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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,…

The Diabetic Foot (DF) is a very complex entity, and the imaging feet studies are an actual problem. The purpose of this work is to obtain new quantitative information by Magnetic Resonance (MR) for the evaluation of the DF Ulcers (DFU) during treatment. The procedure…

Sensorineural hearing loss, caused by the degeneration of inner ear sensory hair cells or afferent auditory neurons, is a major problem in clinical medicine. In birds and lower vertebrates, regeneration of these cells may occur but in mammals, the loss is irreversible. In this study,…

A 77-year-old man came to our hospital with purpura on lower extremities, severe gross hematuria, and acute kidney injury (AKI). On presentation, he was generally edematous and had no oliguria. Any signs of volume depletion were not detected. After the diagnosis of Henoch-Schönlein purpura (HSP)…

We analyzed the p53 expression of 50 consecutive cases of stage III giant cell tumor to determine the clinico-pathological correlation. There were 29 male patients compared to 21 females. The mean age was 36.42 years and ranged from 19 to 66 years. Tumors were located…

Intermittent energy restriction (IER) has become the subject of considerable scientific interest as a potential dietary approach for weight-loss and improving cardiometabolic health. This approach involves intermittent periods of total or partial energy restriction (ER) alternated with non-restricted intake, and has been studied in rodent…

Wealth or poverty assessments are very important parts of the economic theory. The paper describes basic known approaches and points out its advantages and drawbacks. The Utilitarism presents a social welfare function, the Neoclassical Economy developed cardinalist criterions, and the New Welfare Economics suggested ordinalist…