Nineteen species of anopheline and culicine mosquitoes are reported from larval collections made in northern Jordan and the Jordan Valley. Culex judaicus, Culiseta annulata, and Uranotaenia unguiculata are reported as new records for Jordan. The impact of agricultural development and man-made changes on the mosquito fauna of Jordan is discussed.

We follow the rules: i, j, m, n, k denote natural numbers, K denotes a field, and a, λ denote elements of K. Let us consider K, λ, n. The Jordan block of λ and n yields a matrix over K and is defined by the conditions (Def. 1). (Def. 1)(i) len (the Jordan block of λ and n) = n, (ii) width (the Jordan block of λ and n) = n, and (iii) for all i, j such that 〈i, j〉 ∈ the indices of the Jordan bloc...

A robotic intelligent wheelchair system based on obstacle avoidance and navigation functions Mohammed Alshraideh, Basel A. Mahafzah, Saleh Al-Sharaeh & Ziad M. Hawamdeh a Department of Computer Science, King Abdullah II School for Information Technology, The University of Jordan, Amman 11942, Jordan b Department of Special Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Jordan, Amman 11942, Jor...

Analysis and Identification of Malicious JavaScript Code Mohammad Fraiwan a , Rami Al-Salman a , Natheer Khasawneh b & Stefan Conrad c a Department of Computer Engineering, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan b Department of Software Engineering, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan c Institute of Computer Science, Heinrich-Heine University, Düesseld...

DING WANG,∗†† XIANFENG ZHANG,∗ KEXIONG WANG,∗ ZHUO WEI,∗ BERND WÜRSIG,† GILLIAN T. BRAULIK,‡ AND SUSIE ELLIS§ ∗Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, China †Texas A&M University, 4700 Avenue U, Building 303, Galveston, TX 77551, U.S.A. ‡Downstream Research Group, 3950 S. Fletcher Avenue, Amelia Island, FL 32034, U.S.A. §Conservation International, 1919 M Street, S...

In Australia, Ross River virus (RRV) is predominantly identified and managed through passive health surveillance. Here, the proactive use of environmental datasets to improve community-scale public health interventions in southeastern Tasmania is explored. Known environmental drivers (temperature, rainfall, tide) of the RRV vector Aedes camptorhynchus are analysed against cumulative case record...

This lecture introduces the Jordan canonical form of a matrix — we prove that every square matrix is equivalent to a (essentially) unique Jordan matrix and we give a method to derive the latter. We also introduce the notion of minimal polynomial and we point out how to obtain it from the Jordan canonical form. Finally, we make an encounter with companion matrices. 1 Jordan form and an applicati...

In this paper, we study and analyze the algebraic structure of the circular cone. We establish a new efficient spectral decomposition, set up the Jordan algebra associated with the circular cone, and prove that this algebra forms a Euclidean Jordan algebra with a certain inner product. We then show that the cone of squares of this Euclidean Jordan algebra is indeed the circular cone itself. The...