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Studies of psychological outcomes of cosmetic surgery generally provide low standards of evidence due to significant methodological limitations and few studies have explored the outcomes of surgery types other than breast reduction or have compared post-operative outcomes for different surgery types. This study therefore aimed…

A field applicable kit for easily identifying the serotype of the pathogen causing infection in an area enables targeted vaccination against the prevalent serotypes only avoiding non prevalent serotypes. We have developed a multiplex agglutination based cheap and simple prototype pen side kit to differentiate…

The objective of this research is to build a structural model which studies the causal relations between the concept of child’s attitude and identification to the brand characters, at first, and their impact on the prescription child-mother. A review of literature and a frame of reflection…

Suitable legal fund structures for private equity and venture capital (PE/VC) investments and their tax treatment have been considered as a key factor for stimulating the business environment. The Czech Venture Capital Association stresses that legal barriers are an important reason behind the limited scope…

Wrappers are tools used to extract relevant information from HTML pages. Current approaches use DOM tree, visual cue, and ontology to extract data. DOM tree based techniques are fast and simple. However, they are not as accurate as visual based wrappers due to lack of…

The selection of the present information system project is difficult because of the many factors that influence it. Information system project should pay attention to the user acceptance, technology and the environment in terms of their influence on the information system project selection. The purpose…

In the last decade, major advances have been achieved in the treatment of rectal cancer. Results of randomized controlled trials have led to the introduction of total mesorectal excision and preoperative (chemo) radiotherapy as a standard multimodal treatment approach. By combining these different treatment modalities,…

The perception of organizational injustice may trigger off a questioning of the trust established between both partners (employer and employee), which may cause a breach of the psychological contract and encourage the emergence of problems within the organization (doubt, mistrust, antisocial behavior, etc.). We support…

We report the case of 3 mediastinal  teratomas, 1 intrapericardial immature and 2 mediastinal grade 0,  diagnosed in the 38th week of gestation (intrapericardial immature) in the last stage of pregnancy (mature mediastinal). The surgical resection of the masses was successfully undertaken shortly after birth. The histological description of tumor after excision has reported immature multicystic teratoma Grade 2 of 3, with immature neural tissue and without yolk sac tumor cells (for the intrapericardial case) and mature tissue grade 0 large masses, with all tissues represented at histology (for the extrapericardial…

This study aims to launch an e-health application to help motivate academics’ active participation in health-promoting activities. It is an on-going project about understanding and enhancing academics’ involvement in health-related activities. An Internet-based platform coined as Preparing Academics’ Health for Tomorrow’s Education (PAHTE) was designed…