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Characterization Of Lingual Foramina Using Cone-Beam Computed Tomography, Fatma Elbaz, Fatma Ata, Bassant Mowafy, Jilan Youssef

Mansoura Journal of Dentistry

Objective: To assess the location and anatomical character of lingual foramina using CBCT. Materials and Methods:CBCT records of 108 patients were evaluated to detect the presence, location, size, and number of lingual foraminausing axial, and cross sectional images. Results: A total of 463 lingual foramina (representing 100% of all patients)were found. Individuals had between one and eight lingual foraminaon their jaw, with the majority of cases having four(24.1%). Regarding the size; 336 (72.7%) were ≤1 mm and 127 (27.3%) were >1 mm. Regarding the location, only 162(35%) were LLF, while most of the lingual foramina were MLF (65%). Moreover 23 …

Methacrylate Versus Ormocer - Based Composites: Impact Of Preheating On Repair Bond Strength, Aya M. El Said, Asmaa A. Mohamed, Ashraf I. Ali, Salah H. Mahmoud

Mansoura Journal of Dentistry

Objective: To evaluate and compare the impact of preheating on the repair bond strength of Methacrylate and Ormocerbased composite. Materials and Methods: A total number of 24 standardized cuboid composite blocks were fabricatedwith the aid of teflon split mold (25×4×4) mm dimensions. Half of these composite blocks were made from a universalnanohybrid methacrylate-based composite and the other half was made from a universal nanohybrid Ormocer based.The top surfaces of all mounted specimens were surface treated with sandblasting, silane coupling agents, and universaladhesive of the same brand of composite. Four cylindrical composite rods (2 mm height, 3 mm internal diameter) werebuilt …

Comparative Evaluation Of Microleakage Of Different Class V Cavity Preparation Restored With Composite In Primary Molars: An In Vitro Study, Henar E. Elsayed, Ibrahim H. El Kalla, Hossam E. Hammouda

Mansoura Journal of Dentistry

Objective: To compare the effect of the cavity design and the location of the gingival wall, onenamel and cementum on the microleakage of Class V composite resin restorations in primary molars. Materialsand Methods: Class V cavity was made on the buccal surface of sixty sound primary mandibular second molar inthis study. The teeth were divided into two main groups: Group A (Kidney shaped cavity) and Group B (Rectangleshaped cavity). Each group was also subdivided into two subgroups, Subgroup A1; Kidney shape with gingivalmargin on enamel, Subgroup A2; Kidney shape with gingival margin on cementum, Subgroup B1; Rectangle shapewith gingival margin …

Correlation Between Molecular Changes And Inflammatory Cascade In Deep Carious Lesions With Dental Pulp Exposure Using Superoxide Dismutase, Ahmed G. Elebeidy, Farid A. Badria, Ahmed A. Elsoda, Amany E. Badr

Mansoura Journal of Dentistry

Objective: To use Superoxide dismutase (SOD) as a diagnostic biomarker to correlatemolecular changes in the inflammatory cascade in deep carious lesions with dental pulp exposure.Materials andMethods: A total of 40 cases with deep carious lesions with expected pulp exposure and signs of pulp vitality withoutsigns of periapical inflammation were selected from the outpatient clinic, Faculty of Dentistry, Mansoura University.Another 6 control cases were selected from the orthodontics department clinic. Results: Our results show that there is astatistically significantly lower mean percent inhibition among cases than in the control group 63.31±24.61versus94.52±2.97 (p=0.004). However, there appears to be no statistically significant difference …

Evaluation Of Surface Roughness, Water Sorption, And Solubility Of Glass Ionomer Restorative Cement Incorporated With Different Antibiotics, Wafaa S. Ahmed, Essam E. Al-Wakeel, Enas T. Enan, Noha A. El-Wassefy

Mansoura Journal of Dentistry

Objective: To evaluate the influence of adding different antibiotics to glass ionomer cement (GIC) on its surfaceroughness, water sorption, and solubility. Materials and Methods: A two-component GIC system (Fuji IX) andcommercially available antibiotic tablets including ciprofloxacin and amoxicillin /clavulanate were used. The two typesof powdered antibiotics were incorporated and stirred with the GIC powder at a ratio of 2 wt%. A total number of 120Specimens were prepared using a split Teflon mold and grouped as follows; group I: Conventional GIC as a controlgroup, group II: Ciprofloxacin-modified GIC, group III: (Amoxicillin/Clavulanate)-modified GIC, group IV: acombination of the two antibiotics-modified GIC. Each …

A Response To Rules Of Medical Necessity, Brendan S. Maher

Faculty Scholarship

Professors Monahan and Schwarcz’s recent Article in the Iowa Law Review, Rules of Medical Necessity, is a must-read for multiple audiences. In this short Response, I informally describe health insurance, and—using that perspective—describe and comment on why Rules of Medical Necessity is a piece of work that not only deserves attention from experts in the field, but is also one that casual readers should choose first when attempting to understand how health insurance works in theory and practice.

