Search results for "accessibility"

The importance of correct implants positioning and masticatory load direction on a fixed prosthesis

2018

Background Through the biomechanical study of dental implants, it is possible to understand the dissipation effects of masticatory loads in different situations and prevent the longevity of osseointegration. Aims: To evaluate the microstrains generated around external hexagon implants, using axial and non-axial loads in a fixed four-element prosthesis with straight implants and implants inclined at 17°. Material and Methods Three implants were modeled using CAD software following the manufacturer's measurements. Then, implants were duplicated and divided into two groups: one with straight implants and respective abutments, and the other with angled implants at 17° and respective abutments. …

Reduction of beauvericin and enniatins bioaccessibility by prebiotic compounds, evaluated in static and dynamic simulated gastrointestinal digestion

2015

Abstract The aim of this study was to investigate the bioaccessibility of beauvericin (BEA) and enniatins (ENs) present in wheat crispy breads. A microbial fermentation was performed by a BEA- and ENs-producer Fusarium strain, adding inulin and fructooligosaccharides (FOS) at two concentrations (1% and 5%). The bioaccessibility of mycotoxins was determined by static and dynamic simulated gastrointestinal digestion systems, imitating the digestive physiological conditions until the colonic compartment. BEA and ENs were determined in the intestinal fluids by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS). BEA and ENs bioaccessibilities in the static model (46.7–61.1% and 6.2–44.9%,…

Accessible stories within mediascapes. Voicing otherness in digital museums

2022

This article presents the first steps in the investigation of the potential for digital storytelling and digital museums to be used as instruments for access, as enablers of epistemic and poietic agency. Digital storytelling and migration museums are used as a case study to explore in what ways digital storytelling impacts meaning-making processes performed by migrants, allowing them to become active creators and disseminators of their own experiences. Through the combination of corpus linguistics, systemic functional linguistics, and lexical semantic analysis, an ad-hoc comparable corpus of migrant narratives in English and in Italian was cross-examined in order to scrutinise the conceptua…

La innovación empresarial y la difusión como nuevos factores de desarrollo territorial. Una comparación entre dos áreas geográficas de diferente acce…

2003

Javier.Esparcia@uv.es Joan.Noguera@uv.es Vicente.Ferrer@uv.es El proyecto AsPIRE (Perifericidad No Espacial, Innovación y la Economía Rural) intenta dar respuesta a algunas de las dudas que están surgiendo en ciertos modelos geo-económicos tradicionales. El desarrollo de otros factores parece que puede suplir parcialmente las deficiencias ligadas a la localización geográfica. La comunicación que presentamos se centra en el papel de la innovación y las redes empresariales como uno de los factores emergentes de desarrollo territorial. The AsPIRE Project (Aspatial Peripherality, Innovation and the Rural Economy intends to provide a scientifically valid answer to some of the problems arising in…

Non-participation modestly increased with distance to the examination clinic among adults in Finnish health examination surveys

2018

Aims: Health examination surveys (HES) provide important information about population health and health-related factors, but declining participation rates threaten the representativeness of collected data. It is hard to conduct national HESs at examination clinics near to every sampled individual. Thus, it is interesting to look into the possible association between the distance from home to the examination clinic and non-participation, and whether there is a certain distance after which the participation activity decreases considerably. Methods: Data from two national HESs conducted in Finland in 2011 and 2012 were used and a logistic regression model was fitted to investigate how distanc…

Disparities in Accessing Sexual and Reproductive Health Services at the Intersection of Disability and Female Adolescence in Tanzania

2021

Despite at times having greater needs for sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services, adolescents with disabilities often face challenges when trying to access them. This inaccessibility is further exacerbated during female adolescence. The qualitative study examines how SRH services respond to the characteristics of Tanzanian adolescent females with disabilities. We used the method of empathy-based stories to investigate the perceptions of 136 adolescent females with disabilities of their access to SRH services in Tanzania. The study used thematic content analysis and the Levesque model of health care access was applied as an analytical framework. The results demonstrate that discrimina…

Very preterm birth: who has access to antenatal corticosteroid therapy?

2010

International audience; We describe the administration of antenatal corticosteroid therapy (ACT) for liveborn very preterm neonates in a population-based study. A total of 790 very preterm neonates (between 24 and 31 full weeks of gestation) were included in this regionally defined population of very preterm neonates in France. The main outcome measure was non-access to ACT. Data were analysed using logistic and polytomous models to control for neonatal and sociodemographic characteristics, mechanisms of very preterm birth and neonatal network organisation. As compared with level III, births in levels I-II maternity units were closely related to non-access to ACT (60.1% vs. 8.8%), but not t…

Thirty-five years later, the first assisted reproductive technology program opens in Cambodia

2015

Modelling Geohistorical Accessibility in the Long Run: the Growth of the Waterway's Network

2022

Historical GIS are common tools used in social sciences. They allow to inventory spatial objects over time and to make space a real determinant in the analysis in the long run. Often the projects are focusing on the collect and we aim here to focus on data analysis. The succession of transportation networks is the way to revive economic geography through spatially linked population and occupational data. In the long run it consists of empirical analyses to assess the role of geohistorical accessibility in the local development. Our research project aims to offer a multimodal analysis since the 19th century to question the regional development in France face to the growth of transportation n…

POSSIBILITIES OF THE HEALTH CARE PERFECTION IN LATVIA

2010

Characterizing the health care system from the sustainable point of view, it is important to evaluate the operational principles of the healthy society. It is necessary to evaluate the existing problems in the health care sector and to identify further development possibilities in order to be able to perform the high healthy society standard. The Latvian financial accessibility of the health care during the last years has been explored. The article provides the analysis of main development tendencies of the medical accessibility for inhabitants, where suggestions of potentialities for their further development are given.