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Crown Lengthening as Treatment for Altered Passive Eruption: Review and Case Report
Authors: Tonetto Mateus Rodrigues , Pinto Shelon Cristina Souza , Bandeca Matheus Coelho , Lima Suellen Nogueira Linares , Higashi Cristian , Bonafé Elize , Pilatti Gibson Luiz , Santos Fábio André 
Published: February 2016

ABSTRACTThis case report relates a patient with altered passive eruption (APE) treated with surgical crown lengthening. There is a strong association between smile esthetics and periodontal tissues. ‘Gummy smile’ constitutes a relatively frequent esthetic disadvantage characterized by excessive display of the gums during upper lip smiling. One situation that can lead to gummy smile is APE. There are many important diagnostic factors connected with APE. These include making a correct diagnosis; considering facial and oral features before considering the most appropriate periodontal treatment. A 21-year-old female patient presented to the dental clinic expressing to be discontent with her smile, due to the display of gingiva when she smiles. Before choosing the adequate treatment, esthetics and periodontal factors were analyzed. In the present case report, surgical crown lengthening was the treatment chosen. Through a correct diagnosis and technique, it was possible to obtain harmony in the smile. Crown-lengthening surgery is an important choice of treatment, because it is a less invasive technique and it permits the establishment of an esthetical smile.How to cite this articlePinto SCS, Higashi C, Bonafé E, Pilatti GL, Santos FA, Tonetto MR, Lima SNL, Bandéca MC. Crown Lengthening as Treatment for Altered Passive Eruption: Review and Case Report. World J Dent 2015;6(3):178-183.
Clinical Outcomes of Tamoxifen and Clomiphene Citrate in Intrauterine Insemination Cycles
Authors: Majeed Asifa , Divyashree PS 
Published: February 2016

ABSTRACTBackgroundBoth selective estrogen receptor modulators, tamoxifen and clomiphene have been used for ovulation induction for patients with anovulatory infertility. The aim of this study is to compare the effectiveness of tamoxifen to clomiphene on clinical outcome in intrauterine insemination (IUI) cycles.Materials and methodsIt is a retrospective clinical study. Two hundred and seven women undergoing IUI cycles from July 2013 to July 2014 at Milann—The fertility centre, Bengaluru, India were analyzed. Tamoxifen was administered in the dose of 40 mg starting from day 2/3 of the menstrual cycle for a period of 5 days and clomiphene citrate (CC) was administered in the dose of 100 mg from day 2/3 of menstrual cycle for 5 days. Monitoring of ovulation was done by transvaginal ultrasound from day 5/6 till dominant follicle size was more than 18 mm. Highly purified human chorionic gonadotrophin (hCG) in the dose of 5000 IU was given. Double insemination was done at 24 and 36 hours. Luteal phase support was given in form of dydrogesterone 10 mg twice a day for 14 days. Serum beta-hCG was done after 14 days.ResultIn our study, 76 patients recieved clomiphene citrate (37%) and 126 patients received tamoxifen (62.9%). Both the groups were comparable in terms of age, period of infertility, FSH, LH, antral follicle count and their human menopausal gonadotropin (hMG) requirement (Table 1). Thirteen patients (23.6%) in CC group and 42 patients (76.4%) in tamoxifen group had positive serum beta hCG result. p-value was found to be significant (p = 0.016) (Table 2).ConclusionTamoxifen was associated with better endometrial thickness and pregnancy rate when compared to clomiphene citrate in ovarian stimulation in IUI cycles.How to cite this articleMajeed A, Divyashree PS, Rao KA. Clinical Outcomes of Tamoxifen and Clomiphene Citrate in Intrauterine Insemination Cycles. Int J Infertil Fetal Med 2015;6(3):118-121.
Influence of Sperm Morphology on the Outcome of Assisted Reproductive Technique—Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection Cycles: A Retrospective Analysis
Authors: Muthukumar K , Aleyamma TK , Preetha PR 
Published: February 2016

