bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Three‐Year Clinical Follow‐Up of Posterior Teeth Restored with Leucite‐Reinforced IPS Empress Onlays and Partial Veneer Crowns
Authors: Murgueitio Rafael , Bernal Guillermo 
Published: February 2012

AbstractPurpose: The aim of this study was to analyze the survival rate and failure mode of IPS leucite‐reinforced ceramic onlays and partial veneer crowns regarding thickness under the following clinical conditions: vital versus nonvital teeth, tooth location, and type of opposing dentition.Materials and Methods: Teeth were prepared according to established guidelines for ceramic onlays and partial veneer crowns. Before cementation, the restorations were measured for occlusal thickness at the central fossa, mesial, and distal marginal ridges, and functional and nonfunctional cusps. A total of 210 ceramic restorations were cemented in 99 patients within a mean observation period of 2.9 ± 1.89 years. The mode of failure was classified and evaluated as (1) adhesive, (2) cohesive, (3) combined failure, (4) decementation, (5) tooth sensitivity, and (6) pulpal necrosis. Kaplan, log‐rank, and Cox regression tests were used for statistical analysis.Results: The failure rate was 3.33% (7/210). Increased material thickness produced less probability of failures. Vital teeth were less likely to fail than nonvital teeth. Second molars were five times more susceptible to failure than first molars. Tooth sensitivity postcementation and the type of opposing dentition were not statistically significant in this study.Conclusions: In this study, thickness of the restorations, tooth vitality, and location of teeth in the dental arch influenced restoration failures.
Optimal Restoration of Dental Esthetics and Function with Advanced Implant‐Supported Prostheses: A Clinical Report
Authors: Meulen Peter van der , Linden Wynand van der , Eeden Ronnie van 
Published: February 2012

AbstractFor more than 25 years, computer‐aided design and computer‐aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM) technology has been used in implant restorative dentistry. Today this technology offers a means of milling titanium frameworks that fit dental implants accurately. This report presents a restoratively driven protocol employing advanced implant restorative and surgical techniques. Treatment of a patient with advanced periodontitis with extensive loss of hard and soft tissues is presented. After extraction of the patient's remaining hopeless teeth, dental implants were placed, along with interim, fixed‐margin abutments and abutment protection caps. Two days later, acrylic resin fixed‐interim prostheses restored the patient's esthetics and partial masticatory function. After implant osseointegration, maxillary, and mandibular frameworks for definitive prostheses were milled from Ti alloy, using one specific CAD/CAM technology. The benefits of this technology are also discussed.
Relationship between Stent Malapposition and Incomplete Neointimal Coverage after Drug‐Eluting Stent Implantation
Authors: KIM BYEONG‐KEUK , HONG MYEONG‐KI , SHIN DONG‐HO , KIM JUNG‐SUN , KO YOUNG‐GUK , CHOI DONGHOON , JANG YANGSOO 
Published: February 2012

Background: Using optical coherence tomography (OCT), we evaluated the relationship between malapposed and uncovered struts following implantation of drug‐eluting stents (DESs).
Methods: A total of 271 patients with 306 lesions who underwent DES implantation and follow‐up OCT were included in the study. The lesions were grouped based on the presence of malapposition and then by the median value of the percentage of malapposed struts (1.3%) to produce 3 groups: lesions without malapposition (group I, n = 232) and those with percentage of malapposed struts <1.3% (group II, n = 37) or ≥1.3% (group III, n = 37). Percentages of malapposed and uncovered struts were calculated as percent ratio of malapposed or uncovered to total struts in the defined cross‐sections, respectively. We compared percentage of uncovered struts in all analyzable struts and in the residual struts without malapposed segments among the 3 groups.
Results: Group III showed a significantly larger percentage of uncovered struts among all the struts (group I, 3.7 ± 6.4 vs. II, 5.5 ± 5.6 vs. III, 17.6 ± 15.9%, P < 0.001) and among residual struts without malapposed segments (3.7 ± 6.4 vs. 5.2 ± 5.7 vs. 15.0 ± 14.4%, respectively, P < 0.001). There was a significant correlation between malapposed and uncovered struts in group III (r = 0.393, P = 0.016), but not in group II (r =−0.007, P = 0.965) among residual struts without malapposed segments.
Conclusion: The percentage of uncovered DES struts was quite different depending on the presence and extent of malapposed struts. (J Interven Cardiol 2012;25:270–277)
Clinical Predictors for Failure of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in ST‐elevation Myocardial Infarction
Authors: BARBASH ISRAEL M. , BEN‐DOR ITSIK , TORGUSON REBECCA , MALUENDA GABRIEL , XUE ZHENYI , GAGLIA MICHAEL A. , SARDI GABRIEL , SATLER LOWELL F. , PICHARD AUGUSTO D. , WAKSMAN RON 
Published: February 2012

