salivary sCD14 and ECC. METHODS This study was carried out on 40 healthy...

PURPOSE To evaluate the structure-function relationships between retinal sensitivity measured by Humphrey visual field analyzer (HVFA) and the retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness measured by scanning laser polarimetry (SLP) with variable corneal compensation (VCC) and enhanced corneal compensation (ECC) in glaucomatous and healthy eyes. METHODS Fifty-three eyes with an atypical birefri...

In asymetric cryptography, Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) is the fastest in term of computation and the strongest in term of security. It can be used in message encryption/decryption, digital signature or key exchange. ECC can be implemented in hard over binary field GF(2n) or in soft over prime field GF(p). This paper presents an efficient software implementation of ECC scalar multiplicatio...

LiF, Mg and Ti cubical TLD chips (known as TLD-100) are widely used for dosimetry purposes. The repeatability of TL dosimetry is investigated by exposing them to doses of (81, 162 and 40.5 mGy) with 662keV photons of Cs-137. A group of 40 cubical TLD chips was randomly selected from a batch and the values of Element Correction Coefficient (ECC) were obtained 4 times by irradiating them to doses...

Early childhood caries (ECC) has consequences, affectng both the child's dental health and his/her general health. This paper reviews the literature regarding ECC and its consequences (pain, sepsis, space loss, disruption to quality of life, failure to thrive, effects on intellectual development, greater risk of new carious Iesions in both primary and permanent dentitions, higher incidence of h...