-
Article
Open AccessBECN1 mRNA expression in breast cancer tissue; significant correlation to tumor grade
Breast cancer (BC) is a heterogenous disease with multiple pathways implicated in its development, progression, and drug resistance. Autophagy, a cellular process responsible for self-di...
-
Article
Open AccessEmerging mercury and methylmercury contamination from new artisanal and small-scale gold mining along the Nile Valley, Egypt
The past decade witnessed the initiation and boom of the Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining (ASGM) activities in the hyper-arid southern Egypt. The ores are mined in the Eastern Desert and then transported ...
-
Article
Open AccessBuffering the impacts of extreme climate variability in the highly engineered Tigris Euphrates river system
More extreme and prolonged floods and droughts, commonly attributed to global warming, are affecting the livelihood of major sectors of the world’s population in many basins worldwide. While these events could...
-
Article
Open AccessUse of Geophysical and Radar Interferometric Techniques to Monitor Land Deformation Associated with the Jazan Salt Diapir, Jazan city, Saudi Arabia
Using integrated Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) datasets (Envisat: 2003–2009; Sentinel-1: 2014–2018), local gravity surveys, and passive seismic data, we investigated the environmental hazard...
-
Chapter and Conference Paper
Logistic Regression-based Geomorphological Map** in the Arabian Platform: Implications for the Paleohydrology and the Paleoclimate of the Arabian Desert
Throughout the Quaternary, the Arabian Peninsula witnessed alternation between dry and wet periods. During the wet periods, annual precipitation significantly increased leading to recharging the fossil aquifer...
-
Article
Open AccessUse of Geophysical and Remote Sensing Data for Assessment of Aquifer Depletion and Related Land Deformation
An integrated approach [field, Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR), hydrogeology, geodesy, and spatial analysis] was adopted to identify the nature, intensity, and spatial distribution of deformat...
-
Article
Assessing and Improving Land Surface Model Outputs Over Africa Using GRACE, Field, and Remote Sensing Data
The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE), along with other relevant field and remote sensing datasets, was used to assess the performance of two land surface models (LSMs: CLM4.5-SP and GLDAS-Noah) ...
-
Article
Structural Controls on Groundwater Flow in Basement Terrains: Geophysical, Remote Sensing, and Field Investigations in Sinai
An integrated [very low frequency (VLF) electromagnetic, magnetic, remote sensing, field, and geographic information system (GIS)] study was conducted over the basement complex in southern Sinai (Feiran waters...
-
Chapter
Impacts of Climate Change on the Red Sea Region and its Watersheds, Saudi Arabia
This chapter evaluates the impacts of projected climate change (period: 2020–2100) on the hydrologic systems along the Eastern Red Sea coastal plain. Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) data and Landsat Th...
-
Article
Geophysical Constraints on the Hydrogeologic and Structural Settings of the Gulf of Suez Rift-Related Basins: Case Study from the El Qaa Plain, Sinai, Egypt
Groundwater has been identified as one of the major freshwater sources that can potentially meet the growing demands of Egypt’s population. Gravity data (from 381 ground gravity stations) were collected, proce...
-
Article
The origin of small-scale geochemical and mineralogic variations in a granite intrusion
A post-tectonic unzoned granite intrusion in the Meatiq Dome, a Late Proterozoic metamorphic complex in the Central Eastern Desert of Egypt, shows significant chemical and mineralogic heterogeneity on the scal...
