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treatment of severe immune thrombocytopenic purpura (itp) accompanied by life-threatening bleeding events is challenging and a combination of treatment measures should be undertaken to rapidly increase the platelet count. herein, we report a case of severe itp in a seven-year-old boy who suffered from massive bleeding which was totally unresponsive to conventional therapeutic interventions. sin...

We conceptualize international assignees as informational boundary spanners between MNC units and develop a cross-level model that explores how assignees’ social capital translates into inter-unit intellectual capital. First, as knowledge brokers, assignees create inter-unit intellectual capital by linking their homeand host-unit social capital, thereby enabling cross-unit access to previously ...