Background. Preventive vaccination is a vitally important strategic aspect of protection the population against severe effects influenza epidemics. The priority attention given to development effective tetravalent vaccines containing antigens two A lineages (H1N1, H3N2) and B (Victoria Yamagata) in combination with immunoadjuvants.The aim work was conduct preclinical study immunogenicity protec...

Real-time three-dimensional ultrasound has been demonstrated as a viable tool for guiding surgical procedures [1]. This visualization technique may enable a range of new minimally invasive techniques in cardiac and fetal surgery. It is becoming increasingly clear, however, that instruments such as endoscopic graspers when immersed in liquids display artifacts and irregularities that make it dif...

PURPOSE: This cross-sectional study aimed to assess teaching staff and their students' perceptions regarding the students' competency for clinical performance following the preclinical fixed prosthodontics course and their suggestion regarding alternative methods to improve the preclinical training. METHODS: Fourthand fifth-year dental students and their teaching staff participated in a survey ...

BACKGROUND Dental students constitute a stakeholder group that is able to provide unique information concerning the effectiveness of the dental curriculum. The purpose of this study was to determine students' perceptions of the learning environment, intellectual climate and teacher student relationships in dental school. METHODS This study was conducted among 341 dental students of two dental...

Introduction We investigated the influence of different inclusion criteria for preclinical and prodromal Alzheimer's disease (AD) on changes in biomarkers and cognitive markers and on trial sample size estimates. Methods We selected 522 cognitively normal subjects and 872 subjects with mild cognitive impairment from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative study. Compared inclusion cri...

Dental schools continue to have difficulty recruiting and retaining faculty. One approach to augment student learning would be to train and utilize senior dental students as instructors in preclinical courses. This study was undertaken to evaluate the effect of using senior dental students as instructors on the performance of second-year students in two preclinical prosthodontic courses. In the...