{"title":"Simplified equations to find the relationship between soil and structure displacements for rectangular single column and footing on dry voidless cohesionless soil due to vertical loads","authors":"A. Touqan, Fawzi Abu Al-Adas","doi":"10.35552/anujr.a.37.2.2111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35552/anujr.a.37.2.2111","url":null,"abstract":"Usually, structural designers are assuming the soil as rigid object when they design small to intermediate structures, or assuming the settlement of soil to be always within the acceptable range. However, the engineering practice shows that high percentage of cracks and failures in structures are related to soil settlement reasons, non-uniform soil settlement for example. Geotechnical engineers developed many methods to calculate the settlement of soil, but the majority of these methods are geotechnical engineering oriented, and standard structural engineer may struggle using them. Therefore, because of the importance of finding the approximate soil settlement in many cases during the design process or during the implementation of the structure, this study gives simple equations that can predict the soil settlement with acceptable accuracy, by creating a relationship between the soil settlement and the displacement of the structure. The targeted equation will allow us to find the soil settlement from knowing the approximate displacement of the structure . Such an equation gives a conceptual value to be used in 3D analysis of structures using computer programs like SAP2000 and ETABS. The targeted structure in this study is a simple one rectangular column and footing structure.","PeriodicalId":274683,"journal":{"name":"An-Najah University Journal for Research - A (Natural Sciences)","volume":"1105 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131908649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Factors Influencing Household Food Security among Smallholder Farmers: The Case of the Jordan Valley","authors":"Safaa Al-Wedyan","doi":"10.35552/anujr.a.37.1.2047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35552/anujr.a.37.1.2047","url":null,"abstract":"This experiment was conducted in the field of laying hens affiliated with the Department of Animal Production at the College of Agriculture at Basrah University during the period from 27/12/2021 to 21/2/2021. It was applied to 90 experimental units (a 45-week-old laying hens) of Lohmann Extra, randomly allocated to five treatments. Each treatment has three replicates, with six chickens per replicate. The treatments included: - T1: Negative control treatment (basal diet without Addition) T2: Positive control treatment, the addition of dried skim milk at a level of 1 g / kg of feed. T3, T4, T5: add the manufactured bacterial preparation at a level of (0.5, 1, and 2( g/kg feed, respectively. To study the effect of manufactured bacterial preparation on some cellular and biochemical blood characteristics of laying hens. There was a significant (P≤0.05) improvement in cellular blood parameters, packed cell volume (PCV) and biochemical parameters of blood serum (cholesterol, total protein, albumin, globulin) in laying hens, and there were no significant differences in the ratio of heterophile cells to lymphocytes(H/L), glucose, and liver enzymes Aspartate Aminotransferase (AST), Alanine Aminotransferase (ALT).","PeriodicalId":274683,"journal":{"name":"An-Najah University Journal for Research - A (Natural Sciences)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129824441","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"High Field Hybrid Permanent Magnet Wiggler Optimized for Tunable Synchrotron Radiation Spectrum","authors":"","doi":"10.35552/anujr.a.37.1.2099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35552/anujr.a.37.1.2099","url":null,"abstract":"Synchrotron radiation provides a powerful tool of high brightness and tunable energy range for scientific applications in different domains such as chemistry, biology, water studies, material science, atomic physics and many others. It is possible to probe the core electronic level of the matter with synchrotron radiation. Moreover, the scientific community has recently shown a great interest in high energy photons for other applications such as archaeological studies. To reply to different demands, this study gives two proposals of a single insertion device that can operate in the wiggler regime at high energy range and in the undulator regime at low energy range by simple gap adjustment. It develops the concept of insertion devices, gives detailed study of the possible technologies, provides a simulation of the emitted photon flux by the proposed insertions and compares the emitted radiation of each of them.","PeriodicalId":274683,"journal":{"name":"An-Najah University Journal for Research - A (Natural Sciences)","volume":"143 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132430519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ethnobotanical