THE PALESTINIAN PROBLEM IN THE MIDDLE EAST POLICY OF THE USSR / RUSSIA by T. V. Nosenko, V. A. Isaev, E. S. Melkumyan

“…Against the backdrop of the Arab Spring and the Civil War in Syria, Palestinian issues have become secondary in the agenda of Moscow, which, however, can lead to a new surge of violence and tension. …”
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THE ALBANIAN FACTOR OF DESTABILIZATION OF THE WESTERN BALKANS: SCENARIO APPROACH by E. G. Ponomareva

“…Substantiation of the probability of the development and implementation of the scenario is given in four key parameters, including political, economic, military and cultural and religious spheres.Among the main actors of the scenario the author singles out the armed forces of Kosovo, Albanian paramilitary formations on the territory of western Macedonia, transnational corporations, private military companies, as well as the United States, Britain, Turkey and the Arab monarchies who support the project politically and financially.The article concludes that there is a need for an objective political assessment of the situation in the region, an analysis of security threats and risks of another round of destabilization of the Western Balkans. …”
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Face Veil and Lawo-Lambu: Negotiating Religious Practices Among Muslims and Catholics in Ende City by Yosep Aurelius Woi Bule, Adison Adrianus Sihombing

“…Second, it turns out that the response of the Catholics is due to the assumption that Muslim women who wear the face veil have left the local dress culture because they are adopting Arab culture and causing social rifts in daily life even though they are ethnically still brothers and sisters. …”
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Oral Hygiene Practices among Saudi Arabian Children and Its Relation to Their Dental Caries Status by M. F. A. Quadri, M. A. Shubayr, A. H. Hattan, S. A. Wafi, A. H. Jafer

“…The aim here is to survey the oral hygiene practices that are commonly followed by Arab children and to see its relationship with their dental caries status. …”
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Prevalence of cataracts in Iran based on the Persian eye cohort study by Fateme Alipour, Parisa Abdi, Hassan Asadigandomani, Mehran Rezakhani, Fatemeh Moosaie, Fateme Jafari, Mehdi Yaseri, Nazgol Motamed-Gorji, Fahimeh Khalili, Roya Tavakoli, Abolfazl Tahkor, Masoome Mohseni, Samira Salimpour, Seyed Mohammad Javad Mousavi Aref, Mohammad Mirzaei, Mohammadreza Soleimani, Kourosh Shahraki, Yousef Alizade, Mohammad Reza Shoja, Gholam Reza Khataminia, Mahmoud Jabbarvand Behrouz, Hassan Hashemi

“…Also, the risk of developing cataracts decreased with an increase in education level and socioeconomic status and some Iranian races such as Arabs, Azari, and Guilak were also at a higher risk of cataracts. …”
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Heterotaxy syndrome, dextrocardia, ureteropelvic obstruction, endometriosis, and pulmonary hypertension in an adult with congenital heart defects: a case report by Ahmad Al-Bitar, Mhd Ammar Zalzaleh, Hussien Al Helbawi, Mohammad Hossein Morteza

“…Case presentation We present a 26-year-old Arab female patient with a complex medical history involving heterotaxy, dextrocardia, congenital heart disease, and ureteropelvic junction obstruction diagnosed in her first year of life, followed by the identification of endometriosis in her early twenties. …”
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Employing Decorative Composition Between Originality and Contemporary in Furniture Designs by Mohammed Hassan Al-Hilo, Lilian Ali Ajaj

“…Many furniture designs that bear contemporary formal values have emerged, at a time when the issue of contemporary and its relationship to originality is one of the important issues that occupy the Arab community. The idea of the designer, and hence the research problem arose with the following question: How is the decorative composition employed between originality and contemporary in furniture designs? …”
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Remediating Cambridge: Human and Horse Co-Relationality in a Culture of Mis-Re-Presentation by Francesca A. Brady, Jennifer McDonell

“…This case study aims to problematise concepts of equine and human co-relational agency in the context of ‘mis-re-presentations’ in the Australian media of harms experienced by the Anglo Arab stallion, Cambridge, following his development of laminitis and his consequent confinement at a leading national Equestrian centre. …”
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SOCIAL PROTEST IN INDIA by S. I. Lunev

