This paper has investigated the impact of food production, school enrollment, inflation, population growth, per capita income and CO2 emissions on life expectancy for Sultanate of Oman. Time series data is used from 1970 to 2012. For examining the cointegration among the variables Autoregressive distributed (ARDL) lag approach is used. The estimated results reveal that food production, school e...

Pattern of Pediatric Mortality in a Tertiary Hospital in Oman Mohamed El-Naggari, Anas-Alwogud Abdelmogheth, Hashim Javad, Khalfan Al Senaidi, and Ibtisam El Nour Department of Child Health, Sultan Qaboos University, Al-Khod 123, Sultanate of Oman Corresponding author: Dr. Mohamed El-Naggari, Department of Child Health, Sultan Qaboos University, Al-Khod 123, Sultanate of Oman. Tel: +968-9817823...

Address for Correspondence: Dr. Anil Kumar, Department of Human Structure and Neurobiology, Oman Medical College affiliated with West Virginia University (USA), Sohar, Sultanate of Oman. E-Mail: [email protected] *1 Department of Human Structure and Neurobiology, Oman Medical College affiliated with West Virginia University (USA), Sohar, Sultanate of Oman. 2 Department of Human Structure and Neur...

This paper addressed the Geographical Information Systems (GIS) in the Sultanate Oman; its implementation strategy and process constrains. It also suggested ways of enhancing its current strategy in the Sultanate of Oman. GIS was initiated in the Sultanate of Oman in late 1980s. The initial GIS implementation strategy was introduced to define the public originations requirements and then to pla...

BACKGROUND A medium- and long-term perspective is required in human resource development to ensure that future needs and demands for oral healthcare are met by the most appropriate health professionals. This paper presents a case study of the Sultanate of Oman, one of the Gulf States with a current population of 3.8 million, which has initiated dental training through the creation of a dental c...

30 An Evidence-Based Approach to the Use of Social Media to Promote Political Literacy among Youth in the Sultanate of Oman; Mohammed Nasser Al-Suqri, Sultan Qaboos Univeristy, College of Arts and Social Sciences, Al-Khoud, Oman Salim Said AlKindi, Sultan Qaboos Univeristy, College of Arts and Social Sciences, Al-Khoud, Oman Abdullah Khamis Al-Kindi, Sultan Qaboos Univeristy, College of Arts an...

Every government is seeking to provide the best services to its country to achieve efficiency and accepted performance. This goal could be achieved by improving the service performance of the entire sectors in society. Billions of dollars was invested by governments in order to undertake their first step towards implementing the e-Government project and specially implementing the best methodolo...

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...

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 ...

It is conventionally accepted that renal cell carcinoma (RCC) occurs in older patients and the clear cell type is the most common histology. However, ethnic variations exist and this study was carried out to determine the epidemiological pattern of RCC in Oman. Ninety RCC patients who presented to a tertiary care center in the Sultanate of Oman from 2010 to 2014 were studied. The main findings ...