Review of Israel's action and response during the COVID-19 pandemic and tabletop exercise for the evaluation of readiness and resilience-lessons learned 2020-2021.

Background: Reevaluating response plans is essential to ensuring consistent readiness and resilience to the COVID-19 pandemic. The "During Action Review" and Tabletop (DART) methodology provides a retrospective and prospective assessment to inform the adaptive response. Israel introduced COVID-19 vaccinations in December 2020 and was the first country to implement booster vaccination to address waning immunity and surges caused by new variants.

Diagnostic Usefulness of p16 Immunohistochemistry for some Epithelial Lesions in the Pathology Service of Sultan Qaboos University Hospital.

This study is aiming to assess the diagnostic value of p16 immunohistochemistry (IHC) for a variety of epithelial lesions in the service provided by the Department of Pathology at Sultan Qaboos University Hospital (SQUH), Sultanate of Oman. This study would enhance pathologists' ability to diagnose and differentiate between different types of epithelial lesions reliably. This study is a retrospective observational cross-sectional study.

Inhibition of HDAC Enzymes Contributes to Differential Expression of Pro-Inflammatory Proteins in the TLR-4 Signaling Cascade.

Class I and II histone deacetylases (HDAC) are considered important regulators of immunity and inflammation. Modulation of HDAC expression and activity is associated with altered inflammatory responses but reports are controversial and the specific impact of single HDACs is not clear. We examined class I and II HDACs in TLR-4 signaling pathways in murine macrophages with a focus on IκB kinase epsilon (IKKε) which has not been investigated in this context before.

Influence of Eysenckian Personality Traits in Choice of Specialization by Young Omani Doctors.

Objectives: The role of personality in occupational specialty choices has been explored in many parts of the world. To our knowledge, there is a dearth of such studies in the Arab/Islamic population and Oman is no exception. This study aimed to explore the relationship between personality traits and specialty choice among residents of Oman Medical Specialty Board (OMSB).

Performance of Broilers Supplemented With Peppermint ( Mentha piperita L.) Powder.

This study was conducted to determine the effects of dietary supplementation of peppermint ( Mentha piperita L.) on the performance of broiler chicks. 500 Ross broiler chicks were divided into 5 treatment groups of 4 replications in a completely randomized design format.