Aim: the aim of the study is to evaluate the knowledge and attitude of Riyadh Elm University (REU) dental students and interns towards treatment modalities of bruxism. Materials and methods: A cross-sectional electronic-based questionnaire was administered in Saudi Arabia from February-April 2020. Validation of the survey was made according to principal components analysis. The questionnaire had 19 questions and it was sent electronically to Participants after obtaining the ethical approval from the Ethical Committee in Riyadh Elm University on the 24th or February 2020. Participants included undergraduate dental students in clinical years and interns at Riyadh elm university, Saudi Arabia both genders. A response of 288 participants has been collected. Results: 223 responds were collected, 193 participants were female (86.5%), while 30 (13.5%) were male. The majority of the participants were level 12 students (50.7%), while 19.7% were interns. The most common method of management for awake bruxism stated by participants was relaxation methods, 79.4% followed by splint therapy 40.8%, and pharmacological therapy 35%. However, the most common method of management for sleep bruxism stated by participants was splint therapy 80.3%, followed by relaxation therapy 45.3% and sleep hygiene methods 40.8%. 36.8% of participants have been involved in the treatment of patients with bruxism. However, 78.9 % of practitioners agreed that the occlusal splint used to treat only signs and symptoms of bruxism. Among students who treated patients with bruxism, 53.1% followed up with their patients. Conclusion: There is sufficient knowledge and awareness of REU undergraduate dental students in clinical years and interns about the treatment modalities of bruxism.

There are different phonological processes across Tshivenḓa linguistics, however, this paper only focuses on vowel processes involving syllable structure or syllabification in Tshivenḓa. When a syllable is affected by any phonological phenomena, it is either reduction, deletion or glide formation that takes place. This study explores three vowel phonological processes affecting syllable structure in Tshivenḓa, namely; vowel deletion, vowel epenthesis and glide formation. The in-depth of this study will add to the literature of Tshivenḓa linguistics and to the knowledge of the scientific study of language. Qualitative data was gathered through the use of phonological field work. The Optimality Theory is the framework underpinning this study.

Although the formation of science may be investigated from the theological dimension, the sufficiency of human requirements in the study of the Qur’an is not only studied from the perspectives of Sufism, norms, systems, social practices, and knowledge. The essence of sufficiency in the study of the Qur’an for Muslims and others analyzes not only the material dimension but also the social and theological dimensions. This viewpoint at the very least provides insight into the range of the meaning of sufficiency in human existence, which gives rise to scientific results in a variety of forms and styles. Sufficiency in meeting needs is an eloquence that originates from the terms kafa, hasbi, and qona’a. The three words etymologically both mean enough. But in terms of terminology, adequacy in question is a feeling that the needs have been filled. The concept of adequacy in fulfilling needs which have the consequence of becoming a theological concept is constructed through the interpretation of the words kafa, hasbi, and qonaa, and is combined with the hadith about the adequacy and also the knowledge of Sufism that he has studied such as tawakkal and tafwidh, to obtain a solid construction. So this appears appropriate to be applied during Hedonic society in the current era. The sufficiency given by Allah to humans can be analyzed into several types, namely grace, istidroj, and sustenance that is promised to each of His creatures. In our modern-day, when the motive for pursuing necessities is carried out in a hedonic, pragmatic pattern and is backed by Maslow and Herzberg’s theory, Muslims’ notions of adequacy and the nature of feeling adequate are certainly extremely important and required. The notion of adequacy in Islam, which is derived from al-interpretation, Azhar’s namely the ideas of tawakkal and tafwidh, gives a new version to Maslow's theory, namely “Spiritual Self Actualization of Needs Motivation”, and Herzberg’s theory, namely “Spiritual Value of Herzberg Motivation”.

With the development of society, women's social roles have gradually changed. The vacancy of appellation words accompanying this change has gradually become apparent. The lack of an appellation corresponding to 师母 is one of these phenomena. On the basis of previous studies, this article discusses the question of how to choose the personal deixis for the appellation terms corresponding to 师母 under the guidance of pragmatic principles, which provides a new way for the complement of the appellation corresponding to 师母. Through the analysis of this article, the author believes that it is difficult to choose a perfect appellation corresponding to 师母 in the contemporary society where the relation between people is relatively complicated and the social hierarchy is also a complicated affair.

One of the key determinants of government size is the quantity of expenditure the government does out of the funds it gets from revenues and borrowings. Therefore, effective mobilization of public-sector funds requires exploring how the revenues and borrowings impact on the future values of government expenditure. In this line, using government expenditure as the proxy for government size and Nigeria as a case study, this paper examines the future course of government size in Africa’s oil-producing countries through an ex post forecasting analysis which involves forecasting Nigeria’s government expenditure in an autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model. The analysis is based on time series data spanning 1981 to 2017, out of which the ARDL model is estimated for the 1981-2014 period, before ex post forecasting is done for the remaining 2015-2017 period. The results show that oil revenue, external debt, and the past level of government expenditure will have positive correlations with the future levels of government size, while non-oil revenue and domestic debt will have negative correlations. However, current oil revenue will play a unique role in the future path of government size, in that oil revenue is the only exogenous variable without any lagged term selected with its current term by the information criterion (Akaike Information Criterion) used for selecting the optimal ARDL model, which is selected among 2,500 competing models. A key policy implication of these findings is that optimum mobilization of public funds in the concerned countries requires paying special attention to current oil revenue.

