Tourism economy has enhanced the employment opportunities in Oman and lot of new tourism projects are coming up throughout country. The awareness among Omani public to improve consider a future industry. study is attempted understand satisfaction level international tourists Oman, factors that affects challenges faced by tourists. responses were collected from 111 foreign visited Oman. It was f...

Abstract: The purpose of this study was to provide a comprehensive checklist on the composition and diversity of phytoplankton in the Sea of Oman and the Persian Gulf from 1979–2019 based on up-to-date, valid and accepted published research records many studies have been conducted on phytoplankton species in the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman; however, there is not a comprehensive and complet...

MIDDLE EAST JOURNAL ✮ VOLUME 58, NO. 2, SPRING 2004 Dhufar, the southern region of the Sultanate of Oman, displays a tremendous diversity in its social structure, rather surprising for an area so small. While the people of the coastal plain and the inland Najd are Arabic-speaking, the mountain highlands of the region are home to various non-Arabic speaking communities. Brief descriptions of the...

The Sultanate of Oman has a relatively young national health care system that could demonstrate its high performance at an international level. Emergency medicine as a specialty has developed rapidly in the country over the last decade. This has involved the parallel development of local emergency residency training, prehospital emergency care, and emergency nursing programs. This article revie...

General toxicity, antiproliferative, antibacterial and antioxidant activities of Caulerpa peltata J.V.Lamouroux (Caulerpaceae) collected from Oman Sea were investigated. Dried, ground alga was Soxhlet-extracted with hexane, dichloromethane and methanol successively. The methanol extract was subjected to vacuum liquid chromatography (VLC) fractionation on silica gel using a step gradient of diff...

This paper presents the results of an exploratory study carried out to learn about the usages and effects of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Oman. The study investigates ICT infrastructure, software used, driver for ICT investment, perceptions about business benefits of ICT and outsourcing trends of SMEs. The study provides an ins...

[1] Abstract: Analysis of crystal size distributions (CSD) of plagioclase in gabbros from the Oman ophiolite indicates that cooling rates in the lower crust beneath a mediumto fast-spreading oceanic ridge did not vary smoothly with depth. Cooling rates in the upper half of the gabbro section were approximately 1.5–2 times faster than in the lower half of the gabbro section during igneous crysta...

An analysis of the geochemical distribution of selected trace metals among various geochemical phases of the sediments in the Oman Margin was carried out using a sequential extraction technique. The present study showed that most Cu in abyssal sediment is associated with only oxidisable mainly organic and sulphide bound metals with insignificant bound to exchangeable, carbonates, easily/moderat...

Transit station or destination? Attendance patterns, movements, and abundance estimate of 1 humpback whales off west South Africa from photographic and genotypic matching 2 J. Barendse, P.B. Best, M. Thornton, S.H. Elwen, H.C. Rosenbaum , I. Carvalho 3, , C. Pomilla , T.J.Q. 3 Collins , M. Meÿer, R. Leeney. 4 Mammal Research Institute, University of Pretoria, c/o Iziko South African Museum, P.O...