Granular materials have been studied for decades, driven by industrial and technological applications. These very simple systems, composed of agglomerations of mesoscopic particles, are characterized, in specific regimes, by a large number of metastable states and an extreme sensitivity (e.g., in sound transmission) to the arrangement of grains; they are not substantially affected by thermal ph...

conclusions the health status and life situation of street children in this region do not seem appropriate and earning money is the most important motivation to being a street child. unlike violence, the tendency to substance abuse, especially cigarette smoking, was pretty high. on the other hand, the lower age of illicit drug abuse among these children in this study indicates a higher vulnerab...

The Lebanese labor market is based on the exploitation of foreign workers. This system, built and supervised by State, aims to keep Palestinian refugees, Syrian displaced population as well African Asian migrants in a precarious status that ensures their confinement at bottom social professional hierarchy. If according North American European models newcomers tend replace those already establis...

Abstract “This study analyses civil society organisations’ ( cso s’) discourse on children’s rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories opt ). This is a troubled context, for Israel – ‘State Party’ to United Nation’s Convention Rights of Child crc ), disputes that its obligations extend . In consequence, there has been dearth official data and scholarly attention situation. Discourse analys...

Intestinal parasites are frequently transmitted via contaminated food or drinking water, but may also be spread from person to person through fecal-oral contact. Intestinal protozoan and helminth parasites are widely prevalent causing considerable medical and public health problems in developing countries. Intestinal parasitic protozoal and helminthic infections are widely distributed throughou...

The links between two commonly used measures of health-self-rated health (SRH) and self-reported illness (SRI)-and socio-economic and contextual factors are poorly understood in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs) and more specifically among women in conflict areas. This study assesses the socioeconomic determinants of three self-reported measures of health among women in the occupied Pales...

BACKGROUND Urban Palestinians have a high incidence of coronary heart disease, and alarming prevalences of obesity (particularly among women) and diabetes. An active lifestyle can help prevent these conditions. Little is known about the physical activity (PA) behavior of Palestinians. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of insufficient PA and its socio-demographic correlates among urba...