ABSTRACTAimThe aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of spermatozoa morphology on ICSI cycle outcome parameters in couples with male factor infertility.DesignRetrospective study.SettingUniversity-level tertiary care center.Patients and methodsOne hundred and forty-eight couples with male factor infertility who had undergone intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) cycle from 2010 to December 2012 were included in this analysis. The semen samples of the male partners were classified according to the three predictive categories of the Tygerberg strict criteria: excellent prognosis (> 14% morphologically normal spermatozoa), good prognosis (5–14%) and poor prognosis (< 5%).Main outcome measuresThe primary outcome was the embryo quality rate.ResultsPatients in the poor prognosis subgroups exhibited deficits in spermatozoa concentration, motility and total motile fraction. The variations in the outcome parameters of fertilization rate, embryo development rate and embryo quality did not correlate with sperm morphology.ConclusionOur study suggests that Kruger's strict morphology criteria of the fresh semen sample is not a good predictor for the ICSI cycle outcome.How to cite this articlePreetha RP, Kamath MS, Aleyamma TK, Muthukumar K. Influence of Sperm Morphology on the Outcome of Assisted Reproductive Technique-Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection Cycles: A Retrospective Analysis. Int J Infertil Fetal Med 2015;6(3):122-127.
Squamous Cell Carcinoma in Dermoid Cyst
Authors: Muralidhar Lakshmidevi , Pandey Pramila 
Published: February 2016

ABSTRACTMature cystic teratoma or dermoid cyst constitutes about 10 to 20% of all ovarian tumors in the reproductive age group. Malignant transformation is seen in these tumors in about 1 to 2%. Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) constitutes about 75 to 85% of malignant transformation. Imaging characters and serum tumor markers are two important modalities to differentiate benign and malignant lesions. We are presenting a rare case of SCC arising from mature teratoma. The aim of this presentation is to stress on the significance of preoperative risk assessment of SCC in mature cystic teratoma in postmenopausal age group for optimal treatment.How to cite this articleMuralidhar L, Venkatesh S, Pandey P. Squamous Cell Carcinoma in Dermoid Cyst. Int J Infertil Fetal Med 2015;6(3):133-135.
Ovarian Torsion: A Gynecological Emergency
Authors: Garg Nupur , Krishna Deepika , Rathor Suvarna 
Published: February 2016

ABSTRACTOvarian torsion is an uncommon gynecological emergency that requires prompt recognition and treatment. Timely investigation and management can make the difference between ovarian loss and salvage, an outcome of great importance in the population of reproductive age females. Our case series is about clinical presentation and management approach of adnexal torsion in a tertiary care fertility center. Adnexal torsion was found mainly in the reproductive age during poststimulation postovulatory period in all cases. Ultrasound was the most commonly used imaging modality. Ovarian stimulation was the risk factor seen in all the patients. Diagnosis of adnexal torsion was mostly clinical. Laparoscopy was the preferred method of surgical intervention. Ovarian conservation was possible in all cases except one.How to cite this articleGarg N, Krishna D, Rathor S, Rao K. Ovarian Torsion: A Gynecological Emergency. Int J Infertil Fetal Med 2015;6(3):136-140.
Mobile sensor network noise reduction and recalibration using a Bayesian network
Authors: Xiang Y. , Tang Y. , Zhu W. 
Published: February 2016

Abstract. People are becoming increasingly interested in mobile air quality sensor network applications. By eliminating the inaccuracies caused by spatial and temporal heterogeneity of pollutant distributions, this method shows great potential for atmospheric research. However, systems based on low-cost air quality sensors often suffer from sensor noise and drift. For the sensing systems to operate stably and reliably in real-world applications, those problems must be addressed. In this work, we exploit the correlation of different types of sensors caused by cross sensitivity to help identify and correct the outlier readings. By employing a Bayesian network based system, we are able to recover the erroneous readings and recalibrate the drifted sensors simultaneously. Our method improves upon the state-of-art Bayesian belief network techniques by incorporating the virtual evidence and adjusting the sensor calibration functions recursively.Specifically, we have (1) designed a system based on the Bayesian belief network to detect and recover the abnormal readings, (2) developed methods to update the sensor calibration functions infield without requirement of ground truth, and (3) extended the Bayesian network with virtual evidence for infield sensor recalibration. To validate our technique, we have tested our technique with metal oxide sensors measuring NO2, CO, and O3 in a real-world deployment. Compared with the existing Bayesian belief network techniques, results based on our experiment setup demonstrate that our system can reduce error by 34.1 % and recover 4 times more data on average.
INTERRELATIONS BETWEEN MORPHOLOGY AND SOFTENING BEHAVIOR IN SELF-ASSEMBLED POLY (BUTADIENE-BLOCK-(STYRENE-STAT-BUTADIENE)) COPOLYMERS
Authors: Da Silva C. A. , Weydert M. , Budde H. , Wendler U. , Menzel M. , Bartke M. , Beiner M. 
Published: February 2016

