current status with a review of literature

... ®eld of quality management As a part of the research it was decided to classify and analyse the literature in detail The course of action included the following steps: (1) Updating the database ... the authors have identi®ed, that the academic community is lagging in terms of providing and advancing models and frameworks that integrate the many facets of organisational benchmarking The authors ... review of key publications on benchmarking: part I and part II Roadmap to current benchmarking literature Title Attribute Literature on benchmarking 179 Table II A summary of previous literature...

Ngày tải lên: 02/06/2014, 09:36

... Case presentation Case Patient A is a 64 year old white female who presented with a large right breast mass The mass had been present for at least years, and the breast was swollen, streaked with ... menstrual period was at age 13, and she had never been pregnant Physical exam revealed a well-nourished female with an obvious mass of the right breast The mass measured 36 × 30 cm at the time of ... the time of surgery, the patient had experienced loss of skin integrity The contralateral breast was of normal size, with no significant masses on palpation There was no palpable adenopathy in...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:22

... ligation small and are usually discovered incidentally because patients are asymptomatic, though sometimes there can be epigastric or left upper quadrant abdominal pain Malignant transformation ... as: Petrina et al.: Bronchogenic cyst of the ileal mesentery: a case report and a review of literature Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:313 Authors’ contributions AP analyzed and interpreted ... subdiaphragmatic masses, even in intraperitoneal location Consent Written informed consent was obtained from the patient for publication of this case report and any accompanying images A copy of...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 02:21

... Australia and Nava Subramaniam Faculty of Business and Law Deakin University, Victoria, Australia ABSTRACT: This paper reviews the recent European and international literature on i nternal audit independence ... Foundation: Altamonte Springs, FL, 97129 Arena, M., M Arnaboldi and G Azzone 2006 Internal audit in Italian organizations Managerial Auditing Journal 21 (3): 275-292 Bailey, A. D., A. A Gramling and ... internal audit activities; and (v) internal audit as a management training ground For As previously noted, for a detailed review of external auditors’ evaluation of and reliance on the work of internal...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 23:20

... example, Mielonen et al [38] found in their analysis of cost that at a rate of 20 patients per year, the cost of VC was lower than that of the conventional alternative of traveling, and at a ... overall satisfaction with VC was still positive Magaletta et al [37] examined prison inmates’ satisfaction with VC consultations A total of 75 patients, 17 with diagnoses of ‘Schizophrenia and ... in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicenter phase III trial of the safety and efficacy of three doses of paliperidone palmitate in adults with an acute Sharp et al Annals of...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:21

... Discussion Sarcomas of the pancreas are exceedingly rare Baylor et al reported a 0.1% incidence of pancreatic sarcoma after review 5000 cases of pancreatic cancer [1] Amongst pancreatic sarcomas leiomyosarcomas ... young, was diagnosed with a sarcoma of the pancreatic caput Clinically patients present with colicky pain, nausea and vomiting These findings are basically similar to those of other pancreatic pathologies ... Zhang L: Primary Leiomyosarcoma of the Pancreas: Study of Cases and Review of Literature Am J Surg Pathol 2010, 34:1849-1856 Darvishian F, Sullivan J, Teichberg S, Basham : Carcinosarcoma of...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 02:20

... authors have reported that 40–50% of ampullary carcinoid tumors smaller than 20 mm in diameter were associated with metastatic disease [10,11] Generally, it has been demonstrated that duodenal ... ampullary carcinoid presenting with upper gastrointestinal bleeding: A case report and review of the literature World Journal of Gastroenterology 2007, 13(8):1268-1270 Chahal P, Prasad GA, Sanderson ... surgical option for ampullary carcinoid tumors, and the prognosis has been thought to be good with an overall survival rate of approximately 90%[7] Meanwhile, Hwang et al have recently analyzed...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 04:21

... bone marrow transplantation from matched sibling/unrelated All authors were involved in management of the patient and preparation of this manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript ... leukaemia with hypereosinophilia: report of a case with 5q deletion and review of literature Pediatr Dev Pathol 2003, 6(6):558-63 Jain P, Kumar R, Gujral S, Kumar S, Singh A, Jain Y, Dubey S, Anand ... hypereosinophilia and 9p21 deletion: Case report and review of literature Laboratory Hematology 2008, 14(1):7-9 Hogan TF, Koss W, Murgo AJ, Amato RS, Fontana JA, VanScoy FL: Acute lymphoblastic leukemia with...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 22:20

