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Floral Function In Relation To Floral Structure In Two Periploca Species (Periplocoideae) Apocynaceae, Samia Heneidak, Yougasphree Naidoo Jan 2015

Floral Function In Relation To Floral Structure In Two Periploca Species (Periplocoideae) Apocynaceae, Samia Heneidak, Yougasphree Naidoo

Turkish Journal of Botany

This study comprises an investigation into the floral function in relation to the floral structure of Periploca aphylla and P. Angustifolia, using light and scanning electron microscopy. Both species display the following floral structures: style-head bearing pollen translators, shelf-like nectaries, staminal feet, nectar-collecting troughs, trisegmented corolline corona lobes and corolla lobes, and anthers and nectaries covered by unicellular hairs. Lateral segments of adjacent corona lobes are fused with half of the adaxial base of the adjacent corolla lobes, creating openings through which pollinators can reach the nectar-collecting troughs in the corolla base. Flowers are rotate with spreading corolla lobes and …

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Fire-Sale Fdi? The Impact Of Financial Crises On Foreign Direct Investment, Olga B. Stoddard, Ilan Noy Jan 2015

Fire-Sale Fdi? The Impact Of Financial Crises On Foreign Direct Investment, Olga B. Stoddard, Ilan Noy

Faculty Publications

We analyze the evolution of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows to developing and emerging countries around financial crises. We empirically examine the Fire-Sale FDI hypothesis and describe the pattern of FDI inflows surrounding financial crises. We also add a more granular detail about the types of financial crises and their potentially differential effects on FDI. We distinguish between mergers and acquisitions(M&A) and greenfield investment, as well as between horizontal (tariff jumping) and vertical (integrating production stages) FDI. We find that financial crises have a strong negative effect on inward FDI in our sample. Crises are also shown to reduce the …

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Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities In Medical Devices: A Complex Environment And Multifaceted Problem, Patricia A.H. Williams, Andrew J. Woodward Jan 2015

Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities In Medical Devices: A Complex Environment And Multifaceted Problem, Patricia A.H. Williams, Andrew J. Woodward

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

The increased connectivity to existing computer networks has exposed medical devices to cybersecurity vulnerabilities from which they were previously shielded. For the prevention of cybersecurity incidents, it is important to recognize the complexity of the operational environment as well as to catalog the technical vulnerabilities. Cybersecurity protection is not just a technical issue; it is a richer and more intricate problem to solve. A review of the factors that contribute to such a potentially insecure environment, together with the identification of the vulnerabilities, is important for understanding why these vulnerabilities persist and what the solution space should look like. This …

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A Longitudinal Study Of Post-Traumatic Growth And Psychological Distress In Colorectal Cancer Survivors, Stefano Occhipinti, Suzanne K. Chambers, Stephen J. Lepore, Joanne F. Aitken, Jeff C. Dunn Jan 2015

A Longitudinal Study Of Post-Traumatic Growth And Psychological Distress In Colorectal Cancer Survivors, Stefano Occhipinti, Suzanne K. Chambers, Stephen J. Lepore, Joanne F. Aitken, Jeff C. Dunn

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

The stability of post-traumatic growth overtime and the relationship between post-traumatic growth and traditional distress outcomes remains unclear. We tracked post-traumatic growth in a population-based sample of colorectal cancer patients from soon after diagnosis to five years subsequently to assess the heterogeneity of a post-traumatic growth response to cancer over time and describe the simultaneous and longitudinal relationships between post-traumatic growth and psychological distress. 1966 colorectal patients who were five months post diagnosis were assessed six times over a five year period. There was considerable heterogeneity associated with both psychological distress and benefit finding scores over time. However, both for …

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Tunable Optical Nanocavity Of Iron-Garnet With A Buried Metal Layer, Alexey N. Kuz'michev, Lars E. Kreilkamp, Mohammed Nur-E-Alam, Evgeni Bezus, Mikhail Vasilev, Iliya A. Akimov, Kamal Alameh, Manfred Bayer, Vladimir I. Belotelov Jan 2015

Tunable Optical Nanocavity Of Iron-Garnet With A Buried Metal Layer, Alexey N. Kuz'michev, Lars E. Kreilkamp, Mohammed Nur-E-Alam, Evgeni Bezus, Mikhail Vasilev, Iliya A. Akimov, Kamal Alameh, Manfred Bayer, Vladimir I. Belotelov

