A 4-year follow-up of the need for orthodontic treatment using the Dental Aesthetic Index-DAI: an exploratory analysis by Silvia Amelia Scudeler VEDOVELLO, Ana Letícia Mello de CARVALHO, Diego Patrik Alves CARNEIRO, Marcelo de Castro MENEGHIM

“…The need for orthodontic treatment was assessed using the DAI categorized into: DAI 1 (absence of malocclusion and orthodontic treatment need; DAI ≤ 25); DAI 2 (malocclusion is defined and elective orthodontic treatment is needed; DAI = 26 to 30); DAI 3 (severe malocclusion and a desirable orthodontic treatment need; DAI = 31 to 35) and DAI 4 (severe malocclusion and a mandatory orthodontic treatment need; DAI ≥ 36). The Bowker symmetry test was used to determine agreement in the categorization of DAI at T1 and T2, with a significance level of 5%. …”
Get full text

Drying Characteristics and Physical and Nutritional Properties of Shrimp Meat as Affected by Different Traditional Drying Techniques by P. T. Akonor, H. Ofori, N. T. Dziedzoave, N. K. Kortei

“…The development of red color during drying was comparable among the two methods, but solar-dried shrimps appeared darker (L⁎=47.4) than the air-oven-dried (L⁎=49.0). …”
Get full text

Effect of Wheat Germ on Quality of Wheat Bread Dough by Lehat Yousif M. Noori, Dler Amin Sabir

“…The bread made from dough with the highest amount of inserted wheat germ dispensed the smaller volume, less elasticity, and cohesiveness, while more firm and darker in color of both crust and crumb of the product. …”
Get full text

The Role of the Self-Differentiation and Mindfulness in Predicting Disturbed Eating Behaviors in Adolescent’s Diabetic by Khadijeh Khoddari, Sana Nourimoghadam

“…The study adhered to established inclusion and exclusion criteria and utilized tests for disordered eating behaviors (Garner et al., 1982), self-differentiation (DSI) (Skorn and Friedlander, 1998), and mindfulness (Bauer et al., 2006) for participants aged 12 to 18 years. …”
Get full text

Use of Hospital Patient and Family Advisory Councils: A Scoping Study by Barbara Lewis MBA, Chris Cochran PhD, Erika Marquez PhD, MPH, Neeraj Bhandari PhD, Jennifer Pharr PhD, Soumya Upadhyay PhD, Stowe Shoemaker PhD

“…With the aim of fostering patient-centered care, Patient and Family Advisory Councils (PFACs) have emerged as a way for hospitals to garner input for initiatives and programs from patients and patients’ families who have used the hospitals’ services. …”
Get full text

Some Important Food Quality Traits of Autochthonous Grape Cultivars by Muhammed Kupe, Sezai Ercisli, Neva Karatas, Sona Skrovankova, Jiri Mlcek, Monika Ondrasova, Lukas Snopek

“…The local cultivar Kirmizi Istanbul had more chlorogenic acid than the other cultivars. The berries with darker skin color, specifically Kara Turfanda and Nanebur, had higher % inhibition level (antioxidant capacity) than the brighter ones, which correspond also to the results of flavonoid contents. …”
Get full text

Towards unbiased skin cancer classification using deep feature fusion by Ali Atshan Abdulredah, Mohammed A. Fadhel, Laith Alzubaidi, Ye Duan, Monji Kherallah, Faiza Charfi

“…The proposed model addresses potential biases associated with skin conditions, particularly in individuals with darker skin tones or excessive hair, by incorporating feature fusion to assimilate insights from diverse datasets. …”
Get full text

Textural, Color, and Sensory Analysis of Cookies Prepared with Hemp Oil-Based Oleogels by Ana Leahu, Cristina Ghinea, Sorina Ropciuc, Cristina Damian

“…The color of the oleogel cookies was darker than that of the control cookies. The cookie sample with hemp oil and beeswax oleogel was the most appreciated by the evaluators among the oleogel cookie samples. …”
Get full text

Effect of Wheat and Barley Malt Addition on the Quality of the Baking Blend and Wheat Bread by Justyna Belcar, Joanna Kaszuba, Józef Gorzelany

“…Bread made of flour blends with malt flours added was characterised by a higher loaf volume and specific volume as well as darker crust and crumb. The addition of malt flours also led to significantly reduced hardness, gumminess, and chewiness of bread crumb. …”
Get full text

A comprehensive image dataset for the identification of lemon leaf diseases and computer vision applicationsMendeley Data by A K M Fazlul Kobir Siam, Prayma Bishshash, Md. Asraful Sharker Nirob, Sajib Bin Mamun, Md Assaduzzaman, Sheak Rashed Haider Noori

