INTRODUCTION Unlike other Legionella species, Legionella longbeachae has been associated with soil and potting composts instead of water systems, and it has caused pneumonia in gardeners. CASE PRESENTATION We report, to our knowledge, the first case of prolonged localized L. longbeachae infection in an accidental wound on the back of a hand caused by a broken flowerpot. CONCLUSION Identific...

Cryptorchidism and hypospadias have been related to prenatal estrogen exposure in animal models. Some chemicals used in farming and gardening have been shown to possess estrogenic and other hormone-disrupting effects. Earlier studies have indicated increased risks of urogenital malformations in the sons of pesticide appliers. In the present study, parental occupation in the farming and gardenin...

A staggered Runge-Kutta (staggered RK) scheme is the time integration Runge-Kutta type scheme based on staggered grid, which was proposed by Ghrist and Fornberg and Driscoll in 2000. Afterwords, Vewer presented efficiency of the scheme for linear and semilinear wave equations through numerical experiments. We study stability and convergence properties of this scheme for semilinear wave equation...

This study investigates students’ readiness to adopt Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) at the University of Ha’il. It applied Student Learning Readiness (SOLR) model examine constructs that might influence toward using MOOCs. A questionnaire was sent students measured model’s latent constructs: technical competency (TC), social (SC), communication (CC), and student readiness. total 111 respon...