Multiple myeloma involving the thyroid cartilage is exceedingly rare. We describe a patient with progressive airway obstruction due to diffuse involvement of the thyroid cartilage with multiple myeloma. CT revealed a conglomerate of calcifications of the thyroid cartilage. Additional classic lytic lesions of multiple myeloma were subsequently found in the bones, without associated calcification...

The first international workshop From Start-up to SaaS Conglomerate: Life Cycles of Software Products, IW-LCSP 2013 was held in June 11 2013 at Potsdam, Germany. In the workshop five papers were presented with topics varying from product management in ecosystems and challenges in empirical requirements engineering research to start-up methods, incubators and accelerators. In these workshop note...

Taking the example of Dangote business conglomerate, this article investigates why pockets efficiency have formed in Nigerian manufacturing sector and why, at same time, structural transformation has remained limited across economy as a whole. The authors argue that expansion markets (in case domestic) can discipline learning. Yet emerging monopoly capitalism carries within it seeds fragile acc...

The conglomerate-sandstone transition (CST) preserved in foreland basins records the stratigraphic equivalent of gravel to sand (GST) which migrates response shortening steady state orogen-foreland basin systems. Two seismic profiles southern Junggar provide first record migrating CSTs and an opportunity quantify its migration history growth northern Tian Shan. We identify horizontal positions ...

The scattering phase functions of micrometer-sized glycerol droplets containing spherical latex inclusions undergo random fluctuations with time. We measure scattering intensities in the near-forward and near-backward scattering directions and find them to have strong positive correlations during some time periods and strong negative correlations during other time periods. The characteristic ti...

Purpose: of this paper is to summarize the application study of a general framework of intelligent decision support system (IDSS) to collaborative projects in conglomerate enterprises. In some situations, even with the knowledge of how to find right information and which decision making methods to apply, we do not have enough time to make right decisions at the right time. In this paper, the fr...