ABSTRACTTwo series of poly(butadiene-block-(styrene-stat-butadiene) (PB-SBR) diblock copolymers were synthesized to study interrelations between microphase-separated state and relaxation dynamics. Series I consists of six symmetric PB-SBR samples (ΦSBR ∼ 0.50) with different styrene contents in the random SBR block (21 mol% ≤ xS,SBR ≤ 52 mol%). Series II contains six asymmetric PB-SBR diblock copolymers with almost constant styrene content in the SBR block (xS,SBR = 32 ± 4 mol%) and SBR volume fractions in the range of 0.20 ≤ ΦSBR ≤ 0.69. All PB-SBR diblock copolymers have a total molecular weight of about 200 kg/mol with 1,2-vinyl content of about 8.5 and 15.8 mol% in the soft PB and in the hard SBR block, respectively. A novel synthesis route has been developed so as to maintain low 1,2-vinyl contents in both blocks and a random distribution of the styrene units in the SBR block. The softening behavior of non–cross-linked PB-SBR diblocks was investigated by differential scanning calorimetry, providing first information about miscibility. The morphology of cross-linked PB-SBR diblock copolymers, which have been vulcanized with sulfur at 150 °C using standard procedures, was studied by atomic force microscopy. Dynamic shear measurements aimed at understanding the influence of morphological changes on the segmental dynamics of both phases, αPB and αSBR, were performed on vulcanized samples. Atomic force microscopy results and shear data indicate that symmetric diblock copolymers with styrene content higher than 27 mol% in the SBR block are well microphase separated. Strongly segregated states are also observed for asymmetric diblock copolymers with volume fractions 0.28 ≤ ΦSBR ≤ 0.60 showing cylindrical and lamellar morphologies. The origin of changes in the αPB and αSBR dynamics depending on morphology and segregation strengths is considered. Implications for the use of rubbery PB-SBR block copolymers in composites for tire treads are discussed.
Poisonwood Persuasion:
Authors: Chandler Katherine R. 
Published: February 2016

Abstract
This article investigates one way in which humor plays effectively in environmental literature and ecocriticism. Does humor support environmental motivations or derail such agendas? Rhetorical theory suggests the former. By using the specific example of Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible, we can determine whether or not Kingsolver integrates humor with her environmental agenda. The Poisonwood Bible exposes what Kingsolver views as failings in American policies and practices, and humor in four of the five narrators' tellings wins over audiences that stated political agendas might otherwise repel. The four rhetorical functions of humor that rhetorician John C. Meyer proposes demonstrate how the environmentalist can use humor to simultaneously be polemical and build coalitions. Extended more broadly to aims of ecocriticism, Meyer's theory supports the environmentalist agenda of classic ecocriticism and illuminates how humor can work within that framework. However, Meyer's four rhetorical functions of humor are relevant to only one aspect of the poststructuralist “irreverent ecocriticism” that Nicole Seymour posits, which would have critics recognize absurdities in the critical enterprise. While Meyer's theory would not fully support the enterprise of “irreverent ecocriticism,” it does illuminate how Seymour's notion of “affect” can incorporate contradictory impulses yet be effective.
He, Watching over Morningquest:
Authors: Dunst Maura 
Published: February 2016

