The demographic situation of the youth in the Arab region indicates that the future of Arab societies depends on the attitude and performance of this generation, particularly with regard to the objectives of the transition towards the knowledge society. Arab countries have a huge balance of youth that must be invested in and empowered through education to participate and progress towards the kn...

Recently, many meta-heuristic algorithms are proposed for optimization of various problems. Some of them originally are presented for continuous optimization problems and some others are just applicable for discrete ones. In the literature, sizing optimization of truss structures is one of the discrete optimization problems which is solved by many meta-heuristic algorithms. In this paper, in or...

BACKGROUND Arab Americans exhibit higher rates of hypertension and other cardiovascular risk factors relative to national averages. While research suggests some minorities may exhibit increased cardiovascular reactivity (CVR) to, and slowed recovery from, stress compared to Whites, which may represent a risk factor for hypertension and cardiovascular disease, this has not been studied in Arab A...