This article provides a qualitative analysis of the social interactions between Chinese and Tanzanian participants within joint Chinese-Tanzanian educational initiative in Confucius Institute programming at University Dar es Salaam. The addresses issue how people involved understand their those governments context increased presence sub-Saharan Africa. shows that friendships are motivated by bo...

In the present study, the effect of concluding and executing monetary treaties as well as membership of regional economic cooperation organizations (as a potential for using regional currency) on mutual exports between Iran and its 50 major trading partners during the period of 2000 to 2016 is investigated. The Generalized Commercial Gravity Model and Ordinary Least Square (OLS) regression of p...

This commentary relates to the recently published essay in PLOS Medicine, entitled "Untreated Pain, Narcotics Regulation, and Global Health Ideologies." That essay describes regulatory and other systemic barriers preventing the accessibility of opioid analgesics and contributing to patients not receiving adequate pain relief. Four main points highlighted in the essay are discussed in this comme...