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Assessment of oral hygiene habits, oral hygiene practices and tooth wear among fertilizer factory workers of Northern India: a Cross sectional study [PDF]

, 2015
Background: The association between oral hygiene habits & practices and severity of tooth wear lesion varies from community to community and also from occupation to occupation.
Asawa, Kailash, Bapat, Salil, Bhat, Nagesh, Chaturvedi, Pulkit, Chitkara, Neha, Gupta, Vivek V., Patel, Maulikkumar Natubhai, Philip George, Pradeep, Shinde, Kushal, Sidhu, Prabhjot Kaur, Tak, Mridula   +10 more
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Durability of Soft Pneumatic Actuators: A Review and Benchmarking Protocol

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Lack of durability is a key challenge hindering the broad scale adoption of soft pneumatic actuators (SPAs) in automation industries. This review provides a comprehensive overview of existing research on SPA durability, introduces a standardized durability benchmarking protocol to consolidate the testing of SPAs, and outlines promising directions for ...
Dickson Chiu Yu Wong, Yucheng Luo, Rob Bernardus Nicolaas Scharff   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis of hygiene, distribution, marketing and consumption practices in the poultry chain in Benin: a case study of eggs and sausages

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
Background and objectivesEggs and poultry sausages are widely consumed in Benin due to their affordability and high protein content. Nevertheless, inadequate hygiene practices during production, marketing, distribution, and consumption may pose ...
Cyrielle Hinson, Cyrielle Hinson, Philippe Sessou, Nestor Noudeke, Paulin Azokpota, Georges Daube, Nicolas Korsak   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

School-based interventions to promote personal and environmental hygiene practices among children in Pakistan: protocol for a mixed methods study

BMC Public Health, 2020
Background Poor personal hygiene and inadequate sanitation practices among young children leads to communicable diseases. There remains a gap in the holistic assessment of school children’s hygiene literacy, practices and effectiveness of school-based ...
Nousheen Akber Pradhan, Waliyah Mughis, Tazeen Saeed Ali, Maleeha Naseem, Rozina Karmaliani   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

An approach to hygiene education among rural Indian school going children [PDF]

, 2008
Objectives: To find out the prevalence of intestinal parasites and its epidemiological correlates among rural Indian school going (6-14 years) children and to study the effect of focused, need based child to child hygiene education on personal hygiene of
Boratne, AV, Deshmukh, PR, Dongre, AR, Garg, BS, Thaware, P   +4 more
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Myeloid‐Derived Grancalcin Promotes Periodontal Inflammation and Pathological Bone Remodeling in Periodontitis

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Grancalcin (GCA), a myeloid‐derived protein, is enriched in gingival tissues of periodontitis patients and mouse models. Through interactions with CD44 and activation of MYH9, GCA promotes NF‐κB signaling and exacerbates periodontal inflammation and bone loss.
Min Zhou, Yao Xiao, Ziyue Xu, Chengyu Yang, Jiang Li, Ya Liu, Ping Yin   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Leading by example: A three-wave sequential mixed method food safety study [PDF]

, 2019
(Best Paper Award/ 253 submissions) According to the most recent government data, approximately 61% of foodborne illness outbreaks were attributed to lack of personal hygiene and improper food handling by employees in the foodservice industry ...
Lin, Naiqing, Paez, Paola
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Reducing hospital associated infection : a role for social marketing [PDF]

, 2013
Purpose: Although hand hygiene is seen as the most important method to prevent the transmission of hospital associated infection in the UK, hand hygiene compliance rates appear to remain poor.
Conway, A, Langley, S
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An Implanted Tooth That Can Feel

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
To endow the implanted tooth with masticatory perception, herein we demonstrate that a 3D‐printed piezoelectric‐core/robust‐sheath implanted tooth can rebuild the sensing feedback, serving as “mechanoreceptors” in converting the mechanical chewing force to electrical signals, and up to brain through surrounding alveolar nerve system.
Yaru Cao, Zhenhua Wu, Jiwei Sun, Ke Song, Jiayi Li, Yujin Li, Wenqi Chen, Hanyu Li, Shue Li, Cheng Yang, Silin Liu, Yunyun Han, Bin Su, Yumei Ding   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Highly Biomimetic Ectodermal Epithelial Organoids for Epithelial Barrier Stimulation Assays

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Evaluating the potential toxicity of pharmaceuticals and biomaterials to ectodermal epithelia, such as the oral mucosa and skin, is indispensable in pre‐clinical assessments. However, this remains a challenge primarily owing to the lack of physiologically relevant and accurate screening models.
Yiming Chen, Yuman Li, Chenyu Deng, Leran Li, Zhewen Hu, Boon Chin Heng, Yuting Niu, Shiyu Sun, Min Gao, Xiaopei Chi, Ying He, Mingming Xu, Ying Huang, Xuliang Deng   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source