BACKGROUND Breast cancers which demonstrate EGFR protein expression, gene amplification and/or gene mutations may benefit therapeutically from tyrosine kinase inhibitors. In Western studies, EGFR protein expression has been demonstrated in 7-36% of breast cancer patients, while gene amplification has been found in around 6% of cases and mutations were either absent or extremely rare. Studies ad...

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has shown great commitment and support in past 10 years towards the higher education and transformation of manual governmental services to online through web. As a result number of university and egovernment websites increased but without following the proper accessibility guidelines. Due to this many disable peoples may not be fully benefited the contents available on u...

Electronic Medical Record (Emr) Systems Are Being Implemented Increasingly Worldwide. Saudi Arabia Is One Of Developing Countries That Commenced Implementing Such Systems In 1988. Whilst Emr Uptake Has Been Low In Saudi Arabia Until Now, A Number Of Hospitals Have Implemented Emr Systems Successfully. This Paper Analyses Available Studies (N=28) In The Literature Regarding Emr Implantation In S...

1 Mathematics Department, Preparatory Year Deanship, UmmAl-Qura University, P.O. Box 5555, Makkah 21955, Saudi Arabia 2 Faculty of Science, Tanta University, P.O. Box 31527, Tanta, Egypt 3 Mathematics Department, Faculty of Girls Education and Science, Taif University, Al-Khurmah Branch, P.O. Box 888, Taif 21974, Saudi Arabia 4 Electricity Department, Faculty of Engineering, Umm Al-Qura Univers...

Incidence of malignant ovarian germ cell tumors (MOGCTs) in the Saudi Arabian population has not been studied before. Therefore, the primary objective of this study was to define the population-based incidence rates and histopathological types of MOGCTs in the Saudi Arabian population from 1999 to 2008. Our study showed that MOGCTs are a common type of ovarian tumors in the Saudi Arabian popula...

This paper investigates the use of mobile phones and tablets for learning purposes among university students in Saudi Arabia. For this purpose, an extended Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) is proposed to analyze the adoption of mobile devices and smart phones by Saudi university students for accessing course materials, searching the web for information related to their discipline, sharing know...

Saudi Arabia is a country in which people of different ethnic origin as well as expatriates live together. There are a few reports describing the clinical and laboratory features of SLE from different regions of the Kingdom [2] including our retrospective study from Eastern Saudi Arabia [2]. The purpose of this short review is to compare the clinical spectrum of adult systemic lupus in differen...

1 Department of Arid Land Agriculture, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, 2 Desert Agriculture Initiative, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, 3 Agriculture Genetic Engineering Research Institute, Agriculture Research Center, Giza, Egypt, 4 Department of Soil and Environmental Science, Muhammad Nawaz Shareef University of Agriculture, Multan, ...

Department of Bacteriology, Mycology and Immunology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Sadat City University, Egypt Department of Public Health, Microbiology unit, College of Public Health and Health Informatics, Qassim University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Department of Veterinary Medicine, College of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Qassim University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Department of Med...

OBJECTIVES To compare the anthropometric and lifestyle characteristics of active and inactive adolescents in Saudi Arabia and Britain. METHODS A school-based cross-sectional study was conducted at four cities in Saudi Arabia (Riyadh and Al-Khobar; N = 1,648) and Britain (Birmingham and Coventry; N = 1,158). The participants (14- to 18-year-olds) were randomly selected using a multistage strat...