Vital pulp therapy is the group of procedures indicated to maintain pulp vitality allowing for continued root development and apical closure in the presence of pulp exposure due to caries or trauma. Complete maturation results in stronger tooth structure that is more able to withstand occlusal forces. Historically, calcium hydroxide (Ca(OH)2) was the material of choice for a vital pulpotomy. Recently mineral trioxide aggregate (MTA) has been used as a pulp sealing material because of its biocompatibility and its ability to induce hard tissue barrier formation. The purpose of this retrospective study was to evaluate the clinical and radiographic outcome of vital pulp therapy procedures performed with MTA. All patients receiving MTA pulpotomies and MTA pulp caps at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Dentistry Graduate Endodontic Practice between November 30, 2009 and August 15, 2013 were recalled and evaluated for presence or absence of clinical symptoms, pulp vitality, radiographic evaluation of continued root development, dentin bridge formation or pulp canal obliteration. Results were analyzed descriptively. At time of treatment caries was found to be the most common etiologic factor. Fifty-seven percent of cases were symptomatic at time of treatment (43% asymptomatic). Forty-seven percent of the teeth presented with immature apices (53% with radiographically closed apices). Overall recall rate was 50%. At recall all teeth were clinically asymptomatic. Forty seven percent of teeth tested normally to cold (33% were non-responsive to cold) at recall. Pulp canal obliteration was seen in 6 cases, 4 molars and 2 anterior teeth. In conclusion, MTA pulpotomy and MTA direct pulp caps are a predictable treatment modality for young vital permanent teeth affected by caries or trauma.

Trabajo de Investigación Requisito para optar al Título de Cirujano Dentista / El presente trabajo corresponde a una investigación descriptiva de la evolución de la respuesta pulpar post-trauma dentario de los pacientes tratados en el “Diplomado de Manejo Endodóntico del Diente Traumatizado” entre Octubre 2009 y Octubre 2011. El universo del presente estudio lo constituyeron 17 pacientes, de sexo masculino y femenino; con 60 dientes traumatizados. Los resultados obtenidos se presentan en una estadística descriptiva, para luego ser comparados con estudios en dentición permanente, generalmente en pacientes infantes y adolescentes; luego discutir dichos resultados y llegar a conclusiones generales, aportando una realidad relativa de la evolución pulpar posterior al trauma. Las conclusiones entregadas en el presente trabajo, nos orientan sobre el comportamiento de los dientes traumatizados vistos en el Diplomado de Manejo Endodóntico del Diente Traumatizado, en la Universidad de Chile.

The thesis examines the migration decision-making and everyday experiences of young highly skilled professional migrants through the case study of German migration to the UK. It develops a framework combining the twin notions of transnational urbanism and translocal subjectivities, allowing a strong focus on migrants' subjective experiences, perceptions and emotionalities of mobility, while acknowledging the centrality of spaces and places for them. The geographical setting of the case study further serves to accentuate the relatively small-scale disruption occurring during the migration process, and the subjectivities connected to this. Data was collected in the UK (mainly London) during thirteen months of fieldwork, using participant observation, in-depth interviews and expert interviews. The research reveals a previously unacknowledged high ambivalence and diversity of this migrant group. Young German highly skilled migrants display various mobility and migration patterns with regard to the translocal connections they maintain, the emotional importance they attach to these connections, and their previous internal and international migration history. Three mobility types emerge from this: 'bi-local', 'multi-local' and 'settled' migrants. The close translocal connections practiced by migrants can lead to conflict, particularly for bi-local migrants, as judging of the migration project can occur by friends and families; meaning the spatial and emotional proximity between the migrants and their social network can be both positive and negative. The expectations towards the UK are also highly complex, and strongly influence micro-scale personal geographies. Lastly, the diversity of migration projects leads to widely varying attitudes towards fellow German migrants, as well as tensions and potentially conflicts within German social spaces. Overall, a strong and pervasive ambivalence about the migration experience emerges, which is experienced differently by the three migrant groups and the geographical proximity between Germany and the UK plays a large role in this. This thesis adds empirical and analytical insight to the academic debate regarding young professional migrants within the EU, and German contemporary migration in particular. Theoretically, it contributes to the discussion around lifestyle migration and middling transnationalism, and it enhances the practical use of the concept 'emotional geographies' for migration studies.

Thesis (M.P.H.)--University of Michigan, 1946.