Background: Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) is a metabolic disorder with an impact on the reproductive, metabolic, and cardiovascular health disease of women. It affects approximately 5%-10% of women in the reproductive age groups. The disorder can be morphological polycystic ovaries or predominantly biochemical hyperandrogenism, a clinical hallmark of PCOS, which can cause inhibition of follicular development, micro cysts in the ovaries, anovulation, and menstrual changes. Aims and Objective: A Correlative Study of C3 in Women with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome. Materials and Methods: This was hospital based cross-sectional study carried out among PCOS was conducted in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Index Medical College Hospital, and Indore. This study was conducted from 1st January 2018 to 31st December 2019. A total of 260 subjects with age group between 15 to 45 years were divided into two group; cases (130) and controls (130). Results: Among a total of 260 cases, based on clinical and different biochemical parameters, 130 were diagnosis with PCOS and 130 were healthy women. The mean ±SD of various parameters among PCOS cases were; body mass index (BMI) 32.97±8.466, total cholesterol (TC) 188.42±31.126, triglyceride (TG) 134.43±50.01, high density lipoprotein (HDL) 36.29±9.55 TC/HDL ratio, 5.54±1.865 serum C3, 160.66±29.155 versus BMI 22.87±2.470, TC 155.42±26.333, TG 110.00±42.19, HDL 41.22±10.912, TC/HDL ratio 4.08±1.39, serum C3 127.48±35.60in healthy control. Conclusion: In this study, the role of inflammation and different biochemical markers were studied among PCOS cases. It was found that a majority of the PCOS patients were obese having insulin resistance. The levels of C3 as a marker of chronic low grade inflammation were higher in newly diagnosed PCOS as compared to the controls. The C3 values correlated well with various physiological and biochemical parameter.

Purpose of the study: Modern economy cannot be thought without banks. The banks of Bangladesh have great contributions to the development of this country. This study concentrated on the commercial banks in Bangladesh to determine the effect of specific factors on financial performance. Design/methodology/approach: The study applies the statistical tools SPSS 20 version through descriptive statistics and a panel regression model which comprises 16 commercial banks listed by DSE and CSE yielding a total of 80 observations over the period of 2016-2020. Findings: The specific objectives of this research were obtained from the performance model indicated there is a significant positive correlation between Y1 of commercial banks with X1, X2, X3, X4, X5, and X6 while negative correlation X7 showed the statistically insignificant impact on performance. From the regression model reveal that X1 and X2 and others variables have statistically significant while X3, X4, X5, X6, and X7 had an insignificant impact. However, it is recommended that empirical studies should be undertaken in the same field to find out what more bank factors could affect the performance of banks. Applications of this study: This study has greater importance for government, bank managers, investors, academicians, and scholars etc. Originality/Novelty: In this study, the number of bank is taken as a different factor in selected commercial banks and bridges the gap in the banking literature of Bangladesh.

External RC containment vessel of nuclear power plant is considered as a vital structure in the nuclear plant. The main function for the external RC containment is to prevent the escape of radiation into the external environment. The external RC containment of NPPs is subjected to impact of an aeroplane Boeing 707-320 acting on 16 exterior nodes at a vertical distance of 30m measured from the top of the foundation level. The problem in this research is the damage generated due to the impact of missile on external RC containment which can escape the radiation into the external environment. The response for RC containment was conducted with respect to stresses, displacement, velocity and acceleration after the impact. The objective is to increase the compressive strength of concrete in order to reduce the damage for RC containment due to impact of missile compared to concrete with a compressive strength of 30 Mpa. It was observed that the damage affects only the impact region of the RC containment. Parametric numerical modelling was conducted using ANSYS program for concrete having different compressive strength for external RC containment. It was observed that the effect of different compressive strength has a great result on the displacement, velocity and acceleration for RC containment due to impact of Boeing 707-320.

One of the key determinants of government size is the quantity of expenditure the government does out of the funds it gets from revenues and borrowings. Therefore, effective mobilization of public-sector funds requires exploring how the revenues and borrowings impact on the future values of government expenditure. In this line, using government expenditure as the proxy for government size and Nigeria as a case study, this paper examines the future course of government size in Africa’s oil-producing countries through an ex post forecasting analysis which involves forecasting Nigeria’s government expenditure in an autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model. The analysis is based on time series data spanning 1981 to 2017, out of which the ARDL model is estimated for the 1981-2014 period, before ex post forecasting is done for the remaining 2015-2017 period. The results show that oil revenue, external debt, and the past level of government expenditure will have positive correlations with the future levels of government size, while non-oil revenue and domestic debt will have negative correlations. However, current oil revenue will play a unique role in the future path of government size, in that oil revenue is the only exogenous variable without any lagged term selected with its current term by the information criterion (Akaike Information Criterion) used for selecting the optimal ARDL model, which is selected among 2,500 competing models. A key policy implication of these findings is that optimum mobilization of public funds in the concerned countries requires paying special attention to current oil revenue.

