Study of Long-term Spectral Evolution and X-Ray and γ-Ray Correlation of Blazars Seen by HAWC by R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez, A. Andrés, J.C. Arteaga-Velázquez, D. Avila Rojas, H.A. Ayala Solares, R. Babu, E. Belmont-Moreno, A. Bernal, K.S. Caballero-Mora, T. Capistrán, A. Carramiñana, F. Carreón, S. Casanova, U. Cotti, J. Cotzomi, S. Coutiño de León, E. De la Fuente, D. Depaoli, N. Di Lalla, R. Diaz Hernandez, B.L. Dingus, M.A. DuVernois, M. Durocher, J.C. Díaz-Vélez, K. Engel, C. Espinoza, K.L. Fan, N. Fraija, S. Fraija, J.A. García-González, F. Garfias, A. Gonzalez Muñoz, M.M. González, J.A. Goodman, S. Groetsch, J.P. Harding, S. Hernández-Cadena, I. Herzog, D. Huang, F. Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, A. Iriarte, V. Joshi, S. Kaufmann, D. Kieda, A. Lara, W.H. Lee, J. Lee, H. León Vargas, J.T. Linnemann, A.L. Longinotti, G. Luis-Raya, K. Malone, O. Martinez, I. Martinez-Castellanos, J. Martínez-Castro, J.A. Matthews, P. Miranda-Romagnoli, J.A. Montes, E. Moreno, M. Mostafá, A. Nayerhoda, L. Nellen, M.U. Nisa, R. Noriega-Papaqui, N. Omodei, M. Osorio, Y. Pérez Araujo, E.G. Pérez-Pérez, C.D. Rho, D. Rosa-González, E. Ruiz-Velasco, H. Salazar, D. Salazar-Gallegos, A. Sandoval, M. Schneider, J. Serna-Franco, A.J. Smith, Y. Son, R.W. Springer, O. Tibolla, K. Tollefson, I. Torres, R. Torres-Escobedo, R. Turner, F. Ureña-Mena, E. Varela, L. Villaseñor, X. Wang, I.J. Watson, K. Whitaker, E. Willox, S. Yun-Cárcamo, H. Zhou, C. de León, HAWC collaboration, Abraham D. Falcone, Fredric Hancock

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Prevalence of Latent Tuberculosis Infection in the Middle East and North Africa: A Systematic Review by Mazin Barry

“…We aimed to review all relevant published data in countries belonging to this region to determine the overall prevalence of LTBI in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Methods. In this systematic review PubMed and Google Scholar databases were searched for observational, prospective, retrospective, cross-sectional, and cohort studies providing prevalence data of LTBI in any MENA country. …”
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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on intra-household gender disparities in the Middle East and North Africa region: A scoping review protocol. by Malak Ghezzawi, Sasha Fahme, Salpy Naalbandian, Jocelyn DeJong, WOMENA Study Group

“…<h4>Introduction</h4>The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is a global outlier both for its low female labor force participation and investment in early childhood development services, and consistently ranks lowest on global rankings of gender parity. …”
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Burden of benign prostatic hyperplasia in the Middle East and North Africa Region, 1990–2021 by Saeid Safiri, Fikrettin Şahin, Reza Aletaha, Mark J. M. Sullman, Reza Shekarriz-Foumani, Ali-Asghar Kolahi

“…Abstract Objective To examine the burden of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region from 1990 to 2021 by age and sociodemographic index (SDI). …”
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Burden and mortality of breast cancer attributed to diabetes and smoking in women: a secondary analysis based on Global Burden of Disease 2019 in North Africa and the Middle East by Fatemeh Khosravi Shadmani, Ali Jafari-Khounigh, Leili Abedi Gheshlaghi, Leila Rezakhani, Mozafar Khazaei

“…This study aimed to investigate the burden of BC due to some risk factors in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries from 1990 to 2019.Methods This study is a secondary analysis based on the Global Burden of Disease 2019 data. …”
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Global and regional trends of the century+ in the Middle East: A new interpretation by V. А. Kuznetsov, V. V. Naumkin

“…The study focuses on a set of issues related to the assessment of key trends in the development of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), which has been raised in the research published by Russian academicians V.G. …”
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Comparative Study on the Efficiency of Islamic Banks and Conventional Banks During the COVID-19 Outbreak by Naima Lassoued, Imen Khanchel, Wiem Saidani

“…This study investigates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the efficiency of Islamic and conventional banks, focusing on Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) countries. Analyzing a sample of 134 banks across 10 MENA nations from 2011 to 2021, we evaluate technical efficiency scores (including global technical efficiency, pure technical efficiency, and scale efficiency) utilizing Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) followed by Tobit random effect regression. …”
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Mediterranean refugee traffic: main routes and problems of control by Vasily D. Ostanin-Golovnya, Anna A. Pavliukova

