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Background and Importance: Simultaneous bilateral intracerebral haemorrhages (ICH) are exceedingly rare with only a few cases reported in the literature. Identified causes include systemic arterial hypertension, amyloid angiopathy, vasculitis, diabetic ketoacidosis and cerebral mucormycosis. Only 19 cases report an association between haemorrhagic infarct and preceding…

Burkitt’s lymphoma is the commonest childhood malignancy in tropical Africa and is rare outside of Africa. Cavernous sinus lymphoma is a rare occurence and Burkitt’s lymphoma  of the cavernous sinus is uncommon. We review the case of a 52-year-old non-african and immuno-competent woman who developed…

In winter sports, the high injury rate among adolescents raises questions about the way they practice their sport. It also raises interrogations on the impact of an injury on their behavior on the slopes. The few studies that looked at the relationship between previous injury…

To improve cultivation or extraction methods for maximum lipid yield, a fast and reliable quantitative determination of the lipid content of microalgae in cultivation medium is desirable. Here, we investigated the applicability of Nile red staining for a rapid quantification of neutral lipids in-vivo, without…

High performance polymers exhibiting multifunctional characteristics can be achieved by the introduction of inorganic nanoparticles like ZnO(Zinc oxide) into the functional polymers. In the present work a copolymer epoxy poly (dimethylacrylamide) was synthesized to disperse the ZnO nanoparticles. The aim of the work is to…

Wernicke’s encephalopathy(WE) is an uncommon, yet, treatable and acute neuropsychiatric manifestation of thiamine deficiency which may often go undiagnosed .We report this case of a previously healthy 30 year old, non drinker, pregnant woman with hyperemesis gravidarum (HG) and gestational thyrotoxicosis(GT) who presented with a…

The present paper’s objective is to assess the perceptions and reactions of the employees' of Jiu Valley mine (Romania) related to the current crisis. For this, an interview protocol as work instrument was applied which contained 17 opinion and factual questions required for the structuring…

The present paper is focused on estimating technical efficiency (TE) in the Tunisian insurance industry by means of DEA window methodology, while highlighting a window model parametric version. On a first stage, the achieved results emphasize well the persistence of a temporal heterogeneity in technical…

Improving performance is an important goal of modern management. The quality of the workforce is a deciding factor behind organizations’ success because employee performance has proven to have a significantly positive effect on their performance (Collis and Montgomery, 1995 pp. 118-128). There is a growing…

This paper illustrates how the process efficiency, the reporting relevance, reporting volume and the cost/benefit ratio of management reporting can be analyzed, benchmarked and improved. The proposed improvement process will be backed up with a case study and a survey made with 20 controllers and…