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Stroke is one of the leading causes of mortality and morbidity across the globe. Providing comprehensive data on the burden of stroke in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) could be useful for health policy makers in the region. Therefore, this artic
Transoceanic dispersal on rafts is a high-risk, low-probability endeavour for coastal organisms, such that oceans typically represent major dispersal barriers and biogeographic boundaries for species distributions. The entrainment of biofouled rafted materials in ocean currents can result in several differen...
Iran is the fifth-largest economy in the MENA region. Like Saudi Arabia, petroleum exports play a major role in the country's economy, though it is more diversified than many other oil exporters in the Middle East. However, Iran is also subject to strict international economic sanctions as ...
After spending long years pursuing higher education in Britain, two major male characters in Salih's novella find themselves stunned to realize they were no more than tools used by the colonizer. With a mind spurning out of control, one of them finds himself incapable of digesting his heart-...
The crowd moved to Nathan Road, a major thoroughfare, while police officers tried to force them onto the smaller Shantung Street nearby, Kwok said. From there, the crowd gathered further weaponry in the form of bamboo sticks and bricks as the riot continued. The flying bricks and jabbing wit...
Major examples of legitimacy politics in North and South Korea suggest that they are triggered under conditions of extreme political competition. Debates between alternative security nationalisms tend to become polarized especially when leaders experience “competitive outbidding,” either from outside challe...
major atmospheric drivers exceed those of the MENA region, an in order to have a better understanding of the past and projected changes in the region, in this study the analysis will be conducted over the extended MENA region, which comprises northern and equatorial Africa, the Middle East, so...
The Eurasian steppe belt extends for thousands of kilometers west to east, from central Europe into Central Asia. The part of it considered in this study lies immediately north of the Black Sea. This region is dissected by several large rivers, from the Danube in the west to the Don in ...
4.1 Major components of groundwater and pore-water Groundwater in the Xiong’an New Area was neutral to weakly alkaline, with the pH between 6.7 and 9.5 (median, 7.7) and between 7.2 and 8.6 (median, 8.2) in shallow and deep aquifers, respectively (Table 1). Na+ was the dominant cat...