“…The relevance of this area of research is due to the fact that today there are about 118.3 million refugees and internally displaced persons in the world, and their main countries of origin are in the MENA regions, including Afghanistan and Somalia. …”
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A digital leap in the evolution of continuous professional development for teachers by M. Ghobrini, R. E. A. Ghobrini, F. Benaicha

“…The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly accelerated the adoption of online CPD, encompassing self-driven initiatives, government-led programs, and third-party offerings, notably those by the British Council in the MENA region, which is the emphasis of this study. …”
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Burden and trends of dietary iron deficiency in the Middle East and North Africa region, 1990–2021 by Saeid Safiri, Saeid Safiri, Fatemeh Amiri, Nahid Karamzad, Nahid Karamzad, Mark J. M. Sullman, Mark J. M. Sullman, Ali-Asghar Kolahi, Morteza Abdollahi

“…All estimates were accompanied by 95% uncertainty intervals (UIs).ResultsIn 2021, the age-standardised prevalence of dietary iron deficiency in the MENA region was 14368.2 per 100,000, representing a 26% decline since 1990. …”
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1 GHz Low-Noise Hybrid Preamplifier for Optical Detection by P. le Men, A. Scavennec, O. Monti

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The European Union’s Assistance to Morocco (1999–2011): Strategic Directions, Priority Areas, and Main Outcomes by O. S. Kulkova

“…The Kingdom of Morocco is, however, a special case among the EU partners in the MENA. It was the first Southern Mediterranean country to receive a status of a ‘privileged partner’ back in the 2000s, and has been the largest beneficiary of aid from Brussels ever since. …”
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The burden of prostate cancer in the North Africa and Middle East Region from 1990 to 2021 by Saeid Safiri, Ali Shamekh, Kamaleddin Hassanzadeh, Asra Fazlollahi, Mark J. M. Sullman, Mortaza Raeisi, Ali-Asghar Kolahi

“…The burden of prostate cancer in the MENA region rose markedly between 1990 and 2021. …”
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RENEWABLES IN DEVELOPMENT OF THE ARAB EAST (CASE OF SOLAR ENERGY) by A. O. Filonik, V. A. Isaev, V. M. Morozov

“…The Arab World possesses huge resources of oil and natural gas and gained great significance as a world producer and exporter of energy. The MENA region home market is also a big consumer of oil and gas. …”
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Imperatives of Strengthening Governance in the World Bank’s Engagement in Iraq, 2014–2018 by A. I. Solomatin

“…The Arab Awakening became a watershed event for the states of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and changing the political landscape of the entire region. …”
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Epidemiology of urinary tract infections in the Middle East and North Africa, 1990–2021 by Fatemeh Amiri, Saeid Safiri, Reza Aletaha, Mark J. M. Sullman, Kamaleddin Hassanzadeh, Ali-Asghar Kolahi, Shahnam Arshi

“…Abstract Objective This research reports the incidence, mortality, and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) associated with urinary tract infections (UTIs) in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, stratified by sex, age, and Socio-demographic Index (SDI) from 1990 to 2021. …”
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Practices and preferences in the use of magnification among endodontists and restorative dentists: A multicentre study. by Azhar Iqbal, Mohmed Isaqali Karobari, Deepti Shrivastava, Kumar Chandan Srivastava, Bilal Arjumand, Hmoud Ali Algarni, Meshal Aber Alonazi, Muhsen Alnasser, Osama Khattak, Jamaluddin Syed, Reham Mohmad Attia, Asma Abubakar Rashed, Sherif El Sayed Sultan

“…The completed questionnaire with an informed consent form for the participant was administered to the endodontists and restorative dentists in three different geographical regions namely MENA (Middle East and Northern Africa), British-Isles, and Indian Sub-continent using WhatsApp through the snowball convenience sampling technique.…”
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Permanent pacemaker implantation. Access to the apex of the right ventricle using fluoroscopy only at the last moment by Cynthia Torres Acosta

“…<p>In Cuba, the first pacemaker implant was carried out on July 6, 1964, while in Cienfuegos this activity began in 1979, by a group of professionals led by Dr. Francisco Riverón Mena, who stayed for more than ten years in charge of cardiac stimulation, at the Dr. …”
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Samouel Beji, Le développement financier pour les pays du sud de la Méditerranée à l’épreuve de la mondialisation financière by Samouel Beji

“…To claim so, we used the GMM (General Method of Moments) system on dynamic panel data for nineteen countries of the MENA region, between 1980 and 2005, in the 2 estimations.…”
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Specificity of overcoming behavior within relationship to tolerance to uncertainty of convicted men by A. A. Shylina, O. M. Skliarov

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