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2 Citations
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7 August 2024

Small industries are one of the most important pillars of sustainable development. Accordingly, many governments have supported the establishment and growth of small industries. In this respect, Saudi Arabia has taken great steps ahead to ensure the...

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  • Open Access
1,821 Views
12 Pages

4 October 2022

We determined an antibiotic resistance mechanism in the eastern region, KSA, and the genetic factor clonal relatedness within Gram-negative bacteria. During our retrospective study, a total number of 29 E. coli ESBL producer strains were isolated for...

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  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,677 Views
25 Pages

15 August 2023

Building information modelling (BIM) continues gaining popularity in engineering construction as it helps lower the life cycle cost and ensure sustainability. The primary aim of this study was to delve into the effectiveness of BIM implementation in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,386 Views
19 Pages

Performance Evaluation of Temperature-Based Global Solar Radiation Models—Case Study: Arar City, KSA

  • Nejib Ghazouani,
  • Abdulhakim Bawadekji,
  • Alaa A. El-Bary,
  • Mahmoud M. Elewa,
  • Nidhal Becheikh,
  • Yahya Alassaf and
  • Gasser E. Hassan

21 December 2021

Solar radiation is considered the main renewable energy source which reshapes the global sustainability plan for future development. Due to the lack of solar radiation measurements, this work investigates the performance of several temperature-based...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
9,444 Views
24 Pages

A Flood Risk Management Program of Wadi Baysh Dam on the Downstream Area: An Integration of Hydrologic and Hydraulic Models, Jizan Region, KSA

  • Mazen M. Abu-Abdullah,
  • Ahmed M. Youssef,
  • Norbert H. Maerz,
  • Emad Abu-AlFadail,
  • Hasan M. Al-Harbi and
  • Nasser S. Al-Saadi

3 February 2020

For public safety, especially for people who dwell in the valley that is located downstream of a dam site, as well as the protection of economic and environmental resources, risk management programs are urgently required all over the world. Despite t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,051 Views
25 Pages

Mapping Groundwater Potential Zones in the Widyan Basin, Al Qassim, KSA: Analytical Hierarchy Process-Based Analysis Using Sentinel-2, ASTER-DEM, and Conventional Data

  • Ragab A. El Sherbini,
  • Hosni H. Ghazala,
  • Mohammed A. Ahmed,
  • Ismael M. Ibraheem,
  • Hussain F. Al Ajmi and
  • Mohamed A. Genedi

22 February 2025

Groundwater availability in semi-arid regions like the Widyan Basin, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a critical challenge due to climatic, topographic, and hydrological variations. The accurate identification of groundwater zones is essential f...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
8,134 Views
10 Pages

20 July 2022

The national regulatory body in the state regulates the source of ionizing radiation such as diagnostic radiology to minimize exposure to the operators and the patients. The Saudi Food and Drug Authority (KSA-SFDA) cover all medical regulatory aspect...

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  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,583 Views
23 Pages

31 August 2023

The construction industry in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is a significant sector in the Middle East, with annual expenditures surpassing USD 120 billion. It employs approximately 15% of the workforce and consumes more than 14% of the country&rs...

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  • Open Access
546 Views
29 Pages

This investigation provides a critical analysis of the digital forensics field within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), specifically focusing on its educational systems, and the effectiveness of prosecutorial efforts. Utilizing a mixed-methodology f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,679 Views
15 Pages

Solar PV Penetration Scenarios for a University Campus in KSA

  • Sager Alsulamy,
  • AbuBakr S. Bahaj,
  • Patrick James and
  • Nasser Alghamdi

26 April 2022

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is committed to transition its fossil fuel-driven electricity generation to that from renewable energy technologies, such as solar photovoltaic (PV) and wind. The need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions has led it to...

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  • Open Access
17 Citations
13,103 Views
28 Pages

The financial system in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has a history of relative soundness, particularly in banking, due to comparatively strict and enforced domestic supervision, and supported by what has been for the most part a reasonably robus...

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  • Open Access
48 Citations
10,452 Views
28 Pages

14 February 2020

The present study was aimed at evaluating the quality of life in the districts of Buraidah city in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as part of the Kingdom’s Vision 2030, based on provided services in terms of distance and time parameters. This was a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,675 Views
30 Pages

Investigating the Geothermal Potentiality of Hail Granites, Northern KSA: The Preliminary Results

  • Aref Lashin,
  • Oussama Makhlouf,
  • Faisal K. Zaidi and
  • Abdulmalek Amin Noman

19 May 2025

The work aims to give a preliminary investigation of the geothermal potentiality of the hot dry granitic rocks in the Hail area, Northern KSA. The Hail area is characterized by a massive exposed belt of radioactive granitic rocks in the southern part...

