OBJECTIVES Recently, a model of reminiscence and well-being has emerged in which reminiscence functions have been shown to predict both the mental and physical health of middle-aged and older adults. Yet this model has thus far been verified only with North American, Western European, and Australian participants. This study was undertaken to compare the latent structure of responses between Can...

jewish identity of israel is one of the major problems in assessing the status of sociology, social policy and political structure. the mainstream zionist discourse suggests that the distinction is one of the essential components of jewish identit. this has led to direct and control the political behavior of the inhabitants of the political structure in order to facilitate the continuation and ...

BACKGROUND Selection of appropriate reference charts for fetal biometry is mandatory to ensure an accurate diagnosis. Most hospitals and clinics in Israel use growth curves from the United States. Charts developed in different populations do not perform well in the Israeli population. OBJECTIVES To construct new reference charts for fetal biparietal diameter (BPD), head circumference (HC), ab...

The research critically evaluates ways of narrating the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Polish secondary-school history textbooks. Based on a repeated critical reading and discourse analysis both Israeli Arab-Palestinian narratives, study focuses choice pro-Palestinian pro-Israeli designations when naming incorporation or silencing and/or voices textbook narratives. Reducing Palestinians to dis...

The Asia-Pacific region generates over half of global economic activity (54.2%) and about 43.7% of global trade, and is the most dynamic region in the global economy. At the core of this is an increasingly dynamic, vibrant and entrepreneurial small-medium sized enterprise sector. Advances in information and communications technology, market liberalisation and moves towards closer regional econo...

Various authors on the media coverage of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict assert that it is biased and unbalanced. This study focuses on the representation of the First and Second Intifada in Flemish daily newspapers. It combines a content analysis with in-depth interviews with journalists to investigate any imbalance and bias in favour of the Israeli point of view. The results reveal a certain...

The paper discusses the issue of supporting informatics (mainly focusing on programming) education through competitions for secondary school students. Competitions play an important role for learners as a source of inspiration, innovation, and attraction. The International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) is the primary computer science competition for young students, up to the age of 20. The prim...