Mercury concentrations in feather, liver, kidney, and muscle tissue of Little egret (n = 8) and Cattle egret (n = 3) from Shadegan Wetlands in south-western Iran were examined. Liver of Little egret had significantly higher mercury compared to Cattle egret (p < 0.05). In addition, mercury values were consistently larger in Little egret when compared to Cattle egret, but mercury levels found in ...

We develop a scale to measure fundamentalism among the followers of Abrahamic faiths. The is intended overcome challenges that beset comparative analysis subject: variability religious fundamentalist movements historically, cross-nationally, and across these religions; differences in definition fundamentalism, etymological ambiguity term. conceptualized as cluster core orientations toward one's...

Women physicists from Lebanon, Palestine, Pakistan, and Egypt share their thoughts about being scientists in places where women make up a much larger of STEM graduates than Europe the US.

This study aims to analyze the characteristics of global virtual water trade (GVWT), such as the connectivity of each trader, vulnerable importers, and influential countries, using degree and eigenvector centrality during the period 2006–2010. The degree centrality was used to measure the connectivity, and eigenvector centrality was used to measure the influence on the entire GVWT network. Mexi...

Abstract Background Lockdown conditions due to the COVID-19 pandemic have affected mental health of people, especially youth. This study examined effect lockdown on Egypt, Ghana, India, Pakistan, and Philippines assessed coping strategies in practice by Results had highest mean score all three domains followed then Ghana. There was a significant association gender with stress, educational statu...

BACKGROUND There is an increasing number of urgently ill and injured children being seen in emergency departments (ED) of developing countries. The pediatric disease burden in EDs across Pakistan is generally unknown. Our main objective was to determine the spectrum of disease and injury among children seen in EDs in Pakistan through a nationwide ED-based surveillance system. METHODS Through ...

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3 Abdelfattah M. Attallah, Faisal A. Bughdadi, Atef M. El-Shazly and 4 Hisham Ismail, 5 Research & Development Dept., Biotechnology Research Center, New Damietta 34517, 6 Egypt 7 Biological Sciences Dept., University College, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah 8 21955, Saudi Arabia 9 Parasitology Dept., Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, 10 Egypt 11 12 Running title...