Investigation of Medicinal Plants and their Importance, Traded in the Public Herbal Markets and Centers of Gaza Strip, Palestine","authors":"M. Auda, Samar Alghuff, Tarek Elbashiti","doi":"10.35552/anujr.a.37.1.2059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35552/anujr.a.37.1.2059","url":null,"abstract":"A comprehensive assessment of medicinal plant variety used in folk treatment in Gaza was conducted in order to discover medicinal plants still in use by therapists and their relevance in health care. By interviewing 20 informants from various places, an ethnobotanical survey was undertaken to examine and document plant species utilized in traditional medicine. The research identified 72 different medicinal pqlant species belonging to 33 different families. Plant components that were most commonly used were leaves (41%), stems (18%), and seeds (14%). The most common ailments treated were gastrointestinal, circulatory, and urinary system issues.","PeriodicalId":274683,"journal":{"name":"An-Najah University Journal for Research - A (Natural Sciences)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127035394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effect of the Manufactured Bacterial Preparation on Some Cellular and Biochemical Blood Characteristics of Laying Hens","authors":"A. Al-Salhi, S. Al-Shatty","doi":"10.35552/anujr.a.37.1.2096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35552/anujr.a.37.1.2096","url":null,"abstract":"This experiment was conducted in the field of laying hens affiliated with the Department of Animal Production at the College of Agriculture at Basrah University during the period from 27/12/2021 to 21/2/2021. It was applied to 90 experimental units (a 45-week-old laying hens) of Lohmann Extra, randomly allocated to five treatments. Each treatment has three replicates, with six chickens per replicate. The treatments included: - T1: Negative control treatment (basal diet without Addition) T2: Positive control treatment, the addition of dried skim milk at a level of 1 g / kg of feed. T3, T4, T5: add the manufactured bacterial preparation at a level of (0.5, 1, and 2( g/kg feed, respectively. To study the effect of manufactured bacterial preparation on some cellular and biochemical blood characteristics of laying hens. There was a significant (P≤0.05) improvement in cellular blood parameters, packed cell volume (PCV) and biochemical parameters of blood serum (cholesterol, total protein, albumin, globulin) in laying hens, and there were no significant differences in the ratio of heterophile cells to lymphocytes(H/L), glucose, and liver enzymes Aspartate Aminotransferase (AST), Alanine Aminotransferase (ALT).","PeriodicalId":274683,"journal":{"name":"An-Najah University Journal for Research - A (Natural Sciences)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128363678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evaluation the Quality and Safety of Raw Table Eggs in North Palestinian Markets","authors":"Asmaa Al-Asmar, M. Sabbah","doi":"10.35552/anujr.a.37.1.2026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35552/anujr.a.37.1.2026","url":null,"abstract":"This study aimed to evaluate the quality and safety of retail raw table eggs in north Palestinian markets. In this study, 480 eggs were collected in two different periods from various retail markets, both Palestinian governorates Tulkarm and Jenin. All collected eggs were evaluated for their safety and external and internal quality. The results showed that about 40.0% of the collected samples had eggshell abnormalities. A high variation in the egg's weight was detected in the eggs collected from Tulkarm. According to the Haugh unit, the results indicated that the most collected eggs were in class B. The average yolk color score of all periods in both governorates is around 8. Some eggs had yolk pH values of more than 6.6 in both governorates. Most collected eggs in both periods and governorates were fresh according to the yolk index. Escherichia coli was present in the eggshell collected from Jenin governorate. Meanwhile, Salmonella enteritidis was present in Tulkarm governorate. In conclusion, this study confirms that grading, cleaning, and cooling is not practiced before the sale, which may lead to microbiological health hazard to the general public. Thus, this study recommends avoiding eating raw or undercooked egg yolks and whites or their products.","PeriodicalId":274683,"journal":{"name":"An-Najah University Journal for Research - A (Natural Sciences)","volume":"95 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126114923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Development of channel transmission loss function for WRF_HYDRO modeling of semi-arid regions: The case of wadi Faria, Palestine","authors":"","doi":"10.35552/anujr.a.37.1.2097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35552/anujr.a.37.1.2097","url":null,"abstract":"In