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The implantable port chamber catheters are useful for repeated intravenous treatment, they are placed surgically, percutaneously or radio-guided, they can cause variable complications (infection, thrombosis, malposition, product leakage ...). The occurrence of malposition of the distal portion of the catheter is a rare complication. We report a case of malposition (intra-dural and extra medullary position) whose mechanism have not been determined.

The central issue in this work is to examine the role the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) played in the 2015 Presidential election in Nigeria. To unravel this, we employed the historical and phenomenological method in our analysis and arrived at the finding that CAN ahead of the 2015 presidential election was divided along denominational and ideological lines and consequently could not speak with one voice. Given this finding, the paper maintains that the age-long denominational rivalry between the Catholic Church and Protestants is far from being over; hence the difficulty in arriving at a unanimous decision. The paper concludes with Darrel Lee that “the body of Christ can only thrive when believers work together in harmony” (Ehianu, 2007:119)

The comparative genome analysis of Streptococcus pyogenes and Streptococcus equi sps equi 4047 depict exon, Untranslated Region (UTR), conserved noncoding sequences (CNS), contigs, mobile genetic elements, Insertion sequence (IS) elements, transposons, plasmids and shows high degree of heterogeneity evidenced by the large number of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). Thus UTR, CNS, and IS elements can be used as drug target.

This article briefly discusses about Consumer Education which provides the knowledge necessary to develop citizens into intelligent consumers. Formal Education, Non-Formal Education, Advantages, Aims of Consumer Education, Benefits of Consumer Education, Sources for imparting Consumer Education, Consumer Education to Rural Citizens, Approaches and Techniques of Consumer Education, Educational Institutes and Magazines in India and other countries providing Consumer Education, Resolutions of IOCU on Consumer Education and Consumer Guidance and Counselling are discussed.

Sometimes BMI at almost the marginally end values of the standard prescribed intervals may wrongly categories a person either into normal or overweight category. This may be sometimes due to either wrong measurement of BMI value or wrong diagnosis of medical practitioner. This may lead to the wrong treatment of the patient. This is a frequent event everywhere in the world. To overcome such type of problems, it is observed that a soft computing approach can only provide a better satisfaction. Since it is a medical diagnosis problem, and since for almost all the medical problems the concerned physicians do always have some amount of hesitation (at best it could be nil), we have no other soft computing theory as our option but the intuitionistic fuzzy set theory of Atanassov only, for approaching towards a satisfactory solution.

We are very happy to announce that from 10th March 2017, Dr. Arvind Prasad Dwivedi has joined the team of Elixir Editorial Advisory Board. He/She will carry a special responsibility for dealing with manuscripts based on Chemistry. Dr. Arvind Prasad Dwivedi working as Lecturer Department of Chemistry, Govt. Sanjay Gandhi Smrati, College, Sidhi (M.P.). The appointment of Dr. Arvind Prasad Dwivedi as member Editorial Advisory Board strengthens the links and will make it easier for prospective authors to establish contact with the journal.

We are very happy to announce that from 10th November 2017, Dr. Kavita Girish Adsule has joined the team of Elixir Editorial Advisory Board. He/She will carry a special responsibility for dealing with manuscripts based on Human Resource Management. The appointment of Dr. Kavita Girish Adsule as member Editorial Advisory Board strengthens the links and will make it easier for prospective authors to establish contact with the journal. Please send any expressions of interest to elixirpublishers@gmail.com.

We are very happy to announce that from 17th April 2017, Dr. Surya Deo Choudhary has joined the team of Elixir Editorial Advisory Board. He/She will carry a special responsibility for dealing with manuscripts based on Electrical and Electronics Engineering. Dr. Surya Deo Choudhary working as Associate Professor, Department of ECE, NIET Greater Noida, India. The appointment of Dr. Surya Deo Choudhary as member Editorial Advisory Board strengthens the links and will make it easier for prospective authors to establish contact with the journal.

Cadmium sulphide (CdS) thin films were deposited from different cadmium salts by acidic chemical bath deposition (CBD) method. The effect of cadmium source on CdS thin films by thickness, optical properties, structural properties, functional groups and surface morphology with elemental composition were studied. Film growth rate and band gap were found to the sensitive to the Cd source used. The transmittance data analysis indicates that the optical band gap ranging from 2.37 eV to 2.43 eV was deduced. The XRD study reveals that the films were cubic in nature. SEM with EDS data shows that all the particles were spherical and average atomic ratio of Cd/S increases with the decrease in particle sizes.

The study was based on the premise that the business environment is influenced by different factors that affect corporate governance on the performance of the organization. The research is carried out in Mombasa County; the main objective is to analyze the effects of corporate governance on the performance of an organization. The site of the study is at Wartsila eastern Africa limited which is located outside the Town center of Mombasa. The study used a descriptive, explanatory, comparative, and associational and cross-sectional research designs data. A sample of 75 respondents was to provide the data, the proportion of the respondents was, 5 from top level executive, 20 from middle level managers and 50 from low level employees. Findings on the relationship between Corporate Governance variables and board roles indicated significant positive relationship.