Background: Myopia or near-sightedness is the most frequent cause of vision deterioration with growing burden worldwide. Although myopia is hereditary, nearsightedness is tremendously increasing due to endlessly focusing on close objects. Therefore, the objective of the present study was to assess the burden of nearsightedness and its related risk factors among medical students in the Kingdom o...

www.neurosciencesjournal.org E is a common neurological disorder in Saudi Arabia, with a prevalence of 6.54 per 1000.1 The level of public awareness, and the attitudes and knowledge of epilepsy in the Saudi population is limited, and requires significant improvement.2,3 Limited epidemiological studies on epilepsy in Saudi Arabia are available.1,4 A recent survey carried out in Jeddah,3 a major ...

Iran and Saudi Arabia have long been engaged in heated rivalry and conflict in the Middle East. These two regional powers are both major oil-exporting countries; in major foreign policy issues, therefore, oil is used as an important tool to pursue goals. Iran and Saudi Arabia have a long history of differences on oil policies, but one of the most severe differences emerged in 2011-2016, along w...

OBJECTIVE To assess the prevalence of epidemiologically defined chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in Saudi Arabia. METHODS This cross-sectional, observational, population-based survey of COPD was conducted between June 2010 and December 2011 across the country of Saudi Arabia. A total of 56,000 randomly selected telephone numbers were called, which identified 10,001 eligible subjec...

This paper investigates the relationship between total energy consumption and GDP in six countries of the Middle East , including Iran,Pakistan,Saudi Arabia,Oman,Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates. The data are annual and spanning the period 1980-2012.We employed Hsiao’s (1981) methodology to examine causality relation between total energy consumption and GDP.The empirical findings show a uni...

Abstract The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is the top destination for Russian food exports, grains in particular. Focusing on Turkey, Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia, this chapter shows that Russia’s trade with MENA countries strongly affected by bilateral political relations. Russia banned most imports from Turkey over a conflict 2016. In same year, improved intergovernmental cooperatio...

This paper presents findings from a study of e-commerce adoption by Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Saudi Arabia. Only tiny number of Saudi commercial organizations, mostly medium and large companies from the manufacturing sector, in involved in e-commerce implementation. The latest report released in 2010 by The Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC) in Saudi Arabia...

OBJECTIVE To determine the age, sex and relative frequencies of various gastrointestinal malignancies in patients registered with the National Cancer Registry from the Western Region of Saudi Arabia from January 1994 till December 1997, and compare this data with previous hospital based studies about the pattern of these malignancies in Saudi Arabia. METHODS A National Cancer Registry was est...

1 Faculty of Computer Science and IS, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Skudai Johor, Malaysia. 2 Department of Software Engineering, College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia. 3 Center of Excellence in Information Assurance, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia. 4 Department of Information Systems, College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud ...

Eleven species in three genera from Saudi Arabia are listed. Macroocula riyadha Gadallah & Pagliano, spec. nov. is described and figured. Apterogyna mateui Giner Marí, 1945, Macroocula nitida nitida (Bischoff, 1920) are newly recorded from Arabian Peninsula and Saudi Arabia, Macroocula magna (Invrea, 1965) is newly recorded from Saudi Arabia.