Annex Publishers

Addiction is a very important issue to be researched in social sciences nowadays. Several studies have been done on the is sue but never modeled out properly to understand the drug culture (addiction) as a process. The study has been conducted to show the structural and functional manifestation which would simplify the understanding of addiction and an individu al’s entry to the drug culture and their location in the process. Furthermore, no study tried to locate drug abusers’ changing lifestyles, their engagements in different activities, social identity, and societal and institutional responses. Discussion on the 'Sociology of drug addiction’ will help to identify an individual's entry into the drug culture along with the current situation in the drug cultural process. The paper is done empirically to uncover the undermining issues relating to the behaviour and applied necessary methods to extract the data. The study concludes with two models: first one justifies the question that, why drug in-takers become obsessed with drug and indulge in drug consumption activity repeatedly with or without their choice due to the physical or mental dependency. The second model seeks to explain the shift of drug in-takers from layer to layer or one stage to another concerning their changing activities relating to the changing cultural identities and societal re sponse to the behaviour.

Intraocular pressure (IOP) is known to fluctuate according to a circadian rhythm. While this phenomenon has been quite extensively studied and reported in a number of species, including mice, to date, there have been few studies on the circa dian effect upon total aqueous humor outflow facility (Ctot). In this study, we measured IOP in living anesthetized C57BL/6J mice every 3h over a 24h period, using a TonoLab impact tonometer. We also measured daytime (10:00 pm to 12:00 pm) and nighttime (02:00am to 04:00am) Ctot in anesthetized living mice using a constant flow infusion method. We report that over a 24h period, IOP is highest at midnight (18.34 ± 2.79 mmHg, mean ± St Dev mean) and lowest at midday (12.71 ± 1.42 mmHg), ΔIOP = 5.63 mmHg or 44.3% increase at night, P = 0.005. We also report that Ctot at nighttime (13.66 ± 1.12 nL/min/mmHg ± SEM) is lower than corresponding measurements made during the day time (24.58 ± 2.42 nL/min/mmHg ± SEM), ΔCtot = 10.92 nL/min/mmHg, or 44.4% reduction at night, P = 0.004. In living C57BL/6J mice, IOP and Ctot exhibit circadian variation and appear to be inversely related.

Policy makers and payers are expressing a growing interest in oral health value-based payment approaches to improve the oral health care of patients. Episode of care bundles have the potential to become an important value-based approach in oral health and are already a prominent value-based approach used in health care. In this study, we design two episode of care bundles for oral health preventive services and retrospectively analyze over 16,000 visits in a pediatric dentistry clinic in an urban city in Arizona to evaluate the extent of bundle compliance. Findings from the 16-month study (May 1, 2019 September 1, 2020) indicate that approximately 61% of the Comprehensive Examination Bundles were completed in a sin gle visit while approximately 44% of the Periodic Examination Bundles were completed in a single visit. An item analysis in dicated that radiographs were the most commonly absent bundle element for both bundles with fluoride application and prophylaxis the most commonly absent bundle elements in the Comprehensive Examination Bundle.

An essential component of forensic investigations is forensic anthropology. Forensic Anthropology deals with the study of skeletal remains. When it comes to determining the cause of death and traumatic injuries, forensic anthropology is quite helpful. The investigation of several techniques for identifying traumatic injuries like blunt force trauma, sharp force trauma and gunshot wounds is the major topic of this study. These traumatic injuries are examined using various techniques. This study focuses on the detection of traumatic injuries on skeletal remains by the using visual examination, x-rays analysis, ra diography, CT scans, and photography. Among all of these techniques, visual analysis is of great importance in forensic An thropology because it offers comprehensive data for the investigation of traumatic injuries

Addiction is a very important issue to be researched in social sciences nowadays. Several studies have been done on the is sue but never modeled out properly to understand the drug culture (addiction) as a process. The study has been conducted to show the structural and functional manifestation which would simplify the understanding of addiction and an individu al’s entry to the drug culture and their location in the process. Furthermore, no study tried to locate drug abusers’ changing lifestyles, their engagements in different activities, social identity, and societal and institutional responses. Discussion on the 'Sociology of drug addiction’ will help to identify an individual's entry into the drug culture along with the current situation in the drug cultural process. The paper is done empirically to uncover the undermining issues relating to the behaviour and applied necessary methods to extract the data. The study concludes with two models: first one justifies the question that, why drug in-takers become obsessed with drug and indulge in drug consumption activity repeatedly with or without their choice due to the physical or mental dependency. The second model seeks to explain the shift of drug in-takers from layer to layer or one stage to another concerning their changing activities relating to the changing cultural identities and societal re sponse to the behaviour.

Intraocular pressure (IOP) is known to fluctuate according to a circadian rhythm. While this phenomenon has been quite extensively studied and reported in a number of species, including mice, to date, there have been few studies on the circa dian effect upon total aqueous humor outflow facility (Ctot). In this study, we measured IOP in living anesthetized C57BL/6J mice every 3h over a 24h period, using a TonoLab impact tonometer. We also measured daytime (10:00 pm to 12:00 pm) and nighttime (02:00am to 04:00am) Ctot in anesthetized living mice using a constant flow infusion method. We report that over a 24h period, IOP is highest at midnight (18.34 ± 2.79 mmHg, mean ± St Dev mean) and lowest at midday (12.71 ± 1.42 mmHg), ΔIOP = 5.63 mmHg or 44.3% increase at night, P = 0.005. We also report that Ctot at nighttime (13.66 ± 1.12 nL/min/mmHg ± SEM) is lower than corresponding measurements made during the day time (24.58 ± 2.42 nL/min/mmHg ± SEM), ΔCtot = 10.92 nL/min/mmHg, or 44.4% reduction at night, P = 0.004. In living C57BL/6J mice, IOP and Ctot exhibit circadian variation and appear to be inversely related.

Policy makers and payers are expressing a growing interest in oral health value-based payment approaches to improve the oral health care of patients. Episode of care bundles have the potential to become an important value-based approach in oral health and are already a prominent value-based approach used in health care. In this study, we design two episode of care bundles for oral health preventive services and retrospectively analyze over 16,000 visits in a pediatric dentistry clinic in an urban city in Arizona to evaluate the extent of bundle compliance. Findings from the 16-month study (May 1, 2019 September 1, 2020) indicate that approximately 61% of the Comprehensive Examination Bundles were completed in a sin gle visit while approximately 44% of the Periodic Examination Bundles were completed in a single visit. An item analysis in dicated that radiographs were the most commonly absent bundle element for both bundles with fluoride application and prophylaxis the most commonly absent bundle elements in the Comprehensive Examination Bundle.

An essential component of forensic investigations is forensic anthropology. Forensic Anthropology deals with the study of skeletal remains. When it comes to determining the cause of death and traumatic injuries, forensic anthropology is quite helpful. The investigation of several techniques for identifying traumatic injuries like blunt force trauma, sharp force trauma and gunshot wounds is the major topic of this study. These traumatic injuries are examined using various techniques. This study focuses on the detection of traumatic injuries on skeletal remains by the using visual examination, x-rays analysis, ra diography, CT scans, and photography. Among all of these techniques, visual analysis is of great importance in forensic An thropology because it offers comprehensive data for the investigation of traumatic injuries