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Aim: Various surgical procedures have been proposed as effective treatment methods for recession defects. The purpose of this study was to compare the clinical outcome of gingival recession therapy using coronally advanced flap (CAF) or semilunar coronally positioned flap (SCPF). Material and Method: Procedures were performed in 18 patients having bilateral miller class I or class II buccal recession defects. Randomly assigned sites received either CAF or SCPF treatment.

The plasma parameters like the electron temperature, electron density, ion temperature, ion density etc do not have uniform values across the plasma column in the tokamak. The properties of tokamak plasma column may be studied in detailed by investigating the spatial distribution of the parametric values of the plasmas. The electron temperature and density are assumed to have the profiles like zero order Bessel function. With this assumption the radial profiles of fractional densities of the ions and spectral emission are obtained and are studied.

Sorghum grains are mostly used for the roti preparation. The M 35-1 (Maldhandi) a sorghum cultivar is known for its good quality of roti due to having pearly white grain colour, its flour having higher water holding capacity, and good organoleptic taste. However, this cultivar is low yielder. To evolve sorghum high yielding genotype coupled with these good roti qualities, systematic breeding program was planned and executed to overcome this problem.

Pleural effusion is excess fluid that accumulates between the two pleural layers, the fluid-filled space that surrounds the lungs. Excessive amounts of such fluid can impair breathing by limiting the expansion of the lungs during ventilation. Pleural effusion is usually diagnosed on the basis of medical history and physical examination, and confirmed by chest x-ray and ultrasonography.

Health is a best condition for happiness and progress in the life of an individual as well as a community. Every human being is responsible for his own health. In humans it is the ability of individual or communities to adapt and self- manage when facing physical and mental and social challenges (Gulani, 2006). The World Health Organization (WHO) defines Health as its broader sense in its 1948 constitution as “a state of complete physical, mental, social and spiritual wellbeing and not merely in the absence of disease or infirmity” (Park, 2011).

Behavioural problems can happen in children of all ages. Some children have serious behavioural problems. Sometimes, a child's behaviour can affect their development and interfere with their ability to lead a normal life. When behaviour is this much of a problem, it is called a conduct disorder. Younger children who behave disruptively and aggressively at home may be diagnosed as having ‘oppositional defiant disorder’. Conduct disorder can cause a lot of distress to children, families, schools and local communities.

Most of the literatures are limited to response of simple structures. These studies provide a good fundamental knowledge regarding blast load effects in actual blast explosions. The interaction between blast loads and structures, as well as the interaction among structural members may well affect the structural response and damage. Therefore it is necessary to analyze the structures under blast load effects.

There is no life without water. Water covers about 71% of the earth’s surface and provides the most extensive medium for aquatic animals to live. Man has utilized lakes, ponds and reservoirs as important water resources and exploited them for various purposes. Minute organisms called plankton occur in the waters bodies. Zooplankton are animal plankton. Plankton abundance and distribution are strongly dependant on factors such as ambient nutrient concentration, physical state of the water column and the abundance of other plankton.

The present study was designed to investigate the preventive potential of vanillic acid (VA) on isoproterenol (ISO)-induced oxidative stress and heart mitochondrial damage in rats. Male albino Wistar rats were pretreated with VA (10mg/kg, body weight) once daily for 10 days. After the pretreatment antioxidant, and oxidative stress parameters in serum and heart tissues were measured. ISO treated rats showed the activity of myoglobin was increased significantly (p < 0.05) in the serum of ISO rats.

Skin is protective shield of body and any injury exposure onsets its regeneration and natural recovery process. As reported data confirm that synthetic wound healers disturb dermal natural metabolic process and their constituents replace natural activators at cellular level. While herbal preparations should be preferred to treat skin wounds and injuries because they are easy to access, low cost and do not cause any sort of side effects. They simply aid the natural healing mechanism of a living body.