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Jordan University of Science and Technology
Education•Irbid, Irbid, Jordan•
About: Jordan University of Science and Technology is a education organization based out in Irbid, Irbid, Jordan. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Medicine. The organization has 7582 authors who have published 13166 publications receiving 298158 citations. The organization is also known as: JUST.
Topics: Population, Medicine, Health care, Heat transfer, Cloud computing
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TL;DR: A parameter design approach that incorporates Taguchi’s robustness into the Genetic Algorithm search for optimal stochastic outputs of discrete event simulation (DES) to guide the GA selection scheme to converge to a near-optimal robust parameter design.
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TL;DR: Major barriers to Pap smear screening included inadequate knowledge about the test, not being referred by a health professional and fear of having a bad result.
Abstract: To investigate attitudes and beliefs that affect a woman's decision to undergo cervical smear screening, we carried out a survey of 760 women attending general obstetrics and gynaecology clinics in Irbid, Jordan between June 2004 and April 2005. Knowledge of cervical cancer and the Pap smear test was inadequate in less-educated and older patients. Of the 109 women who had previously had the test, 104 (95.4%) had opportunistic testing. Around 95% of the sample had never had the test. Major barriers to Pap smear screening included inadequate knowledge about the test, not being referred by a health professional and fear of having a bad result. The current screening programme is not effective in reaching the majority of the population.
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01 Sep 2016TL;DR: This research addresses the similarity measure for revealing similar temporal patterns from time series data generated by IoT and addresses the problem of seasonal patterns, emerging or diminishing patterns.
Abstract: Internet of Things implicitly generates myriads of temporal data. Unlocking such temporal data becomes a huge concern. Discovery and prediction of repeating temporal patterns and understanding the underlying temporal trends is much more challenging in the case of time stamped temporal data. At present, existing approaches do not reveal seasonal patterns, emerging or diminishing patterns. Determining similar temporal patterns and unearthing eccentric patterns require an efficient dissimilarity measure. This research addresses the similarity measure for revealing similar temporal patterns from time series data generated by IoT.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented a performance investigation of a salt gradient solar pond coupled with a desalination plant under Jordanian climatic conditions, and found that a 3000m 2 solar pond installed near the Dead Sea is able to provide an annual average production rate of 4.3 lmin −1 distilled water compared with 3.3lmin − 1 distilled water produced by El Paso solar pond, which has the same surface area.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present detailed analyses of both meteorological and vegetative droughts over the period from 1970 to 2005, in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
Abstract: Droughts have adverse socioeconomic, agricultural, and environmental impacts that can be reduced by assessing and forecasting drought behavior. The paper presents detailed analyses of both meteorological and vegetative droughts over the period from 1970 to 2005. Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) and Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) have been used to quantify drought according to severity, magnitude and spatial distribution at the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Results suggest that the country faced during the past 35 years frequent non-uniform drought periods in an irregular repetitive manner. Drought severity, magnitudes and life span increased with time from normal to extreme levels especially at last decade reaching magnitudes of more than 4. Generated NDVI maps spatial analyses estimate crop-area percentage damage due to severe and extremely severe drought events occurred during October, December, and February of 2000 to be about 10%, 45%, and 30%, respectively. In response to drought spatial extent, the paper suggest the presence of two drought types, local drought acting on one or more geographical climatic parts and national drought, of less common but more severe, that extend over the whole country. Droughts in Jordan act intensively during January, February and March and tend to shift position with time by alternative migrations from southern desert parts to northern desert parts and from the eastern desert parts to highlands and Jordan Rift Valley (JRV) at the west. The paper also investigates the potential use of Global Climate Model’s (GCM) to forecast future drought events from 2010 till 2040. Tukey HSD test indicates that ECHAM5OM GCM is capable to predicted rainfall variation at the country and suggests future droughts to become more intensive at the northern and southern desserts with 15% rainfall reduction factor, followed by 10% reduction at the JRV, and 5% at the highlands.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Andrew McCallum | 113 | 472 | 78240 |
Yousef Khader | 94 | 586 | 111094 |
Michael P. Jones | 90 | 707 | 29327 |
David S Sanders | 75 | 639 | 23712 |
Nidal Hilal | 72 | 395 | 21524 |
Nagendra P. Shah | 71 | 334 | 19939 |
Jeffrey R. Idle | 70 | 261 | 16237 |
Rahul Sukthankar | 70 | 240 | 28630 |
Matthias Kern | 66 | 332 | 14871 |
David De Cremer | 65 | 297 | 13788 |
Moustafa Youssef | 61 | 299 | 15541 |
Mohammed Farid | 61 | 299 | 15820 |
Rudolf Holze | 58 | 388 | 13761 |
Rich Caruana | 57 | 145 | 26451 |
Eberhardt Herdtweck | 56 | 332 | 10785 |