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

We report on the fabrication and characterization of a novel magnetophotonic structure designed as iron garnet based magneto-optical nanoresonator cavity constrained by two noble metal mirrors. Since the iron garnet layer requires annealing at high temperatures, the fabrication process can be rather challenging. Special approaches for the protection of metal layers against oxidation and morphological changes along with a special plasma-assisted polishing of the iron garnet layer surface were used to achieve a 10-fold enhancement of the Faraday rotation angle (up to 10.8°=μm) within a special resonance peak of 12 nm (FWHM) linewidth at a wavelength of 772 nm, in …

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Answering Research Questions Without Calculating The Mean, Guillermo J. Campitelli Jan 2015

Answering Research Questions Without Calculating The Mean, Guillermo J. Campitelli

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

In an important theoretical article Speelman and McGann (2013) indicated that psychological researchers tend to use statistical procedures that involve calculating the mean of a variable in an uncritical manner. A typical procedure in psychological research consists of calculating the mean of some dependent variable in two or more samples and to present those means as summaries of the samples. The next step is to use some statistical technique (e.g., t -test, ANOVA) in order to be able to determine the probability of finding the observed differences between means in those samples given that the difference between the means of …

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Archiving The New, Now, For Future Users Yet Unknown, Lelia Green, Cat Hope, Kylie J. Stevenson, Tos Mahoney Jan 2015

Archiving The New, Now, For Future Users Yet Unknown, Lelia Green, Cat Hope, Kylie J. Stevenson, Tos Mahoney

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

Associate Professor Cat Hope, along with colleague and collaborator Tos Mahoney, is one of Western Australia’s leading proponents of New Music, and the instigator of the development of the Western Australian New Music Archive (WANMA), that was launched on 20 May 2015, at the State Library of Western Australia. As co - curator of WANMA, alongside Mahoney, Hope is a key determinant of its contents. Consequently, Hope’s working definitions of new music and of the role and function of an archive are critical areas of interest and key to realising the communicative vision of this project which is also sponsored …

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Children And Young People's Emotional Literacy In A Networked World, Donell Holloway Jan 2015

Children And Young People's Emotional Literacy In A Networked World, Donell Holloway

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

After nearly 15 years of research into the risk and harm of the internet for children and young people, research attention is beginning to turn towards investigating the social and emotional skills children and young people need to successfully engage in the digital world. This turn, from a protectionist-only approach to a more nuanced research agenda, examines the positive and negative implications of minors’ internet use, including all the protective factors children need to engage effectively and safely online. This change in research agenda will go some way towards helping children develop the skills they need to participate and navigate …

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Memory Behaviour Requires Knowledge Structures, Not Memory Stores, Guillermo J. Campitelli Jan 2015

Memory Behaviour Requires Knowledge Structures, Not Memory Stores, Guillermo J. Campitelli

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

Since the inception of cognitive psychology dominant theories of memory behavior have used the storage metaphor. In the multi-store models (e.g., Broadbent, 1958; Atkinson and Shiffrin, 1968; Baddeley and Hitch, 1974) the memory system comprises one or more short-term memory (STM) stores and a long-term memory (LTM) store. These stores are places where information is located for varying periods of time (i.e., seconds in the STM stores, and minutes to lifetime in the LTM store) and they have varying capacity limits: large for the LTM store, very limited for the STM store—4 to 7 items, see Miller (1956), Broadbent (1958), …

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Overnutrition Determines Lps Regulation Of Mycotoxin Induced Neurotoxicity In Neurodegenerative Diseases, Ian J. Martins Jan 2015

Overnutrition Determines Lps Regulation Of Mycotoxin Induced Neurotoxicity In Neurodegenerative Diseases, Ian J. Martins

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

Chronic neurodegenerative diseases are now associated with obesity and diabetes and linked to the developing and developed world. Interests in healthy diets have escalated that may prevent neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease. The global metabolic syndrome involves lipoprotein abnormalities and insulin resistance and is the major disorder for induction of neurological disease. The effects of bacterial lipopolysaccharides (LPS) on dyslipidemia and NAFLD indicate that the clearance and metabolism of fungal mycotoxins are linked to hypercholesterolemia and amyloid beta oligomers. LPS and mycotoxins are associated with membrane lipid disturbances with effects on cholesterol interacting proteins, lipoprotein metabolism, and …

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“Not Now:” Using Fmri And Eye Tracking To Improve The Timing Of Security Messages, Bonnie Brinton Anderson, Anthony Vance, C. Brock Kirwan, Jeffrey Jenkins Jan 2015

“Not Now:” Using Fmri And Eye Tracking To Improve The Timing Of Security Messages, Bonnie Brinton Anderson, Anthony Vance, C. Brock Kirwan, Jeffrey Jenkins

Faculty Publications

Users remain a weak link in computer security due, in part, to their level of security message disregard. We examine how dual-task interference (DTI) influences fine motor control in the brain in response to security messages, allowing us to develop measures of DTI using mouse-cursor tracking and mobile indicators (e.g., accelerometer and geolocation data) for desktop and mobile devices, respectively.

