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Facial palsy, salivary leakage and postoperative bleeding are the main complications in parotid gland surgery. To find ways to reduce the occurrence of these complications, we compare traditional methods using the hand-tie ligation technique with a bipolar electrode knife against LigaSureTM Small Jaw, a newly…

Despite the fact that in the times of global crisis everything is about survival, the welfare is still an important matter for people. In this paper we propose to calculate a representative quantitative indicator for welfare for the 27 state members of the European Union…

Esophageal carcinomais an aggressive malignancy and usually manifests with dysphagia and weight loss. We are presenting case details of a patient with esophageal carcinoma who presented to the emergency services with acute onset stridor and breathing difficulty. Computerised Tomography of the chest showed a large…

Eclampsia is generally preceded by preeclampsia or proteinuric hypertension after the twentieth week of gestation. Only ten cases of eclampsia were reported in the presence of a foetus before 20 weeks of gestation over a 120 year   epoch. It is usually believed that preeclampsia occurring…

The objective of this study is to assess the ability of some major components of essential oils (EOs) to destroy Eimeria oocysts in vitro and to find out how the mechanism of action involved in this oocysticidal effect works. The methodology used was as follows: A…

Thrombolytic agents have been used in the emergency department for treatment of acute myocardial infarction and vasoocclusive strokes. Their use has been associated with complications. The most dreaded complication is bleeding following systemic thrombolysis. We document a case of spontaneous intra-peritoneal hematoma following thrombolysis with…

In the present work we evaluated adenosine deaminase 1 (ADA1) encoding gene (ADA1) rs73598374 single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) and the activity of this enzyme in patients with ischemic stroke (IS) in Armenian population. A total of 98 first episode IS patients within the first 24…

From three commercial Friesian-Holstein dairy herds located in three different provinces of Egypt "El-Fayoum, EL-Ismailia and EL-Beheira"  adopted a number of different vaccination strategies, a total of 183 individual blood samples, individual pooled milk samples collected on the same occasion from the same animal and…

In most developing and emerging economies competition and not regulation is used to determine prices at the wholesale electricity markets. But prices are not as low as it was originally expected. Additionally, there are shortages of supply and a lack of investment in infrastructure. It…

E-learning is advantageous for trainees as well as for organisation. The purpose of this research is to discover determinants of effective online training. The different theoretical currents treating the behaviour of individuals towards the technological innovation utilization permit to identify variables that determine the efficiency…