84 research outputs found
Oral hygiene practices in nurseries (0-3 years) in the cities of Pavia and Vigevano
No full textAimThis study was conducted to evaluate attention to and knowledge of oral care in children aged 0–3 years, on the basis of data collected from early years educators working with this age group. Information was also collected about the oral hygiene practices adopted in nurseries and the types of food provided, with the aim of increasing knowledge and raising awareness of this topic.Materials and methodsA questionnaire was created using the “Google Forms” program and sent to all the 47 nurseries in the city of Pavia and Vigevano.ResultsTwenty establishments agreed to take part in the research. Assessment of knowledge and of awareness of oral care among early years educators caring for children in the age range 0–3 years revealed variability and some confusion. The results showed a general lack of attention to oral care in the period before the milk teeth appear, as well as limited use of gauze swabs. There was generally some use of educational play focusing on this issue, albeit not daily across all the nurseries participating in the survey. Nurseries rarely had the support of a professional dental hygienist to raise awareness among early years educators and parents.ConclusionsThe findings obtained through this study indicate that, in the area surveyed, there is a lack of widespread knowledge and awareness of oral prevention in young children, and of the oral hygiene maintenance techniques to use in this age group. This suggests a need to develop preventive protocols to improve knowledge and awareness of children's oral health among the adults who care for them
New protocol of hygiene and motivation in the patient affected by OSAS in therapy with MAD
No full textOBJECTIVES This study aims to evaluate a new oral hygiene protocol and the mandibular advancement device (MAD) in patients with Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS). MATERIALS AND METHODS The study envisaged the recruit-ment of a sample of 40 subjects affected by OSAS and in therapy with MAD. During the first visit with the dental hygienist, the pa-tients informed of the purpose of the study filled in a paper questionnaire relating to oral hygiene habits and MAD. On this occasion, the professional motivated the pa-tients by identifying the V.A.K. (Vi-sual, Auditory, Kineasthetic) learn-ing model of the patients them-selves and issuing them two pro-tocols on the correct home oral hygiene techniques and mainte-nance of the MAD device. The questionnaire was recompiled at three months. RESULTS The answers to the questionnaire made it possible to compare the data regarding oral hygiene and the MAD device at T0 (first visit to the dental hygienist) and at T1 (after 3 months). After months, none of the patients claimed to have ever cleaned the device since the visit; patients who cleaned it twice a day went from 33% to 51%; the percentage of subjects washing the device with a toothbrush and surfactant in-creased to 65%; the majority (n = 33 at visit, n = 37 at follow-up) of patients stated that they kept the device in the appropriate container and the number of subjects who kept the container open increased from 9 to 29. Pa-tients who dried the device after use increased from 13 to 30; the number of patients who rated their home oral hygiene as excel-lent (score of 9 or higher) de-creased from 6 to 1, while the scores just adequate (scores of 5 and 6) doubled from 6 to 12; re-garding the cleaning of the MAD, the scores just sufficient (5 and 6) decreased from 16 to 6; the good scores (7 and 8) increased from 11 to 18, in particular the scores 8 almost tripled (from 4 to 11), the excellent scores in-creased from 9 to 12. CONCLUSIONS The experimental study conduct-ed on forty patients with OSAS confirmed how effective the mo-tivational approach used was. The protocol of home hygiene and the intraoral device has proved to be an excellent tool for implementing oral hygiene, if the patient has been sufficiently stimulated to comply with it. CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE Demonstrate the importance of the role of the dental hygienist in the correct maintenance of the intraoral device called MAD. © 2023 EDRA SpA. Tutti i diritti riservati
PREDA: An R-package to identify regional variations in genomic data
No full textChromosomal patterns of genomic signals represent molecular ngerprints that may reveal how the local structural organization of a genome impacts the functional control mechanisms. Thus, the integrative analysis of multiple sources of genomic data and information deepens the resolution and enhances the interpretation of stand-alone high-throughput data. In this note, we present PREDA (Position RElated Data Analysis), an R package for detecting regional variations in genomics data. PREDA identies relevant chromosomal patterns in high-throughput data using a smoothing approach that accounts for distance and density variability of genomics features. Custom-designed data structures allow efciently managing diverse signals in different genomes. A variety of smoothing functions and statistics empower exible and robust workows. The modularity of package design allows an easy deployment of custom analytical pipelines. Tabular and graphical representations facilitate downstream biological interpretation of results. © The Author 2011. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved
The Hegemonic Gaze and East-Central Europe - Challenging the Totalitarian Paradigm
No full textThe chapter introduces the notion of the "hegemonic gaze" in relation to the representation of East-Central Europe, demonstrating how the artist becomes interpellated as a regional subject, becoming simultaneously included and othered. It begins by examining the complexities involved in defining the region and the power dynamics involved in naming and being named. The author argues that different terms produce specific subject positions, reinforcing certain narratives about the region and foregrounding the end of communism and the failure of the socialist project.
