Sameer Alsulami

The University of Waikato

Staphylococcus species are a major pathogen responsible for nosocomial infections and foodborne illnesses. We applied a laser-based BARDOT (bacterial rapid detection using optical scattering technology) for rapid colony screening and detection of Staphylococcus on an agar plate and differentiate these from non-Staphylococcus spp. Among the six grow...

Objective To investigate the incidence of stroke among pilgrims and describe factors associated with presentation and management during Hajj. Physical stress, age and vascular risk factors render pilgrims at a high risk of stroke. Methods This is a prospective registry of all acute stroke patients admitted to 6 hospitals during the 2015 Hajj seaso...

Background: This study explored the knowledge and awareness about colorectal cancer (CRC) among undergraduate students of one of the leading universities in Saudi Arabia, along with the mode of information access. Materials and Methods: The present cross-sectional study was conducted at the King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, among stu...

Water is one of the most important elements for all forms of life. With the general population concerned with polluted water, tendencies toward purchasing bottled water and water filtration systems are high which is the basic need for life and questions are being raised as to whether fluoride and bacterial content in public water supplies is affect...

Introduction: Haematuria is a serious and alarming symptom and may indicate significant underlying urological disease. Objectives: To assess current primary health care provider (PHCP) practice in management of patients with haematuria. Materials and methods: A written questionnaire was distributed to PHCPs. The questionnaire consisted of clinical...

Search engines are the major breakthrough on the web for retrieving the information. But List of retrieved documents contains a high percentage of duplicated and near document result. So there is the need to improve the performance of search results. Some of current search engine use data filtering algorithm which can eliminate duplicate and near d...

Document clustering is an important technology which helps users to organize the large amount of online information, especially after the rapid growth of the Web. This paper focuses on semantic document clustering method and its application in search engine. We proposed a multi-agent based information retrieval system to enhance the search process....