Biological materials change their mass, shape, and porosity during the growth and possess high strength and durability at general lightweight design. Biological tissues are considered to be inhomogeneous anisotropic multiphase composites reinforced by fibres. A 2D problem of the load transfer from the growing fibre into the growing plate with different own growth rates and viscosity is consider...

Social media is a growing phenomenon and have the biggest impact on organizations’ continual communication with customers and the public. It also plays increasingly important role as a marketing platform. Even though social media has been recognized as the most powerful medium in business practice, there is lack of understanding in terms of how social media benefits the organization. Therefore,...

Social media technologies are increasingly utilized by patients, leading to development of online socia l groups where patients share experiences and offer support to their peers on these platforms. I n o r der to gain an understanding of this growing trend, this study conducts a technology feature analysis of the technology features of four of the most used social media tools to date: Facebook...

Social Media has been gaining popularity worldwide over the last years at an increasingly growing rate. Motivated by this fact, firms are piloting different approaches of promoting their products and services to consumers in order to capitalize on the prominence of such websites. However, there is much debate in the academic and business community about the potential of social media as a platfo...

Social media, or commonly known as the Social Web, consists of myriad applications including blogs, social networking websites, wikis, social bookmarking or folksonomies, online media sharing, social news, social games, etc. Through reactive interfaces, low barrier to publication, and zero operational costs, which are all made possible by the new paradigm of Web 2.0, social media has observed a...

Isolation of nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) from the sputum of patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) is challenging due to overgrowth by rapidly growing species that colonize the lungs of patients with CF. Extended incubation on Burkholderia cepacia selective agar (BCSA) has been recommended as an expedient culture method for the isolation of rapidly growing NTM in this setting. The aim of this...

it is of no doubt that social media sites have become the most dominated subject in today life. however, the effect of those websites has widely disseminated not only into social life but into the business world as well. recruitment is one of the topics that have influence by social networking sites. previous studies have shown growing use of social networking sites such as facebook, twitter an...