Fundamentals of Clinical Dentistry: Intro to Indices and Charting Specific Objectives: 1) Define the purpose of dental indices, such as DMF-T, DMF-S, Gingival Inflammation Index and Plaque Index. Dental indices are important tools used in examinations to provide a numeric score that quantifies the magnitude of the disease measured. DMF-T: The number of teeth that are decayed, missing, or filled, the DMFT index, is a total score of all affected teeth and provides a caries experience score for
As the life expectancy in the United States rises, the number of elderly in the population has also expanded. These increases have led to the oldest-old (people aged 90 and older) to become the fastest growing age group in the country. The oldest-old face many unique challenges because of their age, one of which is disability. Disability in the elderly has major impact upon society 1 and will continue will be a growing burden in years to come. Although there is evidence from many studies that
Key Data Measurement During module two, we began to gain an understanding of various key data measurements and terms of epidemiology. There are many advantages to using bar, chart, line graph, and pie chart data presentations. The terms ratio, rates, proportions, percentages, prevalence and incidence play a vital role in epidemiology. Data Presentation There are many advantages of using bar charts, line graphs, and pie charts. Once an epidemiological study is completed and all the data is collected
“Class,” I announced, “today I will teach you a simpler method to find the greatest common factor and the least common multiple of a set of numbers.” In fifth grade, my teacher asked if anyone had any other methods to find the greatest common factor of two numbers. I volunteered, and soon the entire class, and teacher, was using my method to solve problems. Teaching my class as a fifth grader inspired me to teach others how important math and science is. These days, I enjoy helping my friends with
the narrator into and what he sees for himself creates a distortion in his identity leading to his indifferent attitude towards the society around him, ultimately creating his invisibility. A society, that has placed him as the lowest common denominator, demands (Used him and his to much edit later)him to understand his place in a society that wants him to be less than what he is. A society that is held in place by those like Bledsoe who was the same as the narrator. But in exchange for his position
I attended a live performance of Disenchanted on April 23rd, 2017 at the Boulder Dinner Theatre. Book, lyrics and music were written, composed and lyricized by Dennis T. Giancio. Disenchanted tells a story about the classic Disney fairytale princesses, but takes a more satirical, feminist approach about each of the flaws of each Disney princess. The Disney writers presented the princesses in an unrealistic and unnatural way by over feminizing them and attempting to dim their racial/ethnic background
virtual self, by Nora Young is a book about self-tracking, the obsessive recording of the daily life online. The obsession with data. How is this data is altering the world. Many People are obsessed with this data. Sometime you don’t even notice that you are gathering a lot of data. Data can be pictures online, having a smartphone nowadays is enough to gather the data for you, Google android if enabled, has a website where you can see what do you do daily by showing you your journey, where you
about the basic descriptive data elements that are needed to answer the question I previously posed, it is important to understand what we mean by descriptive statistics. Descriptive statistics describe the features of the data collected. In other words, descriptive statistics describe “what” the data looks like, but it does not tell you why or how data elements interact or influence one another. Descriptive statistics provide a defender with summaries about the data collected and these summaries
with my professors and professionals linked with oil and gas industry, I chose Geophysics as my area of interest for my graduation. I was then recruited by BGP International (one of the major Geological and Geophysical servicing company) as a Seismic Data Processing Geophysicist in 2009. The job required me to travel extensively across Pakistan as well as abroad and I provided project management solutions to large-scale EPC projects ranging up-to US$ 100 million. This en...
having stroke, females are more likely to die of strokes.1 Using a descriptive analysis on the stroke mortality data sets from the Center of Disease Control Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research (CDC Wonder), data was gathered on race, age, sex, geographic distribution, and incidence in a ten-year period. The stroke morality data was across a ten-year period, 2000-2010. The data examined only deaths categorized as I63.9, Cerebral Infraction, Unspecific and underlying cause of death, which
the web for targeting customers based on their likes. This paper also covers the issues and concerns of data mining, and the privacy of online consumers. I will explain how personal information is obtained, and what purposes it is used for. I will also cover ways in which we can control how our information is being handled, and how to keep information out of other people’s hands. Keywords: data mining The Internet and Online Marketing Has online marketing gone too far? The privacy of consumers has
Women are weighing the importance of economic contribution they make to the household. The actual count of economically active married women is much more than aggregate level data would indicate. The great change had taken place when the machines were brought into use. Women were employed in factories. 1.4 Meaning and definitions of entrepreneurship There were different definitions given by different authors tried. Some of the definitions are given below. According to
and its data as well. A cloud service differs from traditional hosting in three different ways. These three differences are that cloud computing is elastic, it is sold on demand, and the service is managed by the provider of the cloud. The easiest way to explain what cloud computing does is that it stores and gives access to different data and programs over the internet rather than just your computer’s hard drive. For it to be actually considered cloud computing it must include data or programs
checking in, baggage claim, boarding the place, and even used when flying. The hardware, which are mainly computers are everywhere and used to confirm people’s flights. The software on these computers is essential for allowing people into the airport. Data is everywhere, from the monitor screens around the
has raised concerns in the loss of control over data as well as privacy and security. The idea of handing over important data to another client, worries many. With Cloud Computing continue to gain popularity, client and user are showing sign of over reliance to it. Hence, it is important to know these concerns and the inherent risks associated with it. The underlying risks exist in the area of security and privacy are loss of control over data and dependency on the service providers. These can
Mark Benioff of Salesforce.com once said, "The world is being re-shaped by the convergence of social, mobile, cloud, big data, community and other powerful forces. The combination of these technologies unlocks an incredible opportunity to connect everything together in a new way and is dramatically transforming the way we live and work." These are powerful words and so true of the world that we currently live in. Still, I also understand how hard it is to let go of the world we once lived in and
progressive stages of internship, initial phases of internship at Vision Square Inc. involves learning and exploring Microsoft Business intelligence tools, then applying the BI tools emphasis will be made on extracting and reporting data from SQL database, creating tables on the data base along with establishing relationship between entities and elements. Intended output of this action research is to be able to generate effective administration of SQL database which will be as a part of work flow at Vision
the blog TechCrunch and is called “Data Privacy Just Makes Good Business Sense”. This article refers to the popular growing trend which is the use of Big Data. Big Data is referred to as, “The large volume of data which is collected and stored by organizations for further analysis for better strategic business decisions.” (SAS) This definition has shifted quite a bit over the years as organizations are producing all kinds of new innovations with all this data. This article touches on the fact that
Virtual reality essay -What is a virtual reality? Definition: The computer-generated simulation of a three-dimensional image or environment that can be interacted with in a seemingly real or physical way by a person using special electronic equipment, such as a helmet with a screen inside or gloves fitted with sensors. Virtual reality is a very new interest of a lot of companies working with technology and gaming industry at it is found to be a gold mine for business that due to the technological
quantitative data and relevant business intelligence, is available to businesses and business partners. This new form of information is known as “big data,” which according to Viktor Mayer-Schonberger and Kenneth Cukier is not merely the ownership of large amounts of data, but also the “ability of society [including businesses] to harness information in novel ways to produce useful insights or goods and services of significant value.” A key example given by Cukier and Mayer in their book Big Data, is the