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This study investigated the ability of SDF, and its individual components, silver (Ag
) and fluoride (F
) ions, in preventing enamel demineralization under pH-cycling conditions in the presence or absence of twice-daily fluoride application.

PF-477736 mw were assigned to five treatment groups (n = 36 per group) SDF (38 %); SDF followed by application of a saturated solution of potassium iodide (SDF + KI); silver nitrate (AgNO
; silver control, 253,900 ppm Ag); potassium fluoride (KF; fluoride control, 44,800 ppm F); deionized water. Treatments were applied once. Specimens in each treatment group were divided into two subgroups (n = 18). During the subsequent 7-day pH-cycling phase, specimens were treated twice daily with either 275 ppm fluoride as sodium fluoride or deionized water, immediately before and after a 3-h cariogenic challenge with exposure to artificial saliva at all other times. Changes in color, Vickers surface microhardness (SMH), transverse microradiography (TMR) was calculated. Data were analyzed using two-way ANOVA.

In both models, SDF, SDF + KI and KF were superior in inhibiting demineralization compared to AgNO
and deionized water (p < 0.0001). There was no statistically significant difference between SDF, SDF + KI and KF with twice daily fluoride treatments (p > 0.8). However, KF was more effective in preventing demineralization than SDF and SDF + KI in the absence of fluoride treatments (p = 0.0002). KI did not affect the ability of SDF to prevent demineralization (p > 0.4).

SDF and SDF + KI appears to be an effective option in preventing primary coronal caries.
SDF and SDF + KI appears to be an effective option in preventing primary coronal caries.Two experiments examined factors that predicted children's tendencies to match objects versus relations across scenes when no instruction was given. #link# Specifically, we assessed the presence of higher relational responding in children by (a) age, (b) greater presumed experience in generating relations through socialization in China versus the United States, and (c) in children with greater manipulated experience via a relational priming task. Experiment 1 showed that Chinese and U.S. children across all ages showed an initial bias to match objects versus relations across scenes. However, older children in both regions were more likely to notice features of the task that indicated attending to relational matches was a more reliable solution, and shifted their responding toward relations over the course of the task. Experiment 2 replicated the object-mapping bias and age effects within U.S. children while also examining the impact of directly manipulating children's relational experiences to test the malleability of the bias. Before the main scene-mapping task, children did a relation generation task known to prime attention to relations. This did not override the initial bias toward object mapping, but it magnified the role of age, making older children increasingly sensitive to task features that prompted relational matches, further shifting their responding toward relations over the course of the task.When students start learning decimals, they may incorrectly apply features of their prior numerical knowledge (e.g., whole-number or fraction rules). However, because whole numbers, fractions, and decimals all have their own unique features, these whole-number and fraction strategies do not always lead to correct solutions. We examined whether receiving immediate accuracy feedback while comparing decimal pairs that were either congruent with whole-number rules (e.g., decimals with more digits were larger in magnitude) or incongruent with whole-number rules (e.g., decimals with fewer digits were larger in magnitude) would lead students to change their decimal comparison strategies. We also examined whether students' potential improvement after feedback would generalize to decimal comparisons involving different numbers of digits. We found that sixth- to eighth-grade students' use of the whole-number strategy declined and their use of the normative decimal strategy increased over the course of receiving feedback, whereas no significant strategy change was observed among students who did not receive any feedback. Students who received feedback were also less likely to use a whole-number strategy and more likely to use a decimal strategy in different decimal comparisons in an immediate posttest and a 2-week delayed posttest. Our exploratory analyses found that students' improvement on decimal comparisons did not transfer to decimal arithmetic. Moreover, students' inhibitory control also predicted strategy use in immediate and delayed posttests. Our study provides insights into the mechanisms of rapid strategy change and has implications for designing interventions to improve children's understanding of decimal magnitudes.SUMOylation is a post-translational modification process that comprises a tandem enzymatic cascade, i.e., maturation, activation, conjugation, and ligation of a small ubiquitin-like modifier, which triggers the modulated activities and transport of the cellular proteins to other areas of the cell. In Oryza sativa (rice), OsSIZ1/2 encoding E3 SUMO ligase exerts regulatory influences on Pi homeostasis and developmental responses. However, the role of OsSAE1a, SUMO E1 activating enzyme, in regulating phosphate (Pi) utilization and/or growth and development is not known in rice and was thus investigated in this study. The qRT-PCR assay revealed a constitutive and variable spatiotemporal expression pattern of OsSAE1a in the vegetative and reproductive tissues and was comparable in the root and shoot grown under different Pi regimes. RNAi-mediated suppression of OsSAE1a exerted variable effects on the concentrations of Pi and total P in different tissues, uptake and distribution of 32Pi, and relative expression levels of several genes that play pivotal roles in the maintenance of Pi homeostasis. The effects of the mutation in OsSAE1a were also evident in the vegetative and reproductive traits of rice during growth in a hydroponic system and pot soil, respectively. Overall, these results suggest a broad-spectrum role of OsSAE1a in the maintenance of Pi homeostasis and regulating growth and development.
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