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No full textThis article deals with etymological comparisons of some of the names of the agricultural tools and objects in the Arabic dialects of Antioch and Ramallah. We suppose that the names gathered from both dialects, one dialect located on the northern edge (Arabic dialect of Karaali (Qrālī) in the district of Antioch) and the other situated on the southern edge (Arabic dialect of Birzeit in Ramallah) of the Syrian dialect expansion, would display common linguistic affinities regarding the etymology and the meaning. The study aims to explore the supposed common etymological affinitie
A cost effectiveness analysis of salt reduction policies to reduce coronary heart disease in four eastern Mediterranean countries
No full textShoaibi,Azza:
Mason,Helen:
,et.al.:Background: Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) is rising in middle income countries. Population based strategies to reduce
specific CHD risk factors have an important role to play in reducing overall CHD mortality. Reducing dietary salt
consumption is a potentially cost-effective way to reduce CHD events. This paper presents an economic evaluation of
population based salt reduction policies in Tunisia, Syria, Palestine and Turkey.
Methods and Findings: Three policies to reduce dietary salt intake were evaluated: a health promotion campaign, labelling
of food packaging and mandatory reformulation of salt content in processed food. These were evaluated separately and in
combination. Estimates of the effectiveness of salt reduction on blood pressure were based on a literature review. The
reduction in mortality was estimated using the IMPACT CHD model specific to that country. Cumulative population health
effects were quantified as life years gained (LYG) over a 10 year time frame. The costs of each policy were estimated using
evidence from comparable policies and expert opinion including public sector costs and costs to the food industry. Health
care costs associated with CHDs were estimated using standardized unit costs. The total cost of implementing each policy
was compared against the current baseline (no policy). All costs were calculated using 2010 PPP exchange rates. In all four
countries most policies were cost saving compared with the baseline. The combination of all three policies (reducing salt
consumption by 30%) resulted in estimated cost savings of 39,000,000 and 31674
LYG in Syria; 1,3000,000,000 and 378439 LYG in Turkey.
Conclusion: Decreasing dietary salt intake will reduce coronary heart disease deaths in the four countries. A comprehensive
strategy of health education and food industry actions to label and reduce salt content would save both money and lives
Synthesis, characterization and biological activity of new mixed ligand complexes of Zn(II) Naproxen with Nitrogen based ligands
No full textChemistry and Allied Sciences
Faris,Hadeel:
Rappocciolo,Emilia:
Darawsheh,Mohanad:
Akawi,Mutaz
Leadership Consciousness to CSR:: Royal Industrial Trading Co.
No full textThe purpose of this case study is to discuss the leadership role in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and thus on the company's competitiveness, performance, and reputation. The case highlights the adoption of CSR as a long-term strategy in a manufacturing family business located within a highly volatile country in the Arab world where awareness of CSR is not prevailing. By interviewing the owners and senior managers of Royal Industrial Trading Company, one is able to understand how they view their social responsibilities and how they insert CSR into the company's strategy. Royal has a number of corporate social responsibility policy aims but its current disclosures do not provide a sufficient level of detail to adequately assess the social impact of their activities or link their activities to the achievement of specific stated social aims. The company is enjoying the rewards of improved competitive position, the benefit to their shareholders, and the benefit to the society at large
Intracellular crowding effects on the self-association of bacterial cell division protein FtsZ
No full textThe dimerization rate of the bacterial cell division protein FtsZ is strongly affected by the intracellular crowding. Yet the complexity of the intracellular environment makes it difficult to investigate via all-atom molecular dynamics or other detailed theoretical methods. We study the crowding effect on FtsZ dimerization which is the first step of an oligomerization process that results in more elaborate supramolecular structures. In particular, we consider the effect of intracellular crowding on the reaction rates, and their dependence on the different concentrations of crowding agents. We achieved this goal by using Brownian dynamics (BD) simulation techniques and a modified post-processing approach in which we decompose the rate constant in crowded media as a product of the rate constant in the dilute solution times a factor that incorporates the crowding effect. The latter factor accounts for the diffusion reduction and crowder induced energy. In addition we include the crowding effects on water viscosity in the BD simulations of crowded media. We finally show that biomolecular crowding has a considerable effect on the FtsZ dimerization by increasing the dimerization rate constant from 2.6 × 107 M−1 s−1 in the absence of crowders to 1.0 × 108 M−1 s−1 at crowding level of 0.30
