We report acute onset quadriplegia in a ten year old boy associated with basal ganglia lesions due to biotin deficiency. Prolonged raw egg consumption was identified as predisposing factor for biotin deficiency. Treatment with biotin resulted in remarkable recovery.

To cite: Carswell C, Northey LC, Davies L, et al. Pract Neurol 2015;15:76–79. A 72-year-old man presented with sudden onset of right-sided facial muscle weakness and slurred speech and a 3-day history of fevers, myalgia and sore throat. There was no hyperacusis, change in taste or lacrimation. His history included untreated hepatitis C diagnosed 10 years before, but quiescent at his annual live...

The purpose of this study was to determine the marketing strategy Caffee Ten Bos Boba Simpang Tiga Ngalam, Seluma Regency. This used a qualitative descriptive research method with data collection techniques using questionnaires. analytical technique is SWOT (Strengths Weakness Opportunities and Threats) analysis in determining cafe's internal external factors formulated through SAP (Strategic A...

Proxy blind signature, which combines the properties of both proxy signature and blind signature, is useful in e-cash and e-commerce. In this paper, we present a verifiable self-certified public key scheme and a proxy blind signature scheme using the verifiable self-certified public key. The self-certified public key has an advantage which can withstand public key substitution attacks. As far a...

pistachio is a major agricultural export commodity in iran. nowadays, it ranks first among iran’s agricultural exports. this paper focuses on the comparative advantage in pistachio production and the export market in iran. a policy analysis matrix (pam) framework and revealed comparative advantage (rca) index are applied to 2000-2004 data to study iranian government policy regarding pistachio p...

One major SVM weakness has been the use of generic kernel functions to compute distances among data points. Polynomial, linear, and Gaussian are typical examples. They do not take full advantage of the inherent probability distributions of the data. Focusing on audio speaker identification and verification, we propose to explore the use of novel kernel functions that take full advantage of good...

this study explores corporate governance practices within the context of the nigerian banking industry using instances of corporate governance lapses that resulted in part to the nigerian banking crises. we present multiple case analysis of publicly available documents and court papers (in the united kingdom and nigeria) to document instances of breach and areas of weakness in the existing nige...