... resolution of clinical manifestations and laboratory disturbances Case presentation A 78-year-old Caucasian man, with a history of coronary artery disease, presented with symptoms of acute congestive ... pulmonary fields bilaterally, a 4/6 diastolic heart murmur at the lower left parasternal area and a 4/6 systolic heart murmur at the right upper parasternal area Laboratory studies revealed a leukocyte ... demonstrating bilateral perihilar alveolar edema with a “butterfly” appearance and bilateral pleural effusions b Chest X-ray after pharmaceutical treatment for the congestive heart failure symptoms...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 03:20

... demonstrated sinus tachycardia with normal voltage and diffuse T wave flattening His chest X-ray demonstrated mild cardiomegaly and evidence of pulmonary edema An echocardiogram conveyed a hyperdynamic ... saturation was 97% on room air He had faint crackles at the bases of his lungs bilaterally His cardiovascular exam was remarkable for 10 cm of jugular venous distension, a regular rhythm, and a 2/6 ... with extensive disease plaints of fatigue and lower extremity edema On examination, he was afebrile with a heart rate of 75 beats/ minute and a blood pressure of 127/70 mmHg His oxygen saturation...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 21:22

... (White & Indian) Japanese 2 Japanese Japanese 1 Black ND Japanese Black Japanese*6 White*7 Japanese*8 1 Japanese Black, Israel radiograph showed a well-defined unilocular radiolucent lesion with distinct ... palisaded cuboidal cells and suprabasal stellate cells The epithelial lining (at the thickest portion) showed basal palisaded cuboidal cells and suprabasal stellate cells Small focal calcifications ... Onuma K, Ikeda M, Kato K, Toyoda Y, Nagashima Y, Ito Y, Abiko Y, Tanaka Y: Pigmented intraosseous odontogenic carcinoma of the maxilla: a pediatric case report and differential diagnosis Hum Pathol...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 00:20

... mutation of the APC gene in a case of cribriformmorular variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma Am J Clin Pathol, 2001 115: 486-493 Yamashita T., et al Peculiar nuclear clearing composed of microfilaments ... showed an intricate blending of several histological patterns (Fig 2) Cribriform areas had back-to-back follicles with anastomozing bars and arches of cells in the absence of intervening fibrovascular ... Cribriform-Morular Variant (C-MV) of PTC is a rare morphologic entity It was first described by Harach et al [1] in association with FAP as a distinctive tumor A total of 44 cases have been documented so far...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 10:05

... especially for older drivers Casualty crash analyses, even those encompassing casualties of all severity, have a sampling bias: the so-called ‘frailty bias’, which exaggerates any apparent age-related ... rates based on US Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) data for 1997, National Highway Transport Safety Administration (NHTSA) (see Table 1.) Table 1: Number of driver fatalities and fatality ... collections of crashes than databases based on conventional collection methods Insurance data have an additional advantage in that crash records have frequently been assessed in detail to determine each...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 18:20

... paper and wood pulp.29 Any one of several types of particles and rays given off by radioactive material, high-voltage equipment, nuclear reactions and stars Alpha and beta particles, X-rays and ... studies are more limited in their ability to indicate causes of cancer, but mortality data are crucial for understanding the burden of cancer in particular populations Heart disease was far and away ... derivative of 2naphthylamine previously used in the treatment of polycythemia), as well as the manufacturing of auramine and magenta dye are well-established causes of bladder cancer, and one of the...

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... in herds of to animals Annual milk yield per dairy animal is about one tenth of that achieved in the USA and about one fifth of the yield of a New Zealand dairy cow In Haryana state, nearly five ... the typical farms are average to slightly above average compared to other farms of their type In the case of Haryana, typical farms were defined by (a) location of the farm, (b) farm size and (c) ... majority of farms and is close to the average farm size in the area IN4: This farm is also located in a rural area but has 3.7 of land used for small grain crops Four dairy animals (2 buffaloes and cows)...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 04:20

... performance by helping reduce uncertainty associated with stress and improving the accuracy of individual expectations and performance of certain tasks (Glass and Singer, 1973) Moderators can also act ... military personnel For example, Mareth and Brooker (1985) find that battle fatigue and other stress reactions may account for as many as 50 percent of the casualties in a given war As a result of ... X and Y (and X and Y are correlated), then X will be correlated with A and will have an effect on Y independent of X A moderator variable is one that affects (usually reduces) the causal relationship...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 18:20

... implementation of the scheme is through a contract between AAM and individual cinemas AAM established a technical headquarters in London and provide a full range of installation, training, maintenance ... in a Digital Cinema Distribution master which is ‘packaged’ in a standardised format called Media Exchange Format (MXF) The MXF package can be compared to the wrapping around a box of chocolates ... cinema The other approach adopts a more political stance and aims to find a way that enables all participants, large or small, to benefit from the roll-out of digital cinema As outlined later...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 14:20