. it can be claimed that no other country in the world possesses such a geopolitical situation. although such a situation provides the country with a set of opportunities, any wrong decision-making, apart from national and international realities, in choosing the focus of policies and foreign relations activities may turn it into a ground for crisis and continued failure for iran. this paper se...

Nurse managers work in environments in which conflict is likely to arise due to both the nature of their work and the need to interact with a wide range of individuals. Although the management of conflict has been studied previously, no research has examined the conflict management styles of nurse managers in Oman or any other Arab country. The present study sought to address this issue by exam...

|/ (1). Introduction. "The Arab Caravan brings bugs." A fact crudely recognised by the inhabitants of the many countries through which Arab traders travel, would lead one to expect that their mother country should prove no exception to the rule. Arabia, however, is a land where ticks swarm alone along its low lying fringe. In the high lands these acarids abound only along the big caravan routes...

OBJECTIVE The prevalence of child psychiatric morbidity in the community is unknown in most developing countries, including those in the Arab region. METHOD An epidemiologic study was carried out to estimate the prevalence of psychiatric morbidity and to determine the sociodemographic correlates in a sample of children in the community, aged 6 to 18 years, in A1 Ain, United Arab Emirates (UAE...

This study was based on the theory that adolescents view scenes of violent ethnic conflicts in the mass media through the lens of their own ethnicity, and that the resulting social-cognitive reactions influence their negative stereotypes about similar ethnic groups in their own country. We interviewed 89 Jewish and 180 Arab American high school students about their exposure to the Israeli-Pales...

Patient care in a community is becoming critical due to change in the impact of diseases on health. The provision of pharmaceutical care in a community will bring in positive changes in health care delivery. However, the pharmacist in developing countries has remained obscure in direct healthcare of the patient. The main aim of this article is to reinforce the concept that there is a need to st...

This paper uses both world-wide and country-level analysis to describe the relationship between air transportation and economic activity. In particular, we describe how economic, infrastructural, institutional and geographic factors affect the mapping of cargo and passenger flows to the enabled flows of labor, knowledge, investment, remittances, tourism and goods. We also identify the role of g...

The Human Development Report for the Arab States in 2002 indicates that the Human Development Index (HDI) for 1998 is estimated to be 0.72, setting the country in the medium level of the HDI category. Although Jordan is a lower middle-income country with a GNP/per capita of US$1,500 (1999 World Development Indicators; World Development Report 2000/2001 World Bank, Washington), poverty is consid...

OBJECTIVES To review trends in non-communicable (NCD) research output in the Arab region, in terms of quantity and quality, study design, setting and focus. We also examined differences by time and place, and assessed gaps between research output and NCD burden. METHODS A scoping review of a total of 3,776 NCD-related reports published between 2000 and 2013 was conducted for seven Arab countr...