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MUSCAT — Sultan Qaboos University (SQU),
represented by the Omani Studies Centre and
the External Co-operation Office, will
organise an international symposium titled
Oman and India... Horizons and Civilisation
from February 27 to March 1. Her Highness
Sayyida Dr Muna bint Fahd al Said, SQU
Assistant Vice-Chancellor for External Cooperation and chairperson of the symposium
organising committee, said that this
symposium will affirm and address the deep
bilateral relations in the economic, educational, scientific, cultural and social fields.
HH Sayyida Dr Muna noted that the themes of the symposium and the 22 working
papers will discuss geography, history, culture, society, education and economy
throughout history. The symposium will come up with recommendations that will
contribute in pushing the wheel of co-operation, strengthening the existing OmanIndia ties and enhancing bilateral interaction.
Seminars on power transmission
The Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department of the College of
Engineering at Sultan Qaboos University (SQU), and the Oman Society of EngineersIEEE Oman Section, IEEE Power and Energy Society-Oman Chapter, jointly organised a
seminar on ‘Facts solutions for the heavy industries and their influence on
transmission and distribution grid’ at SQU.
The seminar was sponsored by ABB, the leading power and automation company.
Over 90 engineers attended the seminar from different industrial sectors including oil
and gas, electricity transmission and distribution companies, Public Authority for
Electricity and Water, consultants and members of the Oman Society of Engineers.
In addition, over 40 participants representing academics from Sultan Qaboos
University, Caledonian College of engineering, ECE post-graduate students and
undergraduate students attended the event.
Satellite data utilisation
Meanwhile, the Remote Sensing and GIS Centre at the SQU organised a seminar titled
‘Satellite data for climate monitoring, disaster and environmental management’.
Hans Peter Roesli, Consultant in Satellite Data Applications, European Organisation
for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT), Darmstadt, Germany,
gave a talk on ‘EUMETSAT and Climate Monitoring Activities with special focus on the
Middle East’.
He explained that EUMETSAT, in accordance with its convention, makes a substantial
contribution to the operational climate monitoring and the detection of global
climate change.
Workshop on metabolic awareness
The metabolic dieticians wing of the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics at SQU
Hospital recently organised a workshop on ‘metabolic awareness and nutrition’ under
the auspices of HH Sayyida Dr Mona.
The event was aimed at teaching the mothers new recipes for low protein food,
creating opportunities for information exchange among experienced mothers on
feeding newly IEM (Inborn Error of Metabolism) diagnosed babies. The workshop
recommended allocation of more resources for research and updates in the field of
metabolic awareness, increase the number of metabolic dieticians in Oman, and to
improve the laboratory services for the Inborn Errors of Metabolism patients.
Salah Salim, Head of Nutrition and Dietetics department said: “The workshop mainly
targeted the families especially the mothers, as we wanted to provide them with
more cooking skills, in order to be able to prepare more selection of low protein food
items, that will ensure a wider horizon of food selection for the metabolic patients
which in turn, will ensure better adherence to the clinical and dietetic management,
will decrease the incident of acute illness in the future and hope to increase the
quality of life.”
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