Dental personnel representing various levels of clinical experience and education in pedodontics were shown slides of potentially stressing situations within the field of pedodontics. Stress was identified through voice analysis by the Psychological Stress Evaluator (PSE-101). Clinical experience and education in pedodontics does not decrease either absolute or relative amounts of stress. Visua...

The role of the Internet is about to change again. After the hype of web portals we look forward to an Internet in which networked services dominate. Already today we can find services on the Internet in a large number of different categories: communication, on-line shopping, entertainment, enterprise services to mention only a few. However, problems with the currently prevailing infrastructure...

O objetivo do estudo é estimar os efeitos dos subsídios de apoio interno países terceiros sobre as exportações agrícolas brasileiras. contribui com a literatura existente ao aplicar conjunto dados fornecidos pela Organização para Cooperação e Desenvolvimento Econômico (OCDE) diferentes níveis desagregação governamental. modelo gravitacional aplicado fluxos agregados desagregados por produtos br...

According to sociometer theory, self-esteem is an internal monitor of positive social bonds to others. Social exclusion can break or threaten social bonds, which might be reflected by the brain structure of social exclusion regions. Thus, self-esteem might be influenced by structurally individual differences in these regions. It has been suggested that self-esteem can be divided into personal (...

BACKGROUND Because randomized cancer screening trials are very expensive, observational cancer screening studies can play an important role in the early phases of screening evaluation. Periodic screening evaluation (PSE) is a methodology for estimating the reduction in population cancer mortality from data on subjects who receive regularly scheduled screens. Although PSE does not require assump...

abstract main objective of this paper is the investigation the effect of support policies of government on income risk of poultry producers in iran for the 1989-2006. ccv index was used to investigate amount of variation that cause each support policies (market price support, support of agricultural inputs, outputs insurance) on income risk variation of producers. the results of this study show...

Present paper is an attempt to estimate the impact of Economic and Geographic indicators in trade among Islamic countries according to a bilateral trade model as Gravity model, and study the relationship between Economy, Geography and Trade in this way. Fixed effect version of the panel data estimation producer with OIC member country data spanning over the 2007–2012. The result of this researc...

The development of pale, soft, and exudative (PSE) breast fillet meat has become an economic burden for the poultry industry worldwide. PSE meat results in 1.0-1.5% loss in moisture and carcass weight, and a 2010 estimate of the Brazilian annual production put the economic loss due to PSE at over US$30 million. In the USA, PSE has caused an annual loss of up to US$200 million to the poultry ind...

Following the common use of of commodity hardware to build clusters, we argue that commodity software should be harnessed in a similar way to support Scientiic and Engineering work. Problem Solving Environments (PSE) provide the arena where commodity software technology can modernise the development and execution environment. We describe a PSE prototype based on the standard software infrastruc...

present paper is an attempt to estimate the impact of economic and geographic indicators in trade among islamic countries according to a bilateral trade model as gravity model, and study the relationship between economy, geography and trade in this way. fixed effect version of the panel data estimation producer with oic member country data spanning over the 2007–2012. the result of this researc...