Over the last two decades, Jordan has suffered a chronic water crisis, and is the tenth most water-scarce nation on Earth. Such water stress has been well illustrated in the case of Greater Amman, the capital, which has grown dramatically from a population of around 2000 in the 1920s, to 2.17 million today. One of the distinctive characteristics of the water supply regime of Greater Amman is th...

Stock market represents an essential part of the economy in the Middle East, it is significant for shareholders and investors to estimate the stock price and select the best trading opportunity accurately in advance. This paper utilizes artificial neural network in the modeling of stock market exchange prices. The network was trained using supervised learning. Simulation was conducted for seven...

Objectives: The objectives of this study were to assess the prevalence of diabetic foot ulcers and their risk factors among patients attending the National Center for Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Genetics (Amman, Jordan). Materials and Methods: A systematic random sample of 1,000 diabetic patients was selected from patients attending the diabetes clinic at the National Center for Diabetes, Endo...

1Department of Microbiology, Omar Medical Laboratories, Amman, Jordan (Correspondence to O.M. Momani: [email protected]). King Hussein Medical Centre, Amman, Jordan. Received: 09/10/02; accepted: 14/09/03 ABSTRACT Candida dubliniensis is an emerging yeast pathogen isolated mainly from immunocompromised patients. As molecular tests are currently unsuitable for use in routine diagnostic labo...

Smoking in Jordan is a serious problem as it affects almost all segments of society including children. This study aimed to evaluate the smoking behaviour of Jordanian secondary-school students (aged 16-18 years), their awareness of the dangers of smoking and their perceived susceptibility to lung cancer. Of the stratified random sample of students from Amman schools (n = 648), 43% were ever sm...

1 Burie Agricultural College, P.O. Box Rissneleden 19, Sundbyberg, 17453 Stockholm, Sweden 2 Amhara Regional Agricultural Research Institute (ARARI), P.O. Box 527, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia 3 School of Natural Resources Management and Environmental Science, Haramaya University, P.O. Box 138, Dire Dawa, Ethiopia 4 International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), P.O. Box 95076...

 *Intelligent Research Group, Babol (Noushirvani) University of Technology, Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, P.O. Box 47135-484, Babol, Iran,( [email protected]) **Hamedan university of Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering,([email protected]),Hamedan, Iran *** Department of Electrical, Electronic and Automation Engineering, Industrial Engineering School,University o...

The response of adult females of the mosquito Culex pipiens molestus to six insecticides was evaluated. Adults were collected from two locations in the Amman area from May to October 1983. The F1 generation was exposed to paper-impregnated insecticides using WHO test kits. At both locations, the most toxic insecticides were permethrin, propoxur and ferpropathrin. Malathion, dieldrin and DDT wer...

Recently, regime shifts or structure breaks had acquired very high attention in analyzing financial time series data. Abrupt of changes in the government policy, financial crises and many of challenges lead to change in the behavior of the financial time series data. In addition, wavelet transform also becomes very famous in the financial sector and it has better advantages than the other filte...