Background & Objectives Dodonaea viscosa is one of the natural medications utilized in Saudi Arabia for treatment of several diseases and disorders. Prior investigations have revealed its anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties. In the present study, the chloroform and methanolic extracts of Dodonaea viscosa were formulated as ointments using the emulsifying base and its wound healing property

The adulteration of plant raw materials used for the preparation of herbal drugs with foreign plant material is one of the important issues in the quality control of herbal products. Chemical fingerprinting is a well-known approach for the characterization of secondary metabolites associated with the plant species and can be used for quality control of plant material. The current study centred on the

Objective Sarcophaga dux Thomson is a well-known flesh fly species of medicinal and forensic importance and remain active throughout the year. Female of this fly lays first instars directly onto the carcass or on wounds of living host as it causes myiasis. Use of S. dux in forensic investigations is limited because identification of immature stages as well as adults by conventional means is very challenging

Objectives Continuous cultivation of rice and wheat crops in rice-wheat cropping system has resulted in numerous edaphic, social and environmental problems. Nonetheless, increasing water scarcity is also threatening the sustainability of rice-wheat cropping system. Therefore, farmers are compelled to cultivate alternative crops, like maize for water saving and higher economic returns. However, limited

In this study, 19 endophytic fungal isolates associated with Artemisia judaica L. were isolated from Al-Shihiyah, Haʾil, Saudi Arabia. Those isolates represented five genera, including: Alternaria sp., (predominantly), Aspergillus sp., Chaetomium sp., Cladosporium sp., and Fusarium sp. All isolates (6 species) were grown on a solid rice medium and their ethyl acetate crude extracts, beside A. judaica

Amomum villosum Lour. is commonly used in Asian countries as an herbal remedy to medicate several diseases including type 2 diabetes. In this animal experiment, we examined the influence of Amomum villosum water extract (AVE) against metabolic variations in high-fat diet (HFD)-induced obesity in C57BL/6 mice. Mice were nourishing with a normal diet (control), high-fat diet (HFD), HFD + AVE 100 mg/kg

Utilization of industrial and household wastes as fertilizer while wastewater as irrigation are common practices in developing country's agriculture. These practices played an imperative role in the accumulation of heavy metals in soil. Among different heavy metals, cadmium (Cd) contamination in soils has been rising to an alarming level. The contribution of natural activities is relatively low over

Saudi Arabia aims to enhance the productivity of fish production and culture of consumption of fish products and increase the export of fish products through implementing the National Transformation Program. This study aimed to identify the current status of marine fish production and most critical climatic and environmental factors affecting the production of natural fisheries and estimate the maximum

This paper demonstrates the fabrication of highly ordered mesoporous titanium dioxide (OMT) with different transition metals (TM: Fe, Mn, and Ni) by employing a self-assembly surfactant template route. The ordered TM-loaded mesoporous TiO2 (TM-OMT) has uniform mesopores (3-5 nm pore diameter), and a crystalline framework is successfully prepared via soft template strategy by employing Pluronic® F127

Background The mosquito vector control program still relies on the use of synthetic insecticides causes resistance in vector species. The application of alternative strategies using phytochemical sources is a possible way to eliminate the vector of dengue, Chikungunya and Zika viruses. In this study, we tested the larvicidal efficacy of Anacardium occidentale (Cashew), Mangifera indica (Mango), Gluta

Objective In this study, the isolation and identification of Exopolysaccharide (EPS) producing bacteria from polluted soil samples and its in vitro antioxidant activities were investigated. Methods Isolation and identification of bacteria was investigating using 16s rDNA genome sequencing method. Further, optimization (pH, time, and temperature), purification and characterization of EPS were performed

Objective To investigate the combinatorial effect of hydroalcoholic extracts of Andrographis paniculata Nees. and Pterocarpus marsupium Roxb. plants prospective to diabetes management. Methods Taking a lead from the scientific literature, in silico studies have also been designed for the screening of anti-diabetic targets against andrographolide and pterostilbene compounds followed by in vivo studies

Two-dimensional (2D) electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) survey has been conducted in the Harrat Khaybar volcanic field, northeast of Al Madinah Al Munawwarah, Saudi Arabia, to assess the presence of groundwater resources. For this purpose, eleven ERT profiles were generated at six sites oriented north–south and east–west at various lengths between 590 m and 890 m. The ERT data were collected using

