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We present a rare case of an epiphrenic esophageal diverticulum, complicated by perforation and leakage below the diaphragm in a 57-year-old male patient. The patient was referred to the emergency department with suspected aspiration pneumonia. A thoracoabdominal computed tomography with oral contrast revealed contrast leakage…

A comparison of several individual studies was made in order to determine the statistical significance for the prevalence of Dirofilaria immitis in dogs (n=1245) in Grenada, using necropsy and different ELISA test kits.  The overall prevalence was estimated to be 17% in a study of…

Researches dealing with managerial mistakes and bad decision-making are very topical due to their impact on the continuance and existence of enterprises.  Hence, this study focuses on this issue using a questionnaire survey to collect data from the third and fourth year students who specialize…

This paper presents general aspects of funding system at higher education sector. Funding is not simply a mechanism to allocate funds to finance HEIs but an instrument for the government or public authorities to ensure that the HEIs administration has the same goals with them,…

Using a large-scale dataset from WoS, this paper explores the publications on healthcare risk management, through bibliometric analysis. The bibliometric analysis reflects how research in hospital risk management and healthcare management evolved over time, offering insights on the most relevant and influential research. Based on…

Since 1992, the Egyptian National Railways (ENR) has been encountering tremendous losses in lives and revenues. The losses were due to the lack of a proper IT infrastructure, making the network unqualified to handle the millions who use its railways every day. The safety measures…

In the past decade, society and technology have made remarkable progress in the realm of the digital economy. Public administrations, in their double role as part and servant of society, must keep up with this progress, but this development does not happen without its difficulties.…

This review paper deals with the formation of disinfection by-products (DBPs). Water basin remains a wonderful chemical reactor that allows the occurrence of intricate secondary disinfection chemical reactions, forming several hundreds of DBPs at the same time with microorganisms killing. The kinetics of DBPs formation…

Objective: Our aim was to compare the clinical characteristics including risk factors, comorbidities, short-term outcome and long-term mortality in acute ischemic stroke patients with or without diabetes mellitus.Methods: This study includes all consecutive patients with acute ischemic stroke admitted to the Stroke Unit, Department of…

This paper reports findings from a recent empirical study conducted to explore sociological and technological factors that affect the use of enterprise 2.0 (E2.0) technologies for knowledge management (KM). To help organizations adopt and institutionalize effective KM strategies, this study aims to highlight the effects…