this paper discusses e-government, in particular the challenges that face adoption of e-government in Saudi Arabia. In this research we define e-government as a matrix of stakeholders: governments to governments, governments to business and governments to citizens, using information and communications technology to deliver and consume services. egovernment services still face many challenges in...

In Saudi Arabia, according to statistics, cardiovascular disease amounts to a major cause of deaths each year. Current data on stroke in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia are lacking. This study is a national survey to inform decision-makers on the current magnitude of the epidemic. The data obtained for this study is from the nationwide physiotherapy departments that provide rehabilitative treatment...

This study analyzed the challenges and opportunities associated with the implementation of mobile government services in Saudi Arabia. By collecting data through surveys from citizens and employees in Saudi Arabia, this study shows that the high level of mobile penetration in the country offers an opportunity for Saudi Arabian government to offer mobile government services in the country. The r...

Since it has been discovered in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Oil has played an important and growing role in the economy of Saudi Arabia. And because the Kingdom is a major Oil exporting country in the World, Its income level has increased manyfold. The injection of this increased income into the domestic economy created demand for new goods and services. Hence, a new pattern of consumption eme...

Introduction One of the best known iconographic elements of South Arabia is undoubtedly the ibex. The frequency with which this animal appeared is due both to the highly symbolic value it enjoyed with respect to the pantheon of South Arabian divinities (1), and to its inherent qualities—lithe body, lightness of movement and curved horns—which made it particularly suited to artistic reproduction...

While the Web, cell phone „apps‟ and cloud computing put a world of information at our fingertips, that information is under constant threat from cyber vandals and hackers. Although awareness of information threats is growing in the Western world, in places like Saudi Arabia, information security is very poor. Unlike Western pluralistic democracies, Saudi Arabia is a highly-censored country, wi...

Introduction: Arabia Terra, with an area of ~1x10 km [1] centered at (25E, 5N), is an anomalous region along the Martian dichotomy. Traditionally considered part of the ancient southern highlands, Arabia Terra is a transitional province between the southern highlands and northern lowlands in both topography [2] (Fig. 1) and crustal thickness [3]. While the geological processes leading to the fo...

This study aimed to characterize Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates in 2 intensive care units in Egypt and Saudi Arabia. P. aeruginosa isolates from patients' and staff hands and environmental samples were typed using antibiotyping and ERIC-PCR. In Egypt, isolates from suction apparatus tubing and drainage containers (A7) and AV tubing (A8) were linked to those from patients who had these antibiot...

1 Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Pharmacy, Taibah University, Medina, Saudi Arabia, 2 Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt, 3 Faculty of Pharmacy, Aqaba University of Technology, Aqaba, Jordan, 4 Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, Taibah University, Medina, Saudi Arabia, 5 Department of Clinical Phar...

The ant genus Meranoplus is reported for the first time from the Arabian Peninsula (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) by the new species M. pulcher sp. n., based on the worker caste. Specimens were collected from Al Sarawat and Asir Mountains of southwestern Kingdom of Saudi Arabia using pitfall traps. Meranoplus pulcher sp. n. is included in the Afrotropical M. magretii-group, with greatest similarity ...