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Objective: Malignant adnexal tumors are rare and account for 0.005% of all the skin tumors. Malignant eccrine spiradenoma is a rare adnexal tumor occurring in the extremities and trunk. Rarely has it been report in the head with only two cases described in the eyelid.…

The idea of owning personal businesses has been of serious contention between the young graduates and the government globally due to high rate of unemployment in most economies of the world and it has been argued that contextual factors in relation to educational support, structural…

The objective of this research is to analyze the interaction of Tunisian youth in virtual spaces so as to understand the motivations of change on level virtual the virtual self-presentation. In order to develop this question, our research is based on Erving Goffman’s dramaturgical approach.…

Universities are fostering links and facilitating technology transfer with industries. Industries are transforming rapidly to sustain and ensure businesses prosper well. These have created a dynamic approach by stakeholders towards university-industry collaboration (UIC). However, there is a lack of studies which focus on how the…

Multidisciplinary scientific research collaborations in academic institutions remain at the center of the global innovation system. This article highlights the distinct challenges to developing an effective management strategy that such collaborations pose. These include the fundamental challenge of having the generation of new explicit knowledge…

This paper puts forth a novel methodology for facilities layout planning and optimization, where the fitness evaluation of layout alternatives is automatically performed by employing an artificial neural network trained to preferences of the domain experts. The inherently uncertain, unstructured, and often tacit nature of…

The debate over how to solve the problem of rising health care costs has produced a vast amount of literature in many different fields.  In particular, economists have developed a method known as stochastic frontier analysis which can be used to estimate how inefficiencies within…

The paper presents an analytical method to define innovation behaviours and technology strategies of companies using patent data.The framework can be used to: 1) analyse single innovation behaviours, 2) map innovation strategies defined as combinations of different innovation behaviours, and 3) describe the patterns of…

Caseous lymphadenitis (CLA) in small ruminants has been diagnosed by culture several times in the state of Grenada. In order to understand the prevalence of CLA, serum samples from 541 sheep and 338 goats from Grenada and Carriacou islands were tested for antibodies against the…

Wadifood is one of the leading companies in the Egyptian market devoted in the production and selling of organic food. By strictly adhering to high quality standards and by satisfying the needs of a sophisticated health-conscious market, Wadifood has grown globally at a remarkable rate.…