Abstract This paper gives an overview of the original paper ?Human Root Caries: Microbiota of a Limited Number of Root Caries Lesions,? by doctors P. Schupbach, V. Osterwalder, and B. Guggenheim, which researched the microbiota of root caries lesion of different grades of severity. This paper includes a review of the methods used in that study, a discussion of the results, and a comparison of the study with other papers that were read and abstracted on this subject.
Abstract Evaluates new advances in the use of sealants to treat caries (cavities). Examines research and clinical evaluation of dental sealant advances. Length and quality of their retention. Importance of the methods of applying sealants. Causes of sealant failure. Errors in technique. CCC (Color, Coverage, Caries) Sealant Evulation System.
From the Paper "INTRODUCTION
As innovations come out to further the way in which the oral professionals overcome patients' problems, it is necessary to look at some of this new technology, and how it is dealt with in scientific journals. One such area in which new advances have occurred is in the area of sealants, the plastic which a dentist bonds into the grooves of the chewing surface of a tooth in order to help prevent tooth decay and cavities. "While research findings overwhelmingly document the need to educate the public and increase knowledge and acceptance of oral health care professionals about this caries-preventive technology" (Gilpin). By looking at the research and critical comments, as well as clinical evaluations of sealant advances, it is possible to create a useful picture of just how well sealants currently ..."
An analysis of issues of female authorship and how this is reflected in the protagonist's position in the play "The Tragedy of Mariam" by Elizabeth Cary.
Abstract The "Tragedy of Mariam" focuses on Elizabeth's Cary's desire to develop a platform from which women can speak, thereby offering a fuller understanding of women as individuals. This paper examines Cary's exploration of gender, language and silence in "The Tragedy of Mariam". It looks at how the play's expression of these themes is sometimes open and at other times covert. By concentrating on the issues of public and private speech, it attempts to determine the effect that crossing patriarchal boundaries had on women in early modern England.
From the Paper "The Tragedy of Mariam is often categorized as a Senecan closet drama; Cary, it seems, had no intention of taking the play to the public stage. This allowed Cary to distance herself from the popular theatres associated with lower social classes and associate herself with elite, aristocratic groups of writers. Prior to 1660, women had no role in public theatre; even the simple act of writing pushed the boundaries of acceptable female behaviour. By creating a closet drama, Cary becomes a perfect example of how early women dramatists created acceptable spaces for their dramatic voice, using theatrical settings, which helped them to justify female self-expression."
This paper looks at the Smart Growth initiative, an initiative started to increase the quality, distribution and supply of affordable housing for low-income earners.
Abstract This paper is an analysis of the Smart Growth Initiative and its affect on the population that is searching for affordable housing. The author details the initiative including its goals, target audience, environmental concerns and successes and failures. The paper also includes the discussion of economic, social and environmental costs of current development patterns and how smart growth provides alternatives to current development patterns, in addition to investigating what it means for affordable housing quality and supply. Land use and planning strategies are also discussed in detail. The author also presents and analyzes a case study of Accessory Dwelling Units (ADU?s) in Cary, North Carolina as a means for the reader to see an actual example of how smart growth can affect affordable housing.
From the Paper "Current development patterns were driven mainly by public policy. The development patterns are characterized by a separation of uses, dependency on automobiles and the consumption of space in suburban and ex-urban areas. This pattern is supported by strict zoning regulations, transportation systems and a lack of coordination in planning. This is important, because these factors are also obstacles to making changes.
The booming economy of the 1990's has seen housing and rental costs increase at more than twice the rate of inflation. This has meant that many low-income owners are now unable to find affordable housing. Low-income earners are forced into substandard housing, forced to live in areas where affordable housing is available but at the expense of good security or good schooling, or forced to be homeless."
Abstract This paper examines the film "Notorious" in the context of the relationship between Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman. As spies and lovers, Bergman and Grant are constantly testing one another's trustworthiness and love. This paper concludes that a love that trusts cannot test the object of its affections.
