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Comorbid diabetes and the risk of disease severity or death among 8807 COVID-19 patients in China: A meta-analysis.
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Elsevier
, 2020 , Article)
Diabetes mellitus has been reported to be one of the most prevalent comorbidity in patients with Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). We aimed to assess the association of comorbid diabetes with COVID-19 severity or mortality ...
Relative contribution of plant traits and soil properties to the functioning of a temperate forest ecosystem in the Indian Himalayas
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Elsevier
, 2020 , Article)
© 2020 Elsevier B.V. Plant-soil interactions are a major determinant of changes in forest ecosystem processes and functioning. We conducted a trait-based study to quantify the contribution of plant traits and soil properties ...
A Systematic Review of Instruments for the Assessment of Insomnia in Adults.
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Dove Medical Press
, 2020 , Article)
Self-reported sleep instruments remain the most practical methods for the assessment of insomnia in clinical practice. This systematic review aims to identify, describe and summarize the psychometric properties of ...
Saudi Arabia: More Room for Wahhabism Lite?
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Gulf Studies Center
, 2020 , Article)
The Saudi government was surprisingly quick to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic. One of the decisive measures it took was closing the holy sites of Mecca and Medina, something which had not happened since Napoleon invaded ...
Covid-19 in Saudi Arabia: Beyond the health crisis
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Gulf Studies Center
, 2020 , Article)
The Covid-19 pandemic is already exerting a heavy economic toll on all areas of the world. The energy producing countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) make no exception. In Saudi Arabia, the economic impact of the ...
Covid-19 Crisis and Iran-Turkey-Qatar Relations: Economic Downgrade and Corona Diplomacy
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Gulf Studies Center
, 2020 , Article)
The Covid-19 pandemic has become a global issue beyond being a health crisis alone. Since its emergence in China, the virus has spread to every continent except Antarctica. The Middle East is no exception and the socio-economic ...
Covid-19 in War-Ravaged Yemen: Ends or doubles the war?
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Gulf Studies Center
, 2020 , Article)
Yemen is a suffering war zone since the beginning of the civil war in 2014, out of the clash between Yemeni government in Sana'a' and the Northern tribes, mainly, the Houthi insurgents. As of 2020, after two military ...
Pandemic threatens to drive wedge into US-Gulf relations
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Gulf Studies Center
, 2020 , Article)
It is early days, but first indications are that the global pandemic is entrenching long-drawn Middle Eastern geopolitical, political, ethnic, and sectarian battle lines rather than serving as a vehicle to build bridges ...
Covid-19, a Common Threat towards Intrusive Regionalism
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Gulf Studies Center
, 2020 , Article)
The Covid-19 pandemic news has become the top headline of almost all international media and the topic of everyday conversation among people. Coronavirus, like international terrorism is a global challenge to both states ...
ArCov-19: The First Arabic COVID-19 Twitter Database with Propagation Networks
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Cornel University
, 2020 , Article & Video)
In this paper, we present ArCOV-19, an Arabic COVID-19 Twitter dataset that covers the period from 27th of January till 31st of March 2020. ArCOV-19 is the first publicly-available Arabic Twitter dataset covering COVID-19 ...