Predicting the composition of solid waste at the county scale.

The primary goals of this paper are to facilitate data-driven decision making in solid waste management (SWM) and to support the transition towards a circular economy, by providing estimates of the composition and quantity of waste. To that end, it introduces a novel two-phase strategy for predicting municipal solid waste (MSW). The first phase predicts the waste composition, the second phase predicts the total quantity, and the two predictions are combined to give a comprehensive waste estimate.

Determination of Direct and Indirect Costs Incurred by Tuberculosis Patients During Diagnosis and Treatment in Urban Areas of South Gujarat: A Mixed Method Approach.

Though many initiatives and monetary benefits are incorporated under RNTCP/NTEP, many patients might incur some out-of-pocket expenditure (OOP) related to diagnosis, treatment, and hospitalization. Such costs lead to further poverty and default. This study estimated OOP costs.

Coaxial Layered Fiber Spinning for Wind Turbine Blade Recycling.

Plastics' long degradation time and their role in adding millions of metric tons of plastic waste to our oceans annually present an acute environmental challenge. Handling end-of-life waste from wind turbine blades (WTBs) is equally pressing. Currently, WTB waste often finds its way into landfills, emphasizing the need for recycling and sustainable solutions.

Harnessing the Near-Peer Effect in Anatomy Education.

Benefits of near-peer teaching are well-documented, but its time requirements can be prohibitive. We integrated the near-peer effect into a clinical anatomy course with weekly student-developed handouts vetted by faculty to provide an element of near-peer teaching without the burden of extra time.

Active case finding of pulmonary tuberculosis and HIV infection among prisoners of South Gujarat: A cross sectional study.

Background: In a close knit congregation such as prison, Tuberculosis (TB) and HIV can be major health problems. However, their prevalence in Indian prisons is under reported. This study aimed at adopting a camp based, active case finding approach to identify cases of TB, HIV and at risk prisoners in a central prison of South Gujarat.

Decision-Making Skills: An Assessment among Adolescents in Surat City.

Introduction: This study assessed the process of decision-making among adolescents and the factors affecting it and also explored the styles of decision-making among adolescents.

Methodology: A cross-sectional study using purposive sampling was carried out involving 1177 college-going students aged between 17 and 19 years. General Decision-Making Style (GDMS) and semi-structured questionnaire was used to collect data.

Essential Oil Profile and Yield of Corolla, Calyx, Leaf, and Whole Flowering Top of Cultivated Mill. (Lamiaceae) from Utah.

Mill. (lavender) is an essential-oil-bearing plant in the Lamiaceae family. Volatile oil produced through the steam distillation of lavender was examined to establish the essential oil yield and aromatic profile from each portion of the plant-namely, the corolla, calyx, leaf, and whole flowering top.

Scalable molecular dynamics on CPU and GPU architectures with NAMD.

NAMDis a molecular dynamics program designed for high-performance simulations of very large biological objects on CPU- and GPU-based architectures. NAMD offers scalable performance on petascale parallel supercomputers consisting of hundreds of thousands of cores, as well as on inexpensive commodity clusters commonly found in academic environments. It is written in C++ and leans on Charm++ parallel objects for optimal performance on low-latency architectures.

A Literature Review of Social and Economic Leader-Member Exchange.

Leader-member exchange (LMX) research has increasingly relied upon the social exchange theory (SET) as a theoretical foundation, but the dominating way of measuring LMX has not followed this theoretical development (Gottfredson et al., 2020). With the aim of developing a measure that more coherently reflects SET, Kuvaas et al.

Stability of Individuals' Definitions of Success and the Influence of Perceived Motivational Climate: A Longitudinal Perspective.

In the present study, we investigated the stability and malleability of cadets' definitions of success (mastery and performance goal orientations) contextualized within a certain motivational climate (mastery and performance climates). Based on data from three military academies, the results revealed that cadets' goal orientations and their perceptions of the motivational climate remained relatively stable throughout the 2 years of study across three time-points. We also found that a mastery climate predicted individual mastery orientation, and that a performance climate predicted individual performance orientation.

Construction of Red Fox Chromosomal Fragments from the Short-Read Genome Assembly.

The genome of a red fox () was recently sequenced and assembled using next-generation sequencing (NGS). The assembly is of high quality, with 94X coverage and a scaffold N50 of 11.8 Mbp, but is split into 676,878 scaffolds, some of which are likely to contain assembly errors.

Follower Jealousy at Work: A Test of Vecchio's Model of Antecedents and Consequences of Jealousy.

The present study tests the validity of Robert P. Vecchio's seminal work on antecedents and consequences of jealousy. Specifically, we examine whether antecedents such as in-group status, supervisory considerateness, and supervisory differentiation of subordinates are associated with jealousy.

The interactive roles of mastery climate and performance climate in predicting intrinsic motivation.

This study examined the interplay between perceived mastery and performance climates in predicting increased intrinsic motivation. The results of a two-wave longitudinal study comprising of 141 individuals from three military academies revealed a positive relationship between a perceived mastery climate and increased intrinsic motivation only for individuals who perceived a low performance climate. This finding suggests a positive relationship between a perceived mastery climate and increased intrinsic motivation only when combined with low perceptions of a performance climate.

Exploring the interplay between the motivational climate and goal orientation in predicting maximal oxygen uptake.