In the comparative study of Chinese and English in China, more studies focus on the meaning of words themselves, but less study on the comparison of the pairs of synonyms. Based on the collocative meaning in Leech’s seven types of meanings in semantics, this article will take the Chinese characters “红” “赤”, the English words “red” and “scarlet” as examples to analyze the differences in commendatory and derogatory meanings between Chinese and English synonyms. In this way, we can analyze the linguistic characteristics of the degree to which the Chinese and English are affected by collocative meaning.

Objective: The aim of this study is to compare the physical and mental abilities between Indian and foreign soccer players. Methods: As for the study methodology, 90 male soccer players were recruited for this study, 30 of them were from India and 60 were from foreign countries. Only defensive and attacking positional Soccer players were selected for this study. All Indian soccer players who have participated only for the national soccer team and who have their own FIFA (Federation International Football Association) rankings were only selected for the study. Foreign soccer players who were selected for the study were from different countries and who also have their own FIFA (Federation International Football Association) rankings. Results: Two soccer performance factors namely physical and mental Skills were considered for this study. Mental skills were measured with the help of aggression response; assist position, interception, vision and composer skills whereas Physical skills were measured with the help of acceleration, stamina, strength, balance, sprint speed, agility and jumping skills. Secondary data has been used for this study. The Student’t’ test statistics was applied to check the existence of significant differences between Indian and Foreign male soccer players. Conclusion: In conclusion, significant differences were observed across all physical and mental abilities in favour of foreign soccer players.

The purpose of this study, to determine the effect of salesperson behavior on salesperson performance; the influence of the role of supervision on the performance of the salesperson and the influence of the performance of the salesperson on the marketing performance. A sample of all apparel SME salespeople in the city of Semarang, Indonesia. The sampling technique is purposive sampling with criteria for salespeople who have at least one year of experience. The data of this study are primary data generated through a questionnaire. The answers given by respondents using SEM analysis techniques, which are run through the AMOS 4.01 program. The results of the analysis provide empirical evidence that the behavior of salespeople and the role of supervisors can improve salesperson performance and have an impact on improving marketing performance.

Consumer protection in electronic commerce transactions is an essential component of any economic system. It is all about making sure that the consumers’ rights are protected by providing mechanisms for reparation of damages in case of infringement, be it in the provision of services or products. For example, consumers who fall victim of defective products or to identity theft can be harmed by having their privacy invaded, suffering the psychological stress of having their reputation ruined, incurring financial liabilities, and undergoing tremendous transaction costs to restore their names. In this vain, this paper aimed at making an appraisal of jurisprudential and legal instruments governing e-commerce transactions in Cameroon with particular emphasis on matters of online contracts for sales of goods and services. The paper also provide modest solutions for the hurdles facing Cameroonian consumers in establishing contractual liability both at the regional (through the Organization pour l’Harmonization en Afrique du Droit des Affaires (OHADA, the Organization for the Harmonization of Business Law in Africa OHBLA) and national level. The paper therefore, concludes with some salient recommendations to bridge the gap between theory and practice in electronic commerce transactions in Cameroon.

The discourse of the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokespersons is not only an important means to convey China’s attitude, but also one of the important subjects to construct China’s national image. The discourse of the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokespersons conveys China’s value orientation to the whole world. From the perspective of critical pragmatics, this article aims to analyze how the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokespersons construct China’s national image in the aspect of discourse with the support of speech act theory. Taking the origin-tracing issue of COVID-19 as an example, the study found that the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokespersons use the performative verbs of assertives, dierctives and commissives in their discourse to construct a responsible China’s national image of seeking truth from facts, acting transparently, respecting for science and actively carrying out cooperation.

Background: The term stroke or cerebro-vascular accident refers to a syndrome of rapidly developing clinical signs of focal (or global) disturbance of cerebral function, with symptoms lasting 24 hours or longer or resulting in death with no apparent cause other than of vascular origin. Stroke can be classified into two broad types: Ischemic and Hemorrhagic. There are multiple risk factors for stroke but systemic hypertension (HBP) is the most common yet modifiable risk factor for stroke [9]. Cardioembolic stroke is a heterogenous entity and a variety of cardiac conditions can predispose to cerebral embolism. Methodology: Literature search was done using google search, hinari research, PubMed and books from the author’s collection. Results: The GBD study for the years 2002-2030 has estimated that there were 16 million first-ever strokes and 5.7 million deaths in 2005. The prevalence of stroke in subjects with HBP has been reported by various authors worldwide to range from 19.5% in Canada to 29% in USA and 30% in England. Cardiac diseases have been shown to increase risk of stroke. Atrial fibrillation is the most powerful and treatable cardiac precursor of stroke. The cardiovascular risk factors from the current National Cholesterol Education Project Adult Treatment Panel III (NCEP ATP III) include the non- modifiable, modifiable and emerging risk factors.