OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of experiencing intra-familial violence among Mexican and Egyptian youth and to describe its associated risk factors. METHODS Data from questionnaires applied to 12,862 Mexican and 5,662 Egyptian youth, aged 10 to 19, who attended public schools were analyzed. Biviarate and logistic regression analysis were used to determine the relationship between socio...

This paper seeks to examine the effect of mutual fund governance on stock selection and market timing abilities. This paper applies a Structural Equation Modelling technique to solve the potential endogeneity problem between internal governance measures and stock selection and market timing. The main conclusion of this paper is to provide evidence through robust statistical analysis around the ...

We studied effects of compliance on the impact of mass drug administration (MDA) with diethylcarbamazine and albendazole for lymphatic filariasis (LF) in an Egyptian village. Baseline microfilaremia (mf) and filarial antigenemia rates were 11.5% and 19.0%, respectively. The MDA compliance rates were excellent (> 85%). However, individual compliance was highly variable; 7.4% of those surveyed af...

The Egyptian fauna of the three genera Acathrito Lyneborg, Phycus Walker and Salentia Costa of subfamily Phycinae (Therevidae) is revised. Five species are recognized, three species of Phycus (including Phycus rufofemoratus Kröber as a new record) and one species for each of Acathrito and Salentia. A key to Egyptian Phycus species is included. Illustrations, specimens examined and distributions...

This study utilized daily records of 2000 Egyptian Holstein dairy cows. The productive, reproductive and economic data during a whole lactation season were recorded for healthy and mastitis cows. Two risk factors for mastitis were included, parity and season of calving. Mastitis cows had significant (P

Discerning the genetic diversity of any crop species provides insight into the strength of an applied breeding program and directs future breeding strategies aimed at long-term genetic gain and minimized genetic vulnerability. The number and abundance of ancestral parents present in the pedigree of crop cultivars can provide an average estimation of the depth of the genetic base of the overall ...

European cultivars of white lupin (Lupinus albus L.) grow poorly in limed or calcareous soils. However, Egyptian genotypes are grown successfully in highly calcareous soil and show no stress symptoms. To examine their physiological responses to alkaline soil and develop potential screens for tolerance, three experiments were conducted in limed and non-limed (neutral pH) soil. Measurements inclu...

1The Egyptian Organization for Biological Products and Vaccines (EGYVAC-VACSERA), The Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population, Egypt 2Section Research, Department of Medical Genetics, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands 3Institute of Pathophysiology, Semmelweis University Medical School, Semmelweis University, Hungary 4Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Semmelweis University, Neph...

Modern excavations yielded a distribution of the house areas in the ancient Egyptian city Akhetaten, which was populated for a short period during the 14th century B.C. Assuming that the house area has a power law dependence of the wealth of its inhabitants allows us to make a comparison of the wealth distributions in ancient and modern societies.