The Legal Ethics Of Family Separation, Milan Markovic

Faculty Scholarship

On April 6, 2018, the Trump administration announced a “zero tolerance” policy for individuals who crossed the U.S. border illegally. As part of this policy, the administration prosecuted parents with minor children for unlawful entry; previous administrations generally placed families in civil removal proceedings. Since U.S. law does not allow children to be held in immigration detention facilities pending their parents’ prosecution, the new policy caused thousands of children to be separated from their parents. Hundreds of families have yet to be reunited.

Despite a consensus that the family separation policy was cruel and ineffective, there has been minimal focus …

Racial Equality, Religious Liberty, And The Complications Of Pluralism, Rachel F. Moran

Faculty Scholarship

Constitutional law scholar Laurence Tribe once described due process and equal protection as “a legal double helix.” By this, he meant that protections for substantive liberties coupled with principles of equal treatment created “a single, unfolding tale of equal liberty and increasingly universal dignity.” In his view, equality and liberty were mutually constitutive and “center[ed] on a quest for genuine self-government of groups small and large.” Although this optimistic account of the nation’s constitutional DNA is reassuring, Professor Sahar Aziz’s new book on “The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom” reminds us that the double helix can unravel, so …

Centering Students’ Rhetorical Knowledge: The Community Of Inquiry As Formative Assessment, Brian N. Larson

Faculty Scholarship

This essay describes an approach to peer review and classroom workshopping intended to develop a community of inquiry in the first-year law school classroom, center students’ own rhetorical knowledge, and establish the authority of students—especially minoritized students—as rhetorical agents. The technique described in this essay works from the presumption that each student who comes to law school comes with rich rhetorical experience. In other words, they have extensive experience constructing discourse suited to certain audiences and certain contexts. They use a variety of tools to construct such discourse, including linguistic registers (or styles) and rhetorical genres (such as the academic …

A Prophylactic Approach To Compact Constitutionality, Katherine Mims Crocker

Faculty Scholarship

From COVID-19 to climate change, immigration to health insurance, firearms control to electoral reform: state politicians have sought to address all these hot-button issues by joining forces with other states. The U.S. Constitution, however, forbids states to “enter into any Agreement or Compact” with each other “without the Consent of Congress,” a requirement that proponents of much interstate action, especially around controversial topics, would hope to circumvent.

The Supreme Court lets them do just that. By interpreting “any Agreement or Compact” so narrowly that it is difficult to see what besides otherwise unlawful coordination qualifies, the Court has essentially read …

Towards A Design Space For Storytelling On The Fashion Technology Runway, Sydney Pratte, Anthony Tang, Shannon Hoover, Maria Elena Hoover, Matt Laprarie, Catherine Larose, Lora Oehlberg

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Fashion is driven by a narrative, i.e. a story or idea that the designer wants to convey to the audience. Fashion-tech now adds another dimension to this narrative through dynamically changing aspects of the garments. Many factors of presentation in a runway show affect how fashion-tech garments communicate a story to the audience. In this pictorial, we review a set of twenty-eight storytelling fashion-tech garments. We identify, catalogue, and categorize the factors designers used to convey stories to the audience from the runway. The design space consists of three levels: (1) the artifact-level, (2) the viewer-level, and (3) the context-level. …

2023 March 1 - From My Notepads Newsletter, Office Of The President, East Tennessee State University, Brian Noland

From My Notepads: A Newsletter from President Brian Noland

No abstract provided.

Managing Urban Ecosystems: An Introduction To The Special Issue, Kat Superfisky, Nurit Katz

Cities and the Environment (CATE)

The following Special Issue includes practitioner notes that provide information about managing urban ecosystems. The aim is that the insights and strategies shared in this Special Issue will inspire and inform the work of practitioners across the country who are seeking to maintain and enhance the vital ecosystems that sustain cities.

