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Mechanical and non-mechanical orthodontic procedures in relapse and retention: scoping review

Revista Facultad de Odontología Universidad de Antioquia, 2020
Introduction: stability after orthodontic treatment is an important goal for orthodontists. This issue has been highly important in orthodontics, so its progress and content require constant analysis.
Gustavo Jaimes-Monroy, María Teresa Jiménez-Albarracín, Edwin Alfredo Manga-Escorcia, Libia Adriana Montero-Hincapié, Ernesto José Portela-Suárez, María Carolina Longlax-Triana   +5 more
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Social context prevents heat hormetic effects against mutagens during fish development

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
This study shows that sublethal heat stress protects fish embryos against ultraviolet radiation, a concept known as ‘hormesis’. However, chemical stress transmission between fish embryos negates this protective effect. By providing evidence for the mechanistic molecular basis of heat stress hormesis and interindividual stress communication, this study ...
Lauric Feugere, Claudio Silva De Freitas, Adam Bates, Kenneth B. Storey, Pedro Beltran‐Alvarez, Katharina C. Wollenberg Valero   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Happiness: Theoretical and Empirical Considerations [PDF]

, 2008
TOPIC. Although happiness is important in maintaining health, few studies of happiness can be found in the nursing literature. PURPOSE. This paper explicates the concept of happiness through examination of its defining attributes, antecedents ...
Bekhet, Abir K., Nakhla, Wagdy E, Zauszniewski, Jaclene A.   +2 more
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Revisão sistemática da acurácia dos testes diagnósticos: uma revisão narrativa

Revista do Colégio Brasileiro de Cirurgiões
Este artigo tem o objetivo de realizar uma revisão narrativa sobre revisão sistemática da acurácia dos testes diagnósticos. Foi realizada busca na Cochrane Methodology Reviews (Cochrane Reviews of Diagnostic Test Accuracy), Medline e LILACS, bem como ...
Glória Maria de Oliveira, Fábio Trinca Camargo, Eduardo Costa Gonçalves, Carlos Vinicius Nascimento Duarte, Carlos Alberto Guimarães   +4 more
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Interaction vesicles as emerging mediators of host‐pathogen molecular crosstalk and their implications for infection dynamics

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Interaction extracellular vesicles (iEVs) are hybrid vesicles formed through host‐pathogen communication. They facilitate immune evasion, transfer pathogens' molecules, increase host cell uptake, and enhance virulence. This Perspective article illustrates the multifunctional roles of iEVs and highlights their emerging relevance in infection dynamics ...
Bruna Sabatke, Izadora Volpato Rossi, Marcel I. Ramirez   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Systematic reviews of empirical literature on bioethical topics: Results from a meta-review [PDF]

Nursing Ethics, 2020
Background In bioethics, especially nursing ethics, systematic reviews are increasingly popular. The overall aim of a systematic review is to provide an overview of the published discussions on a specific topic. While a meta-review on systematic reviews on normative bioethical literature has already been performed, there is no equivalent for systematic
Marcel Mertz, Hélène Nobile, Hannes Kahrass   +2 more
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Stranded Assets: A Climate Risk Challenge, Executive Summary [PDF]

, 2016
Over the last few years, the topic of "stranded assets" resulting from environment-related risk factors has loomed larger. These factors include the effects of physical climate change as well as societal and regulatory responses to climate change ...
Alexander Pfeiffer, Ben Caldecott, Elizabeth Harnett, Irem Kok, Theodor Cojoianu   +4 more
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A review on performance of waste materials in self compacting concrete (scc) [PDF]

, 2016
Self-compacting concrete (SCC) was first developed in late 80’s in Japan. SCC is well known for its self-consolidation and able to occupy spaces in the formwork without any vibration and become new interesting topic in Construction and Building Materials
Ismail, Isham, Jamaluddin, Norwati, Shahidan, Shahiron   +2 more
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SHARES OF HEALTH PROMOTION FOR THE ELDERLY IN BRAZIL AND LATIN AMERICA: AN INTEGRATIVE LITERATURE REVIEW [PDF]

Revista Gestão & Saúde, 2013
Introduction: Health promotion in the elderly is approaching the concept of active aging, in which the individual preserves capabilities and development potential.
Mariana dos Santos Ribeiro, Andréa Mathes Faustino   +1 more
doaj  

Place of distancing measures in containing epidemics: a scoping review

Libyan Journal of Medicine, 2022
Distancing is one of the barrier measures in mitigating epidemics. We aimed to investigate the typology, effectiveness, and side effects of distancing rules during epidemics. Electronic searches were conducted on MEDLINE, PubMed in April 2020, using Mesh-
Dhekra Chebil, Donia Ben Hassine, Sarra Melki, Sarra Nouira, Wafa Kammoun Rebai, Hajer Hannachi, Latifa Merzougui, Ahmed Ben Abdelaziz   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source