Background: Failed percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for ST‐elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) is associated with adverse outcome. With recent improvements in PCI techniques, the incidence and predictors for failed primary PCI are unclear.
Methods: A clinical database of consecutive patients who underwent primary or rescue PCI from 1993 to 2011 was used to compare patients with successful versus failed PCI. Clinical follow‐up was obtained in‐hospital, at 30 days and at 1 year.
Results: Of 2900 patients fulfilling our inclusion criteria, 111 (3.98%) had failed PCI. Patients who had failed PCI were older (65 vs. 61 years), were more likely to be women (46% vs. 32%), were more likely to have previous peripheral vascular disease (19% vs. 11%), previous PCI (29% vs. 20%), and were more likely to present with cardiogenic shock (25% vs. 11%) (all P < 0.05). Multivariable logistic regression analysis identified female gender (OR 1.54; 95% CI 1.01–2.38), cardiogenic shock (2.07; 1.22–3.49), previous PCI (1.71; 1.08–2.70), and type C lesion (2.47; 1.60–3.82) as independent predictors of PCI failure. The in‐hospital (18% vs. 4%) and long‐term mortality (48% vs. 14%) were worse in the failed PCI group compared to the successful group (P < 0.05).
Conclusion: In patients with STEMI, primary PCI failure is uncommon. It is associated with worse short‐ and long‐term clinical outcome compared with a successful procedure. Special care should be taken when PCI is performed in women at higher risk for failure when presenting with STEMI. (J Interven Cardiol 2012;25:111–117)
Theorizing Wisconsin's 2011 protests: Community‐based unionism confronts accumulation by dispossession
Authors: COLLINS JANE 
Published: February 2012

ABSTRACTRecent waves of social‐movement protest in Wisconsin challenge conventional understandings of labor activism, as they have responded not only to rollbacks of labor rights but also to privatization of state programs and resources and budget cuts that target poor and working families. Drawing from participant‐observation, I explore the question of whether the movements that arose in Wisconsin in early 2011 represented an expansion of union‐based activism struggling within the “expanded reproduction” of capital or a broader struggle against what New Enclosures Movement scholars have conceptualized as capital's ongoing primitive accumulation strategies. I examine the implications of the answer to this question for community‐based labor movements in Wisconsin and beyond. [community‐based unionism, labor, accumulation by dispossession, social movements, social protest]
Beyond secular and religious: An intellectual genealogy of Tahrir Square
Authors: HIRSCHKIND CHARLES 
Published: February 2012

ABSTRACTCompeting visions of Egypt's future have long been divided along secular versus religious lines, a split that both the Sadat and Mubarak regimes exploited to weaken political opposition. In this context, one striking feature of the Egyptian uprising that took place last spring is the extent to which it defied characterization in terms of the religious–secular binary. In this commentary, I explore how this movement drew sustenance from a unique political sensibility, one disencumbered of the secular versus religious oppositional logic and its concomitant forms of political rationality. This sensibility has a distinct intellectual genealogy within Egyptian political experience. I focus here on the careers of three Egyptian public intellectuals whose pioneering engagement with the question of the place of Islam within Egyptian political life provided an important part of the scaffolding, in my view, for the practices of solidarity and association that brought down the Mubarak regime. [Egypt, politics, intellectuals, secular, Islam]
Sectarian conflict and family law in contemporary Egypt
Authors: MAHMOOD SABA 
Published: February 2012

