Modeling Rainfall Variability over Urban Areas: A Case Study for Kuwait by Jaber Almedeij

“…This study examines the spatial and temporal variability of monthly total rainfall data obtained from weather stations located in the urban areas of Kuwait. The rainfall data are analyzed by considering statistics on a seasonal basis and by means of periodogram technique to reveal the periods responsible for the variable pattern. …”
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Crude oil contamination on the Sabkha facies of Kuwait by WALEED YOUSEF ROY, SAMIRA OMAR ASEM, MEALI AL-BURAIS

“…Six boreholes (B4 to B9) along the oil trench in the saline coastal soils, in the northeastern and southeastern areas of Kuwait were excavated to assess the extent of oil pollution in comparison to the adjacent reference sites. …”
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Knowledge, attitude, and practice of healthy eating among public school teachers in Kuwait by Hashem Kana''An, Rami Saadeh, Ahmed Zruqait, Manar Alenezi

“…Design and methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted using a questionnaire distributed to 300 teachers in the Hawalli and Al-Jahra educational areas in Kuwait over approximately six months in 2019. …”
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Applying GIS and Text Mining Methods to Twitter Data to Explore the Spatiotemporal Patterns of Topics of Interest in Kuwait by Muhammad G. Almatar, Huda S. Alazmi, Liuqing Li, Edward A. Fox

“…To this end, we collect, process, and analyze tweets from nearly 120 areas in Kuwait over a 10-month period. The study’s results indicate that religion, emotions, education, and public policy are the most popular topics of interest in Kuwait. …”
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Geomorphological characteristics of the Um-Rimam depression in northern Kuwait by Modi Ahmed, Ali M. Al-Dousari

“…The amount of aeolian deposits (sand and dust) is low in the study area compared to the average deposited aeolian particles in surrounding areas within Kuwait, but the annual amount of sand trapped in the northern playa (31 kg.yr-1) is higher than the southern playa. …”
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<em>Portunus pelagicus</em> (Linnaeus, 1758) as a Sentinel Species to Assess Trace Metal Occurrence: A Case Study of Kuwait Waters (Northwestern Arabian Gulf) by Qusaie Karam, Wassim Guermazi, M. N. V. Subrahmanyam, Yousef Al-Enezi, Mohammad Ali, Vincent Leignel, Neila Annabi-Trabelsi

“…This study aimed to examine the concentrations of heavy metals (Cd, Cu, Pb, and Zn) in sediment, water, and crab tissues (gills, hepatopancreas, and carapace) of the blue swimmer crab <i>Portunus pelagicus</i> in the coastal areas of Kuwait, northwestern Arabian Gulf. Samples were collected from Shuwaikh Port, Shuaiba Port, and Al-Khiran areas. …”
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Navigating HR 4.0: Harnessing AI for Ethical and Inclusive HR Transformation by Kassem Danach, Ali El Dirani, Hasan Fayyad-Kazan

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Modeling and simulations of Water Network Distribution to Assess Water Quality: Kuwait as a case study by Mohamed. A. Mabrok, Ahmad Saad, Taha Ahmed, Hamad Alsayab

“…An EPANET model was developed and analyzed for a selected area in Kuwait. The study evaluated the water quality in the chosen area, in particular, the water age. …”
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Kuwait Driving Cycle Generation Using Micro-Trip Combination Optimization Method Based on WLTC by Murat Otkur, Mohammad Doust

“…Despite the low surface area of Kuwait, percentage of dessert areas with no / limited road infrastructure is significantly high resulting to extreme traffic jam conditions especially in the Capital Governate (Kuwait City). …”
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Review: Fungal Biotreatment of Petroleum Contamination by A. R. H. Binsadiq

“…Most of the Eastern Regions of Saudi Arabia, including the coastal area bordering Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar became polluted with petroleum during the Gulf War (1990), results from a 1991 rapid assessment survey to investigate the extent of resulting from the massive spillage of petroleum and the burning of oil well pollution in the Arabian Gulf was restricted to approximately 400 km from the sources, oil contamination as a floating tar balls were investigated from the Arabian Gulf to the Arabian Sea, ecology of sea grasses in North eastern Saudi Arabia after Gulf War was examined for the direct result of the Gulf War oil spill, mean concentrations of total hydrocarbons were 2.95,4.14 and 3.29 ugl-1 in Saudi Arabia and Qatar respectively , petroleum contamination following the 1991 Gulf War was organized to determine contamination by petroleum that entered the Gulf and oil field in Kuwait. …”
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Techno-economic feasibility analysis of Kuwait-specific photovoltaic-based street lighting system by Naser Ahmad Naser Muhaisen, Mohamed Hadi Habaebi, Fakher Eldin M Suliman, Sheroz Khan, Elfatih AA Elsheikh, Md. Rafiqul Islam, Mohammed Abdulla Salim Al Husaini

“…Practical testbed data from the Al-Jahra residential area of Kuwait is used for validation. The results indicate that the proposed photovoltaic street lighting system can generate a maximum power output of 18.8 GWh in August and a minimum of 11.8 GWh in December, compared to the monthly consumption of 30.45 GWh. …”
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Hyperbilirubinemia and Hyponatremia as Predictors of Complicated Appendicitis by Abdullah Shuaib, Nour Alhamdan, Husain Arian, Mohamed Alaa Sallam, Ali Shuaib

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Mycological discoveries in the Middle East region in the second part of the last century by Mouchacca J

“…All together 145 generic names are reported in this group of novelties; twelve were based on type material collected in Egypt (5 genera), the Palestine-Israel area, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon and Sudan. The present group of novelties was also surveyed in relation to the nature of the substrate sustaining the selected holotypes. …”
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