pantheism (unity of entity) and unity of intuition are famous concepts in mysticism which have been discussed variously and philosophers and mystics have been presented various opinions and definitions about them. some of them believe pantheism is a spiritual authority which is superior from unity of intuition, and some are opposite to this belief and others believe these two concepts are the s...

This paper describes a new algorithm for morphological analysis of Arabic words, which has been tested on a corpus of 242 abstracts from the Saudi Arabian National Computer Conference. It runs an order of magnitude faster than other algorithms in the literature.s from the Saudi Arabian National Computer Conference. It runs an order of magnitude faster than other algorithms in the literature.

STUDY DESIGN Prospective case-controlled study. PURPOSE This study aimed to assess genetic influence in Saudi Arabian children with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS). OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE The genetic locus linked to chromosome 19p for idiopathic scoliosis has been described. A pilot study conducted at King Fahd Hospital of the University, Al-Khobar showed that three microsatellite mar...

Affecting scores of people with seemingly insurmountable and unmanageable costs, tropical cyclones (TCs) are one of the most devastating extreme weather events. In this special issue, we highlight and summarize some of the recent studies that make use of detailed observations and high-resolution numerical models to analyze tropical cyclones from their genesis to post-landfall impacts. Focused a...

Equine guttural pouch tympany (GPT) is a hereditary condition affecting foals in their first months of life. Complex segregation analyses in Arabian and German warmblood horses showed the involvement of a major gene as very likely. Genome-wide linkage and association analyses including a high density marker set of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were performed to map the genomic region h...

BACKGROUND Equine ocular diseases pose a medical challenge due to long-lasting and cost-consuming therapies as well as economic issues associated with potential decrease in value of affected horses. The scale of the problem is significant but difficult to precisely define because epidemiological data is limited and lacks consistency in presentation. To date, no retrospective studies specificall...

A brief analysis on the distribution range of some of the species dominating in the arid and extra arid regions of North Africa and Arabian Peninsula is presented. These species are belonging to three phytogeographical categories namely: Saharo-Sindian, Sudano-Deccanian and Tropical African-Indian elements. Species included for this study are either disjunct or they have a wider distribution, s...

Whale sharks, Rhincodon typus, are known to aggregate to feed in a small number of locations in tropical and subtropical waters. Here we document a newly discovered major aggregation site for whale sharks within the Al Shaheen oil field, 90 km off the coast of Qatar in the Arabian Gulf. Whale sharks were observed between April and September, with peak numbers observed between May and August. De...

Fadia M. Al-Hummayani, BDS, MS * Abstract This study was carried out to determine the prevalence of congenital absence (agenesis) and malformation of maxillary lateral incisors in Saudi Arabian female students. A group of one thousand five hundred (1500) Saudi female school students, with an age range (11-19 years) were randomly selected from governmental and private schools in different distri...