PURPOSE To evaluate the bond strength between human dentin and composites, using two light-activated single-bottle total-etch adhesive systems with different pHs combined with chemically activated and light-activated-composites. The tested hypothesis was that the dentin bond strength is not influenced by an adhesive system of low pH, combined with chemically activated or light-activated composi...

25 26 We examined E. faecalis strains clinically isolated from 100 UTI patients for their 27 susceptibility to levofloxacin (LVX) by measuring the minimal inhibitory concentration 28 (MIC), and investigated amino acid mutations by direct DNA sequencing which was 29 then correlated with LVX resistance. Next we studied risk factors for LVX resistance 30 such as age, sex, and previous fluoroquinol...

Synopsis This essay explores the representation of Italian terrorists in recent generational films set in the 1960s and 1970s. While they foreground the protagonists’ youth and celebrate it as a historically new condition, these coming-of-age narratives typically present radicalism either in terms of youthful idealism or youthful error, with corresponding nostalgic or revisionist approaches tha...

We look at the quadratic forms generated by the Low-order Central Moments UpWrite of pen-opposed stroke pairs.

Mothers and midwives who had participated in the Bristol randomized controlled trial of active versus physiologic management of the Third Stage of Labor were asked for their views. One hundred ninety-one mothers (11% of the total randomized) and 49 midwives completed self-administered questionnaires. Both mothers and midwives commented adversely about the length of the third stage under physiol...