background and purpose: the movement of spiritual leadership is a special kind of service-centered leadership which looks forward to progress and staff control. job involvement also emphasizes timely attendance of staff, feeling successful at work, and sense of optimism and success about the future of the organization. therefore, this study investigated the relation between spiritual leadership...

Background & Aims: Diabetes is the most common cause of renal insufficiency throughout the world. The main cause of renal failure in diabetic patients is microvascular endothelial injuries that is secondary to atherosclerosis and ischemia. The efficacy of renal Doppler indices such as resistive index (RI) and pulsetile index (PI) for the evaluation of intrarenal arteries has been shown. This st...

background heart failure is a major cause of death in thalassemia. the study aimed to determine the diagnostic value of n terminal pro b type natriuretic peptide (nt-pro bnp), to early diagnose the cardiac involvement in beta- thalassemia major patients. materials and methods  80 thalassemia patients aged 7 to 18 years old (patients group), and 80 healthy age and gender matched controls were en...

mitochondrial disorders (mids) require biochemical or genetic investigations for being diagnosed. in some cases, however, the diagnosis can be suspected upon the syndromic phenotype or upon clinical presentation and family history, as in the following case. the patient was a 74-year-old male admitted for worsening of pre-existing left-sided ptosis and ophthalmoparesis after a birthday party. th...

This paper investigates effects of strategic choice on organizational performance for Romanian family-owned Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs). Using adapted Jacquemin–Berry entropy index for both product and international diversification and using a regression model, our study discusses family involvement as a moderating factor for organizational performance assessment. We discovered th...

humanism and socio-constructivism have entailed drastic developments in education including that of foreign/second language. incorporating teachers and learners in all areas of education including materials development and evaluation, focusing four-pairs of binoculars on evaluating efl materials can be taken amongst the outcomes of this trend.  this study is a report of an evaluation of the esp...

this study assessed of youth involvement in agricultural production in sabon gari local government area. the data used for this study were collected using interview schedule administered to 112 respondents who were selected through multi-stage sampling procedure. descriptive statistics such as frequency, percentages and means were used to analyze the data. the result revealed that majority (95....

Drug rash with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms syndrome is an idiosyncratic drug reaction characterized by fever, skin eruption, lymph node enlargement, and internal organ involvement. We report a case of a patient with pneumonia who developed clinical manifestations of fever, rash, lymphadenopathy, hypereosinophilia, and visceral involvement (renal failure and eosinophilic pneumonitis) caus...