BACKGROUND Analysis of biomedical research and publications in a country or group of countries is used to monitor research progress and trends. This study aims to assess the performance of biomedical research in the Arab world during 2001-2005 and to compare it with other Middle Eastern non-Arab countries. METHODS PubMed and Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-expanded) were searched systema...

Highlights Best paper award IEEE Int. Middle Eastern Multiconf. on Simul. & Model. Beirut, Lebanon Creation of the Regional network on healthcare engineering (RIS) Members of the board of the French CNRS national research group GDR MACS Co animation of the IMS2 “Intelligent Manufacturing and Services Systems” GDR MACS PPF project with LAMIH, LAGIS and the University Politehnica of Bucharest Int...

We analyzed the geographic distribution of the Ixodes ricinus-like ticks in eastern North America by comparing the mitochondrial 16S rDNA sequences of specimens sampled directly from the field during the 1990s. Two distinct lineages are evident. The southern clade includes ticks from the southeastern and middle-eastern regions of the United States. The range of the northern clade, which appears...

This paper reviewed studies that have investigated adherence to medication among patients with chronic conditions in Middle Eastern countries. A comprehensive literature search yielded 19 relevant studies. These focused on the extent and predictors of nonadherence to medication across different conditions, including hypertension, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, diabetes, depressi...

conclusions hbv and hcv are important culprits of hcc in emro countries and the middle east and different nations need different strategies to tackle them accordingly. countries with high rates of hbv such as turkey should continue their hbv vaccination and also increase sanitation. nations with high hcv rates such as egypt should maintain their blood product monitoring in addition to increased...

Louis Raphaël I Sako (Chaldean Catholic Patriarch of Babylon and Head of the Chaldean Catholic Church): What Will Middle Eastern Societies Lose if Christians Flee? Louis Raphaël I Sako is the newly elevated Patriarch of the Chaldean Church and has a doctorate in history from the Sorbonne. In his keynote address, he demonstrates that Christianity is integral to the Middle East and played a pivot...

This study describes new transport estimates of the North Atlantic Current in Iceland Basin, and uses these results along with other contemporaneous measurements to determine mass overturning budgets for eastern subpolar gyre. As part Overturning Subpolar Program (OSNAP), are determined using three full-depth dynamic height moorings spanning Basin supplemented by Argo satellite altimetry data. ...

Cancer is becoming an increasingly important health problem in the low- and middle-income countries in the Asia Pacific region, as well as in high-income countries because of ageing populations and changes in lifestyle associated with economic development and epidemiologic transition. This paper reviews the cancer burden and control in the Asia Pacific region (limited to East Asia, South Easter...

China has been undergoing a very rapid but unbalanced urbanization, characterized by under-urbanization of its population and faster urbanization of the land. In such a situation, the urbanization of the population and the land may produce different effects on the natural environment. In addition, due to substantial inter-regional differences, the influence of urbanization on the environment is...