We investigate different models for detecting and classifying important geopolitical events in high-frequency spatiotemporal network data. Building on previous empirical work on the network response to real-world events, our goal is to develop a generative model that can identify the time, location, and nature of different emergency and non-emergency events. As a testbed for these models, we us...

Policy makers, political and state elites, civilian military cadres have grappled with the unprecedented crisis of Covid-19 in Middle East North Africa. Against this gloomy backdrop, main question became whether region could sustain its traditional security-first policy even though definition security has changed. Could perpetuate role as arbiter a broken clientelistic contract state-led socioe...

conclusions our results showed that hcv genotype 4 is the most prevalent genotype in the middle east region. however, hcv genotype 1 is the most prevalent among non-arab countries in the region including turkey, iran, cyprus, and israel. context the hepatitis c virus (hcv) is classified into seven genotypes and more than 100 subtypes. the treatment regimen, duration and efficacy of hcv therapy ...

distribution of the genus chondrostoma in iran, which is mostly known from the caspian sea, tigris river, kor river and esfahan basins was mapped. the kura nase, chondrostoma cyri is reported from armenia, georgia and iran and it is found in the streams and rivers draining to the western coast of the caspian sea from the kuma river in the north southward to the kura and aras river basins in the...

Abstract With over one million people arriving in Europe as refugees, the UN Refugee Agency declared 2015 “the year of Europe’s refugee crisis.” This article explores meaning-making process surrounding “refugee crisis” a Russian context, using discourse theory to analyze representations Russia, and West opinion pieces interview articles three major newspapers. In addition humanitarian security ...