The world is facing an unprecedented displacement crisis. Recently, over 1.1 million asylum seekers have been granted protection status in the European Union (EU). The majority of these asylum seekers were from countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.This influx carries with it a potential introduction of infectious diseases that have been eliminated in the EU, which poses a...

Department of Economics, University of Isfahan, Iran   Ahmad Googerdchian   Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Isfahan, Iran     Abstract   Implementing a currency :::union::: may lead members to face financial crisis if their financial markets are not ready to adopt themselves to a new situation. There are still problems like ownership concentration and self-gover...

We analyse two potential effects arising from regional (and with EU) integration—increased quality of institutions (including the quality of financial institutions) and, economic policies and reduced multilateral exchange rate volatility—in a conditional convergence growth framework for MENA countries. To this purpose we outline an ad hoc methodology which implements the traditional bilateral e...

The study offers updated and more accurate information about long-term annual solar resource in the most countries of Europe, Middle East and North Africa (EU-MENA) and evaluates PV power production potential. The underlying solar radiation and PV electricity output values are calculated form the solar and meteo database SolarGIS, which covers a history of recent 18 years. Direct Normal Irradia...

This paper studies the role of European Union (EU) in supporting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) communities Middle East North Africa (MENA) by focusing on case Lebanon. It seeks to fill existing gap literature regarding transversal conceptualization EU practices support LGBTI MENA what is happening ground. The builds semi-structured interviews engages with primary seco...

BACKGROUND There is a gap in knowledge on long term pace of population aging acceleration and related net-migration rate changes in WHO European Region and its adjacent MENA countries. We decided to compare European Union (EU-28) region with the EU Near Neighborhood Policy Region East and EU Near Neighborhood Policy Region South in terms of these two essential features of third demographic tran...

Background: Mena is an immunofluorescence-based, quantitative method in which expression of the noninvasive Mena protein isoform (Mena11a) is subtracted from total Mena protein expression. Previous work has found a significant positive association between Mena and risk of death from breast cancer. Our goal was to determine if Mena could be used as an independent prognostic marker for axillary n...

The spread of cancer during metastatic disease requires that tumor cells subvert normal regulatory networks governing cell motility to invade surrounding tissues and migrate toward blood and lymphatic vessels. Enabled (Ena)/vasodilator-stimulated phosphoprotein (VASP) proteins regulate cell motility by controlling the geometry of assembling actin networks. Mena, an Ena/VASP protein, is upregula...