It is a known fact that, world wide, there are more than 200 international water systems and that some 60 per cent of the global population resides within such systems. This has important implications for international security of these water systems and the people dependent on them. With this in mind, the United Nations University (UNU), within the framework of the environmentally sustainable ...

Recently, Takahashi has introduced the James and von Neumann-Jordan type constants. In this paper, we present some sufficient conditions for uniform normal structure and therefore the fixed point property of a Banach space in terms of the James and von Neumann-Jordan type constants and the Ptolemy constant. Our main results of the paper significantly generalize and improve many known results in...

In this paper we characterize the left Jordan derivations on Banach algebras. Also, it is shown that every bounded linear map $d:mathcal Ato mathcal M$ from a von Neumann algebra $mathcal A$ into a Banach $mathcal A-$module $mathcal M$ with property that $d(p^2)=2pd(p)$ for every projection $p$ in $mathcal A$ is a left Jordan derivation.

Mathieu and Ruddy proved that if be a unital spectral isometry from a unital C*-algebra Aonto a unital type I C*-algebra B whose primitive ideal space is Hausdorff and totallydisconnected, then is Jordan isomorphism. The aim of this note is to show that if be asurjective spectrum preserving additive map, then is a Jordan isomorphism without the extraassumption totally disconnected.

A century ago, Camille Jordan proved that the complex general linear group GLn(C) has the Jordan property: there is a Jordan constant Cn such that every finite subgroup H ≤ GLn(C) has an abelian subgroup H1 of index [H : H1] ≤ Cn. We show that every connected algebraic group G (which is not necessarily linear) has the Jordan property with the Jordan constant depending only on dimG, and that the...

Let A be a unital algebra and M be a unital A-bimodule. A characterization of generalized derivations and generalized Jordan derivations from A into M, through zero products or zero Jordan products, is given. Suppose that M is a unital left A-module. It is investigated when a linear mapping from A into M is a Jordan left derivation under certain conditions. It is also studied whether an algebra...

1. Dept. of Community and Mental Health Nursing, School of Nursing, Mafraq, Jordan 2. Dept. of Maternal, Child and Family Health, School of Nursing, the Hashemite University, Zarqa, Jordan 3. Dept. of Adult Health, School of Nursing, Zarqa University, Zarqa, Jordan 4. Unit of E-Learning & Information Technology, College of Nursing, King Saud University, Al-Diriyah, Saudi Arabia 5. Dept. of Midw...

Proposed resolutions to the Arab-Israeli water conflict that fail to consider the introduction of alternative freshwater sources in the not-too-distant future cannot be taken seriously. Each of three major forms of freshwater supply augmentation (the “unconventional supplies”) is likely to be implemented on a widespread basis in the region, thereby substantially altering the regional water bala...

In this comparative study of two water basins in the Middle East, we examine the hydro-political construction of scale as central to state and nation building, and their territorial consolidation. We argue that scalar negotiations and constructions of freshwater became central to the very consolidation of both Turkey and Israel. The examples we offer also illustrate the usefulness of a performa...