The increased throughput, the improved sensitivity of assays and the improvements in next generation sequencing technologies have enabled cataloging of microbial community membership and structure [12, 19, 27] as well as the metagenomic gene pool present in each community in large numbers of samples f...
An OT practitioner documents that an individual exhibits elbow flexion strength of grade 1. according to the manual muscle test system of letters and numbers, the word that would be the equivalent of grade 1 would be: A. absent B. trace ...
aComputer systems are made up of electrical components that are either on, or off, representing 1’s and 0’s, also called binary numbers. All data, such as numbers, are converted into binary representations in the computer system. The Extended ASCII chart below shows characters and their bin...
Gastrointestinal (GI) health was assessed using a GI symptom visual analogue scale. Changes in stool type were captured by the Bristol stool chart [25]. A physical exam (height, weight, blood pressure) was completed at the study visits. Sleep quality was measured using the Pittsburgh Sleep Qua...
Housing and income: How did things get to this stage for Eddie? I think that Eddie’s problem was that on the face of things, he coped. That’s a problem when public services are scarce. People who are thought to ...
Bar chart showing the changes in the epithelial thickness across different components of the buccal cavity of C. idella and in between the fingerling, yearling, and adult stages. UL, upper lip; UJ, upper jaw; OV-ls, labial surface of oral valve; OV-ps, palatal surface of oral valve; P...
Figure 1.Flow chart of participant recruitment. PMD: patients with movement disorders. 2.2. Survey Design The authors (dentist geriatrician, neuroscientists) created a structured questionnaire consisting of 42 questions, which contained both closed and open-ended questions. The questionnaire was designed...
On the basis of previous studies, it can be concluded that both teeth proclination and retroclination in patients with a thin phenotype can lead to alterations of the gingival margin. It has been reported that, for every 1 mm increase in GR, a successive increase of 0.98 mm in buccal bon...