Common bile duct stenoses (CBDSs) are more frequently identified today with the increased use of modern imaging techniques in the diagnosis of chronic alcohol-induced pancreatitis (CAIP).

ABSTRACTMost studies about the South African liberation struggle have focused on political and strategic concerns at the level of formal organisations and their leadership. Yet the anti-apartheid struggle also impacted on personal relationships and the social life of th...

Background: Male breast cancer (BC) is rare, managed by extrapolation from female BC. The International Male BC Program aims to better characterize and manage this disease. We report the results of part I, a retrospective joint analysis of cases diagnosed during a 20-ye...

The purpose of this study was to define the nature and work of leaders within the context of the future world of work. A leadership meta-competence model, based on levels of work theory, was developed. This model was validated by senior managers in the retail industry. ...

The article discusses the impact and implication of international teacher migration and commonwealth protocol in Great Britain. According to the author, the country's organized migration and recruitment have become a recent phenomenon which depicts the shortage of teach...

This article investigates, by means of Lie point symmetries, traveling wave solutions to a dynamic equation that frequently arises in the theory of ferroelectric smectic-C liquid crystals under the influence of an electric field. The equation considered has three sinuso...

Coastal sand dune ecosystems are subjected to many stress and disturbance factors that are particularly high in the foredunes compared to the backdunes. Although a few studies have been conducted on eastern coastline sand dunes of South Africa, none have examined the re...

A perusal of Plato’s dialogue the Phaedrus sheds much light on Porphyry’s Vita Plotini. The similarities between the two works are impressive, and it can be argued that Porphyry wrote his text with the dialogue in mind. These similarities include their use of medicine, ...

ABSTRACT Animals carefully regulate the amount of protein that they consume. The quantity of individual essential amino acids (EAAs) obtained from dietary protein depends on the protein source, but how the proportion of EAAs in the diet affects nutrient balancing has ra...

Although techniques for isolating and culturing adult cardiomyocytes were developed four decades ago, it still remains a challenge to isolate high yields of healthy viable cardiomyocytes, to maintain them in culture, and to use them successfully in experiments. This is ...