Abstract A contrasting view of truth in American politics citing the points of view of Donald Senese, Lynn Turner, and Alice Cary. The paper is based on the fact that Monroe won the popular vote.
From the Paper "Throughout the course of American history, tall tales have been told to stir the imagination, to entertain, and to spark a sense of patriotism. Our nation's history is built on the backs of men who are perceived as being larger than life. Stories about such great legends as Johnny Apple-seed and Paul Bunion have been passed down through generations. Heroes like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Ben Franklin are symbols of the strength of our nation. Because of this notion, which renders these great leaders as nearly immortal, many become susceptible to fallacies in history. By placing these heroes on such a high pedestal, we often forget, or rather care not to remember, that they are but men. More importantly however, we often lose sight of what is true in history. A highly debated topic among historians is the election of 1820. This debate derives from the electoral vote against Monroe. Opposing views about this topic are expressed in the contrasting works of Donald Senese and Lynn W. Turner."
Abstract This paper critically evaluates the content and illustrations of "Goose's Story" by Cari Best and Holly Meade. It discusses the content of the story written by Best and how it successfully teaches children how to care for wild animals. The paper also analyzes the impact that the illustrations by Meade have on the child readers. It specifically shows how the illustrations infuse many different artistic mediums that build on Best's written word.
From the Paper "In conclusion, a critical analysis of Goose's Story by Cari Best and Holly Meade provides a literary insight into how children should learn about injured wildlife. In many cases, the story provides detailed dialogues that can help both parents and their children understand the proper way to treat animals that are injured in the wild. However, the book clearly reads more like an instruction or teaching manual that the publishers wanted to see in too narrow a market specific category, making the characters typical and one-dimensional. In this manner, the book provides valid content, but does not rise to the artistic standards that art and literature should provide for children on a more profound level."
This paper explores the saliva test, quantitative light fluorescence and digital radiography as improvements in dental technology and cavity detection.
Abstract This paper describes new technology for predicting and preventing dental cavities. The paper first discusses the caries assessment and risk evaluation (CARE) exam, which tests saliva in order to predict future cavities in children. The paper then looks at quantitative light fluorescence, which can identify a problematic area even before it becomes a cavity and advanced digital technology that help dentists find cavities in more cases. The paper concludes that while digital technology and quantitative light fluorescence enable earlier detection of cavities and therefore earlier treatment for patients, ultimately the saliva test is the simplest, least expensive and potentially most revolutionary.
From the Paper "Recent dental research has tended to stress the treatment of cavities. But exciting new research has begun to focus on the prevention and early detection of problematic areas in patient's mouths. Because of the need for early detection of cavities, innovations in saliva testing for problematic teeth, quantitative light fluorescence, and digital radiography are equally, if not more important as other areas of research. Because of these new innovations, recent statistical trends in cavity prevalence in young children may decline within our lifetimes."
Abstract For years, chocolate has been looked down upon as unhealthy, deemed a candy, slapped with myths and fallacies and prohibited from small children. This paper attempts to prove otherwise by showing how chocolate has been shown to lift depression, help your heart and aid alertness among other benefits and if used properly, chocolate can be a delicacy and a medicine. It examines all aspects of chocolate possible from its production from the cocoa bean, to physiological effects on the brain and body to side effects such as obesity and dental problems.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
A Brief Review of Cocoa
The Cacao Tree (Theobrom Cacao)
What is in the Cocoa Bean?
Making and Eating Chocolate
State of the Art of Cocoa
Is Cocoa Good for You?
Burden of Proof
Chocolate as a Fat
Effects on Blood Lipids
What is OK?