Thesis (M.P.H.)--University of Michigan, 1946.

Thesis (Ph. D. in Biomedical Engineering)--Vanderbilt University, May 2006. / Title from title screen. Includes bibliographical references.

Submitted by Isaac Francisco de Souza Dias (isaac.souzadias@ufpe.br) on 2016-02-26T16:47:20Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) DISSERTAÇÃO Camila Moura Dantas Carrera.pdf: 2236172 bytes, checksum: 0cea48d40fc2b8ec74dff87b16b1a589 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-02-26T16:47:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) DISSERTAÇÃO Camila Moura Dantas Carrera.pdf: 2236172 bytes, checksum: 0cea48d40fc2b8ec74dff87b16b1a589 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-02-09 / O envelhecimento populacional é hoje um tema de grande impacto em todo o mundo. Apesar de ser um processo natural, o envelhecimento acarreta ao indivíduo uma série de mudanças fisiológicas que começam a ser observadas ao final da terceira década de vida, levando a repercussões na sua condição de saúde. Entre outras mudanças, alterações respiratórias e vocais podem surgir na senescência, devido ao decréscimo gradual da função pulmonar e também de modificações no funcionamento do aparelho fonador. O objetivo deste estudo foi analisar a relação entre função pulmonar e parâmetros vocais em idosos. Fizeram parte do estudo idosos do sexo feminino, que estivessem vinculados à UnATI-UFPE. Todos os participantes foram submetidos à avaliação da função pulmonar, por meio da ventilometria e manovacuometria, bem como análise de características vocais, por meio da medida de Tempo Máximo de Fonação (TMF) e investigação dos sintomas vocais, a partir da Escala de Sintomas Vocais (ESV). A análise de dados envolveu a utilização do programa SPSS-19.0 para levantamento de frequências descritivas e percentuais dos parâmetros respiratórios e vocais, como também aplicação de testes correlacionais, que permitiu analisar a relação entre tais parâmetros. Os resultados revelaram que a função pulmonar, bem como medidas de tempo máximo de fonação, estão reduzidas com o envelhecimento. Existe também uma associação entre a capacidade vital lenta (CVL) e o TMF em mulheres idosas, sugerindo a influência que a respiração exerce sobre a fonação. Os sintomas vocais não foram evidentes nesta população, não sendo encontrada, portanto, relação entre medidas respiratórias e sintomas vocais. A ausência de sintomas vocais possivelmente ocorreu em função dos participantes estarem engajados em programas de saúde e bem estar da UnATI-UFPE. / Population aging is now a major impact theme throughout the world. Despite being a natural process, aging causes the individual a series of physiological changes that are beginning to be observed at the end of the third decade of life, leading to repercussions on their health condition. Among other changes, breathing and vocal changes may arise in senescence due to the gradual decrease in lung function as well as changes to the operation of the vocal tract. The objective of this study was to analyze the relationship between lung function and vocal parameters in the elderly. Were part of the study of elderly women, who were linked to UnATI-UFPE. All participants were assessed for lung function, through respirometry and manometer as well as analysis of vocal characteristics, by measuring Maximum phonation time (MPT) and investigation of vocal symptoms from the Voice Symptoms Scale (VoiSS). Data analysis involved the use of SPSS-19.0 software for identifying descriptive frequencies and percentages of respiratory and vocal parameters, and also the application of correlational tests, which allowed us to analyze the relationship between these parameters. The results showed that lung function, as well as maximum speech time measurements are reduced with aging. There is also an association between the VoiSS and the MPT in older women, suggesting the influence of breathing exercises on phonation. The vocal symptoms were not evident in this population was not found, so the relationship between respiratory measures and vocal symptoms. The absence of vocal symptoms possibly occurred because the participants are engaged in health programs and welfare of UnATI-UFPE.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-12T23:04:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 arquivo8872_1.pdf: 469786 bytes, checksum: a62542e5bdfaa26a035b2865f6979339 (MD5) license.txt: 1748 bytes, checksum: 8a4605be74aa9ea9d79846c1fba20a33 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007 / O envelhecimento geralmente vem acompanhado de uma série de modificações a nível biológico, psicológico e social, podendo promover alterações funcionais no idoso, interferindo assim, na sua qualidade de vida. O objetivo deste estudo foi relacionar medidas antropométricas com a função fonatória de mulheres idosas eutróficas, pré-obesas e obesas, sem queixas vocais. Participaram do estudo 30 idosas, com idades entre 61 e 80 anos, assistidas no Núcleo de Atenção ao Idoso (NAI-UFPE). As mesmas foram distribuídas em três grupos, de acordo com a classificação do índice de massa corporal (IMC). O grupo 1 (G1), o grupo 2 (G2) e o grupo 3 (G3) corresponderam, respectivamente, às idosas eutróficas (n=10), pré-obesas (n=10) e obesas (n=10). As idosas foram submetidas a uma avaliação antropométrica, respiratória e fonatória. Os indicadores antropométricos avaliados foram: estatura, peso, comprimento tronco-cefálico, circunferências da cintura e do quadril, relação cintura/quadril, massas corporal gorda e magra e o percentual de gordura corporal. Em relação as capacidades pulmonares foram estudadas a capacidade vital lenta e a capacidade inspiratória. A avaliação fonatória foi feita através da mensuração do tempo máximo de fonação. De acordo com os resultados, foi verificada diferença significativa entre os grupos em relação às medidas antropométricas relacionadas à circunferência da cintura, à massa corporal gorda e ao percentual de gordura (p<0,001). Não houve correlação entre as medidas antropométricas e função fonatória. Entretanto, houve aumento da capacidade inspiratória nas idosas obesas (p<0,001), enquanto que a capacidade vital não apresentou variação significativa. O tempo máximo de fonação apresentou correlação positiva com a capacidade inspiratória, porém o mesmo não foi encontrado em relação à capacidade vital. Além disso, o tempo máximo fonatório não apresentou variação significativa entre os grupos. Desta forma, este estudo sugere que nas idosas os indicadores antropométricos e a capacidade vital, isoladamente, não exercem influencia no TMF, estando o mesmo diretamente associado às medidas da capacidade inspiratória

