The Mediterranean region is both a global biodiversity hot spot and one of the biomes most strongly affected by human activities. Ecologists and land managers are increasingly required to advise on threats to biodiversity under foreseeable climate change. We used expert surveys to evaluate current understanding and uncertainties regarding climate change impacts on biodiversity in terrestrial, i...

IRAD BEN-GAL*, YALE T. HERER and TZVI RAZ Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel E-mail: [email protected] Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, 32000 Haifa, Israel E-mail: [email protected] Faculty of Management, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel E-mail: tzvira...

The Lancet Palestinian Health Alliance (LPHA), established in 2009, following the Series on health and care occupied territory, is an informal network of Palestinian, regional, international colleagues researching Palestinians. Ten annual scientific conferences have been held, with 748 research presentations involving more than 1000 coauthors. LPHA has no representative or political purpose pre...

a Department of Psychiatry, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel b Bar-Ilan University, Department of Psychology, Ramat-Gan, Israel c Sheba Medical Center, Psychiatry Unit, Ramat-Gan, Israel d Center for Behavioral Sciences, Israeli Defense Forces, Ramat-Gan, Israel e Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA f Department o...

The Israel Journal of Health Policy Research (IJHPR) is a new, open access journal. IJHPR seeks to promote intensive intellectual interactions among scholars and practitioners from Israel and other countries regarding all aspects of health policy, with particular attention to Israel. The ultimate aim of these interactions is to contribute to the development of health policy in Israel, and also ...

Yuval Yaron1,2,*, and Rachel Michaelson-Cohen3,4 1Prenatal Genetic Diagnosis Unit, Genetic Institute, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel 2Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 3Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 4Medical Genetics Institute, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Hebrew University of...

We explicitly construct extractors for two independent n-bit sources of (log n) minentropy. Previous constructions required either polylog(n) min-entropy [CZ15, Mek15] or five sources [Coh16]. Our result extends the breakthrough result of Chattopadhyay and Zuckerman [CZ15] and uses the non-malleable extractor of Cohen [Coh16]. The main new ingredient in our construction is a somewhere-random co...

four patients with sonographic suggestion of hepatic hemangioma are studied with tc99m-labeled rbc scan. the scan findings are compaired with other imaging modalities. lesions as small as 36 mm could be detected by this method.tc99m labeled rbc scan is a valuable tool to differentiate hepatic hemangioma from other space occupying lesion of the liver.

1 Department of Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. 2 Department of Biological Regulation, Weizmann Institute of Science,Rehovot, Israel. 3 Department of Biological Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. 4 Department of Immunology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. 5 Sheba Cancer Research Center, The Chaim Sheba Medical C...

The aim of the present study was to investigate the significance and values of 3.0T diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) to differentially diagnose benign and malignant space-occupying liver lesions. A total of 91 patients with liver space-occupying lesions (145 lesions) were admitted into Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University (Wuhan, China) from November 2015 to May 2016. Routine scanning, DWI and...