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Performance evaluation is a vital tool for assessing management performance and formulating corporate strategies. The Nigerian construction industry is reported to be very vibrant and one of the largest in Africa. It is made up of 78% indigenous firms and 22% foreign firms. The indigenous…

The oral cavity has a moist environment and a film of fluid, the fluid is saliva which comprises of mixture of secretions from major and minor salivary glands. Saliva provides an easily available, now increasing diagnostic medium for a rapidly, widening range of diseases and…

IMayer Brothers is a famous FMCG company that launched in the year 1920 as a merger between a British soap maker and a Dutch margarine producer, to increase efficiency of resources. Having entered the Egyptian market in the year 1991, the company needed to make…

At present, the society experiences an emerging wide range of religious functions carried out via the new media such as worshiping, advocating, commodifying, seeking and learning. Religious outreach is now executed conventionally and through the online network of communities. Information technology (IT) and media have…

We tried a dual perspective to analyse companies from technology sector, listed on NASDAQ stock exchange market and components of Dow Jones in 2007-2013. The approach focused on the effective corporate tax rate but we included elements of corporate goverance such as CEO remuneration. Thus,…

Objective: Sitagliptin is a new oral glucose-lowering medication that acts via the incretin hormone system. The most common side-effects are headache and pharyngitis. Acute pancreatitis is rarely described in literature. Research design and Methods: We report four cases of pancreatitis that developed in patients after…

Traditionally, functional imaging with somatostatin receptor analogues is used in the primary diagnostics, staging, and monitoring of neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) as well as to assess the potential effect of treatment with (radioactive) somatostatin analogues. We report a case in which a woman was diagnosed with…

The most frequent enzyme abnormality of the glycolytic pathway which causes hereditary non-spherocytic hemolytic anemia is red cell pyruvate kinase (PK) deficiency.The disease is transmitted as an autosomal recessive trait. The case of a successful pregnancy in a 38 year- old woman with Pyruvate Kinase…

The current paper attempts to investigate the consumers’ actual usage behavior of electronic-word-of-mouth (eWOM) on social networking sites (SNS) and to develop a conceptual framework that could help increase the understanding of consumers’ use of SNS as a vehicle for eWOM. Accordingly, we examined the factors…

Two basic features of continuum description of nanocomposite materials are discussed in the framework of structural mechanics of materials and construction units. First, a continuum as a basic notion in mechanics of materials is considered, where the principle of continualization is stated and the notion…