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Exploring Web-Based University Policy Statements On Plagiarism By Research-Intensive Higher Education Institutions, Ewa Mcgrail, J. Patrick Mcgrail Jan 2015

Exploring Web-Based University Policy Statements On Plagiarism By Research-Intensive Higher Education Institutions, Ewa Mcgrail, J. Patrick Mcgrail

Research, Publications & Creative Work

Plagiarism may distress universities in the US, but there is little agreement as to exactly what constitutes plagiarism. While there is ample research on plagiarism, there is scant literature on the content of university policies regarding it. Using a systematic sample, we qualitatively 2 analyzed 20 Carnegie-classified universities that are “Very High in Research.” This included 15 public state universities and five high-profile private universities. We uncovered highly varied and even contradictory policies at these institutions. Notable policy variations existed for verbatim plagiarism, intentional plagiarism and unauthorized student collaboration at the studied institutions. We conclude by advising that the American …

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Breastfeeding In The Philippine Workplace: What’S Wrong With The Right?, Emily Sanchez Salcedo Jan 2015

Breastfeeding In The Philippine Workplace: What’S Wrong With The Right?, Emily Sanchez Salcedo

DLSU Business & Economics Review

There are four main differences between the Philippine and American statutes that promote breastfeeding. First, the Philippine law provides that lactation breaks should be compensated while the American law explicitly stated that employers are under no such obligation. Second, the Philippine law provides for “culturally appropriate lactation care and services” whereas majority of American states exempt breastfeeding from public indecency laws. Third, the Philippine law makes a conclusive statement that breastfeeding “enhances mother-infant relationship”. The American law wisely left such matter to individual realization. Fourth, the Philippine law puts the right of a mother to breastfeed on equal footing with …

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Determinants Of Investor’S Subscription Level Of Ipos: Evidence From Indian Capital Market In Post Mandatory Ipo Grading Regime, Souvik Banerjee, K.T. Rangamani Jan 2015

Determinants Of Investor’S Subscription Level Of Ipos: Evidence From Indian Capital Market In Post Mandatory Ipo Grading Regime, Souvik Banerjee, K.T. Rangamani

DLSU Business & Economics Review

This research paper determines the factors that influence investor’s appetite for Graded Initial Public Offerings(IPOs) between 2007 and 2013, in the context of Indian capital market. Company specific factors related to pre-issue financial position, corporate governance, and post issue promoter holding, firm age at the time of the issue, reputation of the lead manager of the issue, reputation of the credit rating agency, IPO Grade, and also market sentiment related factors like change in the money supply, Foreign Institutional Investor’s (FII) inflow, Price to Earnings (PE) ratio of the market, and market return, are considered. Out of these factors, FII …

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A Robust Bearing Fault Detection And Diagnosis Technique For Brushless Dc Motors Under Non-Stationary Operating Conditions, Wathiq Abed, Sanjay Sharma, Robert Sutton, Amit Motwani Jan 2015

A Robust Bearing Fault Detection And Diagnosis Technique For Brushless Dc Motors Under Non-Stationary Operating Conditions, Wathiq Abed, Sanjay Sharma, Robert Sutton, Amit Motwani

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

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Toward A Synthesis Of Hr Competency Models: The Common Hr "Food Groups", Dave Ulrich, Wayne Brockbank, Mike Ulrich, David Kryscynski Jan 2015

Toward A Synthesis Of Hr Competency Models: The Common Hr "Food Groups", Dave Ulrich, Wayne Brockbank, Mike Ulrich, David Kryscynski

Faculty Publications

As businesses face unprecedented rates of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA), business leaders increasingly recognize the importance of talent (workforce, competencies, skills, abilities), leadership (senior leader and leadership team), and organization (workplace, capability, culture, processes, systems) as sources of competitiveness. Competitors can readily copy access to capital, strategic intent, and operational efficiency but they have a more difficult time copying talent, leadership, and organizational practices. As a result of this increased visibility, HR issues have received increased attention in the C-suite.

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Tax Research Techniques, Robert L. Gardner, Dave N. Stewart, Ronald G. Worsham Jan 2015

Tax Research Techniques, Robert L. Gardner, Dave N. Stewart, Ronald G. Worsham

Guides, Handbooks and Manuals

No abstract provided.

