AIM International collaboration for health system development has been identified as a critical input to meet pressing global health needs. North-South collaboration has the potential to benefit both parties, while South-South collaboration offers promise to strengthen capacity rapidly and efficiently across developing countries. There is an emerging trend to analyze the fruits of such collabor...

The predictors of terrorism are unclear. This paper examines the effect of public opinion in one country toward another country on the number of terrorist attacks perpetrated by people or groups from the former country against targets in the latter country. Public opinion is measured by the percentage of people in Middle Eastern and North African countries who disapprove of the leadership of ni...

We compare buyer-supplier links established by pairs of Japanese-owned automobile assemblers and component manufacturers operating in Japan and in North America during 198%90. Eight assemblers and more than I70 Japanese component manufacturers had established North American manufacturing facilities. In total, Japanese automobile assembly organizations operating in North America had recreated ab...

This paper will discuss about the role of the geopolitical location of South Africa in the development of movie and the cinema industry in this country. Despite of bringing ci-nema to South Africa by white Europeans, but the development of this phenomenon is mostly due to the geopolitical position of this country. It is interesting to know that ci-nema reached Africa in much the same time as it...

background: beta-thalassemia patients have a high prevalence for hepatitis c virus (hcv) infection. in developing countries, hcv antibody is reported to be high in this group of patients. this study aims to determine the distribution of hcv amongst beta-thalassemia patients in northern iran. materials and methods: this study was undertaken from october 2010 to june 2011 on 245 beta-thalassemia ...

tea might be considered as the most popular drink in iran as well as some other parts of theworld. its popularity to some extent depends on its flavor and some other constituents present in its leaves orextract. black tea samples from various agro climatic zones of northeast of iran were evaluated for the chemicalconstituents, polyphenols and metal analysis that determine the quality perception...

a total of 698 blood and serum specimens from residents of 13 iranian communities were examined by plaque reduction neutralization test for antibodies to west nile virus. in general, infection rates in the north of the country were low while higher rates were observed among residents of central and southwestern iran. the highest prevalence of infection was found among residents of khuzestan pro...

background: crimean-congo hemorrhagic fever (cchf) is an acute tick-borne viral, zoonotic disease with hemorrhagic manifestations and considerable mortality in humans. the purpose of this study was to introduce cchf as a case report from babol, north of iran. it is known as an endemic pathogen in some regions of iran.case presentation: we present a case of cchf suffering from sudden onset of fe...

The standard paradigm for online power of two choices problems in random graphs is the Achlioptas process. Here we consider the following natural generalization: Starting with G0 as the empty graph on n vertices, in every step a set of r edges is drawn uniformly at random from all edges that have not been drawn in previous steps. From these, one edge has to be selected, and the remaining r − 1 ...