arid and semi-arid regions, the quantitative understanding of the processes of runoff generation and prediction of the streamflow hydrographs and their transmission to the catchment outlet are among the most basic challenges of hydrology. To address these challenges, hydrological modeling has been used to gain understanding of the hydro-logical systems and to provide the required inputs needed for sustainable water resources management. Further-more, coupling hydrological models with climatic models provides even more understanding of the influence of the climatic parameters on hydrological processes and systems, and hence on runoff generation mechanism. In this research, WRF-Hydro (the Weather Research Forecasting model coupled with the Distributed Hydrologic Modeling System) was used for streamflow forecasting in the Faria catchment. Faria (320 km2), located in the northeastern part of the West Bank, Palestine, is a gauged catchment where rainfall and streamflow data are available for more than ten years. This study aims to assess the functionality of the WRF-Hydro to predict reliable streamflow hydro-graphs at the upper part of the catchment. Additionally, a new channel loss function was incorporated into WRF-Hydro to model the amount of water lost in the ephemeral (loosing) streams of the catchment. Hence, the rainfall and streamflow data for the rainy season; 2017-2018.were utilized. Results indicate that WRF-Hydo model is well functioning, but model calibration and validation is still required to further improve the model performance.","PeriodicalId":274683,"journal":{"name":"An-Najah University Journal for Research - A (Natural Sciences)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127918756","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Types of subsequences of double sequences and their conver-gence properties","authors":"Faten Abu Shoga","doi":"10.35552/anujr.a.37.1.2060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35552/anujr.a.37.1.2060","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we give some new formulas for the subsequences of double sequences by using matrices to repre-sent these formulas. Also, we study some of their boundedness and convergence properties","PeriodicalId":274683,"journal":{"name":"An-Najah University Journal for Research - A (Natural Sciences)","volume":"101 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134000601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Center and Quasi Center on Banach Normal Hyperalgebra","authors":"As’ad Y. As’ad, ayman mizyed","doi":"10.35552/anujr.a.36.1.2004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35552/anujr.a.36.1.2004","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we prove that every strongly distributive hyperalgebra is normal. Also, we prove\u0000that if X is a normed normal hyperalgebra with a propertyza◦x.zb◦y = zab◦xy and |λ| > ‖x‖, then\u0000(zλ◦e − x) is invertible. Moreover, we give a characterization of the center of a unital complex\u0000Banach normal hyperalgebra with the same property. Finally, we define the quasi-center, σ-quasi\u0000center and ρ-quasi center of Banach normal hyperalgebra as a generalization of the center and\u0000study some basic properties and relations between them.","PeriodicalId":274683,"journal":{"name":"An-Najah University Journal for Research - A (Natural Sciences)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124972744","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reconsidering patients with chronic kidney psychological needs: optimizing hemodialysis room design","authors":"A. Helles","doi":"10.35552/anujr.a.36.1.2003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35552/anujr.a.36.1.2003","url":null,"abstract":"Chronic kidney failure (CKF) and its treatment often manifest in anxiety and fear in patients. The present study aimed to gain an in-depth understanding of how hospital interior design, hemodialysis rooms, in particular, can exacerbate or alleviate anxiety and fear in patients with CKF. Specifically, it reviews relevant literature to unveil to what extent a home-like environment in CKF healthcare centers might minimize anxiety and fear compared to an institutional design. Findings revealed patients with CKF delineate into three groups based on their psychological response to their disease and their ability to adapt to the new situation. Based on these classifications, the researcher proposed three models for the dialysis room to reduce anxiety and fear in each category. Crucially, while a homey environment in healthcare centers helps to mitigate anxiety and fear in a subset of patients with CKF, other patients may feel more anxious and fearful in such an environment.","PeriodicalId":274683,"journal":{"name":"An-Najah University Journal for Research - A (Natural Sciences)","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128036059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}