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The aim of this study was to determine if the behavior of redox status indicators and their relation to birthweight, previously reported, was dependent only on the period between 30 and 36 weeks gestation, or if it was a characteristic of the third trimester. The…

Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are increasingly faced with competitive pressure due to swift and constant change to the dynamic and highly interconnected environment in which they operate. Competing in this dynamic ecosystem, SMEs need a strategic tool for managing co-evolution with the dynamic environment…

Urothelial bladder tumors in children are an uncommon pathology, and they are not usually associated with exposure to carcinogenic factors. We report the case of a 12 year-old child diagnosed with a bladder carcinoma after performing ultrasound for microhematuria. The transurethral resection revealed a low…

Ameloblastic carcinoma is characterized by rapid, painful expansion of the jaw, unlike conventional ameloblastoma. The tumor most frequently involves the mandible. The expanding lesion causes perforation of buccal and lingual plates of the jaw and invades the surrounding soft tissue. Rapidly growing large tumor mass…

Ammonia borane (NH3BH3) with its high hydrogen content (19.6 % per mass) and mild desorption conditions has the potential to meet the onboard hydrogen storage requirements for vehicular applications.  Ammonia borane decomposes in three steps at the temperatures of about 100°C, 140°C and 1000°C respectively,…

Although reputation management literature has been dominated by marketing and communications-led perspectives, there is anagreementthat corporate reputation and good governance are often built from the internal towards external stakeholders. Lately, balancing the usage of social media as opposed  to conventional media has demanded both human…

This paper examines ethical awareness in the large Corporate & SME IT sector of the Middle East & North African (MENA) region. It uses the prevalence of corporate codes of conduct in the industry to analytically ascertain the level of ethical awareness. The literature is…

Our goal is to measure the overall perceived effectiveness of supporting and supplemental instruction (SSI) in a more critical teaching pedagogy. SSI focused on improving student performance explicit in an effort to foster measurable improvements in students’ failure rates and student retention rates in the…

Objective: Primary Malignant Melanoma (PMM) arising from the digestive, respiratory or genitourinary tract is extremely rare. Rectal PMM accounts for less than 1% of all melanomas; it is often advanced at initial presentation with a poor prognosis with a 5-year survival below 20%. Treatment of…

Background: To determine the pattern of recurrence in patients with high-risk pathology at radical prostatectomy and to identify disease characteristics associated with clinical and biochemical recurrence (BCR).  Methods: We identified 893 patients who underwent radical prostatectomy between January 2000 and June 2009 with pathologic T3N0…