Zaher Armaly1 and Zaid Abassi2,3* 1Departmentof Nephrology, EMMS Nazareth–The Nazareth Hospital, Nazareth and Galilee Medical School-Bar Ilan University, Safed, Israel 2Research Unit, Rambam Health Care Campus Haifa, Israel 3Department of Physiology, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel *Corresponding author: Zaid Abassi, Department of Physiology...

Beni Lew, Lolita Trachtengertz, Shany Ratsin, Gideon Oron and Amos Bick* 1 Department of Civil Engineering, Ariel University, Ariel, Israel 2 Agriculture Research Organization Volcani Center, Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Bet Dagan, Israel 3 The Department of Chemical Engineering, Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, Ramat-Gan, Israel 4 Department of Environment Water Resources, ...

1 Tel-Aviv Center for Brain Functions, Wohl Institute for Advanced Imaging, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel, 2 The School of Psychological Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel, 3 The Linguistics Department, The Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel, 4 Faculty of Science and Technology, Bournemouth University, Poole, UK,...

Nowadays, in competitive environment, a fundamental factor that helps governmental and non-governmental organizations to achieve their goals is attention to efficiency and its continuous improvement, which is only possible through continuous Efficiency Evaluation. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a suitable method for Efficiency Evaluation in organizations. But one limitation of this method i...

a The Research Center for Internet Psychology, Sammy Ofer School of Communication, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya, Israel b School of Psychology, The Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya, Israel Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Schneider Children’s Medical Center, Israel d The Advanced Virtuality Lab, Sammy Ofer School of Communication, Interdisciplinary Center Her...

Manually assigned keywords provide a valuable means for accessing large document collections. They can serve as a shallow document summary and enable more efficient retrieval and aggregation of information. In this paper we investigate keywords in the context of the Dutch Folktale Database, a large collection of stories including fairy tales, jokes and urban legends. We carry out a quantitative...

Computer programming today is far too dependent on one particular natural language, namely English. Mathematics is not dependent on English, and programming should not be, either. In order to eliminate the dependence of programming on English, we have constructed a programming language in which the keywords are replaced by symbols available on standard keyboards. Each of these symbols is chosen...