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Social media analytics is a nascent and emerging discipline that can help organizations formulate and implement measurement techniques for deriving insights from social media interactions and for evaluating the success of their own social media initiatives. Ultimately, a successful social media analytics program can enable…

Mn(II), Fe(II), Co(II), Ni(II), Cu(II) and Zn(II) complexes of mixed drug Paracetamol (HL) and Sulfamethoxazole (HL1 ) were synthesized and characterized by room temperature magnetic moments, melting points, percentage metal, conductance measurements, infrared and electronic spectroscopies. The percentage metal analysis showed that the complexes mostly…

Increasing organizational effectiveness is one of the most important organizational goals for almost all organizations in every industry. This study reviews the function of organizational structure for increasing organizational effectiveness especially by focusing on software industry organizations. The structural variables considered in this research are…

Audit Committee role is very important to the protection of shareholders and other stakeholders interests. This research study explores the influence of audit committee effectiveness on firm’s performance using four characteristics: independence, financial expertise, size, and meetings of the audit committee. The performance measures were…

A lymphocele is one of the known postoperative complications after surgery in the inguinal region, like lymph node resections and vascular cannulation. No standardized treatment is defined. We report a case of a patient with a lymphocele after endovascular aortic aneurysm repair and a review…

Overweight and obesity are the leading causes for the development of multiple adverse metabolic effects. Retinol Binding Protein 4 (RBP4), a peptide secreted from adipocytes and hepatocytes, provides a new link between obesity and insulin resistance. The objective of this work is to determine RBP4…

In today's fast-globalizing world, the much-hyped concept of place branding has become critical for regions in fierce global competition to capture and secure geographically-mobile investment. In this environment, the effort to attract and promote inward investment is a challenge requiring coordination across several fronts, where…

Iatrogenic foreign bodies are rare after thoracic surgery.  We report a lung cancer patient who expectorated a piece of gauze. A video-assisted mediastinoscopic lymphadenectomy for lung cancer staging had been performed two years ago. We performed a rigid bronchoscopy and  gauze that was placed to…

We report an exceptionally rare case of synchronous, bilateral, peripheral, small-sized typical pulmonary carcinoid tumors. A 68-year-old man presented with three, bilateral, pulmonary nodules. These nodules were suspected to be inflammatory changes or tumor metastases; however, preoperative examinations indicated neither primary lesion nor lymphadenopathy. Wedge…

There is a paucity of publications on regional variations in seroprevalence of infectious diseases in blood donors within Brazilian states, so that suitable time trends can be derived for major demographic groups. A population study of blood donors in the southern state of Santa Catarina, Brazil,…