In today’s educational landscape educators and administrators are confronted with unprecedented challenges as they have to hastily move education online. Emergency remote teaching is a response this crisis. However, the research about efficacy of scarce because COVID-19 which rapidly evolving situation also lack clarity what constitutes instruction during an emergency. Moreover, actua...

Arthur Eyre-Brook is an inveterate traveller. Since visiting the USA in 1937 as a Nuffield Scholar he has taken every opportunity to travel the world as a visiting Orthopaedic Surgeon, of latter years mainly in the third world. He has visited and worked, sometimes for long periods in Southern Africa, in the South West Pacific in Fiji and Tonga, in Brazil and Chile, in Kuwait and Iraw, in the Su...

Adam Milewski,* Mohamed Sultan, Ahmad Al-Dousari and Eugene Yan 1 Department of Geology, University of Georgia, 210 Field Street, 306 Geography-Geology Building, Athens, GA 30602, USA 2 Department of Geosciences, Western Michigan University, 1903 W. Michigan Avenue, 1187 Rood Hall, Kalamazoo, MI 49008, USA 3 Department of Geography, Kuwait University, Kuwait, Kuwait 4 Argonne National Laborator...

Biomarkers of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) exposure and genetic biomarkers of potential cancer susceptibility were determined in a group of United States Army soldiers who were deployed to Kuwait and Saudi Arabia in 1991 in the aftermath of the Persian Gulf War. Because hundreds of oil well fires were still burning, there was concern that ground troops stationed in Kuwait might be expo...

Biomarkers of polycychic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) exposure and genetic biomarkers of potential cancer susceptibility were determined in a group of United States Army soldiers who were deployed to Kuwait and Saudi Arabia in 1991 in the aftermath of the Persian Gulf War. Because hundreds of oil well fires were still burning, there was concern that ground troops stationed in Kuwait might be expo...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the prevalence of haptoglobin (Hp) gene alleles in Kuwaiti sickle cell disease (SCD) patients, who generally have a mild phenotype, and compare the pattern to Nigerian SCD patients whose SCD phenotype is more severe. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Hp genotyping was carried out in a group of 82 and 54 SCD patients from Kuwait and Nigeria, respectively, and appropriate Hb AA cont...

OBJECTIVE The global health professional survey is a project organized by the World Health Organization, to determine the smoking habits, knowledge and attitude towards tobacco control of health professionals in several countries around the world. This paper presents data from Kuwait and Bahrain. METHODS The survey period was between May 2000 and March 2001. A questionnaire was distributed to...

background: this study aimed to highlight the proportion of disordered eating attitudes among university students in kuwait by gender and obesity. methods: a sample of 530 kuwaiti university students was selected from four universities in kuwait (203 men and 327 women). the eating attitudes test‑26 was used to determine disordered eating attitudes. results: the prevalence of disordered eating a...

This paper presents a description of e-government initiatives in Kuwait, where extensive efforts are being made to capitalize on cyber technologies in order to enhance government to citizen services. The described cases are from different ministries and government agencies in Kuwait, where the efforts vary in size and intensity. What appears to be common; however, is the top level support egove...