Operational Art 101: A Primer from Picasso to the Persian Gulf. Creating a Masterpiece of Long-Standing Value.

The events that took place in the first half of 2020 once again demonstrated how countries in the modern globalizing world are interdependent and interconnected: what is happening in one part of the planet inevitably affects other states, regardless of their geographical position. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is no exception. The crisis that arose because of the outbreak of the coronavirus infection hit the country’s infant economic system, disrupting the government’s ambitious plans to modernize and transform the kingdom. In this connection, it is of great scientific interest to study changes in the internal political course of the monarchy of the Persian Gulf, consider and analyze feasible scenarios for the further development of the country.

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The Engineer Role in the Defense -- A Comparison between the Mesopotamia Campaign and the Persian Gulf War

10.21236/ada237992 ◽

1991 ◽

Author(s):

Thomas A. York

Keyword(s):

Persian Gulf ◽

Gulf War ◽

Persian Gulf War ◽

The Persian Gulf

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Particulate Exposure During the Persian Gulf War

10.21236/ada382643 ◽

2000 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Richard Thomas ◽

Torgny Vigerstad ◽

John Meagher ◽

Chad McMullin

Keyword(s):

Persian Gulf ◽

Gulf War ◽

Persian Gulf War ◽

Particulate Exposure ◽

The Persian Gulf

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Labor Migration to the Persian Gulf Monarchies

The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of the Middle East ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190087470.013.23 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Zahra R. Babar

Keyword(s):

Persian Gulf ◽

Labor Migration ◽

Unique Feature ◽

Migrant Populations ◽

International Labor ◽

The World ◽

Permanent Settlement ◽

Gulf States ◽

Formal Integration ◽

The Persian Gulf

The six oil monarchies of the Persian Gulf together form one of the most concentrated global sites of international labor migration, with some of the highest densities of non-citizens to citizens seen anywhere in the world. A somewhat unique feature of the region is that while it hosts millions of migrants, it allows almost no access to permanent settlement. Gulf States have hosted large cohorts of migrants for more than half a century but have done so without efforts toward formal integration through citizenship. Although labor migration as a phenomenon is both permanent and prominent, the Gulf States’ mechanism for governing migration systematically reinforces the temporariness and transience of their migrant populations.

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In silico prediction of HBD gene variants in the Iranian population

Egyptian Journal of Medical Human Genetics ◽

10.1186/s43042-021-00137-0 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 22 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Keivan Moradi ◽

Aboozar Mohammadi ◽

Mohsen Kazeminia

Keyword(s):

Persian Gulf ◽

Globin Gene ◽

Iranian Population ◽

Gene Variants ◽

In Silico Prediction ◽

Screening Programs ◽

Prediction Tools ◽

Clinical Laboratories ◽

The Persian Gulf ◽

Thalassemia Screening

Abstract Background The quantification of hemoglobin A2 (Hb A2; α2δ2) is used as a valuable test to differentiate α- and ß-thal carriers in clinical laboratories. Therefore, the HBD (δ-globin) gene variants could result in reduced levels of Hb A2 and have implications for thalassemia screening programs. The aim of the present study was to predict the consequences of HBD gene variants identified in the Iranome project. Results The highest number of variants was in the Persian Gulf Islanders. The variants of p.Gln132Glu (HBD: c.394C>G), p.Gly17Arg (HBD: c.49G>C), p.Thr5Ile (HBD: c.14C>T), and p.Ala28Ser (HBD: c.82G>T) presented damage results in three or more prediction tools. In addition, it seems that the p.Gly30= (HBD: c.90C>T) decreases the use of authentic splice and, instead, creates a new donor splice site (DSS) or leads to the use of a cryptic DSS. Conclusions Most of these variants have been associated with a decrease in Hb A2 levels. Due to the high mutational diversity in the HBB gene in the Iranian population and the use of Hb A2 quantification to differentiate α- and ß-thal carriers among Iranian clinical laboratories, some attention should be taken to a possible co-inheritance of HBD gene variants to avoid the misdiagnosis of ß-thal carriers.

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