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To ensure better reinforcement for the objectives of the Development Millennium Goals (DMGs), cities are presented as key players in the formulation and implementation of public policies not only at the municipal level but at the international level as well. Sister city movement aims to empower local communities and to strengthen their role in the decision-making process to better respond to the sustainable development objectives.

Within With in retail, the emerging sectors are food and grocery, apparel, electronics, e-commerce, fashion and lifestyle. “The upcoming areas within retail are luxury, super specialty stores/ malls, and renewed emphasis on high streets. Retail is a sunrise industry and perhaps one of the biggest industries having potential for employees. It has appeared suddenly and going to increase in future. India has no past experience of this type and of its magnitude. It’s necessary to get ready to meet the challenges posed by it at HR front.

The implementation of the rehabilitation policy by law enforcement agencies in Indonesia currently still does not guarantee legal protection for narcotics addicts as victims of the abuse and illicit trafficking of narcotics. This is because the arrangement of rehabilitation for narcotics addicts in the Narcotics Act of Indonesia is still ambiguous. On the one hand criminalizing narcotics addicts, but on the other hand rehabilitating narcotics addicts both medically and socially.

Objective: To describe the experiences experienced by nutrition professionals in the health services of the municipality of Sobral-CE, as well as their contributions and challenges as a resident in the Family Health Strategy. Methods: This is a qualitative experience report by professionals from the Nutrition category of the Multiprofessional Residency in Family Health in Sobral, CE, from September 2016 to May 2017. The canary for this experience in the municipality were those who presented nutritional demands or were part of the network of nutritional services of the municipality.

The present case report aimed to describe a case of radial nerve palsy caused by a shock, in which two types of therapeutic treatment and physiotherapy were used, with emphasis on the physiotherapeutic treatment.

The fashion and clothing sector is the second largest employer in the Brazilian processing industry. The complexity of its processes is high, especially in the raw materials and complements purchasing sector, which involves several other departments of the company. Knowledge Management (KM) has the potential to systematize the existing knowledge in organizations and add value to organizational products and processes.

The present paper aims to contribute in improving the understanding of structural transformation in ECOWAS member states and what it takes to make true transformation happen in these countries. The paper used data covering years 1970 to 2013 to analyze the path of transformation followed by selected developed countries (France, United Kingdom and Japan) and emerging economies. For the emerging economies a difference is made between the BRICS (Brazil, China and India) and non-BRICKS (Indonesia, Korea and Malaysia) countries.

Nephrolithiasis is the occurrence of calculus in the renal pelvis, responsible to change the physiology of the urinary tract. Predisposing factor include anatomical changes, hereditary factors, infections of the urinary tract, variations in the urine pH, diet types and low ingestion of water. The most founded uroliths in dogs are the magnesium ammonia (struvite) phosphate and calcium oxalate. The radiography and the ultrasonography are the most used methods of diagnosis. The treatment depends of the size of the calculus and if the same it is passable to dissolved by specific drugs.

Tourism is considered as one of the world's fastest growing industries and is a major economic sector in tropical developing countries. In Vietnam, coastal tourism is also a significant portion of the national economy, due to its diverse coastal environment with a variety of ecosystems and a tremendous potential for developing coastal tourism. In recent years, coastal tourism has strongly developed with the number of tourists and revenue continuously increased every year.

This article integrates the results of a qualitative study that aimed to characterize the practices related to sex education and profile the treatment received by pregnant teenagers in 30 state primary schools in the city of Novo Hamburgo, Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), with the intention of examining the processes of sex education in schools, as well as analyze the evasion and educational/social exclusion of these students. Theoretically, we have retrieved some contribution from gender studies.