during a 30-month period. 2s patients with deep infected median sternotomy wounds were managed surgically. fifteen patients had chronic sternal osteomyelitis with associated costochondruis, 7 patients had only costochondritis, and 3 patients had dehiscence and/or mediastinitis. twenty were male and 5 were female their ages rangedfrom 11 to 71 years. nine patients had 11 failed previous attempts...

Background: Marketing has for many years been working to reduce environmental concerns by relying on ethics and presenting new marketing ideas such as green marketing. Therefore, the present study aimed to provide a model of the green marketing process in the pharmaceutical industry. Method: This applied research was conducted with a mixed (quantitative - qualitative) approach. In the qualitat...

The initiative of standardization of MPEG Query Format (MPQF) has refueled the research around the definition of a unified query language for digital content. The goal is to provide a standardized interface to multimedia document repositories, including but not limited to multimedia databases, documental databases, digital libraries, spatio-temporal databases and geographical information system...

information is available today—in digital archives, on the Web, in broadcast data streams, and in personal and professional databases—and this amount continues to grow. Yet, the value of that information depends on how easily we can manage, find, retrieve, access, and filter it. The transition between two millennia abounds with new ways to produce, offer, filter, search, and manage digitized mu...

Digital technologies are being introduced in all areas of the construction industry with overarching goals increasing productivity while simultaneously simplifying work and reducing errors. Nevertheless, their use associated implementation companies is currently still inhibited. One reason for this lack a holistic process digital technologies. Therefore, aim paper to deliver concept such digita...