Expulsive Greening: A Cross-Sectional Analysis Of Resilience-Era Green Gentrification In Brooklyn, New York, Rose Jimenez, Juliana A. Maantay

Cities and the Environment (CATE)

This project analyzes the impacts green gentrification in Brooklyn by evaluating the spatial coincidence between gentrification rates and urban greening from 2010 to 2020. Assets formed under the NYC Green Infrastructure Program were chosen as a proxy for urban greening to represent urban greening within the 21st-century climate change resilience paradigm of development. Methods: This is a mixed method approach to a natural experiment. First, five indexes measuring variations of economic and demographic conditions related to gentrification were applied to Brooklyn for comparative analysis: NOAA’s Social Vulnerability Indicators of Gentrification Pressure, The NYC Heat Vulnerability Index, The Small Area Index …

Assessing And Improving The Ecological Function Of Linear Parks Along The Lower Los Angeles River Channel, Los Angeles County, California, Us, Daniel S. Cooper, Nurit D. Katz, Morgan L. Rogers, Fiona M. Osborn

Cities and the Environment (CATE)

Long overlooked by conservation groups and ecologists, urban open spaces are now seen as important contributors to biodiversity at various scales. Urban greenspaces often represent the only “nature” millions of human residents around the world ever interact with, and provide cooling and aesthetic relief from the urban hardscape. In the Los Angeles Metropolitan area, over the past three decades, non-profit advocacy groups and institutions have established a network of bike paths, neighborhood access points, habitat restoration, and recreational amenities along the Los Angeles River, a major urban waterway. We investigated the environmental contribution provided by numerous linear landscaped parks along …

Preserving Nature In New York City: Nyc Parks’ Forever Wild Program, Georgina Cullman, Novem Auyeung, Jennifer Greenfeld, Kristen L. King, Marit Larson

Cities and the Environment (CATE)

Urban biodiversity has increasingly been recognized as providing multiple local, regional, and even global benefits. In New York City (NYC), conservation and planning professionals in the Department of Parks and Recreation (NYC Parks) pursued biodiversity protection through the creation of a “Forever Wild” program in 2001, which designated and aimed to protect 8,700 acres of the largest, most ecologically valuable natural areas across City parkland. In 2018-2020, NYC Parks’ Natural Resources Group (NRG) expanded the program’s extent, resulting in 2,500 acres added to the Forever Wild program, for a total of over 12,300 acres. These additions reflect new acquisitions to …

Balancing Human Development With Wildlife Habitat And Connectivity Through The Creation Of Land Use Regulations For Private Property In Los Angeles, California, Kat Superfisky

Cities and the Environment (CATE)

Urban areas are uniquely positioned to have a significant impact on biodiversity and the health and resilience of ecosystems and therefore play an essential role in advancing conservation goals. Unlike more “wildland” ecosystems, urban ecosystems are not solely owned and/or managed by public entities or with the sole goal of ecosystem restoration. The important plants, animals and ecosystems in cities are scattered across open spaces and public parks that are already protected and being managed for conservation, as well as on private properties that often comprise the majority of land in cities, which supports the need to address biodiversity and …

International Society Of Sports Nutrition Position Stand: Nutritional Concerns Of The Female Athlete, Stacy T. Sims, Chad M. Kerksick, Abbie E. Smith-Ryan, Xanne A.K. Janse De Jonge, Katie R. Hirsch, Shawn M. Arent, Susan Joyce Hewlings, Susan M. Kleiner, Erik Bustillo, Jaime L. Tartar, Valerie G. Starratt, Richard B. Kreider, Casey Greenwalt, Liliana I. Renteria, Michael J. Ormsbee, Trisha A. Vandusseldorp, Bill I. Campbell, Douglas S. Kalman, Jose Antonio

Faculty Scholarship

Based on a comprehensive review and critical analysis of the literature regarding the nutritional concerns of female athletes, conducted by experts in the field and selected members of the International Society of Sports Nutrition (ISSN), the following conclusions represent the official Position of the Society: 1. Female athletes have unique and unpredictable hormone profiles, which influence their physiology and nutritional needs across their lifespan. To understand how perturbations in these hormones affect the individual, we recommend that female athletes of reproductive age should track their hormonal status (natural, hormone driven) against training and recovery to determine their individual patterns and …

International Society Of Sports Nutrition Position Stand: Energy Drinks And Energy Shots, Andrew R. Jagim, Patrick S. Harty, Grant M. Tinsley, Chad M. Kerksick, Adam M. Gonzalez, Richard B. Kreider, Shawn M. Arent, Ralf Jager, Abbie E. Smith-Ryan, Jeffrey R. Stout, Bill I. Campbell, Trisha Vandusseldorp, Jose Antonio

