Geopolitical crises can create conflicting obligations for MNEs operating in now-hostile host countries, often requiring a strategic balance between home-country pressures to exit and the importance of continuing business present or retaining option re-enter future. To identify such strategies country- firm-specific characteristics informing decisions, I draw lessons from history an analysis on...

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Abstract Background With the increased awareness and push for earlier diagnosis of colorectal cancer, number patients undergoing colonoscopy is increasing. Being a common condition, these will have herniae. We describe rare complication during Sigmoidoscopy in patient with an Inguinal hernia. The case A 75-year-old man was booked flexible sigmoidoscopy rectal bleeding. scope successfully insert...

Photosensitive disorders are common, affecting up to 5% of HIV-positive patients. HIV itself induces photosensitivity but photoaggravated drug reactions, porphyria cutanea tarda and nutritional disorders such as pellagra are also more common in patients with HIV. In South Africa, actinic lichenoid leukomelanoderma of HIV is a unique photosensitive disorder which is associated with advanced HIV....

In 2005, the French law on patients' rights at the end of life ratified that decisions to withdraw or withhold life-sustaining treatments must be made and carried out by the physician in charge of the patient, after obtaining the advice of an independent consulting colleague. The purpose of this text is to put forward the perspective of a pediatric multidisciplinary workshop regarding the role ...

Scenarios are partial behavior descriptions, used to represent users requirements as a basis for speciication construction. In this paper, we describe a graphical notation for scenario based on Message Sequence Charts. We also describe an algorithm that incrementally constructs timed au-tomata from scenarios. This algorithm is based on a logical approach where we deene states with predicates an...

Figure 2 Clinical photograph demonstrating the long distal drain still protruding after closure of the arthrotomy (Fig 1). Close the arthrotomy from proximal to distal, leaving the distal end protruding (Fig 2). As you reach the end of the wound where the drain exits the arthrotomy, withdraw the drain to length. As the drain withdraws easily, you can be sure that it has not been sutured into th...

To examine the role of retrograde signals on synaptic maintenance, we inhibited protein synthesis in individual postsynaptic cells in vivo while monitoring presynaptic terminals. Within 12 h, axon terminals begin to atrophy and withdraw from normal postsynaptic sites. Structural similarities between this process and naturally occurring synapse elimination suggest that short-lived target derived...