  • Article
  • Open Access
60 Citations
7,823 Views
11 Pages

3 November 2016

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is the largest country in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region in terms of population, geographic area, economy, and construction and utility infrastructure. The rapid growth of the building sector in general an...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,156 Views
43 Pages

Residential buildings in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) contribute to nearly half of the overall electricity consumption in the building stock, highlighting their significant role in energy consumption. While an upgraded energy code has been estab...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,239 Views
21 Pages

11 December 2022

In recent years, desktop computer use has decreased while smartphone use has increased. This trend is also prevalent in the Middle East, particularly in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). Therefore, the Saudi government has prioritised overcoming the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,753 Views
31 Pages

4 February 2024

The construction industry in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is a significant sector in the Middle East, with annual expenditures exceeding USD 120 billion. It employs 15% of the workforce and consumes more than 14% of the country’s energy re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
157 Views
19 Pages

Attaining education sustainability is indeed important as it ensures the overall economic sustainability of countries and it is directly connected with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG-4). However, the literature evidence on the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
5,553 Views
22 Pages

Renewable Portfolio Standard Development Assessment in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from the Perspective of Policy Networks Theory

  • Amjad Ali,
  • Fahad A. Al-Sulaiman,
  • Ibrahim N. A. Al-Duais,
  • Kashif Irshad,
  • Muhammad Zeeshan Malik,
  • Md Shafiullah,
  • Md. Hasan Zahir,
  • Hafiz Muhammad Ali and
  • Sheraz Alam Malik

28 June 2021

Electricity generation from renewable energy (RE) sources has not been well utilized in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). KSA has publicized its Vision 2030 renewable energy target to deploy 58.7 gigawatts of RE, paving the way for a low-carbon econ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
10,181 Views
16 Pages

21 March 2023

Solid waste management is highly considered in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) for the protection of the environment, preserving resources, and producing energy. Solid waste is collected in bins from Qassim University (QU) as a mixture without any...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,778 Views
22 Pages

25 April 2025

Within the modern perspective of globalization, digitalization may be perceived as a key driver of technological development, a factor strongly affecting economic efficiency and the growth of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). However, this assumption sti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,122 Views
30 Pages

Daily Reference Evapotranspiration Derived from Hourly Timestep Using Different Forms of Penman–Monteith Model in Arid Climates

  • A A Alazba,
  • Mohamed A. Mattar,
  • Ahmed El-Shafei,
  • Farid Radwan,
  • Mahmoud Ezzeldin and
  • Nasser Alrdyan

30 July 2025

In arid and semi-arid climates, where water scarcity is a persistent challenge, accurately estimating reference evapotranspiration (ET) becomes essential for sustainable water management and agricultural planning. The objectives of this study are to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,697 Views
19 Pages

Developing Youth Agricultural Entrepreneurship in Latin America and the Caribbean

  • Alexis Zickafoose,
  • Gary Wingenbach,
  • Matt Baker and
  • Edwin Price

15 November 2023

Youth agricultural entrepreneurship programs lack cohesiveness in their curriculum content. The purpose of this study is to investigate an agricultural entrepreneurship curriculum framework for youth in Latin America and the Caribbean. Two quantitati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,462 Views
15 Pages

The generalized half-logistic distribution is ideal to fit the lifetime of some products, such as ball bearings and electrical insulation. In this paper, we aim to extend this scope by creating a motivated bivariate version. We thus introduce the biv...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,290 Views
12 Pages

Best Practices in Nuclear Imaging for the Diagnosis of Transthyretin Amyloid Cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM) in KSA: The Eagle Eyes of Local Experts

  • Abdullah Alqarni,
  • Ahmed Aljizeeri,
  • Aquib Mohammadidrees Bakhsh,
  • Hossam Ahmed Maher El-Zeftawy,
  • Hussein R. Farghaly,
  • Mukhtar Ahmed M. Alqadhi,
  • Mushref Algarni,
  • Zain Mohammed Asiri,
  • Ahmed Osman and
  • Mouaz H. Al-Mallah
  • + 2 authors

Transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM) is a complex and serious form of heart failure caused by the accumulation of transthyretin amyloid protein in the heart muscle. Variable symptoms of ATTR-CM can lead to a delayed diagnosis. Recognizing t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
5,301 Views
15 Pages

