the geopolitically important basin of the mazandaran sea found its new identity after the collapse of the soviet :union: as an active region with specific functions. the power vacuum arising from the collapse of the soviet :union: and presence of huge energy resources attracted the attention of trans-regional powers and flow of big investment companies to the region. regional developments are a...

China’s trade with Africa has increased significantly in the past two decades. The effects of these growing trade volumes (and financial flows) are quite contested. The purpose of this paper is to study the effects of growing Chinese influence in Africa on the intra-regional trade in the continent. This paper estimates a traditional gravity model using Poisson pseudo-maximum-likelihood estimati...

African regional organizations’ increasing activity in security policy is usually approached through the concept of a ‘security community’, which can only partially clarify their difficult situation. A multilevel governance model is suggested as a more useful approach in a situation where economic cooperation is weak, member states’ principles of governance diverge, and they themselves might be...

  Background: Intra-operative radiation therapy (IORT) is the transfer of a single large radiation dose to the tumor bed during surgery with the final goal of improving regional tumor control. This study aimed to investigate the safety, effectiveness and economic evaluation of intra-operative radiation therapy.   Methods : The scientific literature was searched in the main biomedical databases ...

Abstract Since institutional quality can either create or destroy incentives for individuals to engage in trade, it has become a source of worry policymakers, as limit both intra- and extra-regional trade. Based on this, we empirically analyzed the extent which national affects bilateral trade flows ECOWAS based gravity model period from 2000 2018. Specifically, study employs negative binomial ...

The first attempts at the Latin American integration process showed a highly pragmatic character, without many concerns for medium and long-term projects. main concern was to expand intra extra-regional trade. However, since 1980s (the decade considered lost America), when external debt crises adjustment policies recommended by International Monetary Fund (IMF) led region higher poverty rate du...