We read with interest the letter by Scrimgeour et al' in the November issue of this Journal. Our hospital, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, is the major re-ferral centre for tertiary care in this country and, over a period of six years, four native Saudi families have been diagnosed with Huntington's disease at our hospital. One of these families (family 1) was described by ...

Soft-winged flower beetles from the United Arab Emirates are studied for first time. Three new genera, Tonyattalus gen. nov. of tribe Attalini, Tonycolotes Colotini, and Arabotroglops Troglopini, two species, vanharteni et sp. longantennatus nov., described. kovari (Švihla, 1987) et. comb. is recorded time transferred genus Colotes Erichson, 1840. All species discussed in paper described illust...

in the period of the second caliph the muslims whose goal was to conquer iran, were seeking a place that in addition of being near to iran could be a proper place from the aspect of weather for the inhabitants of arabian peninsula. for this reason after writing a letter to the second caliph, sa'd b. abivaqqas gave a mission to persian salman and hadighat b. yaman to find a proper place for...

conclusions we hope that turkey will be one of the brucellosis-free countries in near future with highlights from the current and further studies. materials and methods seroprevalence of brucellosis was examined in sera of 2913 patients who referred to igdır state hospital between february and december of the year 2010 by standard tube agglutination test method. results results were statistical...

after finishing the collection of language elements which they wanted to restrict to the arabian peninsula, after organizing and categorizing them under deliberate subjects which include all the language aspects and finally after fulfilling all those scholastic stages, the syntax scholars found another scholastic stage which they felt obliged to deal with and this stage is ‘cause finding’. they...

Large volumes of water are generated in gas- and oil-production. This includes the that is present originally reservoirs, but also injected into wells. While currently much produced either reinjected or disposed after treatment, treated increasingly seen as an interesting resource, especially water-scarce regions. review looks at different PW treatment methods available, with emphasis on manage...

islam, christianity and judaism belong to the same family and are named semitic religions. regarding to this similarity, it is very important to survey the situation of christianity and the range of influence in the arabian peninsula in particular western part and hedjaz contemporaneous the rise of islam. this survey helps to more understanding of the events of early islam, particularly interac...

This chapter is distinguished by examining the studies of Neolithic period in southern Arabia. done through a brief review division history aforementioned age Yemen. Which consists more than one stage. contributed to highlighting great cultural diversity found era and Holocene general south island. Therefore, this research has origins diversity. In addition reviewing different stages that study...

Abstract. A sporadic-E (Es) layer is generally associated with a thin-layered structure present in the lower ionosphere, mostly consisting of metallic ions. This ion formed when meteors burn upper atmosphere, resulting deposition free metal atoms and Many studies have attributed presence Es to layer, specifically observed during nighttime. Using data from network meteor monitoring towers colloc...

Abstract The early to middle Holocene Humid Period led a greening of today’s arid Saharo-Arabian desert belt. While this phase is well defined in North Africa and the Southern Arabian Peninsula, robust evidence from Northern Arabia lacking. Here we fill gap with unprecedented annually sub-decadally resolved proxy data Tayma, only known varved lake sediments Arabia. Based on stable isotopes, mic...