PURPOSE To evaluate the results of radical retropubic prostatectomy in patients treated at a single institution. MATERIALS AND METHODS Between April 1985 and July 1997, 76 patients with prostate cancer underwent radical retropubic prostatectomy, including 73 receiving pelvic lymphadenectomy. The median age and follow-up time were 68 years old and 44 months, respectively. The pathological stag...

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The media landscape has dramatically changed over the past decade, with traditional media (e.g., newspapers, television) now supplemented by social media (e.g., blogs, discussion forums). This new media landscape is not well understood with respect to (i) the joint impacts of traditional and social media on marketing performance (e.g., sales), (ii) how these media types influence each other, an...

Executive Summary The lack of market information represents a significant impediment to market access especially for smallholder poor farmers: it substantially increases transaction costs and reduces market efficiency. For any one crop, the marketing chain consists of multiple middlemen, each taking a margin at every stage of the chain, and price variations in space and time are often large and...

The importance of optimal marketing communications mix decisions is well-recognized by both marketing scholars and practitioners. A significant volume of work has addressed the problem of dynamic marketing mix optimization assuming constant effectiveness of marketing instruments. However, the effectiveness of marketing communications varies over time for a variety of reasons. Moreover, due to f...

Tidore Islands City Most of its residents earn income from cinnamon farming. Cinnamon trees are peeled and the process drying is carried out to dry. sold in stick form involves marketing institutions. bark used as a spice ingredient such food mixes, cake making, drinks, medicines aroma therapy. The purpose this study identify channels area, analyze amount costs margins each channel. research wa...

Plantain marketing offers great profit-making, yet it is unclear if this has translated to more profits, making imperative examine the drivers of plantain marketing. Primary data collected with structured questionnaire in purposive 2-staged random sampling were analyzed using net income, margin, efficiency and multiple linear regression models. was mainly done by married educated women, average...

PURPOSE The goal of this study was to evaluate the imaging features of diabetic mastopathy (DMP) and the role of image-guided biopsy in its diagnosis. METHODS Two experienced radiologists retrospectively reviewed the mammographic and sonographic images of 19 pathologically confirmed DMP patients. The techniques and results of the biopsies performed in each patient were also reviewed. RESULT...