Summary. This paper describes the methods used to establish an overseas elective programme in a new medical school, the objectives and the perceived results. The aims and objectives of the programme are listed. The students who participated in the programme were from th...

This study examines the effect of some demographic variables such as educational achievement, income, residence, profession and gender on parents’ beliefs about their competence to deal with their adolescent children’s behavioral problems. The adolescent behavioral prob...

Background: Despite sustained viral control by antiretroviral therapy (ART), some HIV-infected patients do not recover normal CD4+ T cell counts. This Discordant Immune Response (DIR) increases the risk of opportunistic infections. Objective: To evaluate the factors ...

A Microsoft-Excel spreadsheet was developed using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) functions to calculate fundamental wave properties using linear wave theory, simple wave transformations, tidal elevations, tsunami travel time, wind wave growth parameters, design wav...

Autozygosity mapping and clonal sequencing of an Omani family identified mutations in the uncharacterized gene, C4orf26, as a cause of recessive hypomineralized amelogenesis imperfecta (AI), a disease in which the formation of tooth enamel fails. Screening of a panel of...

The Digital Oman Strategy (e.oman) provides the necessary ICT infrastructure facilities to link and bring together Oman's government entities on a common infrastructure platform. e.oman supports the easy use of ICT by government entities. This column focuses on how the ...

Bactec medium 9240 (Becton Dickinson, MD, USA) is a blood culture medium used routinely at Sultan Qaboos University Hospital (SQUH). The medium is said to contain substances that can neutralise antibiotics and destroy leucocytes in blood samples. In this study, the abil...

This correspondence presents a new recursive formulation of Toom's algorithm that allows the generation of higher order (longer size) one-dimensional (1-D) convolution architectures from three lower order (shorter sizes) convolution architectures. Our methodology is bas...

ABSTRACT In this paper, we devise and evaluate a new Grid-Based Priority Routing (GBPR) protocol for Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSNs). GBPR utilizes a 3D logical grid view of the monitored area to deliver data packets to sink nodes. Particularly, data packets...