In late 2012, a novel coronavirus that had not previously been seen in humans was identified for the first time in a resident of the Middle East. The virus, now known as the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERSCoV), 1 has (as of 26 June 2015) caused more than 1350 laboratory-confirmed cases of human infection. Thus far, all patients infected with MERS-CoV have had a direct or indi...

BACKGROUND The prevalence of multiple sclerosis (MS) in the Middle East has been reported to be low to medium. METHODS To verify this assertion we conducted a review of published data on the occurrence of MS in the Middle East. RESULTS Fourteen studies reporting on the prevalence of MS in the Middle East were initially identified, 5 of which were excluded due to inadequate data or serious m...

China is a vast and overpopulated country in the eastern Asia whose energy security and supply is the most important factor of economic growth and consequently, economic, social and political security. By the past decades, its leaders have understood the key role of economic growth and development in the economic and political security of china. Thus, they have put all their concentration on th...

nursing research in the middle east: a multi-layer bibliometric study rashidi a * received: 12 aug , 2013 accepted: 26 oct , 2013 abstract background & aims: nurses along with other clinical professions play important role on people's health around the world. however various bibliometric analysis in medical care have shown a notable level of sophistication, a few bibliometric analysis has ...

BACKGROUND The prevalence of type 2 diabetes is increasing dramatically in the Middle East and North Africa region. However, there are few trials that have determined the effect of antidiabetic treatment in an observational setting in these countries. METHODS This was a noninterventional study performed in Morocco in 2006-2007 and in the Middle East in 2005-2006 to observe the efficacy and sa...

middle east is a strategic region because of its abundant oil reserves, hostile struggles among the countries, and threat of the radical groups. the countries of this region spend a large amount of their annual budgets on buying weapons and war armaments. the purpose of this paper is to study the impact of military expenditures on economic growth of oil and non-oil middle east countries by a dy...

This paper analyzes the effects of political and economic institutions on efficiency of transition economies over the 1995-2005 period. Perpetual Inventory Method is used to construct capital series for these countries, and then stochastic production frontier analysis is used to estimate the efficiency scores and effects of institutions at the same time. The empirical results show that better i...

Antigen Capture-ELISA based on eight different neutralizing mouse monoclonal antibodies (Mabs) was used to study Polish infectious bursal disease viruses (IBDVs) isolated from two epidemics on the turn of 70/80s (early IBDV) and in the 90s (recent IBDV). They were compared to the Faragher 52/70 (F52/70) reference strain of European classical serotype 1 IBDV and to the 89/163 (typical) and 91/16...