Chemical Process Engineering Research Institute (C.P.E.R.I.), Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CE.R.T.H.) 57001 Thermi-Thessaloniki, Greece Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Nadia, 741252 WB India King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Department of Automation, Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece School of Elec...

1 Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials Research (CEAMR), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, P.O. Box 80203, Saudi Arabia 2 Chemistry Department, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, P.O. Box 80203, Saudi Arabia 3 Department of Applied Physics, ZH College of Engneering & Technology Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh-202002, India 4 Institute for Biotechnology and Bioengineering,...

Hajj is the annual pilgrimage to Mecca, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). The 2012 Hajj is expected to gather over two million Muslims from more than 180 countries across the globe between 24 and 29 October and is by far the largest mass gathering in the world. With the Hajj approaching, the Ministry of Health of Saudi Arabia has issued information in Arabic and English about health requiremen...

A 39-year-old Korean man with general malaise was found to have two hepatic cysts by computed tomography. He had the history of close contact with domesticated wild dog in Saudi Arabia in 1976. Two cysts, 15cm and 10cm in diameter which contained clear fluid, were excised from both lobes of the liver. He was pathologically diagnosed as unilocular hydatid disease. This case is regarded as an imp...

Synonymy of two Arabian Monomorium Mayr, 1855 species is proposed: Monomoriumexiguum Forel, 1894 = Monomoriumdesertorum Collingwood & Agosti, 1996, syn. n.; Monomoriumsubopacum Smith, 1858 = Monomoriummintiribe Collingwood & Agosti, 1996, syn. n. A lectotype for Monomoriumvenustum Smith, 1858 is designated. Information on nesting habits of Monomoriumexiguum and Monomoriumvenustum in the Kingdom...

Khulud Almutairi,1,2 Ryszard Tanaś,3,* and Zbigniew Ficek4,† 1Institute for Quantum Information Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, T2N 1N4 Canada 2Department of Physics, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia 3Nonlinear Optics Division, Faculty of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University, Umultowska 85, 61-614 Poznań, Poland 4The National Centre for Mathematics and Physics, ...

A new species of the carpenter bee genus Xylocopa Latreille (Xylocopinae: Xylocopini) is described and figured from two localities in southern Saudi Arabia. Xylocopa (Koptortosoma) sarawatica Engel, sp. n. is a relatively small species similar to the widespread X. pubescens Spinola, but differs in the extent of maculation in males, setal coloration of both sexes, and male terminalia. A revised ...

Department of Medical Biotechnology, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, Taif University, Turrabah, KSA, Saudi Arabia Department of Animal Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Zagazig University, Zagazig,, Egypt Department of Animal Production, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, KSA, Saudi Arabia Department of Theriogenology, Faculty of Veterinary Medi...

Department of Chemistry, King Fahd Unive Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia Center of Research Excellence in Corrosio Minerals (KFUPM), Dhahran 31261, Saudi sa; Fax: +966-13-8603996; Tel: +966-13-860 Biomedical Research Centre, Sheffield Halla 1WB, UK Corrosion & Protection Centre, School of M 9PL, UK Department of Biology, King Fahd Univer Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia † Electronic supplementary inform...

We report a case of pneumonia due to multi-drug resistant Ewingella americana in a young patient admitted in the Intensive Care Unit of Hera General Hospital, Makkah, Saudi Arabia with severe head injury in a road traffic accident. He was an Indonesian pilgrim who had traveled to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to perform Hajj in December 2007. Ewingella americana was identified to be the pathogen ...