“…All images were labelled in the nine prefixed categories: anthracnose, bacterial blight, citrus canker, curl virus, deficiency leaf, dry leaf, healthy leaf, sooty mould, and spider mites. …”
Get full text

Esthetical Properties of Single-Shade and Multishade Composites in Posterior Teeth by Graziela R. Batista, Alessandra B. Borges, Rayssa F. Zanatta, Cesar R. Pucci, Carlos R. G. Torres

“…As a result, there were nonsignificant differences between the composites evaluated for color match, as well nonsignificant differences were obtained related to which restorative technique produced the best aesthetic results. Only for darker shades (A4, B4, and C4), most of the evaluators considered the restorations made with the MS material more aesthetic than with the SS, while for the other shades, nonsignificant differences were observed. …”
Get full text

Effects of Purple Rice and Morchella esculenta Powder Substitution on the Quality of Dough and Bread by Yuyue QIN, Hongda YU, Kejun CHEN, Guiguang CHENG, Jiliang ZHANG, Thanapop SOTEYOME

“…When the Morchella esculenta powder substitution content maintained was 3%, the content of purple rice powder was in the range from 0 to 12%, the L* value of bread crust and crumb gradually decreased and the ΔE value gradually increased, resulting in a darker color when compared to control group. The substitution of purple rice and Morchella esculenta powder decelerated the starch hydrolysis rate of bread. …”
Get full text

Le bonheur n’est pas l’essentiel ? by Salome Berthon, Yan Bour, Sabine Chatelain, Marie-Noëlle Ottavi, Olivier Wathelet

“…Si son autorité le conduit à dénier cette part émotionnelle, il devra pourtant s’engager, donner de sa personne pour gagner la confiance de ses interlocuteurs, ouvrir au discours et dévoiler quelques traces, faire surgir le non-dit des émotions, observer tant l’intime que le collectif et, in fine, comprendre ce qui du bonheur fait sens. …”
Get full text

Risk versus Benefit of Using Hydroxychloroquine to Treat Patients with COVID-19 by George G. Zhanel, Michael A. Zhanel, Kevin F. Boreskie, Joseph P. Lynch, James A. Karlowsky

“…As the COVID-19 pandemic emerged in the United States and globally in early 2020, HCQ began to garner attention as a potential treatment and as prophylaxis against COVID-19. …”
Get full text

Alternative disease management strategies for organic apple production in the United Kingdom by Lucas Alexander Shuttleworth

“…Key diseases of organic UK apple production include scab, European canker, powdery mildew, apple replant disease, and brown rot/blossom wilt. …”
Get full text

The suffix -ee: history, productivity, frequency and violation of stress rules by Ives Trevian

“…According to Bauer (1983), Barker (1998), Plag (2003) and Mühleisen (2010), -ee has become a very productive suffix, not confined any more to its original role in legal language as a patient suffix contrasted with the agent suffix -or (e.g. bailor / bailee). …”
Get full text

Wheat Germ as Partial or Total Substitutive of Lean Meat in Low-Fat Cooked Sausages by Marta Rodríguez-Fernández, Isabel Revilla, Pablo Rodrigo, Rocío López-Calabozo, Ana María Vivar-Quintana

“…Sausages made with germ were darker (L*), as well as harder, chewier, and gummier, but less cohesive and elastic. …”
Get full text

Escape Room Activity to Teach Head and Neck Anatomy by George Holan, Rijul Asri, Abhishek Yadav, Christin Traba, Sophia Chen, Jeremy J. Grachan

“…We utilized a mixed-methods analysis to determine the activity's effectiveness in reviewing this content and garner students’ perceptions. Results Students (N = 149) reported that the escape room was useful to their learning (round A = 93%, round B = 100%), helped identify gaps in their knowledge (round A = 94%, round B = 98%), and required multiple skills to complete (e.g., interpersonal, problem-solving, critical thinking, adaptability). …”
Get full text

Immediate Patient Satisfaction with Dental Esthetics After Endodontic and Prosthodontic Treatment of Dental Dyschromia by Adrian Jantea, Sorin Gheorghe Mihali, Dan Lolos, Anca Tudor, Roxana Oancea, Liliana Porojan

“…The primary reasons for dissatisfaction included darker restoration color, chipping, and gingival recessions. …”
Get full text

Study Environment and Psychological Factors of University Students’ Intention to Drop out by Laima Bulotaitė, Rūta Sargautytė, Irena Žukauskaitė, Dalia Bagdžiūnienė

“…., 2008), Study environment characteristics (autonomy, feedback, support from teachers and students, and opportunities for development) (Bakker, 2014), Study-related stress, Intention to drop out, along with questions on sociodemographic data. …”
Get full text