The delivery of oral hygiene advice is a crucial component of the management of patients susceptible to periodontal disease. However, the complexity of the issues surrounding such advice is frequently underestimated. It is not simply a question of manual dexterity; many factors influence compliance and motivation, including lifestyle, beliefs, attitude and understanding, and such factors need t...

Collections of speech documents can be searched using speech retrieval, in which the documents are processed by a speech recogniser to give text that can be searched by standard text retrieval techniques. Recognition is the translation of speech signals into either words or subword units such as phonemes. We investigated the use of a phoneme-based recogniser to obtain phoneme sequences. We foun...

Superficial observations have led us to the general belief that the vital processes are much the same with average individuals. It is true that we are inclined to classify people as high-strung and nervous on the one hand and phlegmatic on the other; yet, on the average, the normal individual apparently has a metabolic plane comparable to his neighbor’s, for the general uniformity in the energy...

Bone growth and development are products of the complex interactions of genetic and environmental factors. Longitudinal bone growth depends on the growth plate. The growth plate has 5 different zones-each with a different functional role-and is the final target organ for longitudinal growth. Bone length is affected by several systemic, local, and mechanical factors. All these regulation systems...

The labour pain experienced by 101 women giving birth in a Scottish hospital was assessed by the McGill Pain Questionnaire and Visual Analogue Scales during active first stage labour and post-natally Labour pain was found to be on average severe, but not intensely negatively affective Its intensity varied considerably and was related to parity and the duration of the first stage of labour refle...

 The physicochemical properties of the drug substance can assume a primary role in controlling its dissolution from the dosage form.  The aqueous solubility of the drug is one of the major factors that determine its dissolution rate.  Some studies concluded that the drug solubility data can be used as rough predictor of the possibility of any future problems with bioavailability.  Some of t...

Web is a largest information repository containing web pages, continuously expanding with time thus effectively and efficiently searching relevant information on the web is being a challenge. In recent years large numbers of search engines have been introduced which are still dealing with few problems of indexing and retrieval of relevant information. Therefore it becomes essential to evaluate ...

OBJECTIVE To identify factors that significantly influence myringoplasty success. METHODS A retrospective study was performed of all adults and children who underwent myringoplasty from January 2005 to January 2010 in a teaching hospital. Outcome measures were tympanic membrane perforation closure and air-bone gap closure to within 20 dB HL. The factors assessed were the surgeon grade, pre-op...