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Immediate and conventional single implant treatment in the anterior maxilla: 1-year results of a case series on hard and soft tissue response and aesthetics.

AIM The main objective of this clinical study was to document midfacial soft tissue dynamics following single immediate implant treatment (IIT) and conventional implant treatment (CIT) in the anterior maxilla when performed by experienced clinicians in well-selected patients. MATERIAL AND METHODS Appropriate bone volume and ideal soft tissue levels were considered requirements for implant therapy. Additional prerequisites for IIT were intact socket walls and a thick gingival biotype. CIT included standard flap elevation whereas IIT was either performed with a flap or flapless procedure. All implants were provisionally restored using cemented acrylic crowns. Bone levels, papillae and midfacial soft tissue levels were monitored at regular intervals. The aesthetic outcome was assessed after 1 year using the pink aesthetic score (PES) and white aesthetic score (WES). RESULTS Sixteen patients (10 men, six women; mean age 45) received an immediate implant and 23 patients (12 men, 11 women; mean age 40) had conventional implant surgery. One immediate implant failed in the early healing phase. The mean bone level from the implant-abutment interface was 0.85mm for IIT and 0.65mm for CIT after 1 year (p=0.144). Mesial papillae remained stable over time. Minute loss of distal papillae occurred following IIT (-0.38mm) and a tendency for re-growth was found following CIT (0.60mm). Midfacial soft tissues remained stable over time following IIT with only 7% showing advanced recession (>1mm). Flapless surgery induced less midfacial recession than flap surgery (p=0.023). Significant midfacial recession occurred following CIT (-1mm). Overall, 24% were aesthetic failures (PES<8 and/or WES<6) and 8% showed an (almost) perfect outcome (PES12 and WES9). The remainder (68%) demonstrated acceptable aesthetics. CONCLUSIONS Immediate implants demonstrated fairly stable midfacial soft tissue levels with only a minority of cases showing advanced recession. Irrespective of the timing of implant placement, aesthetic failures seem to be rather common and only a strict minority may show perfection.
Effects of commercial enrichment products on fatty acid components of rotifer, Brachionus plicatilis

This study was undertaken to test the effects of enrichment products. Red pepper paste (ZA), AlgaMac 3050 (ZB) and Spresso (ZC) on fatty acid compositions in rotifers (Brachionus plicatilis ) which were intensively cultured on a mixture of ω3 algae and ω3 yeast. Enriched rotifers were seen to have higher level of unsaturated fatty acids of linoleic acid (LOA) and total n-6 unsaturated fatty acid ratios than all other experimental groups (p 0.05). The ratio of n–6DPA/ARA was different between the groups of ZA and ZC (p < 0.05). Significant differences between ZA, ZB and ZC rotifer groups were observed in the ratio of n–3/n–6, DHA/EPA, DHA/ARA and n–6DPA. The differences in EPA/ARA ratios between ZB and ZC rotifer groups were significant from other groups (p < 0.05). It can be suggested that the enrichment of rotifers by available commercial products lead to significant and important changes in fatty acid profiles which are of high concern in the quality of nutrient supply for improved productivity.
Social media and Chinese consumers’ environmentally sustainable apparel purchase intentions

Purpose Social media and sustainability are changing Chinese consumers’ consumption behavior in notable ways. Few apparel industry sustainability efforts are enforced or well known in China. As China operates its own social media sites, it is necessary to study Chinese social media, rather than Western types, in order to understand its influence on Chinese consumer behavior with regard to sustainability. By extending the theory of reasoned action (TRA) and the prototype willingness model, the purpose of this paper is to investigate how Chinese consumers were taught their environmentally sustainable apparel (ESA) consumption behavior through social media, and also how the influence of peers affected their purchase intentions. Design/methodology/approach A total of 238 survey responses were collected and analyzed from a Chinese research firm in 2016. In accord with the study objectives, an exploratory factor analysis was first conducted, and then a two-step analysis of a structural equation model was employed for hypothesis testing. To test the significance of hypothesized mediated effects, a bootstrap procedure with 2,000 bootstrap samples from the original data was used to compute bias-corrected 95% CI for indirect effects. Moreover, hierarchical regressions were demonstrated to verify the unique contribution of social media influence. Findings The study findings support the previous literature that indicated positive attitudes toward environmentally sustainable purchasing behavior increased as Chinese consumers learned about social and environmental issues. Also, results of the analysis revealed that Chinese consumers’ engagement with social media and their peers were important social influences that were directly tied to increasing sustainable apparel purchase intentions. Originality/value By extending two grand theories of the prototype willingness model theory and the TRA, this study underlines a novel link between the influence of social media and ESA purchase intentions among Chinese consumers. Results are valuable in a global context as it is one of only a few studies to explore Chinese consumers’ purchase intentions of ESA through an exclusive social media platform – WeChat – in China.
The Effect of Service Quality to Customer Satisfaction by Using Internet Banking Service in Jambi