ABSTRACTEgypt continues to experience interreligious sectarian conflict between Muslims and Copts since the overthrow of the Mubarak regime. The same factors that had contributed to escalating violence between the two communities continue to be at play in postrevolutionary Egypt. One of the key sites of sectarian conflict is interreligious marriage and conversion, an issue that ignites the passion and ire of both communities. While issues of sexuality and gender are at the center of these conflicts, religion‐based family law plays a particularly pernicious role. In this essay, I rethink the nexus between family law, gender, and sectarian conflict through an examination of both the history of the emergence of Egyptian family law and the simultaneous relegation of religion and sexuality to the private sphere in the modern period. [sectarianism, Copts, Islam, state, family law, sexuality]
The privilege of revolution: Gender, class, space, and affect in Egypt
Authors: WINEGAR JESSICA 
Published: February 2012

ABSTRACTIn this commentary, I challenge assumptions about political transformation by contrasting women's experiences at home during the Egyptian revolution with the image of the iconic male revolutionary in Tahrir Square. I call attention to the way that revolution is experienced and undertaken in domestic spaces, through different forms of affect, in ways deeply inflected by gender and class. [Egypt, revolution, gender, class, space, affect, generation]
Transgenic‐free territories in Costa Rica: Networks, place, and the politics of life
Authors: PEARSON THOMAS W. 
Published: February 2012

ABSTRACTSeveral municipalities across Costa Rica have adopted “transgenic‐free territory” ordinances, joining similar communities worldwide in declaring themselves free from genetically engineered organisms such as transgenic seeds. Through ethnography of antitransgenic activism, I describe the rise of transgenic‐free territories to examine the relationship between transnational activist networks and place‐based struggles. I suggest that activist networks and the transgenic‐free territory designation respond to processes of globalization that have reorganized the material and discursive relations between capital and nature, and I show why such territories have gained significance as a defense of sovereignty, place, and even life itself. [transnational activist networks, nature, life, place, environmentalism, Costa Rica]
The politics of wire service photography: Infrastructures of representation in a digital newsroom
Authors: GÜRSEL ZEYNEP DEVRIM 
Published: February 2012

ABSTRACTThis article examines the politics of image brokering in the daily rituals of a major wire service's photography division. Specifically, it investigates crises of visualization: moments when routine visualization itself is challenged due to changes in infrastructures of representation. The transition to digital transmission has changed work of image brokers—people involved in the creation, validation, packaging, and circulation of images. New image brokers and changed infrastructures of representation challenge established hierarchies and who provides and polices news images. At a moment when the war on terror is also a war of images, battles over the infrastructures of representation are battles over visual worldmaking. [digital, infrastructure of representation, photography, Agence France Presse, journalism, crisis of representation, wire service, visualization, Iraq]
The judge as tragic hero: Judicial ethics in Lebanon's shari'a courts
Authors: CLARKE MORGAN 
Published: February 2012

ABSTRACTIn this article, I present ethnography of judicial practice in Lebanon's shari'a courts and find a tension between the identity of the judges presiding as Islamic religious specialists and their identity as legal professionals. Just applying the rules of the law is incompatible with true religious vocation, which demands personal engagement with the morally needy. But to ignore legal strictures is to be dismissed as a mere sermonizer. I find this case illustrative of a deeper tension between the use of rules and the disciplining of virtuous selves and argue for a new anthropology of rules to set alongside the new anthropology of ethics. [bureaucracy, ethics, Islam, law, Lebanon, rules, shari'a court]
Woven worlds: Material things, bureaucratization, and dilemmas of caregiving in Lutheran humanitarianism
Authors: HALVORSON BRITT 
Published: February 2012

ABSTRACTIn this article, I examine the transition from charitable assistance to a professional model of humanitarianism in one American Lutheran agency that emerged from colonial missions to Madagascar. The agency, “International Health Mission” (IHM), primarily supplies medical technologies to Lutheran clinics in Madagascar, Tanzania, and Cameroon. I argue that popular material devices of relief provision, such as handmade bandages, tie the Christian humanitarian project to older notions of Lutheran faith as caregiving and pose special challenges to the bureaucratic model of aid delivery espoused by IHM. Casting renewed scholarly attention on materiality sheds light on the unique dilemmas facing faith‐based aid agencies that strategically merge political discourses of humanitarianism with religious motivations for their work. [humanitarianism, caregiving, materiality, Christianity]
Angels in Swindon: Public religion and ambient faith in England
Authors: ENGELKE MATTHEW 
Published: February 2012

