OBJECTIVE To evaluate the quality and quantity of biomedical studies published in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) between 2010 and 2011. METHODS This study was conducted on January 2013 at the Internal Medicine Department, Taif University, Taif, KSA. An online search was conducted on PubMed to collect the articles published from KSA using the country name (Saudi Arabia) as a keyword. The se...

This study was conducted as a part of a comprehensive baseline survey of insect biodiversity of Rawdhat Khorim National Park (RKNP), Central Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). During this study a total of 262 Coleoptera species belong to 182 genera in 35 families were identified, of which 247 are named at a species level. Fifteen species (6.0%) are apparently endemic to KSA. Thirty-eight species ar...

In 2016, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) announced its Vision 2030 strategic plan incorporating major changes to the economic structure of the country, in­ cluding an intention to deploy 9.5 GW of renewable energy in an effort to reduce the penetration of oil in the electricity generation system. This paper assesses the macroeconomic impact of such changes in the KSA, coupled with reductions ...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to outline the trend in the incidence of colorectal cancer (CRC) in the city of Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), for comparison with previously published national CRC data. MATERIALS AND METHODS A retrospective data analysis was performed on all cases of CRC diagnosed between January 2000 and December 2006 amongst Saudi patients in Jeddah using data ...

Essam Bassiouny, Refaat Sabry, Hamdy Youssef Faculty of Science and Humanitarian Studies, Salman Bin Abdulaziz University, Al-Kharj, KSA Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Fayoum University, Fayoum, Egypt Theoretical Physics Group, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Mansoura University, Damietta Branch, New Damietta, Egypt International Centre for Advanced Studies in Physica...

A new species of parasitoid wasp (Braconidae, Microgastrinae) from the kingdom Saudi Arabia (KSA) is described, Microplitis idreesae sp. nov. The genus reported for first time in Eastern province KSA. This host-parasitoid association documented country. attacks Mythimna Ochsenheimer (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae). Natural history information provided such as males with females, geographical location,...

In this paper, the RC4 Key Scheduling Algorithm (KSA) is theoretically studied to reveal non-uniformity in the expected number of times each value of the permutation is touched by the indices i, j. Based on our analysis and the results available in literature regarding the existing weaknesses of RC4, few additional layers over the RC4 KSA and RC4 Pseudo-Random Generation Algorithm (PRGA) are pr...

This article emphasizes a holistic definition of health. It then introduces the concept of Medical social sciences, and drawing from the literature, argues for the inevitability of social sciences in medical education, especially in the health systems of developing countries including the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). This is followed by a brief history of medical education in KSA, and an exa...

Background: The population of elderly individuals is increasing rapidly in the Kingdom Saudi Arabia (KSA). Home safety measures are important for well-being and independence elderly. However, little known about knowledge attitudes adults towards home KSA. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted KSA among a sample 399 aged 20 years above. Data collected using designated questionnaire w...

Abstract A significant improvement in the accuracy and homogeneity has been achieved with new gravimetric geoid model for Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA-Geoid21GRAV) w.r.t previous Geoid models KSA2009, KSA2015 KSA-Geoid17. The prediction was carried remove-compute-restore technique resulting external absolute accuracies at 10–11 cm level relative 1–5 ppm. In this work, estimation hybrid KSA-Geoi...