نتایج جستجو برای: mena

تعداد نتایج: 1654  

2011
Philippa K. Tucker Iwan R. Evans Will Wood

It is seldom the primary tumour that proves fatal in cancer, with metastasis the fundamental pathological process for disease progression. Upregulation of Mena, a member of the evolutionarily conserved Ena/VASP family of actin cytoskeletal regulators, promotes metastasis and invasive motility of breast cancer cells in vivo. To complement in vitro studies of Ena/VASP function in fibroblasts, we ...

2016
Marieke Heijnen Ghina R Mumtaz Laith J Abu-Raddad

INTRODUCTION The status of HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections among incarcerated populations in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and the links between prisons and the HIV epidemic are poorly understood. This review synthesized available HIV and HCV data in prisons in MENA and highlighted opportunities for action. METHODS The review was based on data generated through the system...

2006

National, regional and international competitiveness of an economy is increasingly connected to the presence of an environment supportive of innovation and risktaking. Innovation is gaining prominence on agendas of governments throughout the world who increasingly appreciate the need to develop knowledge-based economies as a prerequisite to competitiveness and growth. Given this recognition, it...

مقاله حاضر به بررسی تعیین‌کنندگان قوی هزینه‌های نظامی در کشورهای منطقه MENA (شامل ایران) با تاکید بر منابع طبیعی طی سال‌های 2014-1995 پرداخته است. به این منظور از 22 متغیر در سه دسته: 1- متغیرهای اقتصادی و اجتماعی، 2- متغیرهای سیاسی، استراتژیک و نظامی و 3- منابع طبیعی، استفاده شده است. روش مورد استفاده نیز رویکرد میانگین‌گیری مدل بیزی (BMA) به‌دلیل ویژگی‌های مناسب برای در نظر گرفتن فرض عدم ‌اط...

2013
Simplice A Asongu Simplice A. Asongu

This paper projects the future of knowledge economy (KE) in SSA and MENA countries using the four components of the World Bank’s Knowledge Economy Index (KEI): economic incentive, education, ICTs and innovation. The empirical evidence provides the speeds of integration as well as the time necessary to achieve full integration. Findings broadly indicate SSA and MENA countries with low levels in ...

2012
Peter J. Hotez Lorenzo Savioli Alan Fenwick

The neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are highly endemic but patchily distributed among the 20 countries and almost 400 million people of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, and disproportionately affect an estimated 65 million people living on less than US$2 per day. Egypt has the largest number of people living in poverty of any MENA nation, while Yemen has the highest prevalence...

2015
Aldiouma Diallo Samba O. Sow Olubukola T. Idoko Siddhivinayak Hirve Helen Findlow Marie-Pierre Preziosi Cheryl Elie Prasad S. Kulkarni Varsha Parulekar Bou Diarra Fadima Cheick Haidara Fatoumata Diallo Milagritos Tapia Adebayo K. Akinsola Richard A. Adegbola Ashish Bavdekar Sanjay Juvekar Julie Chaumont Lionel Martellet Elisa Marchetti Marc F. LaForce Brian D. Plikaytis Godwin C. Enwere Yuxiao Tang Ray Borrow George Carlone Simonetta Viviani

BACKGROUND Mass vaccination campaigns of the population aged 1-29 years with 1 dose of group A meningococcal (MenA) conjugate vaccine (PsA-TT, MenAfriVac) in African meningitis belt countries has resulted in the near-disappearance of MenA. The vaccine was tested in clinical trials in Africa and in India and found to be safe and highly immunogenic compared with the group A component of the licen...

2003
Hans Lofgren Alan Richards

In MENA, household food insecurity, which is closely related to poverty and undernourishment, is most severe in rural areas and concentrated within Iraq, Sudan, and Yemen. 25% of the MENA population may be poor and 7% undernourished. The key to increased national and household-level food security is pro-poor growth, driven by export-oriented, labor-intensive sectors. Agricultural sector policie...

2004
Nada Kobeissi

The importance of restructuring and privatizing the financial sector has received renewed attention in the ongoing effort of revitalizing developing economies A growing research literature has underscored the importance of banking and the financial sector to economic growth. Several studies found positive relationship between financial sector development and levels of income and growth [Levine,...

2015
Sima Rafati Shaden Kamhawi Jesus G. Valenzuela Mostafa Ghanei Mary Ann McDowell

There is an urgent need to build Research and Development (R&D) capacity for leishmaniasis and other neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) in the Middle East and North Africa. The neglected tropical diseases are a group of 17 viral, bacterial, protozoan, and helminthic infections that often have high morbidity but low mortality, causing disabilities through their impact on child development and ed...

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