Objectives Little studies had been done on chewing lice of marine birds in the Middle East. Through this work, parasitic chewing lice of Brown Booby Sula leucogaster (Boddaert) in the Red Sea were recorded for the first time from Egypt. Methods One brown booby was examined for chewing lice in Giftun Island, Hurghada. A total of 27 specimens of lice were collected from this bird and phylogenetic analysis

Plectranthus is a genus of the Lamiaceae family that includes many species of medicinal and agricultural importance. However, this genus has been the subject of taxonomic debate and contains species that are difficult to distinguish. The present study focused on six Plectranthus species commonly found in Saudi Arabia: P. arabicus, P. tenuiflorus, P. barbatus, P. pseudomarrubioides, P. asirensis, and

Objectives Medicinal plants continue to gain popularity on a global scale. Besides, there is a need for discovering new antibacterial natural extracts that could be used as antibiotics alternatives against resistant bacteria. In this respect, the aim of this study was to determine the phytochemicals, antioxidant activity, calorific nutritional value and antibacterial potential of four traditionally

The monocationic Cu-phen mononuclear complex was assembled under ultrasonic vibration in a high yield, the presence of one water-bridge connecting both inner with outer-sphere bromides in {[Cu(phen)2Br..]..H2O..Br} was confirmed by XRD-crystal measurement. Moreover, the complex was analyzed by CHN-EA, FT-IR, MS, EDX, UV-Vis., and TGA. The XRD-diffraction analyses indicated the formation of distorted

The surface properties of bio-fibres change by surface plasma treatment without changing their internal properties. In this study, radio-frequency plasma was used to treat the surface of date palm leaves. Plasma treatment was conducted for different times (1, 5, and 8 min) and at different powers (80, 100, and 120 W), keeping the gas pressure fixed at 0.95 torr. Water-drop contact angles, scanning

The aim of this paper is to develop some novel numerical algorithms for finding roots of one-dimensional non-linear equations. We derive these algorithms by utilizing the main and basic idea of the variational iteration technique. The convergence rate of the suggested algorithms is discussed. It is corroborated that the proposed numerical algorithms possess sixth-order convergence. To demonstrate the

Objective Absorption spectroscopy and calorimetry has been a very convenient tool in the diagnosis of a variety of diseases. In recent times, fluorescence emission spectroscopy is proposed to be a more sensitive technique for disease detection. Methods In this context, fluorescence emission spectra have been obtained from blood and urine samples from clinically suspected subjects of cancer (N = 40)

Bactrocera dorsalis and B. correcta (Diptera: Tephritidae) are economically important pests of fruits and have caused serious damage to fruits for the last several years worldwide. In China, B. correcta is second economic pest of fruits after B. dorsalis. Considering the importance of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) programs, Information regarding host preference and fitness of both Bactrocera species

The heavy metal ions originating from the various point and nonpoint sources seriously threatening the lotic ecosystem by posing severe health crises to the aquatic organisms of higher trophic levels. The freshwater turtles with delicate body structure and devoid of any hardcovers are prone to higher heavy metal bioaccumulation risks. The present study was conducted to determine heavy metals bioaccumulation

Landslide susceptibility of Makkah Al-Mukarramah has been assessed by collecting microtremor measurements at 277 sites covering the whole area. These data were then processed and analyzed using the horizontal–vertical spectral ratio (HVSR) method to obtain the resonance frequency and H/V amplification factor. The results display that the predominant frequency values range between 0.26 and 17.27 Hz

L-Lysine monohydrochloride and rubidium chloride doped L-Lysine monohydrochloride crystals with high optical, mechanical and antifungal were grown by slow evaporation techniques. The Single crystal XRD ascertained the monoclinic structure and the crystals were grown with lesser grain boundaries. Functional groups and existence of Rb was confirmed by FTIR and EDX. Grown crystals exhibit good transmittance

Postharvest litchi fruit is highly perishable and vulnerable to pericarp browning (PB), which affects marketability. In this study, the effect of vacuum infiltrated methyl jasmonate (0, 1, or 2 mM) on the quality of fresh cold stored (7 ± 1 °C and RH 85–90%) litchi. The MeJA effectively reduced PB and increased storage life up to 16 d by retaining higher fruit weight, soluble solids, acidity, and anthocyanin

The carbon based nanostructured material exhibit unique and versatile properties and due this reason its largely applied in different fields. The present work was designed for to know the cytotoxic and genetic responses against liver cancer cells and was compared with the artificial bone implanted material hydroxyapatite (HA). The raw multiwalled carbon nanotubes (RMWCNTs) surfaces were turns to functionalized

