objective: interceptive contacts in complete denture cause some side effects. to our knowledge, however, no comprehensive reports exist on the prevalence of interceptive contacts after complete denture placement. the aim of the present study was to investigate the prevalence of interceptive contacts in inserted complete dentures and its associated factors. materials and methods: this cross sect...

One hundred patients were treated with complete dentures. The patients were divided into two equal groups; the first group (50 patients) received complete dentures and a clinical remount procedure was performed, while the second group received complete dentures without a clinical remount. A four point, nine scale Patient Denture Satisfaction questionnaire was used to evaluate the patients' sati...

Conservation and Research Center, National Zoological Park, Smithsonian Institution, 1500 Remount Road, Front Royal, VA 22630, USA (WJM, KK) Department of Biology, Box 842012, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23284, USA (JP) Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Program, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA (JO) Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, University of Minnesota, St. P...

A cold finger attached to the second refrigeration stage of a DE-201 Displex closed-cycle helium refrigerator has been equipped with a miniature DC motor. The device allows reorientat ion of the crystal at low temperature, without remount ing or warming to ambient temperature. The axis around which the crystal is rotated is inclined by 45 ° to the cryostat axis, which gives a 90 ° change in ori...

non-parametric method to uncover periodic patterns of space use in animal tracking data” Guillaume Péron, Chris H. Fleming, Rogerio C. de Paula, and Justin M. Calabrese Conservation Ecology Center, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, National Zoological Park, 1500 Remount Rd., Front Royal, VA 22630 Department of Biology, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, Maryland 20742 ...

1 Smithsonian Institution, National Zoological Park, Conservation & Research Center, 1500 Remount Road, Front Royal, VA 22630, USA; 2 Behaviour, Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics Program, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA; 3 Department of Natural Resources Conservation, 160 Holdsworth Way, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003-9285, USA; 4 Wildlife Conservation Soci...

Rose Bengal Plate test (RBPT) and Serum Agglutination test (SAT) were used to monitor the seroprevalence of brucellosis in horses in and around Faisalabad, Pakistan. Sera were screened by RBPT and positive or doubtful sera were further processed by SAT for confirmation. The overall seroprevalence of brucellosis in horses was 20.7 and 17.7% by RBPT and SAT, respectively. Source wise seroprevalen...