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Aims and Objectives: The aim of this study is to investigate the role of supragingival dental plaque bacteria as potential etiology of chronic tonsillitis. Materials and Methods: A total of sixty patients were part of the study. Among them, thirty patients had chronic tonsillitis and thirty patients had no tonsillitis. The age range was 3–12 years. Swab samples were obtained from dental plaque and tonsils to identify the bacterial flora. Identification methods included metabolic capability, microscopic reading, and biochemical reaction. Statistical analysis was done using SPSS 18 software. Results: The bacteria isolated according to the prevalence in decreasing order of frequency were Streptococcus pneumoniae, Streptococcus pyogenes, Streptococcus haemolyticus, Streptococcus mutans, Streptococcus sanguis, Streptococcus viridans, Streptococcus mitis, Streptococcus salivarius, Streptococcus oralis, Candida albicans, and Peptostreptococcus. Statistical analysis conducted with SPSS 22 indicated that strains of bacteria present in the plaque are more likely to represent the bacteria in the tonsils, particularly S. pyogenes.Conclusion: Group A Streptococcus in dental plaque could possibly be a causative factor for chronic tonsillitis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Situating itself in line with Max Saunders' thesis in Self Impression (2010), this paper is a literary-critical reconnaissance of the creative techniques Lytton Strachey employs in Queen Victoria (1921). My essay attempts to elicit the ways in which Strachey executes his modernist argument, intended to debunk Victorian perspectives, via a canny mix of traditional and modernist techniques of narration, usually associated with fiction. Showing how – in the way of an impressionist historian – he both inhabits the frame of his narrative as well as directs its very framing, I discuss his use of free indirect style and cognate methods of characterisation. I also discuss his novelistic 'rhythm', as he negotiates between personal and particular histories and wider more universal history; his psychological and psychoanalytic resources for biographical insight; and formal features of his narrative that make use of choric and stage-like structuring, as well as meta-historical tropes of fate and destiny. Literary critical methods deployed by Strachey, precociously, in the arsenal of his method, at a time before such literary critical methods had been overtly established are also discussed in brief as signifying features of his innovation. This paper hopes to offer a concrete interpretation of Strachey's well-known candidacy as the father, or one of them, of the 'new biography'. Being a concrete analysis of only one of Strachey's works, less examined than others, the paper claims only to put traditional notions of the new biography and of modernism under the lens of this one particular but signal work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The worldwide automotive industry sector has been experiencing a period of noticeable growth and success, especially since overcoming the financial crisis in 2008; however, this success is accompanied by remarkable erosion in the sales profit margin, causing automakers to invest in the after-sales and product–service system (PSS) sectors. The purpose of this review is twofold. First, it establishes an understanding of the automotive PSS concept by summarising and discussing the objectives, methodologies and findings of these studies. Second, it develops a framework to classify 102 articles analysed in depth and dating from 1999 to 2015 according to their adopted methodologies with an extended analysis of the most-used data collection instruments and analysis tools. It is evident that there is a tendency to utilise quantitative methods despite the expediency of implementing mixed methods in recent studies. This paper provides meaningful insights into the research methodologies, and for an audience consisting of general researchers and practitioners with an interest in conducting research in the automotive PSS and production disciplines, it represents a guideline to choose the appropriate research methodology, taking into consideration the advantages and disadvantages of each one. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The provenance of this article is somewhere between a critical review of two less-well-known Catholic authors (and their respective memoirs), and a reflective commentary on the same. As the head-title has it, the unifying and necessitating chosen reading direction pits the two Catholic memoirs as contrasting romantic and classical approaches to self-representation and self-discovery; and this, of course, within the purview of their Christian itineraries. In short, I read both memoirs as sacramental journeys as well as empirical journeys. While Belloc's work invokes personality and animation across both his recounted journey and his reflective/pictorial representation of such, Knox evinces in turn a classical asceticism wary of temperamental vagaries and influences, both substantively and formally or stylistically. Precisely because both authors are less well-known, I have sampled their respective works generously, reflecting, again, the dual purview of the article: not only an interested commentary but also an advertent critical review. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article explores the 1941 book "The Colossus of Maroussi," by the late writer Henry Miller, to examine the extent to which Miller expresses and represents a kind of humanism in the wake of a dying humanism, having been written right before and on the cusp of the Second World War outbreak. Topics discussed include Miller's representation of himself as the worst off in progressive modernity at which he is at odds, Hegelian teleology, and Miller's relation to the narrative.