In a multivariate stratified sampling design, the individual optimum allocation of one character may not remain optimum to other characteristics. For the solution of such problems, a usable allocation must be required to get precise estimates of the unknown population parameters, which may be near optimum to all characteristics in some sense. The compromise criterion is required to obtain such usable

A total of 87 FPs have been isolated from tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) rhizosphere and evaluated by dual plate assay method for the antimicrobial activity of Ralstonia solanacearum. Of which, 30 FPs showed antagonistic activity against R. solanacearum with the zone of inhibitions (ZOI) ranging from 19 mm to 28 mm. Similarly, antagonistic FPs significantly controlled various fungal phytopathogens

The increase in urbanization and industrialization has led to the discharge of wastes in environment causing more pollution. Textile industries are playing a havoc role in water pollution natural aquatic ecosystems. Bioremediation is the one of the cost effective and ecofriendly achievement of biotechnological novelty. Bioremediation is the key to waste management. It can remove textile dyes that are

By the end of year 2019, the new virus SARS-CoV-2 appeared, causing the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), and spread very fast globally. A continuing need for diagnostic tools is a must to contain its spread. Till now, the gold standard method, the reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), is the precise procedure to detect the virus. However, SARS-CoV-2 may escape RT-PCR detection

Objective There is a growing demand for colourants of natural origin in the food, pharmaceutical, cosmetic and textile sectors. Previously, our group has screened a fungal species from forest soil, identified as Penicillium europium. The isolated fungus transformed the longifolene into various metabolites, of which 12 were isolated in pure form, with potential to be utilized in the perfumery industry

Present state-of-the-art focusing on the formulates multifunctional hollow mesoporous silica nanoparticles (HMSNs) represent a reservoir for encapsulating warhead of active entail Nimbin (NB) into the hollow core and the surface modified by PEI-PLA by electrostatic interaction. The fabricated hollow mesoporous silica (HMSN) nano drug framework is amended with polyethyleneimine (PEI)-poly lactic acid

Akashiwo sanguinea is closely linked to the healthy growth of Labrenzia sp. PO1. Herein, PO1 and SY1 strains of Labrenzia sp. were isolated from A. sanguinea to investigate their growth. A total of 6067 genes in the Labrenzia sp SY1 and 6067 genes in Labrenzia sp PO1 were identified by RNA sequencing. Totally, 2402 genes out of 6067 were found as differentially expressed genes (DEGs). PO1 strain, 595

Objective Cancer is a major public health issue and characterized by wild cell growth and proliferative disorder. The antitumor and antioxidant role of Eruca sativa (ES) was investigated in a Ehrlich ascites carcinoma (EAC) tumor model in mice. Methods Twenty-four hours after EAC intraperitoneal inoculation in mice, ES extracts were administered at doses of 250 mg/kg/body weight (BW) for 9 days. Half

Objectives The honeybee mainly uses the wax comb for brood rearing and food storage. Repeated brood rearing in the comb changes the wax color and cell dimensions. Therefore, we aimed to study the decline of body size of the individual bees and its impact on colony productivity in relation to comb age. Methods Twenty colonies of hybrid Carniolan honeybees, each of 12,000 bees, were used. Combs aged

The purpose of this study was to detect the immunomodulatory activity of Indigofera coerulea on the cytokine's expression in the THP-1 human cell line. THP-1 cell lines were differentiated into real macrophages. Cell's viability was assessed by MTT assay. The qRT-PCR assay was used to determine the effects of the I. coerulea extract on mRNA expression levels in THP-1 cells. The effects of extracts

Objective This study aimed to investigate the bibliometric analysis, progress and prospects of the journal of King Saud University-Science (JKSU-Science) in global sciences. Material and Methods In this study, we recorded the number of research documents, number of citations, citations per document, impact factor and Hirsch index (h-Index) of JKSU-Science from January 2016 to December 2020. The main

In the present article we study the approximation properties of Phillips operators by q-Dunkl generalization. We construct the operators in a new q-Dunkl form and obtain the approximation properties in weighted function space. We give the rate of convergence in terms of Lipschitz class by initiate the modulus of continuity and finally, we present some direct theorems in Peetre’s K -functional.

