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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…

The traditional descriptions of economic models use ordinary differential equations (ODE), but when admitting the argument delay in a given model it is necessary to realize description using functional differential equations. It turns out the solution of such a model is closer to reality. It…

Not long ago, companies started investing millions of dollars on training and educating their workforce on new skills and improving prior skills. This increase in investment in training is mainly due to the rapid changes in technology and intense competition in the open market. However,…

The recognition of fingerprints has many utilities in the modern society because the fingerprint could be used as a unique id. In this article we present the main domains where the fingerprint recognition can be used, a short evolution of the fingerprint recognition process and…