Chocolate, Health and Disease
Chocolate Craving
Migraine
Toxicity
Immune Function
Allergy
Other Disorders
Behavior
Antioxidants
Caffeine
Dental Caries Migraines
Obesity
Serum Cholesterol
Heart Health
Conclusions
From the Paper "Cocoa takes it a step further though. Not only does it provide energy for our actions. It supplies chemicals for our personalities and moods. Modern psychology leads us to believe that every thought, every idea that pops into our head is simultaneously a biological reaction. This biological reaction takes the form of chemical processes within our brains. Our mind then interprets these chemical compounds as thoughts, ideas, smells, tastes, touch, etc. Our thoughts, or chemicals compounds within our brain can determine how we feel, our motivation, our goals, our entire lives hinge upon our thoughts, for what are we but what we do. And before we do anything, we must think it. We must have considered it at some point or been subconsciously predisposed to an action or idea."
From the Paper "This study will describe and discuss the relationships of the main characters in Joyce Cary's l939 novel, Mister Johnson, about black-white relations in British colonial Nigeria.
The primary relationship in the book is that between the African clerk Johnson and the District Officer Harry Rudbeck. Most of the other relationships in the book---such as that between Johnson and Sergeant "Sargy" Gollup---are developed by Cary to help strengthen and clarify the relationship between Johnson and Rudbeck. These two characters are meant by Cary to symbolize the relationship between the white British colonial in the position of ultimate power in Africa and the subservient African who derives a major part of his identity from his relationship with powerful whites who he is continually trying to please."
This essay discusses the article "How Children Understand Sarcasm: The Role of Context and Intonation," by Carol Caelli, Noreen Nakagawa, and Cary Madden.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, 2002, $ 35.95
Abstract This paper reports that the authors analyze the cues that children pick up on to understand sarcasm. based on two experiments conducted by the authors. The author examines the independent and dependent variables in this context and find that children rely on intonation and not on contextual meaning to recognize sarcasm.
Abstract This paper provides an analysis of how the lives of selected characters were affected and shaped by forces beyond their control in their social relationships, culture, lifestyle, death, race, innocence and guilt, along with sex and its uses. It also examines how human strengths and frailties are exemplified in "Mister Johnson" by Joyce Cary, "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe, "Crossing the Mangrove" by Maryse Conde, "Passbook Number F.47927" by Muthoni Likimani, and "Weep Not Child" by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o. A summary of the research is provided in the conclusion.
From the Paper "In Joyce Cary's novel, Mister Johnson, there is a clear demonstration of what happens when people try to ingratiate themselves with the powers that be in an effort to further their own interests at the sacrifice of their own culture and integrity. Cary's editors note that "The 'Mister Johnson' who gives the book its title is an ebullient, dream-filled native clerk away from home and family, unknowingly at sea in a world he cannot comprehend." In his introduction, Cary says of the title character that although he didn't design him exactly after him, a clerk he met once was kept in mind when Johnson was crafted."
This paper reviews and analyzes the leadership styles of the various leaders and CEOs of the IBM Company from Thomas J. Watson Sr. in 1914 and up to its current CEO Samuel J. Palmisano.
Abstract This paper details and examines the leadership, history, vision, values and general business practices of the IBM Company. This paper traces the origins of the IBM Company back to 1880s and not 1911 as is commonly thought. This paper provides a comprehensive profile of IBM's present CEO Samuel J. Palmisano while focusing on his leadership style and numerous accomplishments throughout his career. This paper discusses the previous leaders at IBM's helm while also listing their contributions to the company including those of Thomas J. Watson Sr., Thomas J. Watson Jr. and Frank T. Cary amongst others. This paper explores how IBM's corporate success led to the publication of Stephen F. Covey's "The Seven Habits of Highly Successful People" and its impact on the business community. This paper also examines the IBM Company as a business leader which has always been interested and involved in the welfare of its more than 30,000 employees worldwide. This paper discusses the company's concern for the global environment as well as its world renowned reputation for high ethical standards and corporate responsibility.