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Adviser's Guide To Health Care, Volume 1: An Era Of Reform—The Four Pillars, Robert James Cimasi, Todd A. Zigrang Jan 2015

Adviser's Guide To Health Care, Volume 1: An Era Of Reform—The Four Pillars, Robert James Cimasi, Todd A. Zigrang

Guides, Handbooks and Manuals

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Cgma Exam Case Study Guide, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa) Jan 2015

Cgma Exam Case Study Guide, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa)

Guides, Handbooks and Manuals

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Dynamic Approach To K-Forcing, Yair Caro, Ryan Pepper Jan 2015

Dynamic Approach To K-Forcing, Yair Caro, Ryan Pepper

Theory & Applications of Graphs

The k-forcing number of a graph is a generalization of the zero forcing number. In this note, we give a greedy algorithm to approximate the k-forcing number of a graph. Using this dynamic approach, we give corollaries which improve upon two theorems from a recent paper of Amos, Caro, Davila and Pepper [2], while also answering an open problem posed by Meyer [9].

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Scheduling N Burgers For A K-Burger Grill: Chromatic Numbers With Restrictions, Peter Johnson, Xiaoya Zha Jan 2015

Scheduling N Burgers For A K-Burger Grill: Chromatic Numbers With Restrictions, Peter Johnson, Xiaoya Zha

Theory & Applications of Graphs

The chromatic number has a well-known interpretation in the area of scheduling. If the vertices of a finite, simple graph are committees, and adjacency of two committees indicates that they must never be in session simultaneously, then the chromatic number of the graph is the smallest number of hours during which the committees/vertices of the graph may all have properly scheduled meetings of one continuous hour each. Slivnik [3] showed that the fractional chromatic number can be similarly characterized. In that characterization, the meetings are allowed to be broken into a finite number of disjoint intervals. Here we consider chromatic …

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Beyond Instrumentalism: A Relational Approach To Negotiation, Marc-Charles Ingerson, Kristen Bell Detienne, Katie A. Liljenquist Jan 2015

Beyond Instrumentalism: A Relational Approach To Negotiation, Marc-Charles Ingerson, Kristen Bell Detienne, Katie A. Liljenquist

Faculty Publications

Instrumentalism, the philosophy that rational people will behave in ways that promote self-interest, is often the default assumption that scholars and practitioners rely upon when interpreting and predicting human behavior in negotiations. Instrumentalism, however, need not be the only lens through which negotiators and negotiations are viewed. In this article, we discuss some of the problems associated with too heavy a reliance on instrumentalism and propose an alternative relational approach, one in which negotiators see themselves as agents embedded in a system of relationships, who are motivated to understand and advance the welfare of others. We discuss some of the …

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The Multidimensional Quality Metrics (Mqm) Framework: A New Framework For Translation Quality Assessment, Valerie Mariana, Troy L. Cox, Alan Melby Jan 2015

The Multidimensional Quality Metrics (Mqm) Framework: A New Framework For Translation Quality Assessment, Valerie Mariana, Troy L. Cox, Alan Melby

Faculty Publications

Determining translation quality requires a precise measure of the traits being examined. This article evaluates a new framework for translation quality evaluation, Multidimensional Quality Metrics (MQM), to the task of grading student translations. It demonstrates the viability (i.e. the practicality, validity and reliability) of using the MQM framework by novice raters to judge translations based on the American Translators Association’s translator certification exam grading system. The data gathered for this study were drawn from 29 student translations of a single news story that were rated by nine novice and two expert raters. The study used average time on task, correlations …

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Life Of Christ, Steelman Library Jan 2015

Life Of Christ, Steelman Library

Syllabus Repository

No abstract provided.

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New Testament Survey, Melissa Archer Jan 2015

New Testament Survey, Melissa Archer

Syllabus Repository

No abstract provided.

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The Role Of Radiotherapy After Radical Prostatectomy, Meryem Aktan, Mehmet Koç Jan 2015

The Role Of Radiotherapy After Radical Prostatectomy, Meryem Aktan, Mehmet Koç

Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences

No abstract provided.