Through the lens of Stuart Hall's theory of encoding and decoding, the chapter explores how exhibitions and artworks depicting socialist monuments and architecture often become simplified and reinterpreted within the global art discourse. The author shows how the ‘‘hegemonic gaze’’ reinforces existing narratives and imposes meanings. Despite artists' efforts to engage with the complexities of the past, their work is often interpellated within predetermined frameworks that limit its interpretation
Adversarial Authorship Attribution in Open-Source Projects
No full textOpen-source software is open to anyone by design, whether it is a community of developers, hackers or malicious users. Authors of open-source software typically hide their identity through nicknames and avatars. However, they have no protection against authorship attribution techniques that are able to create software author profiles just by analyzing software characteristics. In this paper we present an author imitation attack that allows to deceive current authorship attribution systems and mimic a coding style of a target developer. Withing this context we explore the potential of the existing attribution techniques to be deceived. Our results show that we are able to imitate the coding style of the developers based on the data collected from the popular source code repository, GitHub. To subvert author imitation attack, we propose a novel author obfuscation approach that allows us to hide the coding style of the author. Unlike existing obfuscation tools, this new obfuscation technique uses transformations that preserve code readability. We assess the effectiveness of our attacks on several datasets produced by actual developers from GitHub, and participants of the GoogleCodeJam competition. Throughout our experiments we show that the author hiding can be achieved by making sensible transformations which significantly reduce the likelihood of identifying the author’s style to 0% by current authorship attribution systems
Clinical Use of Paraprobiotics for Pregnant Women with Periodontitis: Randomized Clinical Trial
No full textPeriodontal disease is very common in pregnant women. Paraprobiotics are a subset of probiotics. They can be defined as inactivated microbial cells providing health benefits to the host and are considered particularly safe. The aim of this study was to compare the periodontal health of pregnant women and puerperae after 6 months of home use of paraprobiotics. A total of 30 pregnant women were enrolled and divided into two groups: the test group, who had to use a paraprobiotic-based toothpaste (Biorepair Peribioma Pro, Coswell S.p.A., Funo di Argelato, BO, Italy) and mousse (Mousse Mouthwash Biorepair Peribioma, Coswell S.p.A.) twice a day, and the control group, who had to use only the paraprobiotic-based toothpaste. The time frames of the study were: 1 month (T1), 3 months (T2) and 6 months (T3), and data were collected during pregnancy and in the period immediately following delivery. The following indices were evaluated at T0, T1, T2 and T3: clinical attachment loss (CAL), probing pocket depth (PPD), bleeding on probing (BOP), plaque control record (PCR), modified marginal gingival index (mMGI), papillary marginal gingival index (PMGI) and recessions (R). All data were subjected to statistical analysis. PCR decreased significantly from T0 to T1 in the control group and from T0 to T2 and from T0 to T3 in the test group. BOP tended to decrease in both groups, but a significant reduction was observed only in the test group. CAL, PPD, PMGI and mMGI tended to decrease gradually in both groups without significant differences between or within groups. The combination of the paraprobiotic-based toothpaste and the paraprobiotic-based mousse significantly reduced BoP and plaque control over time, although there were no significant differences with the use of the paraprobiotic-based toothpaste alone. In addition, the combination of the two products promoted a trend towards the better stabilization of recessions
Une communauté de lecteurs à l’aube de la Révolution: Dom Bougre aux états généraux (1789)
No full textDom Bougre aux États généraux (1789) is the first in a series of pamphlets published during the revolutionary period, offering different visions of contemporary events. Its main character is taken from L’Histoire de Dom Bougre by Gervaise de La Touche, an 18th century libertine bestseller. By exposing the depravity of the clergy, the corrupt ruling classes, and the ineffectiveness of the political reforms, the pornographic Dom Bougre fits into the social and political debate. While keeping in mind the contextual and intertextual references in the pamphlet, I will analyze the role of the reader in decoding the political message and the strategies adopted by the anonymous author to guide the interpretation of the text
Afilierea lui Mattei Dogan la sociologia românească (1990-2000)
No full textThe article reconstructs the mechanisms through which the work of the French scholar of Romanian origin, Mattei Dogan was brought to light in Romania after 1990 thanks to the efforts of the community of sociologists. Romanian sociologists used three methods to assimilate the author who is considered the founder of comparative political analysis and who left Romania immediately after graduating with a bachelor’s degree in sociology under Henri H. Stahl supervision: they translated Dogan’s articles and books, they made him a member of prestigious institutions and they included him in the post-communist effort to reclaim the legacy of the school founded by Dimitrie Gusti. To capture the institutional and editorial strategies that were used, I conducted interviews with several protagonists of the Romanian sociology renaissance movement. I also used epistolary resources, sociology and political science journals, press articles, as well as documents from the archives of the University of Bucharest and from the Mattei Dogan Foundation. The article shows the success of some methods and the failure of others. It also brings to light a text that was ignored in the studies and bibliographies that discuss the work of the scholar who was born in Roman in 1920 and who went by the name of Matei Pinsler until 1945 (Preda, 2020). This research paper is relevant for various reasons. Firstly, it complements not only the biography of Dogan, but also that of Henri H. Stahl. Furthermore, it highlights the trajectory of a discipline in a period of dissociation with the communist past while restoring the connections with the interwar period
Afilierea lui Mattei Dogan la sociologia românească (1990-2000)
No full textThe article reconstructs the mechanisms through which the work of the French scholar of Romanian origin, Mattei Dogan was brought to light in Romania after 1990 thanks to the efforts of the community of sociologists. Romanian sociologists used three methods to assimilate the author who is considered the founder of comparative political analysis and who left Romania immediately after graduating with a bachelor’s degree in sociology under Henri H. Stahl supervision: they translated Dogan’s articles and books, they made him a member of prestigious institutions and they included him in the post-communist effort to reclaim the legacy of the school founded by Dimitrie Gusti. To capture the institutional and editorial strategies that were used, I conducted interviews with several protagonists of the Romanian sociology renaissance movement. I also used epistolary resources, sociology and political science journals, press articles, as well as documents from the archives of the University of Bucharest and from the Mattei Dogan Foundation. The article shows the success of some methods and the failure of others. It also brings to light a text that was ignored in the studies and bibliographies that discuss the work of the scholar who was born in Roman in 1920 and who went by the name of Matei Pinsler until 1945 (Preda, 2020). This research paper is relevant for various reasons. Firstly, it complements not only the biography of Dogan, but also that of Henri H. Stahl. Furthermore, it highlights the trajectory of a discipline in a period of dissociation with the communist past while restoring the connections with the interwar period
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