Consensus Report: 2nd European Workshop on Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation for Oral Health Professionals

Tobacco use has been identified as a major risk factor for oral disorders such as cancer and periodontal disease. Tobacco use cessation (TUC) is associated with the potential for reversal of precancer, enhanced outcomes following periodontal treatment, and better periodontal status compared to patients who continue to smoke. Consequently, helping tobacco users to quit has become a part of both the responsibility of oral health professionals and the general practice of dentistry. TUC should consist of behavioural support, and if accompanied by pharmacotherapy, is more likely to be successful. It is widely accepted that appropriate compensation of TUC counselling would give oral health professionals greater incentives to provide these measures. Therefore, TUC-related compensation should be made accessible to all dental professionals and be in appropriate relation to other therapeutic interventions. International and national associations for oral health professionals are urged to act as advocates to promote population, community and individual initiatives in support of tobacco use prevention and cessation (TUPAC) counselling, including integration in undergraduate and graduate dental curricula. In order to facilitate the adoption of TUPAC strategies by oral health professionals, we propose a level of care model which includes 1) basic care: brief interventions for all patients in the dental practice to identify tobacco users, assess readiness to quit, and request permission to re-address at a subsequent visit, 2) intermediate care: interventions consisting of (brief) motivational interviewing sessions to build on readiness to quit, enlist resources to support change, and to include cessation medications, and 3) advanced care: intensive interventions to develop a detailed quit plan including the use of suitable pharmacotherapy. To ensure that the delivery of effective TUC becomes part of standard care, continuing education courses and updates should be implemented and offered to all oral health professionals on a regular basis.

Education for specialization in prosthodontics in Switzerland and the role of EPA.

Advertisement for any dental treatment was rare in Switzerland. Then the use of digital media became popular, particularly in the field of implant- and esthetic-dentistry. In parallel to the dental schools of public universities, private universities and companies built up centers for continuing education that issue specialists diplomas and M.Sc. degrees. Prosthodontics itself is characterized by many sub-disciplines that incorporated their own associations. These also offer graduate training curricula which diminish the significance of specialization in prosthodontics. Specialized prosthodontists do not have a financial benefit in Switzerland where dentistry is not supported by any insurance. In other European countries funding of prosthodontic treatment depends on their healthcare systems. There are four specialties in Dentistry recognized by the European Union (EU). Specialization in prosthodontics was introduced in Sweden already in 1982 and today it is declared in about 20 European countries, while for others no recognized program exists. Thus there are great variations with more recognized specialists in former east European countries. In Switzerland the prosthodontic specialization curriculum was developed and guided by the Swiss Society for Reconstructive Dentistry, and only in 2001 it became fully acknowledged by the Federal Department of Health. The four Swiss Universities offer the 3-year program under the supervision of the society, while the government remains the executive body. In 2003 EPA tried to set up guidelines and quality standards for an EPA recognized specialization. In spite of these attempts and the Bologna Reform in Europe, it appears that the quality standards and the level of education still may differ significantly among European countries.

Influências do PIBID na representação social de licenciandos em química sobre ser \"professor de química\"