AbstractIn the 1890s, the image of the New Woman swept through Victorian England. The New Woman shone a spotlight on the issue of women's rights, providing an impetus for critical discourse, whether for or against, and creating a literary tradition all her own. At the center of this literary tradition is Sarah Grand's The Heavenly Twins (1893), and at the center of The Heavenly Twins is the as-yet-overlooked cathedral chime. Throughout Grand's novel, the chime appears so frequently it almost becomes a character unto itself. Taken from the famous Mendelssohn oratorio Elijah, the chime, whose lyrics read, “He, watching over Israel, slumbers not, nor sleeps,” maintains a steady rhythm in the novel, punctuating the narrative with its both comforting and threatening voice. By examining the cultural environment in which Grand wrote, the contemporary response to Elijah by which she may have been influenced, and the context in which the chime appears in The Heavenly Twins, I argue that the chime functions as a litmus test of the characters' acceptance of patriarchal values and as a marker of an impending prophetic moment, thus making music play a pivotal role in Grand's New Woman novel.
Incorporation into the Neo-Assyrian Empire from the Perspective of the Faunal Remains from Zincirli Höyük, Turkey
Authors: Marom Nimrod , Herrmann Virginia R. 
Published: February 2016

ABSTRACTThe incorporation of urban communities into larger territorial polities can be studied by various material remains. Here, animal bones from the north lower city of Zincirli Höyük (ancient Samal), Turkey, are used to follow the settlement's shift from a semi-autonomous polity to a Neo-Assyrian province. The results indicate that the process of incorporation is marked by an increasingly specialized animal economy, with non-faunal evidence suggesting that specialization was complemented by an increase in wealth, even among non-elites. Thus, the economy of Samal was gradually incorporated into the larger economic networks of the empire, encouraged by provincial governance that allowed the generated wealth to percolate beyond the immediate governing elites.
Small but Varied
Authors: Berthon Rémi 
Published: February 2016

ABSTRACT
In Anatolia (and the Near East in general) archaeological excavations occur more often in large urban centers than rural settlements. Consequently, our understanding of past subsistence practices is mainly based on assemblages from urban contexts. Solely urban subsistence strategies cannot be used for determining regional trends. The study of 17 faunal assemblages from urban and rural settlements located in the Upper Tigris River area illustrates the intra-regional variability of subsistence practices and its evolution from the beginning of the second to the middle of the first millennia BCE, demonstrating that consumers had preferential access to sheep and goats while producers had a diversified stock-breeding strategy that exploited relatively more cattle and pigs.
Standing Out while Fitting In: Genre, Style, and Critical Differentiation Among Panamanian Conjunto Musicians
Authors: Bellaviti Sean 
Published: February 2016

Abstract
This article examines the idea of style within the Panamanian conjunto tradition, focusing specifically on its critical intersection with notions of genre, nationalism, and regional identity. Among its most significant attributes, style is understood by performers to be central to achieving the all-important goals of maintaining genre identification and distinguishing oneself from one’s peers and professional competitors. Framed on the duality of “tradition” and “innovation,” this article considers the way conjunto styles are developed and modified during the course of professional activities with the intention of informing our own usages of the terms “genre” and “style” within ethnomusicological discourse.
Against a Perpetuating Fiction: Disentangling Art from Hyperreality
Authors: TORIKIAN GAREN J. 
Published: February 2016

Abstract
May not one succeed in systemizing confusion and so assist the total discrediting of the world of reality?
—Salvador Dali
What is wanted of such a vantage point is that it do justice to the twin aspects of art: as object and as function, as artifice and as living form of consciousness, as the overcoming or supplementing of reality and as the making explicit of forms encountering reality, as autonomous individual creation and as dependent historical phenomenon.
—Susan Sontag, "On Style," in Against Interpretation
Productive Excess: Aesthetic Ideas, Silence, and Community
Authors: Bradfield Erin 
Published: February 2016