Internet banking service has become an important part of the current banking products. It could be said almost all bank, which is operating in Indonesia, have to equip their products by providing internet-banking services for its customers. Despite the fact that the investment to build the internet banking service has been carried out by almost all banks in Indonesia, but in fact the use of internet banking adoption is still not significant. Banking in Indonesia still filled with questions about Internet banking services such as what exactly is a yearning of each customer. Because it is highly important for banking in Indonesia to fully understand the quality of the services, which they had provided. A good understanding of the customer's perception when using internet banking services will certainly be a strong foundation for bank in Indonesia to be able in provide an appropriate internet services, effective and efficient for customers. If the customer hope has been fulfilled, that customers will be satisfied and will ultimately loyal to the internet banking service. This study examines the elements that will affect the quality of the internet banking service for customers. A survey conducted by inviting 115 respondents. Data were analyzed using SEM method utilizing Smart PLS software. This study found that the "Banking Services Product Quality", "Online Customer Services Quality" "Online Information Services Quality" and "Overall Internet Banking Services Quality", an effect on customer satisfaction in using internet banking services.
Organizational readiness for the digital transformation: a case study research

The aim of this research work is to formulate a framework that explains resources, capabilities and management choices necessary to respond to the new environment. The research methodology is based on literature review and an in-depth case study based on three enterprises. The framework describes (a) the impact of digital innovations on external forces; (b) adequate strategies arising from a value chain analysis; (c) resources and capabilities of critical importance. The article contributes to the state of management literature by describing how small and medium size companies respond to the digital transformation process.
Public perception of algal consumption as an alternative food in the Kingdom of Bahrain

Abstract Algae are living organisms with high nutritional benefits. As such, algae are considered a solution to malnutrition and starvation. Individuals in the Gulf Corporation Council (GCC) region have limited food resources and face problems linked to malnutrition. Therefore, the introduction of a new food to their diet, such as algae, would be beneficial. However, these populations have conservative food habits and might not accept such anew food. Therefore, here we assessed consumer acceptance of natural and processed algae (seaweeds and Spirulina) in the Kingdom of Bahrain using a Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) approach. TAM is normally used to study the acceptance of technology, including commercial, industrial and nutritional industries. Here, we investigate the Bahraini community’s likelihood of accepting algal food as an alternative food source. In addition, factors impacting the acceptance of algal food as an alternative food were examined. Valid questionnaires (300) were collected to empirically test the research model using the partial least square (PLS) path modelling approach. We found that the following proposed hypotheses were supported, except for the relationship between perceived healthiness of food and behavioural intention. This study revealed that sensory aspects, perceive healthiness of food, and knowledge experience/familiarity have a significant positive direct relationship to perceived risk and uncertainty while having an indirect relationship with behavioural intention to consume the algal product. Subjective norm, perceived risk and uncertainty, food neo-phobia, and consumer decision to eat algal food products were found to directly influence consumers’ algal food behavioural intention, which, in turn, affects the consumers’ decisions about whether to consume algal food products. Our data suggest that the people in the Kingdom of Bahrain are willing to consume algae and, thus, that the Bahraini market is ready to receive algal food products.
A new magnetic resonance-based technique for high-resolution quantification of amorphous and quasi-amorphous structures