Faculty Scholarship

Position Statement: The International Society of Sports Nutrition (ISSN) bases the following position stand on a critical analysis of the literature regarding the effects of energy drink (ED) or energy shot (ES) consumption on acute exercise performance, metabolism, and cognition, along with synergistic exercise-related performance outcomes and training adaptations. The following 13 points constitute the consensus of the Society and have been approved by the Research Committee of the Society: Energy drinks (ED) commonly contain caffeine, taurine, ginseng, guarana, carnitine, choline, B vitamins (vitamins B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, B9, and B12), vitamin C, vitamin A (beta carotene), vitamin D, …

Working With Immigrant And Refugee Communities: Training Opportunities And Career Advice, Latin American And Iberian Institute

LAII Events

Learn about training opportunities, valuable skills, and career advice that will prepare you to work effectively with migrant and refugee communities. A panel discussion featuring Dr. Jessica Goodkind, Dr. Kimberly Gauderman, and Alli Wheeler:

Dr. Jessica Goodkind is Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Sociology at the University of Mexico. Her research addresses mental health consequences of structural inequities and involves developing and assessing processes that promote healing, well-being, and social justice with forcibly displaced and Indigenous populations. She is the founder of the Refugee and Immigrant Well-being Project, which has brought together thousands of university students and …

Evaluating The Effect Of Overburden Depth, Mining Height, And Support Density On Coal Rib Damage Using Dem Modeling, Maurice Sunkpal, Taghi Sherizadeh, Dogukan Guner

Mining Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

There Has Been a Global Effort in the Past Decade, Especially in Major Coal-Producing Countries, toward Understanding the Mechanics Involved in the Stability of Coal Mine Ribs. Buckling and Spalling of Mine Ribs Are Known to Have an Impact on their Stability and Degradation. the Generation, Propagation, and Coalescence of Cracks in Mine Pillar Ribs Are Significantly Affected by the overburden Depths. in Addition, the in Situ Stress Magnitudes Tend to Affect the Rib Damage Process. High Horizontal Stresses and Increased Depths Can Lead to Unfavorable Stress Conditions, Inducing Coal Mass Damage and Strength Loss. Understanding the Dynamics Involved in …

The Role Of Preproglucagon Peptides In Regulating Β-Cell Morphology And Responses To Streptozotocin-Induced Diabetes, Deanna M. Arble, Chelsea R. Hutch, Hannah Hafner, Daria Stelmak, Kyle Leix, Joyce Sorrell, Joshua W. Pressler, Brigid Gregg, Darleen A. Sandoval

Biological Sciences Faculty Research and Publications

Insulin secretion from β-cells is tightly regulated by local signaling from preproglucagon (Gcg) products from neighboring α-cells. Physiological paracrine signaling within the microenvironment of the β-cell is altered after metabolic stress, such as high-fat diet or the β-cell toxin, streptozotocin (STZ). Here, we examined the role and source of Gcg peptides in β-cell function and in response to STZ-induced hyperglycemia. We used whole body Gcg null (Gcg^Null) mice and mice with Gcg expression either specifically within the pancreas (Gcg^ΔPanc) or the intestine (Gcg^ΔIntest). With lower doses of STZ exposure, insulin levels were …

Practicing Presence: How The Local Church Should Target Poverty Of Solidarity With Their Neighborhood’S Youth, Sarah Lowder

Theology Undergraduate Work

A high school student attends a youth group at a local church in his neglected neighborhood. He participates in Bible studies, youth group events, and experiences an altar-call moment to accept Christ into his heart. The church was there to help him live like Christ and grow spiritually. He gets to know God at an early age through the church; however, as he graduates high school, the connection with the church starts to dwindle. One day, he finds himself in jail, still struggling with his life's physical, mental, and social factors. This is the true story of Nick, a young …

Commentary: Nature-Based Insetting: A Harmful Distraction From Corporate Decarbonization, Nora Mardirossian, Jack Arnold

Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment

Carbon offsetting is used worldwide on a massive scale, purportedly to mitigate climate change by capturing atmospheric carbon or by increasing or protecting carbon storage. Yet, in recent years, offsetting has been increasingly criticized as a strategy that can harm Indigenous peoples and local communities, exacerbate land inequality, and, paradoxically, worsen the global climate crisis. “Carbon insetting” has emerged as an alternative approach to offsetting that localizes nature-based solutions projects and other greenhouse gas removal activities within company value chains and has been adopted by major global brands such as Nestlé, PepsiCo, and Burberry. This commentary takes a deep dive …

A Cross-Cultural Analysis Of Ridesharing Intentions And Compliance With Covid-19 Health Guidelines: The Roles Of Social Trust, Fear Of Covid-19, And Trust-In-God, Md Nazmus Sakib, Fuad Hasan, Md Al-Emran, Reto Felix

Marketing Faculty Publications

Ridesharing services such as Uber and Lyft have been substantially affected by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on social capital theory, the current research investigates how social trust relates to three types of trust in compliance with COVID-19 guidelines and consumers' ridesharing intentions. Analyzing data from two economically and culturally distinct countries, the results suggest that social trust positively affects trust in platform companies' compliance with COVID-19 guidelines (TPC), but not (or to a lesser extent) trust in drivers' (TDC) and other riders (TRC) compliance with COVID-19 guidelines in both the United States and Bangladesh. Importantly, TPC, TDC, and TRC …

Nebraska Statewide Groundwater-Level Monitoring Report 2022, Aaron R. Young, Mark E. Burbach, Sue Olafsen Lackey, Robert Matthew Joeckel, Jeffrey Westrop

Conservation and Survey Division: Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

"Woman, Life, Freedom": A Movement In Progress In Iran, Arastoo Dabiri

Dignity: A Journal of Analysis of Exploitation and Violence

On September 16, 2022, a new movement began in Iran. It shows the potential to be a serious uprising. The death of an Iranian woman in the street in Tehran, the capital of Iran, due to being beaten by morality police because she was wearing an unappropriated hijab sparked the uprising. Her death was a result of wearing an “inappropriate” hijab. This was an excuse that turned on people’s anger not only because of hijab but also because there are many other combinations of causes to bring out people for protest. This movement was started because people were dissatisfied with …

Phase Iia Study Of Survaxm Plus Adjuvant Temozolomide For Newly Diagnosed Glioblastoma, Manmeet Ahluwalia

All Publications

Purpose: Despite intensive treatment with surgery, radiation therapy, temozolomide (TMZ) chemotherapy, and tumor-treating fields, mortality of newly diagnosed glioblastoma (nGBM) remains very high. SurVaxM is a peptide vaccine conjugate that has been shown to activate the immune system against its target molecule survivin, which is highly expressed by glioblastoma cells. We conducted a phase IIa, open-label, multicenter trial evaluating the safety, immunologic effects, and survival of patients with nGBM receiving SurVaxM plus adjuvant TMZ following surgery and chemoradiation (ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT02455557).

Methods: Sixty-four patients with resected nGBM were enrolled including 38 men and 26 women, in the age range …

Is It Time To Rip Up Your Contract? Navigating Dental Plan Participation, Stephanie Smith

The Journal of the Michigan Dental Association

This article explores the importance of dental practice management and the potential benefits of breaking away from insurance company participation agreements. The author, a practice management coach, emphasizes the role of data analysis, effective communication, and patient-centered strategies in achieving practice independence. Key areas of focus include assessing practice performance, understanding insurance reimbursement rates, and enhancing accounts receivable processes. The article provides insights into strategically transitioning to non-participation with insurance plans while preserving patient relationships. It highlights the significance of transparent communication, staff training, and timing when considering such a transition.

Implementation Of Evidence-Based Multiple Focus Integrated Intensified Tb Screening To End Tb (Exit-Tb) Package In East Africa: A Qualitative Study, Kahabi Isangula, Doreen Philbert, Florence Ngari, Tigest Ajeme, Godfather Kimaro, Getnet Yimer, Nicholaus P. Mnyambwa, Winters Muttamba, Irene Najjingo, Aman Wilfred

School of Nursing & Midwifery, East Africa

Introduction Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. We qualitatively evaluated the implementation of an Evidence-Based Multiple Focus Integrated Intensified TB Screening package (EXIT-TB) in the East African region, aimed at increasing TB case detection and number of patients receiving care.

Objective We present the accounts of participants from Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, and Ethiopia regarding the implementation of EXIT-TB, and suggestions for scaling up.

Methods A qualitative descriptive design was used to gather insights from purposefully selected healthcare workers, community health workers, and other stakeholders. A total of 27, 13, 14, and 19 …