“…Thus, social protest became the major cause of the Arab spring is. Social wave overwhelmed Western Europe and the USA. …”
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Assessment of the Performance of Membranes Type Koch in Hartha Power Plant by Ala'a Abdulrazaq Jassim

“…This unit has a capacity of 100 m3/h withdraws water from Shat Al-Arab River as a raw water having total dissolved solid (TDS) >3000 ppm, and consists of two stages with total recovery and salt rejection of about 60% and 95%, respectively. …”
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“As flores do mal”: A experiência da denegação do outro generalizado na internet by José Manuel Resende, Lucas Freitas de Souza

“… Em proporções jamais vistas pela humanidade, a chegada da primavera árabe enfatizou o debate a respeito das migrações forçadas. …”
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Real-Life Use of Tocilizumab in the Treatment of Severe COVID-19 Pneumonia by Ruth Alex, Shabaz Mohiuddin Gulam, Kiran Kumar

“…This study aims to analyze the outcomes among patients who received TCZ in the United Arab Emirates. Methods. A retrospective cohort study was conducted among COVID-19 patients who received TCZ in a tertiary care hospital from May 2020 to August 2021. …”
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Current knowledge about early childhood caries in the gulf cooperation council with worldwide reflection: Scoping review of the scientific literature (2010-2021). by Asmaa Othman Alkhtib, Hasaan G Mohamed

“…While developed countries show low prevalence, countries in the GCC and other Arab countries show a high prevalence of ECC. Many oral health promotion programs were identified globally including oral health education, nutritional programs, the use of fluoride and pit-and-fissure sealants, and inter-professional population-based oral health promotion and prevention programs such as school-based oral health programs, motivational interviewing, and anticipatory guidance. …”
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The impact of COVID-19-induced distance learning on physical activity and dietary habits of female students in the Qassim Region by Mona S. Almujaydil

“…Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted to assess the impact of distance learning (DL) on PA and dietary habits among public middle school girls during the pandemic. The Arab Teens Lifestyle Questionnaire (ATLS) was used to assess habitual PA, sedentary behavior, and dietary habits. …”
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Gender differences in the price elasticity of demand for waterpipe and cigarette smoking in Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine: a volumetric choice experiment by Ramzi G Salloum, Mohammed Jawad, Aya Mostafa, Yousef Khader, Rima Nakkash, Niveen ME Abu-Rmeileh, Ali Chalak, Ruba Abla, Sameera Awawda

“…We also explored the levels of substitution and complementarity in tobacco products among men and women.Setting The study examines tobacco elasticities in three Arab countries: Lebanon, Jordan and the West Bank of Palestine.Participants We used data from nationally representative surveys of adults aged ≥18 years in Lebanon (n=1680), Jordan (n=1925) and Palestine (n=1679). …”
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Language Plurality as Cultural Characteristics of Southeast Asia: A Review of John F. Hartman’s Thesis by Agus Suwignyo

“…Bibliographical sources show that the language-based cultural network in Southeast Asia involved at least three other periods in addition to indinization, that is chinaization, arabization, and europeanization. In Southeast Asia, the spread of the cultural network depended not so much on a lingua franca – a language of unity – as on the plurality of languages. …”
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Examining the therapeutic potential and side effects of calcium channel blockers in mortality and morbidity of patients with stroke: A systematic review of pre-clinical and clinica... by Sevak Hatamian, Asad Abdi, Fatemeh Sadat Seyedi Asl, Armin Tafazolimoghadam, Arian Tavasol, Seyed Ali Mousavi Nejad, Reza Madadi, Zohre Tajabadi, Mina Dehghani, Najmeh Ahmadpoor, Mobina Fathi, Mohammadreza Hajiesmaeili, Navid Nooraei

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Quantum metrology using quantum combs and tensor network formalism by Stanisław Kurdziałek, Piotr Dulian, Joanna Majsak, Sagnik Chakraborty, Rafał Demkowicz-Dobrzański

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Navigating the integration of ChatGPT in UAE’s government sector: challenges and opportunities by Ghada Nabil Goher

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Bulk Low-Inertia Power Systems Adaptive Fault Type Classification Method Based on Machine Learning and Phasor Measurement Units Data by Mihail Senyuk, Svetlana Beryozkina, Inga Zicmane, Murodbek Safaraliev, Viktor Klassen, Firuz Kamalov

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