We present a novel, high-resolution magnetic resonance technique, fine structure analysis (FSA) for the quantification and analysis of amorphous and quasi-amorphous biological structures. The one-dimensional technique is introduced mathematically and then applied to one simulated phantom, two physical phantoms and a set of ex vivo biological samples, scanned with interpoint spacings of 0.0038–0.195 mm and cross-sectional sizes of 3 × 3 or 5 × 5 mm. The simulated phantom and one of the physical phantoms consists of randomly arranged beads of known size in two and three dimensions, respectively. The second physical phantom was constructed by etching lines on Perspex. The ex vivo samples are human bone specimens. We show that for all three phantoms, the FSA technique is able to elucidate the average spacing of the structures present within each sample using structural spectroscopy, the smallest of which was 180 µm in size. We further show that in samples of trabecular bone, FSA is able to produce comparable results to micro-computed tomography, the current gold standard for measuring bone microstructure, but without the need for ionizing radiation. Many biological structures are too small to be captured by conventional, clinically deployed medical imaging techniques. FSA has the potential for use in the analysis of pathologies where such small-scale repeating structures are disrupted or their size, and spacing is otherwise altered.
Vasculopathy and Coagulopathy Associated with SARS-CoV-2 Infection

The emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the causative agent of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), has resulted in >500,000 deaths worldwide, including >125,000 deaths in the U.S. since its emergence in late December 2019 and June 2020. Neither curative anti-viral drugs nor a protective vaccine is currently available for the treatment and prevention of COVID-19. Recently, new clinical syndromes associated with coagulopathy and vasculopathy have emerged as a cause of sudden death and other serious clinical manifestations in younger patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 infection. Angiotensin converting enzyme 2 (ACE2), the receptor for SARS-CoV-2 and other coronaviruses, is a transmembrane protein expressed by lung alveolar epithelial cells, enterocytes, and vascular endothelial cells, whose physiologic role is to induce the maturation of angiotensin I to generate angiotensin 1-7, a peptide hormone that controls vasoconstriction and blood pressure. In this review, we provide the general context of the molecular and cellular mechanisms of SARS-CoV-2 infection with a focus on endothelial cells, describe the vasculopathy and coagulopathy syndromes in patients with SARS-CoV-2, and outline current understanding of the underlying mechanistic aspects.
BK virus infection and neurologic dysfunctions in a patient with lymphoma treated with chemotherapy and rituximab

To the Editor: Human polyomavirus activation because of immunomodulatory therapy is a recently recognized finding, the most important cases being JC virus activation and progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) in multiple sclerosis and rheumatic diseases as well as the correlation of BK virus (BKV) activation and therapy in transplant patients (1–3). The occurrence of neurologic manifestations following BKV infection has so far been rarely reported in immunosuppressed individuals (1–5). In July 2007, a 46-yr-old HIV-negative man was admitted to the hospital, complaining of diplopia, recurrent headache and tinnitus. A stage IVA high-intermediate International Prognostic Index score diffuse large B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma had been diagnosed 2 months earlier. He had then been given four courses of combination dose-dense chemotherapy (CHOP-R 14) with 12-mg intra-thecal methotrexate as central nervous system (CNS) chemo-prophylaxis, and scheduled to receive high-dose chemotherapy with peripheral blood stem-cell rescue. The symptoms had appeared 10 d after the end of the combination chemotherapy. The neurologic examination found a bilateral sixth cranial nerve impairment, while the brain computed tomography scan was unremarkable. The magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) excluded either encephalitis or PML. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) analysis showed no CNS lymphoma cells, while CSF differential cell count, chemistry and cytology were within the reference ranges, and microbiological tests resulted negative. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) analysis on CSF tested positive for BKV DNA while negative for all known neurotropic viruses, including JC. An MRI performed 1 month later persisted negative (Table 1). Two months later, neurologic manifestations considerably improved and the CSF resulted negative for BKV DNA on a second PCR test. Urine analysis and renal function tests were always normal and detection of BKV DNA load in three serial urine samples correlated with the clinical course (Table 1). This case provides molecular evidence of a possible association between BKV and neurologic symptoms in a lymphoma patient treated with chemotherapy and rituximab. In the case of anti-CD20 therapeutic antibodies, B cells are depleted and it is conceivable that one
Environmental Strategy, Environmental Management Accounting and Organizational Performance: Evidence from The United Arab Emirates Market

The purpose of this paper is to examine the association between the Environmental Strategy (ES) and Environmental Management Accounting (EMA) usage. It also aims to consider the effect of EMA usage on the organizational performance. A research framework was developed based on the contingency theory. Data were collected via questionnaires distributed to companies listed on UAE Stock Markets (ADX and DFM) in 2016. Data were analyzed using a structural equation modelling. The model was statistically validated and evaluated. The results indicated that ES positively affects the level of EMA usage and a positive relationship between EMA and the organizational performance. These findings contribute to the management accounting contingency-based research by providing empirical evidence to support that relationship between ES and EMA as well as between EMA and the organizational performance in the context of developing countries. ©2018 L&H Scientific Publishing, LLC. All rights reserved.
Transradial primary PCI: this is the time for awareness

