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Parathyroid carcinoma is a rare malignant neoplasm associated with known cancer syndromes. Hyperparathyroidism, as often observed in parathyroid carcinoma, is associated with an increased risk of developing breast cancer.  A 76 year-old male patient treated with surgery and bicalutamide for parathyroid adenocarcinoma came to our…

This paper explores the effect of culture on the emotions invoked when different websites are viewed, and the perception of that website’s trustworthiness. Traditionally, researchers in the human computer interaction (HCI) field have focused on task-oriented usability, committed to improving efficiency. Eventually, the importance of…

The major financial scandals and the financial system crisis, have been linked directly or indirectly, to the idea of scam, false or absence of ethics in accounting. The aim of this study is to make an incursion into the history of ethics and morality in…

Micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) are socially and economically important, since they represent 99 % of all enterprises in the European Union (EU). They provide around 65 million jobs and contribute to entrepreneurship and innovation. Being an essential ingredient of present-day business, information technology…

This research empirically studies the factors that influence the intention of SME owners and managers to adopt m-banking in rural Bangladesh. The study specifically focuses on business oriented m-banking, such as paying suppliers or receiving payments from customers, and on person-to-person use of m-banking.  Although…

In this paper, we aim to identify points of contrast between men and women as regards the image of an “ordinary” woman. To achieve this goal, we have referred to KERNEL method using analysis of dominance as a tool for gathering information. The corpus of…

Fusarium causes a broad spectrum of human diseases which can be superficial, locally invasive or disseminated. In immuno-competent host, it causes allergic sinusitis or chronic non-invasive sinusitis while in immuno-compromised patients it causes invasive sinusitis. In this paper, the authors present a case of a…

This study is carried out in Management Information System (MIS) department which accepts students from general and vocational high schools with widely varying range of educational backgrounds. As an emerging interdisciplinary field, MIS education demands both technical and managerial skills from its students. However, students…

Malaysia has invested multi-million ringgit on the Malaysia’s Multipurpose Identity Card (MyKad) initiative for the protection of citizens from terrorism as well as for effective and efficient government and private sector applications. If it is not used, the initiative is wasted. For the success of…

This paper reports on an empirical study that investigates the information disclosure behavior on Social Network Sites (SNS) focusing on undergraduate University students as our population. Although much have been reported on the issue of information privacy or privacy leakage on SNS, very few have…