The geopolitical zone known as MENA (Middle East and North Africa), occupying so many newspaper front pages last year owing to the " Arab spring " in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Syria, is at the same time largely ignored by the realm of webometrics, scientometrics, and information visualization. The MENA zone would include all 22 countries whose official language is Arabic, and which also belong ...

Drosophila Enabled is required for proper formation of axonal structures and is genetically implicated in signaling pathways mediated by Drosophila AbI. We have identified two murine proteins, Mena and Evl, that are highly related to Enabled as well as VASP (Vasodilator-Stimulated Phosphoprotein). A conserved domain targets Mena to localized proteins containing a specific proline-rich motif. Th...

Abstract This paper examines the effect of geopolitical risk (GPR) on return and volatility dynamics in Middle East North African (MENA) countries by using an ADCC-GARCH model a spillover approach. Unlike previous studies, we include GPR index to capture associated with wars, terrorist acts, political tensions. Moreover, test for both static dynamic analysis rolling window. In brief, findings h...

All around the world, value of an inclusive financial system is prioritized. Since most Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region’s governments lacked sufficient formal services majority their populations access to conventional bank accounts, issue exclusion became increasingly important. Financial inclusion benefits not only individuals families but also entire communities as a whole can stim...

High cancer mortality in Costa Rica, especially stomach cancer mortality, has long attracted the attention of local doctors and statisticians. Nervertheless, as in many parts of the world with relatively young populations and limited resources, this matter has in the past been overshadowed by larger health problems, and the statistics that are available have received scant attention. Despite th...

To overcome the limited immunogenicity of the meningococcal group A (MenA) polysaccharide (Ps) vaccine, the protein conjugation technology was applied to the development of MenAfriVac® (Serum Institute of India Ltd.). The MenA Ps is covalently conjugated to a protein, which acts as an immunologic carrier. MenAfriVac is a purified MenA polysaccharide tetanus toxoid (TT) conjugated vaccine (10 μg...