To the Editor Things take some time to change, but we are on the right path. I must respectfully disagree, however, with the conclusions reached by Patterson and Foale on the performance of transradial primary percutaneous coronary interventions (PCIs). 1 After a brief history of the technique and despite an overview of the enormous advantages derived from its use (fewer bleedings, lower incidence of composite end point of death, stroke and myocardial infarction), they reach the …
VCSEL Intrinsic Response Extraction Using $T$-Matrix Formalism

We present a new method to remove the parasitics contribution to the vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) chip response, in order to obtain the intrinsic S 21 behavior. We demonstrate that the chip can be split into two cascaded subsystems representing the electrical access and the optical cavity, respectively. An equivalent electrical circuit defining the behavior of the electrical access is combined with T -matrix formalism to remove the parasitics contribution from the measured S 21 response. Results allow us to determine the intrinsic 3-dB bandwidth of the VCSEL.
`Having cancer changed my life, and changed my life forever': survival, illness legacy and service provision following cancer in childhood

Objectives: To explore how having cancer in childhood influences social and personal wellbeing in young adulthood. Methods: Questionnaires (55) eliciting lengthy written responses and in-depth interviews (32) were used with male and female survivors of cancer in childhood (aged between 18 and 28 years). Analysis drew on a combination of grounded-theory techniques and narrative analysis. Results: Three key areas are outlined relating to the characterization of survivorship by participants. These include highlighting survival as not necessarily a simple end to a cancer story, issues relating to post-cancer bodily self-concept and its gendering, and, efforts at managing uncertainties through medical interactions and information gathering. Discussion: Participant stories in this study illustrate that even in long-term survival, cancer is present as a web of ongoing influences from the original disease and treatment, as well as the social and personal aftershocks that can occur well after malignant cells have been controlled. Findings highlight the necessity for complex redevelopment of healthcare services and social support provisions for this growing population.
The Effect of a Team s Knowledge Management Practices on Team Performance Evidence from Sri Lankan Software Development Companies and Business Process Outsourcing Companies

— The present study examines the effect of a teams’ knowledge management practices and team performance. Drawing on the knowledge based view which says how knowledge management practices will enable the achievement of sustainable competitive advantage, this study attempted to investigate knowledge management practices at the team level and their effect on team performance in software development companies and Business Process Outsourcing companies. A hundred teams including their team leaders and team members from selected companies in Sri Lanka responded to two questionnaires. Using the Partial Least Square – Structural Equation Modeling approach, the results of the statistical analysis revealed that knowledge management practices within teams have a significant effect on team performance. Hence, this study contributes to the knowledge based view theory.
CODE-SWITCHING BETWEEN LUMARAMA SPEAKERS AND ENGLISH SPEAKING DEVELOPMENT AGENTS ON IMPLEMENTING NEW PROJECTS IN BUTERE SUB COUNTY, KENYA

The intention of projects donors will be that the stakeholders understand their terms and conditions in implementing projects. It is important that conditions are communicated clearly for the sake of continued funding since grass root level; using English is not a viable option, as majority of target group members are not proficient in the language. The research will attempt to analyze the language used in sensitizing and enhancing effective communication to the stakeholders on suggested projects. This study will investigate the influence of Lumarama-English code-switching in two local NGO programmes in Butere District, Kakamega County in Kenya. The objectives of this paper were to establish the matrix/embedded languages used by NGOs in launching of a new programs in Butere Sub County. The Myer-Scotton’s Theory guides this paper. An explanatory research design was utilised for this research with the target population consisting of project beneficiaries (community members) and donor agents’ developmental workers. Questionnaires and focus group discussions instruments were data collection instruments used for this study. Study findings revealed that code-switching between Lumarama (ML) and English (EL) was common in the implementation of various development programmes in the Sub County. The development workers were found to have the ability of interpreting the donors’ project documents (which were mostly in English) to Lumarama although to a moderate extent. The research concluded that implementation of projects was influenced by code-switching matrix used by development workers in Butere Sub County. The study recommends that there is need for donors to produce and translate project documents in Kiswahili, English and Lumarama. Article visualizations: