Very little is understood about the applicability of the concept of leadership in the Arab Gulf States in general, and the Sultanate of Oman in particular. This article considers the unique context of Oman to produce an interpretation of leadership which stands outside mainstream leadership epistemologies. Thus, there is no explicit model or theory that could be usefully tested in the Omani con...

1Department of Research and Studies, Ministry of Health, Muscat, Oman. Received: 07/01/03; accepted: 20/10/03 ABSTRACT We carried out a cross-sectional survey to study the prevalence and the characteristics of current and former smoking among Omani adults. Crude prevalence of current smoking was 7.0% (males 13.4%, females 0.5%); 2.3% were former smokers. The overall highest prevalence of curren...

In this monograph, Roberta Morano re-examines one of the foundational works Omani Arabic dialectology field, Carl Reinhardt’s Ein arabischer Dialekt gesprochen in ‘Oman und Zanzibar (1894). This German-authored work was prolific shaping our knowledge during twentieth century, until 1980s when more recent linguistic studies on varieties spoken Oman began to appear.

Community health nursing is one of the nursing specialties that have always been valued for its role in providing care in a variety of practice settings including homes, schools, work places or other community institutions [1]. Community health nurses (CHNs) provide care to individuals, families and communities regardless of their age, gender, health or socioeconomic status. They provide their ...

This paper explores a number of quality enhancement initiatives being implemented in a developing country, the Sultanate of Oman, to increase the national capability for quality higher education. Oman is a young country with a youthful and rapidly growing population. A brief description of the relatively short history of Oman’s national systems for secondary and p...

In this monograph, Roberta Morano re-examines one of the foundational works Omani Arabic dialectology field, Carl Reinhardt’s Ein arabischer Dialekt gesprochen in ‘Oman und Zanzibar (1894). This German-authored work was prolific shaping our knowledge during twentieth century, until 1980s when more recent linguistic studies on varieties spoken Oman began to appear.

Despite the numerous studies proposing early human population expansions from Africa into Arabia during the Late Pleistocene, no archaeological sites have yet been discovered in Arabia that resemble a specific African industry, which would indicate demographic exchange across the Red Sea. Here we report the discovery of a buried site and more than 100 new surface scatters in the Dhofar region o...

Strongyloides stercoralis is an intestinal nematode with a complex life cycle capable of a free living cycle, a parasitic cycle and autoinfection. It is usually asymptomatic in a healthy host but causes life threatening hyperinfection involving multiple organs in immunocompromised patients. However, reports of gastric involvement are very rare. This is a report of gastric strongyloidiasis with ...

To investigate the differences between adolescent boys and girls, the rates of depression and associated factors were determined for secondary school adolescents in 2 different samples, 552 in South Sharqiya, Oman, and 1577 in Alexandria, Egypt. Multivariate logistic regression models were used to investigate the correlates of depression. In Alexandria, the rate of having depressive symptoms in...