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Caries assessment and salivary microbial analysis in patients diagnosed with mucopolysaccharidosis

open access: yesJournal of Indian Society of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry
Background and Objectives: Mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS) is a group of lysosomal storage disorders that cause the deposition of polysaccharides in cells.
Vinod Anju, N. Sunil Raj
doaj   +1 more source

Amelia II: A Program for Missing Data

open access: yes, 2011
Amelia II is a complete R package for multiple imputation of missing data. The package implements a new expectation-maximization with bootstrapping algorithm that works faster, with larger numbers of variables, and is far easier to use, than various ...
James Honaker, Gary King, M. Blackwell
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Efficacy and safety of probiotics for dental caries in preschool children: A systematic review and meta-analysis

open access: yesContemporary Clinical Dentistry
Background: Early childhood caries is one of the most serious and high-priced oral health conditions among young children. With advancing dental sciences, the focus of dental caries treatment is shifted from restorative procedures to preventive measures,
Aarati S Panchbhai   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Automatic Classification of Variable Stars in Catalogs with missing data

open access: yes, 2013
We present an automatic classification method for astronomical catalogs with missing data. We use Bayesian networks, a probabilistic graphical model, that allows us to perform inference to pre- dict missing values given observed data and dependency ...
Pichara, Karim, Protopapas, Pavlos
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Miss-targeted or miss-measured?

open access: yesEconomics Letters, 2008
Abstract A method is proposed for testing the robustness of the assessed targeting performance of an anti-poverty program to the fact that program administrators have a broader concept of “poverty” than the economist/evaluator. An application is given to China's main urban anti-poverty program.
openaire   +2 more sources

Do children of working mothers experience more dental caries?

open access: yesContemporary Clinical Dentistry, 2018
Background: Pain and discomfort due to untreated dental caries lead to eating and sleep disruptions, behavioral changes, and poor quality of life. Among adolescents, severe dental caries may lead to activity restriction, school absenteeism, and poor ...
R M Baiju   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

‘Missing Persons’? Representations of Mature Female Sexuality in British and Irish Film 1998-2011 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Research has indicated that a number of recent US films have challenged hegemonic definitions of mature women as asexual by validating the sexual pleasure and sexual agency of female characters over forty five years of age.
Liddy, Susan
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Testing Measurement Invariance with Ordinal Missing Data: A Comparison of Estimators and Missing Data Techniques [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Ordinal missing data are common in measurement equivalence/invariance (ME/I) testing studies. However, there is a lack of guidance on the appropriate method to deal with ordinal missing data in ME/I testing.
Chen, Po-Yi   +4 more
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Patterns of oral hygiene behaviors, daily habits, and caries prevalence in India and dominican republic: A comparative study

open access: yesIndian Journal of Dental Research, 2019
Background: The purpose of the study was to gain integrative knowledge on oral hygiene behaviors and daily habits affecting caries experience among rural people in India and Dominican Republic (DR).
Payal Kahar
doaj   +1 more source

Assessing consequences of untreated dental caries using pufa/PUFA index among 6–12 years old schoolchildren in a rural population of Kerala

open access: yesJournal of Indian Society of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, 2022
Context: Dental caries is the most common dental disease of childhood. India with a population of more than 135 crores accounts for a high proportion of dental morbidity.
Santhosh Kumar Vasavan, N Retnakumari
doaj   +1 more source

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