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DENTAL PUBLIC HEALTH & RESEARCH Contemporary Practice for the Dental Hygienist Fourth Edition Brief Contents UNIT I INTRODUCTION TO DENTAL PUBLIC HEALTH  1 UNIT III DENTAL HYGIENE RESEARCH  179 1 Dental Public Health: An Overview  2 14 Research in Dental Hygiene  180 2 The Prevention Movement  17 15 Ethical Principles in Research  187 3 Dental Care Delivery in the United States  34 16 The Research Process  195 4 Dental Hygiene Care Delivery in the Global Community 47 17 Biostat...

Principle of segregation Correct Answer Alleles separate during meiosis Independent assortment Correct Answer Alleles at one locus sort independently from alleles at another locus Recombination Correct Answer Alleles sort into new combinations Linked genes separate together and crossing over produces recombination between them Correct Answer linked genes are found in the same loci of chromosomes complete linkage leads to noncombinant gametes and noncombinant progeny Crossing o...

Community Health Answer the health status of a defined group of people & the actions & conditions to promote, protect, & preserve their health Community Answer a group of individuals identified by at least one common characteristic Factors that affect community health Answer physical factors, community organization, social & cultural factors, individual behaviors Public Health Answer actions the society takes collectively to ensure that the conditions in which people can be healthy can ...

Backup and Recovery Answer The ability to get a system up and running in the event of a system crash that includes restoring the information backup. Disaster recovery Answer A detailed process for recovering information or a system in the event of a catastrophic disaster Emergency preparedness Answer Ensures a company is ready to respond to an emergency in an organized, timely, and effective manner Virtualization Answer Creates multiple "virtual" machines on a single computing device ...

accounting total cost Answer explicit costs only economic total cost Answer accounting total cost + implicit costs economic total cost is opportunity cost accounting profit = Answer total revenue - accounting total costs economic profit = Answer total revenue - economic total costs when economic profit = 0 Answer normal economic profit; means that the firm is doing as well as it could in it's next best alternative economic profit > 0 Answer firm's owner is doing better tha...

Sensory receptors Answer -Receptors convert stimuli in the environment into generator potential on sensory neuron -Sensory Neurons can be part of receptor or synapse on the receptor - different types of receptors are particularly sensitive to different, specific stimuli receptors cont. Answer -they can be free nerve endings on sensory nerves - receptors are sensitive to tissue damage and initiate sensation of pain via graded membrane potential charge -they can be specialized, independent...

What feature of dietary fiber is responsible for its role in maintain gastro-intestinal health? a. Bonds between glucose molecules are unstable, and the digestive system can break down the fiber with minimal energy, effort, or strain on the system. b. Bonds between glucose molecules that cannot be broken by our digestive enzymes c. Chains consist solely of glucose and no other monosaccharides d. It comes from plants Answer b. Bonds between glucose molecules that cannot be broken by our dige...

Costs of Losing Human Capital (Turnover) Answer 1. Loss of skills/experience 2. Drop in efficiency/learning curve 3. Unstable Environment 4. Selection 5. Training 6. Bad Reputation 7. Loss of Knowledge to Competitors 8. Customer Satisfaction Issues 9. Financial Results Why be on the top 100 list? Answer 1. Retention 2. Employer of Choice 3. Good Reputation 4. Customer/Supplier Confidence Employee Value Proposisition Answer What the employee provides to attract and retain employe...

Diseases caused by Streptococcus Pyogenes Answer Strep Throat Rheumatic Fever Glomerulonephritis Erysipelas Impetigo Septicemia Puerperal Sepsis Necrotizing Fasciitis Pneumonia Immunization and Treatment for Pneumonia Answer Vaccine based on polysaccharide. Protects against 90% of infections Treated with antibiotics Immunization and Treatment for Tuberculosis Answer BCG Vaccine Antibiotics for 6-9 months DOTS What conditions may lead a person to develop Pneumonia and Rheumati...

Motor learning - How do we acquire movement skills? Motor Skills - Movements are the component parts of... To produce adaptable and complex movements - According to Daniel Wolpert, what is the reason we have a brain? Cerebral Cortex - Which part of the brain initiates voluntary movement? Brainstem - In which part of the brain do the sensory and motor neurons cross from one side of the body to the other? Frontal - In which part of the brain does motor cortex exist? Reaction Time - The tim...