Introduction The aim of this study was to understand the global incidence and disability-adjusted life years (DALY) oral disorders by age, gender, region, Sociodemographic Index (SDI) from 1990 2019. Material methods estimated annual percentage change (EAPC) 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were used assess trends in age-standardized DALY rates Results rate (EAPC = 0.01) increased slightly From 2...

OBJECTIVE We hypothesized that compared to healthy controls, long-term abstinent substance dependent individuals (SDI) will differ in their effective connectivity between large-scale brain networks and demonstrate increased directional information from executive control to interoception-, reward-, and habit-related networks. In addition, using graph theory to compare network efficiencies we pre...

This paper illustrates the IDEZar project, a project that mainly consists in the development of a local Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) in Zaragoza (Spain) in order to get an improved management of spatial data available in the City Council of Zaragoza and to provide several online services to its citizens. The authors detail in this paper the initial analysis performed (strictly necessary, d...

The pressure of opening access to public sector geospatial information traditionally managed within disparate spatial data infrastructures (SDI) is driven by a combination of factors. These factors include the adoption of open data programs and the need to integrate spatial data across sectors and levels of government for specific applications. Informed by the success of the Linked Open Data co...

Spatial scientific research has increasingly become multi disciplinary. The urge of different disciplines to share disciplinary knowledge and information has increased. However, not many Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs) have succeeded in facilitating the needs of these multidisciplinary research communities. The article presented offers a methodological framework to develop a user centric SD...

The effect of socially desirable responding (SDR) on the consensual validity of personality traits was studied. SDR was operationalized as the sum of items weighted by their respective social desirability values (Social Desirability Index, SDI), which could be computed for both selfand peer-reports. In addition, the Balanced Inventory of Desirable Responding (BIDR) was used as a measure of SDR....

OBJECTIVE The Systemic Lupus International Collaborating Clinics/American College of Rheumatology Damage Index (SDI) is a validated instrument for assessing organ damage in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Trained physicians must complete it, thus limiting utility where this is impossible. METHODS We developed and pilot tested a self-assessed organ damage instrument, the Lupus Damage Index...

Therapy (MUSIC study). Abstract Aims: Strain delay index (SDI) allows quantification of the wasted contraction or gain of myocardial contractility expected after cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT). The present multicenter prospective study aimed to assess the accuracy of the SDI in predicting responses to CRT in real life patients that include wide and narrow (<130ms) QRS complexes. Method...