Drawing upon achievement goal theory, this study explored the interplay between the perceived motivational climate, achievement goals and objective measurements of maximal oxygen uptake (VO2max). The results of a study of 123 individuals from three Norwegian military academies revealed that under the condition of a high-performance orientation there is a stronger positive relationship between performance climate and VO2max for individuals reporting a low (rather than high)-mastery orientation. Furthermore, we found that for individuals with a high-mastery orientation there is a stronger positive relationship between mastery climate and VO2max for individuals reporting a low (rather than high)-performance orientation.

Bone healing with or without platelet-rich plasma around four different dental implant surfaces in beagle dogs.

Purpose: Surface development is one of the major aims in dental implant engineering. Additive application of substances could possibly improve the new bone formation around dental implants. The present study evaluated the bone reaction on four different implant surfaces with or without platelet-rich plasma (PRP).

[Dental injuries due to miniplate osteosynthesis. Classification, treatment management, complications, and prognosis].

Background: In spite of a monocortical design, miniplate osteosynthesis can injure dental roots directly as well as damage dental substance indirectly by interrupting the apical blood stream.

Purpose: The present retrospective study classifies different types of dental root trauma caused by monocortical screws, suggests therapeutic options based on diagnosis, and documents survival probability and prognosis after tooth trauma.

Patients And Methods: During a period of 11 years, 380 patients with permanent dentition underwent miniplate osteosynthesis for the treatment of mandibular fractures, 29 of whom sustained dental root trauma caused by drilling failure.

[Metallic condylar head prostheses to replace the temporomandibular joint].

Background: Up to now the results after condylar reconstruction of the mandible have been regarded as less than satisfactory.

Purpose: Functional and aesthetic long-term results after condylar head resection in traumatic and tumour cases with or without replacement by a metallic condylar head prosthesis were compared in a retrospective study.

Patients And Methods: From 1980 to 2001, 23 temporomandibular joints of 19 patients were reconstructed with metallic condylar head prostheses.

Effect of platelet concentration in platelet-rich plasma on peri-implant bone regeneration.

This study analyzed the effect of the platelet count in platelet-rich plasma (PRP) on bone regeneration in vivo. Twenty male New Zealand white rabbits were used. PRP was produced using the Platelet Concentrate Collection System (PCCS) (3i, Miami, FL, USA).

[Adenomatoid odontogenic tumor in calcifying odontogenic cyst].

Background: Adenomatoid odontogenic tumors (AOT) and calcifying odontogenic cysts (COC, Gorlin's cyst) are rare benign specificities of odontogenic tumors. Most odontogenic tumors are lesions of embryonic odontogenic tissue. Radiographically, odontogenic tumors may mimic an odontogenic follicular cyst.

Verification of caries inhibition by a tartar control toothpaste.

Objective: The anticaries properties of a silica-based, sodium fluoride (NaF) toothpaste containing tetrapotassium pyrophosphate (PPi) with anti-tartar properties (Aquafresh All Tartar Control) were assessed in specific pathogen-free Osborne-Mendel rats.

Methodology: The dentifrice was compared to a silica-based, fluoride-free control toothpaste that contained PPi but no NaF, termed a "Placebo" (negative control), and a NaF-containing silica-based USP reference standard toothpaste which was used as a positive fluoride control toothpaste. Sixty weanling rats were randomly distributed into groups of 20; all were inoculated with S.

[Partsch's chronic granulomatous inflammation, the cutaneous manifestation of a dental cause].

Dentogenous inflammatory diseases can lead to typical dermatological facial symptoms with formation of cutaneous sinuses. Partsch's chronic granulomatous inflammation can result from conducted inflammation of a nonvital tooth via a chronic apical inflammation. In this rare disease, the granulomatous tissue perforates the bone, channels through the overlying skin, and drains via cutaneous or oral sinuses.

[Acute tongue necrosis provoked by epirubicin-cyclophosphamide treatment for invasive ductal breast cancer].

Case: Unilateral necrosis of the tongue is an uncommon symptom of different rare diseases. Previously, it had only been described as an infrequent complication of temporal arteritis or as a side effect of therapy with ergotamine. We present a case of unilateral necrosis of the tongue in a 62-year-old woman with invasive ductal carcinoma of the breast treated with epirubicin and cyclophosphamide.

The Harvest Smart PRePTM system versus the Friadent-Schütze platelet-rich plasma kit.

An important reason to improve methods for isolating platelet-rich plasma (PRP) is the potential use of autogenous platelet growth factors. In addition to the Curasan PRP kit (Curasan, Kleinostheim, Germany) and the platelet concentrated collection system (PCCSTM) system, two new methods for the preparation of PRP by the surgeon are now available. This study compared the suitability of these new methods for the preparation of PRP.

[Criteria of success in implantology].

Background: So far there is no generally accepted definition of success in the case of dental implants, although criteria differing from country to country have been proposed, which evaluate the success of implants with reference to clinical and X-ray control parameters. The aim of the study was to examine the five most frequently used sets of criteria suggested for determination of the success or otherwise of implants ( Albrektsson, Jahn, Buser, NIH conference, Naert) and ascertain their relative values.

Methods: In a clinical review, 508 implants (Astra, Frialit-2, IMZ TwinPlus and ITI) were examined and a subjective evaluation of them was made by the patients.

[Acral ischemia as a rare paraneoplastic syndrome in the terminal phase of mouth floor carcinoma].

Background: The term "paraneoplastic syndrome" describes a clinically apparent disease associated with a malignant neoplasm, which is not a direct consequence of invasive tumor growth. Acral ischemia and digital necrosis of multiple fingertips have been occasionally described as a paraneoplastic syndrome. However, the exact mechanisms of this phenomenon are still not adequately known.