Techno-Economic Assessment of Energy Retrofitting Educational Buildings: A Case Study in Saudi Arabia

  • Mohammad B. Hamida,
  • Wahhaj Ahmed,
  • Muhammad Asif and
  • Faris Abdullah Almaziad

27 December 2020

The buildings and construction sector accounts for the majority of the energy consumption in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). For a sustainable future, energy consumption in the sector should be reduced and existing buildings need to be energy retr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,482 Views
15 Pages

A New Configuration of Roof Photovoltaic System for Limited Area Applications—A Case Study in KSA

  • Ayman Al-Quraan,
  • Mohammed Al-Mahmodi,
  • Taha Al-Asemi,
  • Abdulqader Bafleh,
  • Mathhar Bdour,
  • Hani Muhsen and
  • Ahmad Malkawi

19 January 2022

Increased world energy demand necessitates looking for appropriate alternatives to oil and fossil fuel. Countries encourage institutions and households to create their own photovoltaic (PV) systems to reduce spending money in electricity sectors and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
9,171 Views
15 Pages

The main objective of the present study is to examine the impact of job stress, role ambiguity, work–life imbalance and burnout on employee turnover intention. Moreover, the mediating role of burnout between job stress, role ambiguity, work&nda...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,504 Views
25 Pages

This research aims to explain the role of food processing in improving the sustainability of food security under the framework of ‘Goal 2’ associated with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The research methodology relied on descri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,039 Views
17 Pages

10 May 2025

Understanding the asymmetric relationship between manufacturing output and non-renewable energy consumption is critical for formulating sustainable economic policies, particularly in energy-dependent economies like Saudi Arabia (KSA). This study has...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,622 Views
46 Pages

3 April 2025

Sustainable development in educational environments requires a holistic approach to architectural design, balancing multiple environmental functions to optimize student well-being and energy efficiency. According to architectural standards, rectangul...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,868 Views
23 Pages

2 September 2024

This study explores the relationship between the entrepreneurship ecosystem and decent work in digital entrepreneurship, raising essential questions about the roles of economic growth and socioeconomic status. By examining this relationship, the rese...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,344 Views
13 Pages

27 February 2023

The urban weaving sections are more complex due to the various disturbing elements within the weaving section, such as lane-change situations. These turbulences reduced road capacity and increased vehicle exhaust emissions. The Highway Capacity Manua...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
5,077 Views
20 Pages

Exergy and Economic Analysis of Energy Consumption in the Residential Sector of the Qassim Region in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

  • Radwan A. Almasri,
  • A. F. Almarshoud,
  • Hanafy M. Omar,
  • Khaled Khodary Esmaeil and
  • Mohammed Alshitawi

25 March 2020

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is considered one of the countries with the highest consumption of electric energy per capita. Moreover, during the period of 2007–2017, the consumption rate increased from 6.9 MWh to 9.6 MWh. On the other hand...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,860 Views
22 Pages

10 December 2021

The sudden transition to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic has been challenging for many learners and teachers due to the fact that most universities suddenly shifted to online learning without providing adequate time for preparing and tra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,410 Views
9 Pages

Prevalence of Health Problems Targeted by the National School-Based Screening Program among Primary School Students in Saudi Arabia, 2019

  • Manal Matar Al Daajani,
  • Dina Mohammed Al-Habib,
  • Mona Hamed Ibrahim,
  • Nora Abdulrhman Al Shewear,
  • Yahya Mohammad Fagihi,
  • Abrar Abdulazeem Alzaher,
  • Amjad Fawzi Alfaleh and
  • Khaled Ibrahim Alabdulkareem

30 September 2021

The Saudi Ministry of Health (MOH) established a National School-Based Screening Program (NSBSP) for health screening of schoolchildren. Students from specific grades were systematically screened for several health problems, including obesity, visual...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,712 Views
15 Pages

Exploring the Diversity of Some Microorganisms from Lake Al-Asfar, KSA: The Good, the Bad, and the Pathogenic

  • Fatimah Al Tammar,
  • Nermin El Semary,
  • Munirah F. Aldayel,
  • Duaa Althumairy and
  • Gowhara Alfayad

3 January 2025

Background: Lake Al-Asfar in KSA was used as a sink for wastewater for decades and suffered from pollution. The lake is a habitat to different microbial species that play important ecological roles, some of which are good, and some are bad and even p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,295 Views
17 Pages

