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The role of oral health professionals in tobacco cessation

2008

Tobacco is the major independent risk factor for the development of oral cancer and potentially malignant lesions. It is also involved in the pathogenesis of periodontal disease. The members of the dental team can play an effective role in tobacco preventing and cessation as they provide preventive and therapeutic services to a basically healthy population on a regular basis. In this paper, the authors present specific strategies to guide oral health professionals (i.e. dentist and dental hygienist) providing smoking cessation interventions. The “Five A’s” strategic approach represents a brief and effective protocol for smoking cessation that members of dental team can use with all patients…

Tobacco-use cessation counselling in dental practice: an evidence-based approach

2010

Assessment of tobacco dependence education in Italian Dental Hygiene programs

2010

Open Service Innovation: The Case of Tourism Firms in Scandinavia

2016

Most empirical research investigating open innovation has focused on the development of new physical products in manufacturing industries, whereas open service innovation has not been researched correspondingly. Services have some characteristics that distinguish them from physical products, which may affect the types of open innovation practice utilised during service innovation processes. Tourism services comprise a subset of services that is particularly distant from tangible products. Therefore, the exploration of how tourism firms utilise different types of open innovation practice offers a valuable opportunity to learn about the nature of open service innovation practices. Thus, this …

Extracellular Vesicle microRNAs Contribute to the Osteogenic Inhibition of Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Multiple Myeloma

2020

Osteolytic bone disease is the major complication associated with the progression of multiple myeloma (MM). Recently, extracellular vesicles (EVs) have emerged as mediators of MM-associated bone disease by inhibiting the osteogenic differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs). Here, we investigated a correlation between the EV-mediated osteogenic inhibition and MM vesicle content, focusing on miRNAs. By the use of a MicroRNA Card, we identified a pool of miRNAs, highly expressed in EVs, from MM cell line (MM1.S EVs), expression of which was confirmed in EVs from bone marrow (BM) plasma of patients affected by smoldering myeloma (SMM) and MM. Notably,we found that miR-129-5p, whic…

Divergent Patterns and Trends in Breast Cancer Incidence, Mortality and Survival Among Older Women in Germany and the United States

2020

Background: Breast cancer treatment has changed tremendously over the last decades. In addition, the use of mammography screening for early detection has increased strongly. To evaluate the impact of these developments, long-term trends in incidence, mortality, stage distribution and survival were investigated for Germany and the United States (US). Methods: Using population-based cancer registry data, long-term incidence and mortality trends (1975&ndash

Extracellular Vesicles as Shuttles of Tumor Biomarkers and Anti-Tumor Drugs

2014

Extracellular vesicles (EV) include vesicles released by either normal or tumor cells. EV may exceed the nanometric scale (microvesicles), or to be within the nanoscale, also called exosomes. Thus, it appears that only exosomes and larger vesicles may have the size for potential applications in nanomedicine, in either disease diagnosis or therapy. This is of particular interest for research in cancer, also because the vast majority of existing data on EV are coming from pre-clinical and clinical oncology. We know that the microenvironmental features of cancer may favor cell-to-cell paracrine communication through EV, but EV have been purified, characterized, and quantified from plasma of tu…

Teacher emotional support in relation to social competence in preschool classrooms

2020

The present study aimed to investigate the associations between teachers’ observed emotional support and social competence among Finnish pre-schoolers (6-year-olds). The quality of emotional support was observed using the Classroom Assessment Scoring System Pre-K in 47 preschool classrooms twice across the preschool year. Teachers rated children’s social competence in autumn and again in spring, using the Multisource Assessment of Social Competence Scale (MASCS), which produced sum scores for cooperating skills, empathy, impulsivity, and disruptiveness. Consistent with the transactional model, we specified reciprocal (auto-regressive and cross-lagged) relationships within a Multilevel Struc…

Nota a Cass., sez. III, 5.3.2020 (dep. 12.5.2020), n. 14549 (in tema di detenzione per la vendita di sostanze alimentari in cattivo stato di conserva…

2021

Produzione, commercio e consumo – Prodotti alimentari (in genere) – Reati – In genere – Reato di cui all’art. 5, lett. b), l. n. 283 del 1962 – Configurabilità – Modalità di conservazione delle sostanze alimentari – Requisiti – Fattispecie (art. 5, l. 30 aprile 1962, n. 283)

Å høre til i livet : en narrativ studie om selvmordsforebygging i skolen

2016

Masteroppgave pedagogikk - Universitetet i Agder 2016 A feeling of belonging A narrative research about suicide prevention in schools Motivation: Norwegian teenagers are in general well-functioning. They do well in school, have healthy recreational activities, don’t use alcohol and drugs much, have friends and are satisfied with their parents. At the same time there are some disturbing signals. Studies report increasing numbers of youth struggling with their mental health; 15% of the adolescents have indulged in self-harm, 20% have had suicidal thoughts and 10,4% have attempted suicide. The World Health Organization (WHO) claims that suicide is one of the world’s biggest health challenges. …