Objective 1.1: An oral disease-free population. Strategy 1.1.1 Promote universal acceptance of anticipatory guidance and preventive oral health care in a dental home beginning no later than age 1. Strategy 1.1.2 Support water fluoridation efforts and appropriate use of other topical and systemic fluoride vehicles. Strategy 1.1.3 Increase public and governmental awareness and education regarding...

In every negotiation with a deadline, one of the negotiating parties has to accept an offer to avoid a break off. Therefore, it is important for every negotiator to employ a mechanism to decide under which conditions to accept. However, designing a proper acceptance condition is a difficult task: accepting too late may result in the break off of a negotiation, while accepting too early may resu...

Growing evidence supports the need to re-evaluate nature and function of our economies in favour post-growth principles if we are have a socially environmentally viable future. This study contributes discussion on how achieve such future by addressing remaining gap literature about public acceptance post-growth, since transition requires support validate political actions. Taking mixed-methods ...

This paper designs a mathematical model for supply chain network design problem including plants, distributors and customers in fuzzy environment. Each plant and distributor has several levels capacities. A multi-mode demand strategy is considered for the customers where only one of the modes is to be selected for each customer. Considering the acceptance degree of fuzzy constraints violated, a...

Little is known about the skills required for friendship, as distinct from those required for peer acceptance. The present study examined whether children's goals and strategies in friendship conflict situations are predictive of their friendship adjustment, after accounting for level of peer acceptance. Fourth- and 5th-grade children (N = 696) responded to 30 hypothetical situations in which t...

Truthful revelation of preferences has emerged as a desideratum in the design of school choice programs. Gale-Shapley’s deferred acceptance mechanism is strategy-proof for students but limits their ability to communicate their preference intensities. This results in ex-ante inefficiency when ties at school preferences are broken randomly. We propose a variant of deferred acceptance mechanism wh...