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Efficacy Of Wound Infiltration With Lornoxicam For Postoperative Analgesiafollowing Thyroidectomy: A Prospective, Randomized, Double-Blind Study, Zafer Kilbaş, Mustafa Öner Menteş, Ali̇ Harlak, Taner Yi̇ği̇t, Sali̇h Müjdat Balkan, Ahmet Coşar, Erkan Öztürk, Orhan Kozak, Cemi̇l Turgut Tufan Jan 2015

Efficacy Of Wound Infiltration With Lornoxicam For Postoperative Analgesiafollowing Thyroidectomy: A Prospective, Randomized, Double-Blind Study, Zafer Kilbaş, Mustafa Öner Menteş, Ali̇ Harlak, Taner Yi̇ği̇t, Sali̇h Müjdat Balkan, Ahmet Coşar, Erkan Öztürk, Orhan Kozak, Cemi̇l Turgut Tufan

Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences

Background/aim: Postoperative pain control constitutes a major problem and studies have focused on reducing opioid requirements using regional techniques. We aimed to investigate the efficacy of wound infiltration with lornoxicam on postoperative pain control following thyroidectomy. Materials and methods: In this prospective, randomized-controlled study, 80 patients scheduled for thyroidectomy were randomly assigned to 2 groups. After the thyroidectomy was performed, patients in group I underwent wound infiltration with 4 mg of lornoxicam and patients in group II received the same amount of saline. Rescue analgesia was provided with additional doses of lornoxicam delivered by an on-demand patient-controlled analgesia device. Total …

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Esophageal Replacement By Hydroxylated Bacterial Cellulose Patch In A Rabbit Model, Changlai Zhu, Fang Liu, Wenbo Qian, Yingjie Wang, Qingsheng You, Tianyi Zhang, Feng Li Jan 2015

Esophageal Replacement By Hydroxylated Bacterial Cellulose Patch In A Rabbit Model, Changlai Zhu, Fang Liu, Wenbo Qian, Yingjie Wang, Qingsheng You, Tianyi Zhang, Feng Li

Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences

Background/aim: To repair esophageal defects by hydroxylated and kombucha -synthesized bacterial cellulose (HKBC) patch in a rabbit model. Materials and methods: Semicircular esophageal defects 1 cm in length of the cervical esophagus were initially created in 18 Japanese big-ear rabbits and then repaired with HKBC patch grafts. The clinical outcomes including survival rate, weight change, food intake, and hematological and radiologic evaluation were observed. After X-ray evaluation, the rabbits were sacrificed sequentially at 1, 3, and 6 months for histopathologic analysis with light microscopy and scanning electron microscopy. Results: Survival rate during the first month was 88.9% (n = 16). …

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Epidemiology, Causative Agents, And Risk Factors Affecting Humanotomycosis Infections, Metwally Abdelazeem, Ahmed Gamea, Hanan Mubarak, Nessma Elzawawy Jan 2015

Epidemiology, Causative Agents, And Risk Factors Affecting Humanotomycosis Infections, Metwally Abdelazeem, Ahmed Gamea, Hanan Mubarak, Nessma Elzawawy

Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences

Background/aim: Otomycosis, or fungal otitis externa, has typically been described as fungal infection of the external auditory canal, with infrequent complications involving the middle ear. This study assessed a mycological analysis of fungal debris from external auditory canals of patients at Tanta University Hospital, Gharbia Governorate, Egypt. Materials and methods: The samples were collected over a year from the 110 patients that were clinically diagnosed to have otomycosis. The samples were then inoculated and culture plates were examined for the presence of fungal growth. Results: The results showed that Aspergillus niger was the most common fungus causing otomycosis. It was …

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Evaluation Of Gcf Mmp-1, Mmp-8, Tgf-Ss1, Pdgf-Ab, And Vegf Levels In Periodontally Healthy Smokers, Gülni̇hal Eren, Hati̇ce Oya Türkoğlu, Hari̇ka Atmaca, Fatma Gül Ati̇lla Jan 2015

Evaluation Of Gcf Mmp-1, Mmp-8, Tgf-Ss1, Pdgf-Ab, And Vegf Levels In Periodontally Healthy Smokers, Gülni̇hal Eren, Hati̇ce Oya Türkoğlu, Hari̇ka Atmaca, Fatma Gül Ati̇lla

Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences

Background/aim: The effect of smoking on inflammatory biomarkers in gingival crevicular fluid (GCF) is well established in the presence of periodontal inflammation. However, it is not clear if smoking has an influence on matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) and growth factor levels in the GCF of periodontally healthy subjects. The aim of this study was to investigate GCF levels of MMP-1, MMP-8, transforming growth factor (TGF)-ß1, platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF)-AB, and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) in smoking versus nonsmoking periodontally healthy subjects. Materials and methods: Thirty-two periodontally healthy subjects were included in this study. Probing depths, bleeding on probing, and plaque …

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