Esta Tese apresenta um estudo sobre a formação inicial de professores de Química em 10 diferentes universidades públicas brasileiras, estabelecidas em 7 diferentes estados e abrange 217 estudantes de licenciatura. Analisou-se a influência do \"Programa Institucional de Bolsas de Iniciação à Docência\" - PIBID - na composição do Núcleo Central (NC) da Representação Social (RS; (MOSCOVICI, 1978) desses Licenciandos sobre o ser \"professor de Química\". Para alocar um termo na zona de centralidade de uma RS é necessário identificar o valor simbólico do termo, refletido em sua saliência, a qual é indicada pela relação entre freqüência e Ordem Média de Evocação e, pelo poder associativo, refletido na conexidade e na categorização temática dos termos. Para a coleta de informações, empregou-se um questionário, com 20 questões, das quais apenas 5 fazem referência específica à tarefa de livre associação de palavras a partir do termo indutor \"professor de Química\", enquanto as demais se referem à caracterização do grupo social. As conclusões deste estudo emergiram da comparação entre o NC da RS de alunos participantes do PIBID (118) com aquele de licenciandos que jamais participaram do Programa (99). Para os alunos participantes dos sub-projetos PIBID-QUÍMICA, os termos do NC da RS investigada são: dedicado, experimentação, responsabilidade. Para o sub-grupo não/PIBID, os termos salientes e com conexidade suficiente para expressar sua centralidade na RS são: dedicado, experimentação, inteligente. Portanto, a zona de centralidade da RS dos dois sub-grupos é diferente, devido a dois termos: responsabilidade e inteligente. O primeiro termo destacado é exclusivo do NC do sub-grupo PIBID, enquanto o último ocorre apenas no NC do sub-grupo não/PIBID. Vale salientar que para o sub-grupo PIBID o termo experimentação apresenta saliência e conexidade expressivos e, para o outro sub-grupo, o termo mais saliente e conexo é dedicado, o que reflete uma diferença qualitativa na organização interna da estrutura das RS, resultado que os caracteriza como diferentes grupos sociais, cada um com uma RS para o ser \"professor de Química\". A presença de termos diferentes na zona de centralidade das RS indica que o processo de formação desenvolvido no âmbito do PIBID expressa a importância da vivência das diferentes práticas pedagógicas junto à Escola Básica durante a formação inicial para a docência em Química, o que não ocorre para o sub-grupo não/PIBID até o momento dos estágios docentes, que demoram muito para acontecer nas Licenciaturas convencionais. No caso do sub-grupo não/PIBID, é forte a presença de termos ligados à idéia de \"vocação\" na docência, expressando aspectos históricos resistentes à mudança no processo de formação de professores.

Library catalogue notes of Isaac Smith, ca. 1789

Thirteen slips of paper with fragments of handwritten alphabetical lists created by Isaac Smith presumably in his capacity as Harvard Librarian. Most of the entries are surnames or single-word subjects. For example, one slip with "M" entries includes: milway, miracles, miraculous, Mitchell, and Mitchell. Some of the lists have struck-through words or have entries annotated with numbers and the abbreviations "o" and "bk." The verso of one leaf has a brief, undated note regarding the transfer of books between Mr. Hilliard and Mr. Smith.

Thaddeus Mason Harris' working documents regarding subject-based library catalog, ca. 1790

Thaddeus Mason Harris, who served as interim librarian of the Harvard College Library in 1787 and as its librarian from 1791 through 1793, is believed to have created these notes while helping compile the library's first printed subject-based catalog. The catalog, Catalogus Bibliothecae Harvardianae Cantabrigiae Nov-Anglorum, was published in 1790 and represented a significant change in approach to the cataloging of the library's collections, which had formerly been cataloged alphabetically. These documents, many of them on small scraps of paper, contain the titles and bibliographic information of books on a range of topics, from "Anatomici" to "Rhetorica."

The Harvard collection of Ismaili literature in Indic languages: a descriptive catalog and finding aid

Ali S. Asani.

A bound on the error in a general quadrature formula with equidistant ordinates /

"October 20, 1954"

A theory of asynchronous circuits I /

"This work has been supported in part by the Office of Naval Research under Contract NR 044 001"

A new class of digital division methods /

"This work was supported in part by the Atomic Energy Commission and the Office of Naval Research under AEC Contract AT(11-1)-415."

A set of basic circuits /

"October 21, 1958"

Design of a high noise immunity analog frequency counter /

"UIUCDCS-R-73-595"

Design of circuits for the pattern articulation unit /

"August 31, 1962."

Modification of teletype equipment for use with Illiac /

"March 11, 1954"

Illiac order code /

"October 12, 1953"

Design of the program-controlled semiconductor and printed circuit board test console /

"October 21, 1963"