Aren M. Maeir (ed.). Tell es-Safi/Gath I: The 1996-2005 Seasons

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Over the past ten years, female-to-male transgender/transsexuality has become far more widespread, both in cultural representations (Boys Don't Cry, for example) and as a legitimate choice for many individuals. As the number of people who transition ftm grows, information about and access to gender reassignment has become far easier to find. Much of this information flows informally through com...

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Cancer incidence in Jordan, 1996-2005.

Cancer causes 14% of all deaths in Jordan. This paper presents the incidence of cancer in Jordan from 1996 to 2005. Over the 10-year period there were 33 661 cases of cancer. The average crude incidence rate was 66.2 per 100 000 for males and 70.0 per 100 000 for females (age-standardized rates: 119 per 100 000 adult males and 116 per 100 000 adult females). The 5 most frequently reported cance...

More Wall Painting Fragments from Tell Es-sweyhat

Although the planned 1994 Tell es-Sweyhat expedition to Syria had to be canceled due to a lack of financial resources, work on previously excavated materials from the 1991 and 1992 seasons has steadily progressed and a final Oriental Institute report on these researches is anticipated during the forthcoming fiscal year. The important Early Bronze Age wall paintings, dated to the middle of the t...

ealization of es i eC

This paper describes an intelligent system which detects the location of troubles in a local telephone cable network. Such a task is very challenging, tedious, and requires human experts with years of experience and high analytical skills. Our system captures the expertise and knowledge required for this task, along with automated access to database systems, so that the system can help a human ...