Web credibility is becoming a significant factor in increasing user satisfaction, trust, and loyalty. Web credibility is particularly important for people who cannot visit an institution for one reason or other and mostly depend on the website, such as online distance education students. Accordingly, universities and educational websites need to determine the types of credibility problems they ...

To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to be conducted on bovine virus diarrhoea (BVD) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The study involved the Eastern Region of the Kingdom. Samples were collected from clinically suspected cases which were subjected to clinico-pathological and virological studies. The results indicated that the disease is widespread in the Eastern Province. The ep...

Since the introduction of personal computers (PCs) in the early 1980s, Saudi Arabia has made major investments in PCs to match its rapidly growing economy. As a result, the PC business has become one of the fastest growing sectors in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Our paper reports on the results of a study which investigates the relationships between end-users' attitudes and PC utilization among...

BACKGROUND Chronic feeding and sleep schedule disturbances are stressors that exert damaging effects on the organism. Practicing Muslims in Saudi Arabia go through strict Ramadan fasting from dawn till sunset for one month yearly. Modern era Ramadan practices in Saudi Arabia are associated with disturbed feeding and sleep patterns, namely abstaining from food and water and increasing daytime sl...

Background: Cervical cancer is the third most common cancer in the world, with 2.3 million prevalent cases and 510,000 incident cases documented each year. Annually, 288,000 women die of cervical cancer, and 80% of these deaths occur in developing countries. The population of Saudi Arabia is young and growing at an increasing rate. The estimated number of new cases of cervical cancer in 2025 is...

 Metabolic syndrome (MS) is a combination of factors that increases the risk of cardiovascular atherosclerotic diseases including diabetes, obesity, dyslipidemia, and high blood pressure. Cardiovascular diseases are one of the leading causes of death in the adult Saudi population where the increase in cardiovascular-related mortality is augmented by the rise in the prevalence of MS. Metabolic s...

Introduction: colobomatous cyst is one of the rare orbital cystic lesions that have wide range of differential diagnosis. It is a congenital lesion that can be easily misdiagnosed as malignant tumor, leading to exposing the patient to unnecessarily overtreatment. case report: this is a rare case of congenital colobomatous cyst in an infant girl. the cyst was associated with a microphthalmic glo...

INTRODUCTION Pandemic influenza A (H1N1) virus emerged and spread globally in the spring of 2009. Saudi Arabia also witnessed a severe H1N1 pandemic virus epidemic with considerable morbidity and mortality in different parts of the kingdom beginning in June 2009. The influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 virus was detected in samples collected between May 2009 and November 2010 from Makkah region. This study ...

The Saudi Heart Center at the King Fahd Hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, is located between Makkah (50 km) and Madinah (450 km), receiving patients from all parts of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the middle eastern countries such as Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Egypt and others. It was opened in June 1982 and has performed up to this date 2481 cardiovascular surgeries covering neonatal, paediatric a...

The 9th Saudi Association of Neurological Surgery (9th SANS) Annual Meeting was held in the Sheraton Dammam Hotel and Towers, Dammam, Saudi Arabia on March 3-5, 2015, organized by the Department of Neurosurgery, University of Dammam with a theme of “Research is the Bridge to the Future.” The meeting was preceded by a Public Awareness Campaign on March 2, 2015 held at King Fahd Hospital of the U...