The growth of population was an outstanding feature of the economic and social development of British Columbia, between 1951 and 1961. The effects of this remarkable growth on the distribution of population, among the census subdivisions of the province, is the particular aspect selected for study. Changes in population distribution result from areal inequalities of the rate of population growth and decline. These differences can be analysed in terms of the varying contributions of the natural and migrational components of population change in each part of the province. The "explanation" of redistribution is thus to be found in the factors which influence the action of the components of population change. This apparently straightforward approach to the topic is beset by a number of problems. Some arise from the concepts, methodology and techniques of population studies in general, as they are applied to the data available for the census subdivisions of British Columbia. Changes in the boundaries of the areal units and in the definitions of statistical categories also create difficulties. The demographic basis for the growth of population in the province as a whole is examined in Chapter Three. Several trends produced a greater relative importance of natural increase as a source of population growth, but net migration was still, in the nineteen -fifties, the major component of change. Estimates of the natural and migrational components of population change in each census subdivision, and in certain cities and municipalities are provided. Migration was the primary cause of regional variations in the rate of population change, although natural increase was far from uniform. Several generic types of population change are identified, to demonstrate the demographic processes and causal factors at work. In Chapter Four the growth in each part of the province is set into perspective, by considering the distribution of the total provincial growth of population. In this way, the extent to which each component of change was responsible for the shifts in the distribution of population can be assessed. Migration was more important than natural increase as a mechanism of adjustment between the initial distribution of population and the changes in the factors which shape the distribution pattern. [ ... ] / Arts, Faculty of / Geography, Department of / Graduate

