I. INTRODUCTION We humans tend to worry first about our own happiness, then about our families, then about our communities. In times of great stress, such as war or natural disaster, we may focus temporarily on our country but we rarely think about Earth as a whole or the human species as a whole. This narrow perspective, perhaps best exemplified by the American consumer, has led to the environ...

Let s ≥ 2. We construct Ricci flat pseudo-Riemannian manifolds of signature (2s, s) which are not locally homogeneous but whose curvature tensors never the less exhibit a number of important symmetry properties. They are curvature homogeneous; their curvature tensor is modeled on that of a local symmetric space. They are spacelike Jordan Osserman with a Jacobi operator which is nilpotent of ord...

1479. WHO Severe Acute Respiratory Infections (SARI) Definition often Underdiagnoses Serious Respiratory Viral Infections in Hospitalized Jordanian Children Najwa Khuri-Bulos, MD, FIDSA; Bhinnata Piya, MPH; Asem Shehabi, DSC; Samir Faouri, MD; John V. Williams, MD, MPH; Sten Vermund, MD, PhD, FIDSA and Natasha B. Halasa, MD, MPH, FPIDS; University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan, Vanderbilt University...

Assamra wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) is the largest facility in Jordan. Treated discharged into Zarqa River (ZR) and used to irrigate fodder vegetables. ZR also includes surface runoff, stormwater, raw illegally river. This study examined pharmaceutically active compounds (PhAC) water resources basin. Samples of WWTP influent effluent river from four sites along were collected. Concentrati...

The female and male of Dasybasis (Agelanius) cortesi, new species, is described and illustrated from specimens collected in the National Reserve of Río Clarillo, Cordillera Province, Central Chile. Its relationships to other Dasybasis species are discussed.

Rivers have a symbolic meaning in the work of Levan Gotua. As writer thinking about fate nation, he looks at river with this eye, is an integral part history, witness to country. The presents Alazani not only figuratively, but also kind conceptual line that adds new color mother „Gmirta Varami“, on other hand, and floodplains are main places Gotua's series essays – „Mgzavruli Krialosani“, where...

Considering the Euclidean Jordan algebra of the real symmetric matrices endowed with the Jordan product and the inner product given by the usual trace of matrices, we construct an alternating Schur series with an element of the Jordan frame associated to the adjacency matrix of a strongly regular graph. From this series we establish necessary conditions for the existence of strongly regular gra...

For a finite group scheme G, we continue our investigation of those finite dimensional kG-modules which are of constant Jordan type. We introduce a Quillen exact category structure C(kG) on these modules and investigate K0(C(kG)). We study which Jordan types can be realized as the Jordan types of (virtual) modules of constant Jordan type. We also briefly consider thickenings of C(kG) inside the...

Let T be a triangular ring. An additive map δ from T into itself is said to be Jordan derivable at an element Z ∈ T if δ(A)B +Aδ(B) + δ(B)A+Bδ(A) = δ(AB+BA) for any A,B ∈ T with AB + BA = Z. An element Z ∈ T is called a Jordan all-derivable point of T if every additive map Jordan derivable at Z is a Jordan derivation. In this paper, we show that some idempotents in T are Jordan all-derivable po...

The burden of smoking-related diseases in Jordan is increasingly evident. During 2006, chronic, noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) accounted for more than 50% of all deaths in Jordan. With this evidence in hand, we highlight the prevalence of smoking in Jordan among youth and adults and briefly review legislation that governs tobacco control in Jordan. The prevalence of smoking in Jordan remains u...