ABSTRACTIn this article, I introduce the idea of “ambient faith” in an effort to clarify the stakes in long‐standing debates about public and private religion. I take as my starting point the increasingly common recognition that conceptual distinctions between publicity and privacy are difficult to maintain in the first place and that they are, in any case, always relative. The idea of “ambient faith,” which I connect to work on the turn to a materialist semiotics, can serve as both a critique of and supplement to the ideas of “public” and “private” religion. Introducing ambience—the sense of ambience—allows one to raise important questions about the processes through which faith comes to the foreground or stays in the background—the extent to which faith, in other words, goes public or stays private. I use my research on a Christian organization in England, the Bible Society of England and Wales, to illuminate these points, discussing the society's campaign in 2006 to bring angels to Swindon and its promotion of Bible reading in coffee shops. I also consider Brian Eno's music and recent advertising trends for additional insights into the notion of “ambience.”[Christianity, secularism, semiotics, public religion, England]
Morphoscopic Trait Expressions Used to Identify Southwest Hispanics*
Authors: Hurst Carolyn V. 
Published: February 2012

Abstract:  Hispanics represent the largest and fastest growing minority in the United States. It is increasingly important to understand the skeletal morphology and regional variation within this diverse group. This research focuses on the eight cranial morphoscopic traits of Southwest Hispanics from Birkby et al. (J Forensic Sci 2008;53(1):29–33) and 18 additional traits. Frequency distributions assessed the prevalence of trait expressions in Southwest Hispanic, African‐American, and European‐American samples. Forward stepwise discriminant function analysis indicated the best traits for differentiating these three groups. Six of the Birkby et al.’s traits are prevalent in the Southwest Hispanic sample and the best traits to distinguish the three groups are as follows: incisor shoveling, anterior malar projection, nasal sill, oval window visualization, enamel extensions, anterior nasal spine, nasal aperture width, and alveolar prognathism. This research demonstrates the efficacy of morphoscopic traits in ancestry determinations and the utility of the aforementioned traits in discriminating Southwest Hispanics, African Americans, and European Americans.
Combined surgical therapy of peri‐implantitis evaluating two methods of surface debridement and decontamination. A two‐year clinical follow up report
Authors: Schwarz Frank , John Gordon , Mainusch Saskia , Sahm Narja , Becker Jürgen 
Published: February 2012

AbstractObjectivesThe study aimed at evaluating the 2‐year results obtained following combined surgical resective and regenerative treatment of advanced peri‐implantitis defects comparing two methods of surface debridement/decontamination (DD).Material & MethodsTwenty‐four patients (n = 26 combined supra‐ and intrabony defects) completed the 24 months follow‐up observation following access flap surgery, granulation tissue removal and implantoplasty at bucally and supracrestally exposed implant parts. The remaining aspects were randomly allocated to surface DD using either (i) an Er:YAG laser (ERL) device, or (ii) plastic curets + cotton pellets + sterile saline (CPS) were augmented with a natural bone mineral and covered with a collagen membrane.ResultsAt 24 months, ERL treated sites failed to reveal significantly higher reductions in mean BOP (ERL: 75.0 ± 32.6% versus CPS: 54.9 ± 30.3%) and CAL values (ERL: 1.0 ± 2.2 mm versus CPS: 1.2 ± 2.2 mm) when compared with the CPS group. In both groups, mean CAL values were not significantly different when compared with baseline.ConclusionThe long‐term stability of clinical outcomes obtained following combined surgical therapy of advanced peri‐implantitis may be influenced by factors other than the method of surface debridement/decontamination.
Influence of autogenous platelet concentrate on combined GTR/graft therapy in intrabony defects: a 7‐year follow‐up of a randomized prospective clinical split‐mouth study
Authors: Moder Daniel , Taubenhansl Frederike , Hiller Karl‐Anton , Schmalz Gottfried , Christgau Michael 
Published: February 2012

