Vladimir N. Uversky* 1 Department of Molecular Medicine, USF Health Byrd Alzheimer’s Research Institute, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA 2 Biology Department, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia 3 Institute for Biological Instrumentation, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Russia 4 Laboratory of Structural Dynamics, S...

1Faculty of Computing and Information Technology in Rabigh, King Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia 2Department of Computer Science, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Pakistan 3Department of Computer Sciences, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China 4School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China 5Department of Mathema...

A new species of Aleiodes (Hemigyroneuron) from Saudi Arabia is described and illustrated. It represents the first species known from outside of sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar, South East Asia and the East Palaearctic. It belongs to a species group comprising A. (H.) plurivena, glandularis and sharkeyi, but displays even more derived wing venation which is remarkably convergent with that of two...

Although there is a general consensus on African origin of early modern humans, there is disagreement about how and when they dispersed to Eurasia. This paper reviews genetic and Middle Stone Age/Middle Paleolithic archaeological literature from northeast Africa, Arabia, and the Levant to assess the timing and geographic backgrounds of Upper Pleistocene human colonization of Eurasia. At the cen...

This paper examines the tensioned nature of curriculum intent and reform or re-energization with a particular focus on English language teaching and learning. The paper presents recent examples of referenced examples of English language curriculum reform projects in South Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries which the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia can draw upon in its...

At the crossroads between Africa and Eurasia, Arabia is necessarily a melting pot, its peoples enriched by successive gene flow over the generations. Estimating the timing and impact of these multiple migrations are important steps in reconstructing the key demographic events in the human history. However, current methods based on genome-wide information identify admixture events inefficiently,...

OBJECTIVE To study (i) the current prevalence of iodine-deficiency disorders among schoolchildren in south-western Saudi Arabia after universal salt iodization and (ii) the iodine content of table salts and water. DESIGN Cross-sectional study on a stratified proportional allocation sample of children. Thyroid gland enlargement was assessed clinically and by ultrasound scanning. Urine, table s...


 Arabic legal documents from early Islamic Egypt are attested in papyrus collections . These exhibit a formulaic structure that is clearly distinct those of the Byzantine Greek tradition documents, which continued to be written first century. The reflect had its origins Ḥijāz Arabia. This article examines background this Ḥijāzī tradition, with particular focus on opening formula and witne...

This study explores the spatial trends of cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) and characterises the relationships between the observed spatial patterns and climate in Jordan, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia in 2009. Areal interpolation revealed the presence of four major hotspots of relatively high incidence rates covering most parts of Syria, central parts of Iraq, and north-western, central, south-east...