Background and Aim: The aim of this study was to conduct in vitro and in vivo studies for the evaluation of antimicrobial potential of four Nigerian indigenous chewing sticks and to compare the oral effects of the popular Nigerian chewing sticks with toothpastes and other teeth-cleansing agents on a total of 21 and 17 oral bacterial strains isolated from children and adult dental caries respect...

OBJECTIVE The authors describe the psychiatric assessments and trauma testimonies of 20 Bosnian refugees of "ethnic cleansing" who have recently resettled in the United States. METHOD Refugees referred from agencies managing refugee resettlement underwent systematic, trauma-focused, clinical interviews that included standardized assessment scales. RESULTS The traumatic experiences of ethnic...

Bowel cleansing in patients with chronic renal failure – an often overlooked hazard Sir, Bowel cleansing is a common almost routine procedure that is used in ambulatory as well as in hospitalized patients in preparation for abdominal surgery, radiological examination of the lower gastrointestinal tract and colonoscopy. Bowel cleansing is also commonly used as a 'relieving' measure in elderly pa...

OBJECTIVE It is suggested that bowel preparations for colonoscopy are easier to tolerate when a smaller volume of solution with a more pleasant taste is used. The aim of this study was to establish equivalence between a 3-l sulphate-free polyethylene glycol solution (SF-PEG) and a 4-l PEG solution in effectiveness, patients' acceptability and tolerability. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study compr...

User-generated discourse from Web 2.0 poses particular challenges to natural language processing (NLP) due to its noise and error proneness. A data cleansing step preceding the analysis steps in an NLP pipeline can reduce the problems. While recent efforts provide generalpurpose collections of UIMA-based analysis components, data cleansing seems not yet to be covered. The five-stage data cleans...

Physical cleansing has been a focal element in religious ceremonies for thousands of years. The prevalence of this practice suggests a psychological association between bodily purity and moral purity. In three studies, we explored what we call the "Macbeth effect"-that is, a threat to one's moral purity induces the need to cleanse oneself. This effect revealed itself through an increased mental...

Over the past two decades a body of evidence has been generated to support the traditional use of water in cleansing wounds, with studies showing that the use of clean water does not increase the risk of infection or delay healing. However, recent advances in the understanding of wound management have encouraged reforms and led to the development of wound cleansing agents that have the potentia...

OBJECTIVES Efficacy of two low volume bowel cleansing preparations, polyethylene glycol plus ascorbate (PEG + Asc) and sodium picosulfate/magnesium citrate (NaPic/MgCit), were compared for polyp and adenoma detection rate (PDR and ADR) and overall cleansing ability. Primary endpoint was PDR (the number of patients with ≥ 1 polypoid or flat lesion recorded by the colonoscopist). METHODS Diagno...

Cleansing data of errors is an important processing step particularly when integrating heterogeneous data sources. Dirty data files are prevalent in data warehouses because of incorrect or missing data values, inconsistent attribute naming conventions or incomplete information. This paper improves the data cleansing ordinal association rules technique by proposing a solution for the missing val...