BACKGROUND To evaluate the psychometric properties of the Child-OIDP for use among children in the UK and report on the prevalence of oral impacts in a sample of schoolchildren in Westminster. METHODS Children aged 10-11 years in the final year of primary school (year 6) were selected from seven schools where annual screenings are carried out. A total of 228 children participated (99% respons...

PURPOSE Hypertension is the most common diagnosis in ambulatory care, yet little evidence exists regarding recommended screening intervals or the sensitivity and specificity of a routine office-based blood pressure measurement, the most common screening test. Screening for hypertension is usually performed by measuring blood pressure at every outpatient visit, which often results in transiently...

Clusters of galaxies have an observed over-density of low-luminosity systems in comparison to the field, although it is not yet agreed whether this effect is the result of initial galaxy mass functions that vary with environment or galaxy evolutionary effects. In this letter we argue that this over-density is the result of low-mass systems with red colors that are over-populating the faint-end ...

This paper examines the relation between annual report readability and firm performance and earnings persistence. I measure the readability of public company annual reports using the Fog index from the computational linguistics literature and the length of the document. I find that: (1) the annual reports of firms with lower earnings are harder to read (i.e., they have a higher Fog index and ar...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To assess Papanicolaou (Pap) test screening behaviors of Taiwanese women, to explore factors affecting stages of change, and to determine whether constructs from the transtheoretical model are applicable to Taiwanese women with regard to Pap screening. DESIGN Descriptive, cross-sectional. SETTING A hospital in Taiwan. SAMPLE 222 female hospital workers. METHODS Data w...

background: describing trend in tuberculosis (tb) over time can play an important role to assess the disease control strategies and predict the future morbidity and mortality. this study aimed to determine the incidence trend of smear‑positive pulmonary tuberculosis (sppt) in sub‑age and sex groups during the years of 1995–2012. methods: this retrospective cohort study was performed in 2015 by ...

medics are native to semi-arid areas around the mediterranean sea and have long been used in degraded pastures in the region. annual medics are now widely distributed throughout the world, largely in areas with mild, rainy winters and alkaline soils. this study was conducted at a site located in the north east of golestan province (55° 57´ e, 37° 48´ n), on a silty clay loam soil in 2002 and 20...

the natural vibrations of clamped annular isotropic sector plates are analyzed using the extended kantorovich method (ekm). a conformal mapping is used to transform a sector with identified geometry to a rectangular plate which the solution is available in literature and solved by dalaei and kerr [1] using ekm. the developed iterative scheme converges very rapidly to the final result. the obtai...