Abstract
Due to the complexity of aesthetic ideas and the lack of a determinate concept that is adequate to the experience, we search for the words to describe our encounters with art. Sometimes, that search is in vain, and we have difficulty expressing ourselves. In such cases, we are so taken aback by the sheer amount of cognitive activity spurred by our aesthetic experience that we are silenced by art. Instead of viewing what happens in judgments of taste as "discursively mute," as does Joseph Cannon in his essay, "The Intentionality of Judgments of Taste in Kant’s Critique of Judgment," I will show how the excess of aesthetic experience has the potential to foster sociability, communication, and ultimately, community. Due to our social natures, we are driven to express our judgments of taste to others. We even demand their agreement in spite of the inexpoundability of aesthetic ideas. In this essay, I will deal with the (sometimes overlooked) social dimension of Kantian judgments of taste and how the excess of aesthetic experience spurs us to communicate with one another. Utilizing Kant, I will show that Cannon’s focus on what we can express about judgments of taste vis-à-vis general cognition causes him to neglect the intersubjective and cultural dimensions of taste present in the Critique of Judgment.
Clinical Ethics as Applied Aesthetics
Authors: Cattorini Paolo M. 
Published: February 2016

Abstract
Medical humanities and ethics are getting more and more important in Europe as essential disciplines of the core curriculum for health-care professionals. The idea of the physician as a technician shows itself to be unbearable because of the global historical changes we daily face in caring settings. We deal with chronic diseases, which require a sensitive physician/patient covenant and a good performance in communication skills1 because a whole life-style transformation is often necessary. Moreover, citizens are more informed about both the technological progress and their civil rights, so that a shared decision has to be prepared and implemented by exploring the emotional reactions to illness, by explaining the effects of different ways of treatment, and by revealing in advance the choices that could be taken.
Personality and the Varieties of Fictional Experience
Authors: Michelson David 
Published: February 2016

AbstractIn 1929, I. A. Richards observed in Practical Criticism that "every response is ’subjective’ in the sense that it is a psychological event determined by the needs and resources of a mind," and he concluded, "we have a real problem about the relative values of different states of mind, about varying forms, and degrees, of order in the personality." Indeed, more than eighty years later, we still do. One main reason we still do is that, despite considerable efforts by reader-response, psychoanalytic, and postmodern theorists to understand identity, literary scholars have so far found no good way of conceptualizing reader variation–a way that offers real explanatory insight. They accept that readers differ–how could they not?–but no one has yet examined this variation in light of what is known in the modern psychological sciences about personality, reading preferences, and the function that reading fiction fulfills for different people.
The Aesthetics of Biography—And What It Teaches
Authors: Benton Michael 
Published: February 2016

Abstract
The conventional description of biography as a form of nonfiction narrative begs questions about the stories biographies tell, the facts that constitute their raw material, and the language in which they are cast. These questions are seen as central for students of the arts and humanities and are addressed as three interrelated issues as exemplified in literary biography. First, it is argued that biographies have a cellular structure that derives from the imposition of a master narrative over the subject’s life, one that creates continuity and coherence from the heterogeneous accumulation of mininarratives found in the biographer’s sources. The factual status of these sources is shown to be complex due to the ambiguous nature of the subject’s literary works considered as data; to be unstable due to unavoidable features such as archival gaps, and the selectivity, speculation, and error that are inherent in the biographical process; and to be malleable because of the particular agenda that motivates every biography. Finally, the “literariness” of biographical language is shown to be fundamental in the rhetorical evocation of the subject. Art and artifice combine in a genre that provokes questions about the relationship between the life stories biographers construct and the narratives by which we make sense of life.
An Eighteenth-Century Call to Be Heeded: On Germaine de Staël, Aesthetic Education, and National Progress
Authors: de Bruin Karen 
Published: February 2016

Abstract
The diminution of emphasis on the arts and the humanities and the corresponding increased emphasis on business and STEM disciplines has resulted in a normative conception of national progress that excludes aesthetic education. Scholars in the arts and the humanities have responded to this marginalization either by calling for more esotericism or by underscoring the importance of aesthetic education to the future of democracy and humanity. These arguments have failed to capture the public’s attention. In this essay, I argue that there is a third way: aesthetic educators should challenge the normative understanding of national progress. To this end, I return to the dawn of the split between scientific inquiry and humanist understanding to highlight French Enlightenment debates around the understanding of progress. Specifically, I call attention to the writings of the French philosopher Germaine de Staël because in the adaptation of her notion of progress lies possible hope for the future of the humanities and the arts.