A Machine Learning Approach for Monitoring and Classifying Healthcare Data—A Case of Emergency Department of KSA Hospitals

  • Mahmoud Ragab,
  • Faris Kateb,
  • Mohammed W. Al-Rabia,
  • Diaa Hamed,
  • Turki Althaqafi and
  • Abdullah S. AL-Malaise AL-Ghamdi

The Emergency Departments (EDs), in hospitals located in a few important areas in Saudi Arabia, experience a heavy inflow of patients due to viral illnesses, pandemics, and even on a few special occasions events such as Hajj or Umrah, when pilgrims t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,345 Views
19 Pages

Vision 2030 of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) requires numerous national and multinational organizations to re-engineer themselves to achieve the required targets for the upturn of the Saudi economy. In this respect, the quality of indigenous good...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,979 Views
19 Pages

28 June 2024

This survey of predominantly middle–high-income owner-occupier households in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) assessed household perspectives to residential photovoltaics (PVs) (n = 268). Higher-income households were statistically more likely...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,231 Views
20 Pages

4 June 2022

Diversity in date palm (DP) cultivars plays a crucial role in the agroecosystems of several countries, such as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). This study aims to map and analyze the spatial distribution of the most grown DP cultivars (Khlas, Ruziz...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,632 Views
16 Pages

Agriculture Sprawl Assessment Using Multi-Temporal Remote Sensing Images and Its Environmental Impact; Al-Jouf, KSA

  • Ahmed M. Youssef,
  • Mazen M. Abu Abdullah,
  • Biswajeet Pradhan and
  • Ahmed F. D. Gaber

2 August 2019

In this paper, multispectral and multi-temporal satellite data were used to assess the spatial and temporal evolution of the agriculture activities in the Al-Jouf region, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). In the current study, an attempt was made to map...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
5,389 Views
21 Pages

12 July 2024

The relevance of virtual learning platforms has been increasingly recognised, and their merit in contributing to sustainable education is ever growing. Depending on the context, the benefits of these virtual platforms were revealed during the COVID-1...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,444 Views
19 Pages

1 June 2023

Car ownership and use in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) are very high due to the high income, the low fuel prices and the near absence of public transportation in the Kingdom. Currently, the Kingdom is going through a massive transformation and en...

  • Review
  • Open Access
70 Citations
10,415 Views
19 Pages

Impacts of Renewable Energy Generation on Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Saudi Arabia: A Comprehensive Review

  • Fahad Saleh Al-Ismail,
  • Md Shafiul Alam,
  • Md Shafiullah,
  • Md Ismail Hossain and
  • Syed Masiur Rahman

13 March 2023

Over the last few years, the electric energy demand in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has increased many folds due to several factors including increased population, industrialization, economic activities, and urbanization. The main source of elec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
644 Views
17 Pages

Cyberbullying generally reveals two leading players: the attacker side (perpetrator) and the victim side; each side has its distinctive social and psychological dynamics. In most prior empirical studies, the victim side is pivotal, as it bears the di...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
10,746 Views
22 Pages

Evaluating the Impact of Urban Growth on the Design of Storm Water Drainage Systems

  • Hany F. Abd-Elhamid,
  • Martina Zeleňáková,
  • Zuzana Vranayová and
  • Ismail Fathy

31 May 2020

Urban growth is one of the major causes of flooding in urban areas. This affects the runoff coefficients, which is among the most important factors that affect the design of storm water drainage systems. Changing the runoff coefficient will affect th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,468 Views
17 Pages

6 November 2023

Soil’s contamination with heavy metals is a serious issue, and assessing their levels, regulating their sources, and finding cost-effective technology to limit their toxic effect and soil cleanup are of high priority. The focus of this study wa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5,313 Views
11 Pages

6 March 2023

The background of this study is relevant to parking facilities at shopping malls in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), where all parking services are mostly free, with very few exceptions. Demand on parking places at shopping malls and recreational a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
7,059 Views
24 Pages

Nature-Inspired Search Method and Custom Waste Object Detection and Classification Model for Smart Waste Bin

  • Israel Edem Agbehadji,
  • Abdultaofeek Abayomi,
  • Khac-Hoai Nam Bui,
  • Richard C. Millham and
  • Emmanuel Freeman

18 August 2022

Waste management is one of the challenges facing countries globally, leading to the need for innovative ways to design and operationalize smart waste bins for effective waste collection and management. The inability of extant waste bins to facilitate...

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