Table of Contents:
Abstract
IBM - The Company
IBM's Current Leadership
Conclusion
References
From the Paper "The company has always been extremely interested in its employees, its corporate vision and values, and the global environment, and the many programs and corporate sponsorships the company has created illustrate this. The company has always been known for its high ethical standards and corporate responsibility. During World War II, when the company created many items for national defense, including bombsites, the company only took a 1 percent profit on these items, and turned the money into a fund to help widows and children of IBM workers killed in the war. They have long contributed to educational funds, and they were one of the first corporations to offer "employee group life insurance, survivor benefits, and paid vacations" ("About IBM"). IBM is an innovator in technology, but also in the internal corporate environment, and that is another reason they are a successful 21st century corporation. They have high standards for themselves and their employees, and it shows in how they do business and their corporate responsibility."
Abstract This paper examines the fluoridation of drinking water, specifically in the United States. It explains that fluoridation began in the early 20th century with the aim of improving dental health and with the introduction of fluoridated water into community supplies in some countries, reductions in the rates of decayed, missing, and filled teeth (DMFT) among children occurred. The paper looks at how the World Health Organisation, the United States and the E.U. all advocate fluoridation as an effective method of reducing dental caries, and how only the USA, Britain, Australia and Ireland and a few other countries have fully adopted its use in spite of these world health guidelines. The paper also points out how the engineer plays a key role in implementing the use of fluorine and must act responsibly due to its toxic nature and potentially fatal consequences of incorrect use. The paper concludes that the safety and necessity of fluorine in the drinking water in America needs to be monitored with more studies and research by qualified, well-funded, scientific groups.
Table of Contents:
Introduction. What is Fluorine?
Fluoridation History
How Fluoridation Works
Why Fluoridate?
The Engineer and Fluoridation
Fluoridation And The Law
Some Interesting Quotes on the Subject of Fluoridation
Conclusions
From the Paper "Fluoride is usually added to water samples in solution form because in powder form (e.g. Sodium Fluoride, Sodium Fluorosilicate, etc.) it is toxic, dangerous to handle and must be stored in dust tight containers. Thus fluorine is often added as hydrofluorosilicic acid (H2SiF6).
This acid is safer because if it is spilt on the skin it can easily be washed off using cold water. This acid is stored in water treatment facilities in tanks. The tanks are lined with corrosion resistant rubber lining. Fluoridation usually takes place after all other treatments of the drinking water have been carried out. It must be done after water has been softened because ions in the water interfere with the fluoride content. The water must be mixed thoroughly before it leaves the facility, as fluoride is toxic in higher concentrations."
Abstract This paper examines Aristotle's definition of comedy using two classical cinema comedies - "Sherlock, Jr." and "Bringing up Baby" - to illustrate this definition. The paper explains that Aristotle believed that comedy shows people engaged in ridiculous activities, but this ridiculousness is not painful or destructive and the comic action must be without bad intent. The paper looks at how in each movie the lead character is ridiculous, but always portrayed without malice. The paper points out that in "Bringing up Baby", a longer film than "Sherlock Jr.", and one in which sound allows for the speedy development of more characters, the subordinate characters draw heavily on classical models such as Shakespearean figures like Dogberry and Verges in "Much Ado About Nothing". The paper notes that these characters too are ridiculous although not malicious, and clearly inferior in the nonsense they act out, but saved in the end through the resolution of the plot. In conclusion that paper shows that Aristotle's definition is general, even imprecise, but it is clearly a definition which is well illustrated in these two films.
From the Paper "These people act without malice. Keaton wants to be a detective, but is outdone by the "sheik," who gets him blamed for the theft of a gold watch, and by his girlfriend, who shows his innocence. In his dream, he is a great, if bumbling detective. Grant tries mainly to avoid Hepburn, but cannot extricate himself from her. Hepburn means well, repeatedly offering to help him get the funding for his museum which is his main hope. Sherlock Jr. begins with scenes of Keaton sweeping the theatre, beset by people who claim to have lost money in his trash pile. The scenes are funny: they show an inferior person, an inept sweeper, being ridiculous. They do little, however, to advance the main plot."
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