Several developing countries seek to build knowledge-based economies by attempting to expand scientific research capabilities. Characterizing the state and direction of progress in this arena is challenging but important. Here, we employ three metrics: a classical metric of productivity (publications per person), an adapted metric which we denote as Revealed Scientific Advantage (developed from...

INTRODUCTION Emerging HIV epidemics have been documented among people who inject drugs (PWID) in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). This study estimates the HIV incidence among PWID due to sharing needles/syringes in MENA. It also delineates injecting drug use role as a driver of the epidemic in the population, and estimates impact of interventions. METHODS A mathematical model of HIV t...

OBJECTIVE This paper reviews the evidence related to the association of dietary pattern with coronary heart disease (CHD), strokes, and the associated risk factors among adults in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. METHODS A systematic review of published articles between January 1990 and March 2015 was conducted using Pro-Quest Public Health, MEDLINE, and Google Scholar. The ter...

In this paper we apply the wavelets methodology to the analysis of the comovements of for some MENA countries from June 1997 until March 2005. We decompose weekly stock market returns into di¤erent time scale components using the non-decimated discrete wavelet transform and then analyze the relationships among these variables at the di¤erent time scales. Keywords : Stock market returns, Wavelet...

Abstract Using the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada (LSIC) and linked LSIC‐Longitudinal Immigration Database (IMDB), this study finds that all immigrant women in Canada, those from Middle East North Africa (MENA) region have lowest labour force participation rate. After controlling for various socioeconomic factors employing logistic regressions on multiple rounds LSIC LSIC‐IMDB data...

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The study critically reviews the application, management and challenges of managed aquifer recharge (MAR) in Middle East North Africa (MENA) region through a survey 142 studies. reveals objectives methods MAR region. It also shows technical socioeconomic that significantly cause failure MENA countries. article concludes by presenting framework to evaluate feasibility it provides recommendations...

BACKGROUND Warfarin is the most commonly used oral anticoagulant for the treatment and prevention of thromboembolic disorders. Pharmacogenomics studies have shown that variants in CYP2C9 and VKORC1 genes are strongly and consistently associated with warfarin dose variability. Although different populations from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region may share the same ancestry, it is st...

This paper studies the role of European Union (EU) in supporting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) communities Middle East North Africa (MENA) by focusing on case Lebanon. It seeks to fill existing gap literature regarding transversal conceptualization EU practices support LGBTI MENA what is happening ground. The builds semi-structured interviews engages with primary seco...

This paper revisits the original natural resource curse study conducted by Sachs and Warner to investigate relationship between dependence per capita growth in recent data consisting of 68 developing countries that includes 14 Middle East & North Africa (MENA) 6 Gulf Cooperative Council (GCC) 1994–2014. Using a cross-country modeling we find robust evidence negative association dependence. affe...