AbstractObjectivesTo investigate the influence of autogenous platelet concentrate (APC) on the long‐term regeneration outcome 7 years after guided tissue regeneration (GTR) in deep intrabony periodontal defects.Material and MethodsIn 25 patients, two deep contra‐lateral intrabony defects were treated according to GTR (randomized split‐mouth‐design). In the test defects, APC was additionally applied. After 7 years, healing results were assessed clinically by a blinded examiner and compared to baseline and 12‐months results. Furthermore, a tooth survival analysis was performed.ResultsAfter 7 years, 23 patients were available for survival analysis and 16 patients for split‐mouth analysis; 84% of the test and control teeth were still in situ. In both groups, the median attachment level of 10.5 mm [(25/75%): test 9.0/13.0, control 10.0/12.0] at baseline was significantly (p ≤ 0.05) reduced to 6.0 mm [test 4.0/6.8, control 5.0/7.0] after 1 year. Six years later, it had increased again to 7.0 mm in test sites [5.3/10.0] (p ≤ 0.05) and had remained stable in control sites [5.0/7.8] (p > 0.05). Bleeding on Probing (BOP) had increased in both groups. During the last 6 years, only 26% of the patients received a structured supportive periodontal therapy in the clinic.ConclusionWithin its limitations, the present study indicates that the clinical outcome of GTR therapy can be maintained over 7 years. However, the additional use of APC may even have a possibly negative influence on the long‐term stability.
MicroRNAs as components of regulatory networks controlling erythropoiesis
Authors: Azzouzi Imane , Schmugge Markus , Speer Oliver 
Published: February 2012

AbstractOver the last two decades, the role of microRNAs has been extensively investigated, and it has become clear that these small non‐coding RNAs play an essential role in several biological processes including erythropoiesis and that their dysregulation is associated with pathologies. Recent technical innovations have considerably advanced this field and allowed extensive study of microRNA expression and regulation in a variety of cell types. In erythropoiesis, microRNA regulation is involved at defined stages and promotes either stem cell proliferation or erythroid cell differentiation. In this review, while recapitulating the maturation steps of erythroid cells, we discuss the progresses in our understanding of microRNA regulation in the erythroid lineage and their contribution to erythroid disorders.
Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation following reduced‐intensity conditioning regimen in children: a single‐center experience
Authors: Strullu Marion , Rialland Fanny , Cahu Xavier , Brissot Eolia , Corradini Nadege , Thomas Caroline , Blin Nicolas , Rialland Xavier , Méchinaud Françoise , Mohty Mohamad 
Published: February 2012

AbstractThis single‐center retrospective study reported the outcome of 19 children treated with a reduced‐intensity conditioning (RIC) regimen prior to allogeneic stem cell transplantation (allo‐SCT), for hematologic malignancies (n = 17), bone marrow failure (n = 1), and neuroblastoma (n = 1). Children were ineligible for standard myeloablative conditioning because of severe comorbidities (n = 9), a previous auto or allo‐SCT (n = 7) or a prior history of extensive chemotherapy (n = 3). All patients underwent a fludarabine‐based RIC regimen, and received grafts from matched‐related donors (n = 5), match‐unrelated donors (n = 6), or unrelated cord blood (UCB, n = 8). In this series, two patients treated with UCB failed to engraft and 63% achieved full donor chimerism at day 100 after allo‐SCT. With a median follow‐up of 537 d (range, 115–4136), treatment‐related mortality was 16% and overall survival was 47%. The principal cause of death was disease relapse (n = 7). Acute graft versus host disease (GVHD) occurred in 53% of patients, while only 10% developed extensive chronic GVHD. Overall, results from this series suggest that RIC allo‐SCT can be a valid alternative treatment option in unfit children with malignant hematological diseases. Prospective studies are needed to enlarge pediatric experience in this domain and better identify those children more suitable for a RIC allo‐SCT approach.
Effects of naloxone on the breathing pattern of a newborn exposed to maternal opiates
Authors: van Vonderen Jeroen J , Siew Melissa L , Hooper Stuart B , de Boer Marjon A , Walther Frans J , te Pas Arjan B 
Published: February 2012

AbstractAim:  To give new insights into how an infant responded to naloxone, given after acquiring a maternal opiate by recording the breathing pattern directly after birth.Method:  A respiratory recording is presented of an infant during resuscitation in the delivery room after receiving naloxone for respiratory depression, resulting from maternal remifentanyl use.Results:  The infant was born apneic and bradycardic. Normal resuscitation manoeuvres had no effect on the respiratory drive. Directly after administration of naloxone, a tachypneic breathing pattern with sporadic expiratory breaking manoeuvres was observed.Conclusion:  The immediate tachypnoea is most likely a direct effect of the naloxone causing an immediate ‘rebound response’ after the release of the opiate‐induced inhibition of the respiratory drive.