The study aimed at identifying the reality of collaboration between Learning Resource Centers in Colleges of Applied Sciences in the Sultanate of Oman through the following: (1) Identify collaborative activities between learning resource centers in the colleges, (2) Identify the benefits that have been achieved by networking between resources centers in the colleges. 19 interviews were conducte...

Until 1997, there was no formal teaching in tropical medicine in Arabian Peninsular countries, although many tropical diseases (for example, malaria, schistosomiasis, leishmaniasis, filariasis), are endemic in the region. A six month, part time Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (DTM&H) course was established in the Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman, in 1997, for small g...

background: domestic and industrial wastewaters are mostly treated by biological process such as activated sludge, aerobic pond, and anaerobic treatment. this study focuses on characterizing the quality of sewage sludge in the sultanate of oman chosen from three industrial sewage treatment plants (stps): rusayl industrial estate (rsl.ie); sohar industrial estate (sie); and raysut industrial est...

The largest recorded carbon isotopic excursion in Earth history is observed globally in carbonate rocks of middle Ediacaran age. Known from the Sultanate of Oman as the 'Shuram excursion', this event records a dramatic, systematic shift in δ(13) Ccarbonate values to ca. -12‰. Attempts to explain the nature, magnitude and origin of this excursion include (i) a primary signal resulting from the p...

Author Affiliations: Departments of Oncology and Vitreoretina (Dr Khetan) and Ocular Pathology (Drs Biswas and Kumar), Sankara Nethralaya, and Department of Medical Oncology, Apollo Hospitals (Dr Raja), Chennai, India; and Departments of Ophthalmology (Drs AlKharusi and Ganesh) and Child Health (Dr Al-Futaisi), Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, Sultanate of Oman. Correspondence: Dr Khetan, Dep...

Turbinaria foliosa sp. nov. is described on the basis of several collections made from Dhofar, Sultanate of Oman. The new species is known only from southern Oman, a region of the northern Arabian Sea that is strongly impacted by the upwelling from the summertime monsoon. It is distinguished from other species of the genus by the shape of the leaves and by their loose, non-congested arrangement...

s and Publications: Johnson, N. C., Thomas B. Maher, K., Bird, D. K., Rosenbauer, R. Brown, G. E. Jr. (2011) Adsorption of organic ligands on silicate mineral surfaces in the presence of CO2 and water: Insight into olivine dissolution rates. Goldschmidt Conference, Prague, Czech Republic. Johnson N. C., Thomas B., Maher K., Bird D. K., Rosenbauer R. J., Brown G. E. Jr. (2011) Kinetics of olivin...

Limited genotyping data are available for rotavirus strains in the Middle East. In this study, we investigated the molecular epidemiology of human rotavirus strains circulating in the Sultanate of Oman during 2005. Rotavirus was detected in 178 (57.4%) of 310 of the diarrheal stools of young children <5 years admitted to hospitals and outpatients clinics. Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis demo...