1Department of Research and Studies, Ministry of Health, Muscat, Oman (Correspondence to M.M. Afifi: [email protected]). Received: 30/09/03; accepted: 17/05/04 ABSTRACT The study aimed to identify mental health publications in Arab countries cited in PubMed from 1987 to 2002 and to analyse the year of publication, journal and field of research, specifically for child and adolescent mental hea...

Umbilical cord blood transplants are now used to treat numerous types of immune- and blood-related disorders and genetic diseases. Cord blood (CB) banks play an important role in these transplants by processing and storing CB units. In addition to their therapeutic potential, these banks raise ethical and regulatory questions, especially in emerging markets in the Arab world. In this article, t...

One of the benefits of online journalism has been the enhancement of freedom of expression among the Arab online population [1,2]. Many Arab countries have a long and rich history of practicing censorship of traditional mass media [3]. However, the technological developments of the 1990s helped to establish new media that have begun to change the landscape of the relationship between the govern...

E-learning plays an important role in education as it supports online education via computer networks and provides educational services by utilising information technologies. We present a case study describing the development of an Arabic language e-learning course in statistics. Discussed are issues concerning elearning in Arab countries with special focus on problems of the application of e-l...

The demographic composition of Israel provided an opportunity to compare the relation between commitment forms and work/nonwork outcomes for workers from two wellestablished yet diverse cultures in the same geographic locale. This study examined 283 Arab and Jewish nurses in three Israeli hospitals using identical measures. As was predicted, the effects of commitment on work and nonwork outcome...

Arab growth has been both unsustainable in the long run as well as characterized by high short run volatility, especially in the period affected by the massive oil price shocks since 1985. This paper seeks to explain these two devastating features of the region’s growth. Our analysis corroborates the view, most notably articulated in the work of Dani Rodrik, that this phenomenon is not just a f...