Objectives As microorganisms are developing resistance to therapies, the search for potent antimicrobial compounds continues. The potential of detecting new compound(s) with antimicrobial activities from extracts of Artemisia afra, a South African plant frequently used for the treatment of diseases and widely traded in the market was explored. A. afra was purchased from three vendors. Methods: The

Background and Objectives Missing outcome data are a common occurrence for most clinical research trials. The ’complete case analysis’ is a widely adopted method to tackle with missing observations. However, it reduced the sample size of the study and thus have an impact on statistical power. Hence every effort should be made to reduce the amount of missing data. The objective of this work is to provide

Objective Monte Carlo (MC) simulations are considered to be the most accurate form of algorithm for dose calculation. However, the main obstacle to using MC, especially in clinical routine, is the simulation time needed to gain results below a desirable level of uncertainty. Variance reduction techniques (VRTs) have been introduced to reduce the simulation time while maintaining the uncertainty at

This work searches for new soliton solutions to the Atangana-Baleanu (AB) fractional system of equations for the ion sound and Langmuir waves (ISALWs). A new auxiliary equation scheme (NAES) is implemented to solve this model with the aid of a symbolic software. The hyperbolic and trigonometric function forms of this equation have been obtained. Due to the good performance of the NAEM, it is believed

Background Croton lechleri is a native tree from Amazon Forest and its barks are used as medicine by the indigenous peoples and their descendants. This study aimed to assess the extraction sustainably of bioactive compounds from Croton lechleri barks using chemometric tools. Methods Phenolic compounds were extracted and evaluated through 23 factorial design and Response Surface Methodology (RSM). High

Objective Eudistoma kaverium, an ascidian belonging to the family Polycitoridae is previously recorded from Indian waters. The work done on this species is limited only to taxonomy and ecology. As ascidians are potential source of anticancer compounds, we have purified fractions of E. kaverium using HPLC and evaluated its anticancer activity. Method Chromatography based fractionation of the crude extract

Sr-doped lanthanum cobaltite (La1−xSrxCoO3) perovskite oxides with × = 0.0, 0.20, 0.50, 0.80 were prepared using the modified sol–gel method at 600 °C. The synthesized Sr-doped LaCoO3 perovskite oxides (x = 0.0 and 0.20) crystalize as rhombohedral structured materials, while La0.2Sr0.8CoO3 perovskite oxide (x = 0.80) crystalizes as primitive cubic structured material as also confirmed by Rietveld refinement

Objectives Different recovery methods, (1) Return farmland to wetland (RFW), (2) Return Farmland to Forest (RFF) areas are located in QiXing River Wetland National Natural Reserves. The purpose of this study was to analyze the impacts of different wetland restoration on the soil elements. Methods From three regions that RFW, RFF, and NW (Natural Wetland for reference) in QiXing river wetland, the soil

The crystallization behavior of polyolefins continues to gain much attention for the prediction of suitable processing conditions. This study aims to understand the influence of biochar (BC) particles on the crystallization behavior of the selected semi-crystalline polypropylene (PP). For this purpose, BC samples were prepared from waste biomass at various pyrolysis temperature. The prepared BC samples

Objective: The Monte Carlo (MC) technique can accurately model any linear accelerator where accurate details about the treatment head and the incident electron beam have been provided. However, manufacturers generally do not provide such details as the energy, radial intensity (spot size), or the angular spread of the incident electron beam. The aim of this study is to predict these details and validate

Objective The present study assessed physico-chemical, techno-functional, thermal and textural characteristics of propolis samples (n = 30) collected from four Northern zones of India. Methods The propolis samples were analyzed according to the Association of Official Analytical Chemists (AOAC) official protocols for their ash, moisture, and protein content. Soxtech, Fiber tech, Hunter LAB Colorimeter

The recent massive development in the next-generation sequencing (NGS) platforms and bioinformatics tools including cloud-based NGS data analyses have proven extremely useful in understanding the deeper-level phylogenetic relationships of angiosperms. The family ‘Apiaceae Lindley / Umbelliferae Jussieu’ and Araliaceae Jussieu resemble each other in the structure of their gynoecia, were placed in the

Objectives A field trial was carried out in Kashmir valley to determine the persistence of fenazaquin 10EC (Magister) in Red Delicious variety of apple at recommended (0.004%) and double the recommended (0.008%) application rates. Methods The spray was conducted one month prior to harvest. The plants treated with simple tap water were treated as control. Samples were collected at 0, 3, 7, 10, 15, 20 days

The first barrier, when penetrating an insect host, encountered by microorganisms like fungi is insects cuticle; fungi produce a wide variety of extracellular enzymes involved in the degradation of protein, chitin, and lipids. The main objectives were to assay the enzymatic activity of Cordyceps locustiphila anamorph, in solid and liquid medium at different temperatures and also to evaluate the pathogenicity