Orientador: Carlos Henrique Gileno / Resumo: A presente dissertação tem como objetivo geral a análise da trajetória intelectual e política do bispo católico Dom Vital Maria Gonçalves de Oliveira (1844-1878); bem como a Questão Religiosa (1872-1876), e as contribuições de tal questão na instalação da crise político-institucional que despontou no fim do período oitocentista no Brasil. Como objetivo específico, a análise da participação de Dom Vital na Questão Religiosa, e sua atuação dentro da corrente ultramontana, derivada da família intelectual do conservadorismo, e que influenciou de sobremaneira a intelectualidade brasileira do século XIX, acentuando o litígio com o regalismo e a maçonaria. A hipótese desenvolvida foi a efetiva perda de apoio do Trono de dois de seus principais sustentáculos: a Igreja e a maçonaria pelo ocorrido na Questão Religiosa, contribuindo para a queda do regime monárquico e a separação entre a Igreja e o Estado. A justificativa da presente dissertação é a relevância da Questão Religiosa na ascensão e formação do Estado republicano brasileiro. A metodologia utilizada é a elaborada pelo ‘contextualismo linguístico de Cambridge’, cujos principais expoentes são Quentin Skinner e John G. A. Pocock. Por meio de pesquisa bibliográfica, qualitativa, dedutiva, utilizando-se o método histórico, analisamos textos referentes ao tema, bem como periódicos e documentos da época. / Abstract: The present dissertation has as its general objective the analysis of the intellectual and political trajectory of the Catholic bishop Dom Vital Maria Gonçalves de Oliveira (1844-1878); as well as the Religious Question (1872-1876), and the contributions of such question in the installation of the political-institutional crisis that emerged at the end of the 19th century in Brazil. As a specific objective, the analysis of Dom Vital's participation in the Religious Question, and his performance within the ultramontane current, derived from the intellectual family of conservatism, and which greatly influenced the Brazilian intellectuals of the 19th century, accentuating the litigation with regalism and the Freemasonry. The hypothesis developed was the effective loss of support from the Throne of two of its main supporters: the Church and Freemasonry due to what happened in the Religious Question, contributing to the fall of the monarchical regime and the separation between the Church and the State. The justification of this dissertation is the relevance of the Religious Question in the rise and formation of the Brazilian republican state. The methodology used is that developed by ‘Cambridge linguistic contextualism’, whose main exponents are Quentin Skinner and John G. A. Pocock. Through bibliographic, qualitative, deductive research, using the historical method, we analyzed texts related to the theme, as well as periodicals and documents of the time. / Resumen: La presente disertación tiene como objetivo general el análisis de la trayectoria intelectual y política del obispo católico Dom Vital Maria Gonçalves de Oliveira (1844-1878); así como la Cuestión Religiosa (1872-1876), y las contribuciones de dicha cuestión en la instalación de la crisis político-institucional que surgió a fines del siglo XIX en Brasil. Como objetivo específico, el análisis de la participación de Dom Vital en la Cuestión Religiosa, y su actuación dentro de la corriente ultramontana, derivada de la familia intelectual del conservadurismo, y que influyó enormemente en los intelectuales brasileños del siglo XIX, acentúa el litigio con el realismo y el Masonería. La hipótesis desarrollada fue la pérdida efectiva del apoyo del Trono de dos de sus principales partidarios: la Iglesia y la masonería debido a lo que sucedió en la Cuestión Religiosa, contribuyendo a la caída del régimen monárquico y la separación entre la Iglesia y el Estado. La justificación de esta disertación es la relevancia de la Cuestión Religiosa en el surgimiento y la formación del estado republicano brasileño. La metodología utilizada es la desarrollada por el "contextualismo lingüístico de Cambridge", cuyos principales exponentes son Quentin Skinner y John G. A. Pocock. A través de la investigación bibliográfica, cualitativa, deductiva, utilizando el método histórico, analizamos textos relacionados con el tema, así como publicaciones periódicas y documentos de la época. / Résumé: La présente thèse a pour objectif général l'analyse de la trajectoire intellectuelle et politique de l'évêque catholique Dom Vital Maria Gonçalves de Oliveira (1844-1878); ainsi que la question religieuse (1872-1876), et les apports de cette question à la mise en place de la crise politico-institutionnelle apparue à la fin du XIXe siècle au Brésil. En tant qu'objectif spécifique, l'analyse de la participation de Dom Vital à la question religieuse, et sa performance au sein du courant ultramontain, dérivée de la famille intellectuelle du conservatisme, et qui a grandement influencé les intellectuels brésiliens du XIXe siècle, accentuant le litige avec le régalisme et la Franc-maçonnerie. L'hypothèse développée était la perte effective de soutien du Trône de deux de ses principaux partisans: l'Église et la francmaçonnerie en raison de ce qui s'est passé dans la question religieuse, contribuant à la chute du régime monarchique et à la séparation entre l'Église et l'État. La justification de cette thèse est la pertinence de la question religieuse dans l'essor et la formation de l'État républicain brésilien. La méthodologie utilisée est celle développée par le «Cambridge linguistic contextualism», dont les principaux représentants sont Quentin Skinner et John G. A. Pocock. A travers des recherches bibliographiques, qualitatives, déductives, en utilisant la méthode historique, nous avons analysé des textes liés au thème, ainsi que des périodiques et des documents de l'époque. / Mestre