During the first decade of this century, Portuguese knitwear industry, and textile cluster, were strongly affected by globalisation seemed destined to decline. The industry developed for decades a business model based on price as main competitive factor, that was no longer able support competitiveness against low wages countries. made dramatic change towards competition value client. companies ...

INTRODUCTION Bovine immunodeficiency virus (BIV) and bovine leukemia virus (BLV) have worldwide distributions, but their prevalences in Iran are unknown. We investigated the presence of infections in Iranian Holstein cattle and determined changes in hematological values for infected animals. METHODOLOGY Nested PCR was used on blood samples from 143 animals Holstein cattle to detect proviral B...

Fast-dissolving drug-delivery systems were first developed in the late 1970s as an alternative to tablets, capsules, and syrups for the patients of pediatric and geriatric who faces difficulties in swallowing conventional oral solid dosage forms. On the basis of this need, a variety of orally disintegrating tablet (ODT) formats were commercialized. Most ODT products were formulated to disintegr...

ABSTR.'.cr The purpose of this study was to investigate further the relationship between ititake of sucrose-containing foods and the prevalence of caries in a natural population of children. The study population was made up of 958 Caucasian third grade children frotn Minneapolis, Diet and brushing information was collected throngh personal interviews with the children. Four methods of coding di...

Introduction: Surgery of the lateral base of the skull is a medical specialty still in full development. There are few centers of excellence that have the required physical and human structure to perform these procedures safely. The development of the teaching method based on dissection of cadavers in an anatomy lab is fundamental to the correct training of surgeons in this specialty. Objective...

Tibetan sheep are carpet and apparel wool producing ovine breed of the Indian subcontinent. The Bhotia community of North Eastern India traditionally rears the sheep of this breed. The Tibetan sheep are adapted to the temperate climate and have been providing livelihood for majority of the people in the region. Livestock herding was the primary occupation of the people of the higher altitude re...

Colonic obstruction due to sigmoid colon volvulus during pregnancy is a rare but complication with significant maternal and fetal mortality. We describe a case of sigmoid volvulus in a patient with 33 weeks of gestation that developed complete necrosis of the left colon. Case. 27-year-old woman was admitted with 3 days of abdominal distention, vomit, and the stoppage of the passage of gases and...