The Israeli government's decision to remove settlers in the Gaza Strip forcibly produced a situation of traumatic stress, resulting from confrontation and conflict for settlers. The authors examined the effects of the Gaza disengagement, that occurred following prolonged terrorist exposure, on rates of probable major depressive disorder (MDD) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) diagnosis i...

Identifying an optimal game strategy often involves estimating the strategies of other agents, which in turn depends on hidden parts of the game state. In this paper we focus on the win-lose game The Settlers of Catan (or Settlers), in which players negotiate over limited resources. More precisely, our goal is to map each player’s utterances in such negotiations to a model of which resources th...

A comparative сytogenetic examination of 33 self-settlers in the 30 km ChNPP Exclusion Zone and 31 residents in villages of Yahotyn district, Kyiv region was carried out in 1998-99. The levels of soil contamination of their residential areas with Cs, Sr and Pu were 74–477 kBq/m, 33–288 kBq/mand 1.5-10.0 kBq/m, respectively for the former, and 1.9–5.8 kBq/m, 0.6–2.8 kBq/m and 0.01-0.05 kBq/m, re...

The term high-rate sedimentation used here refers to the use of shallow gravitational settlers with detention periods of not more than 15 min to achieve comparable or better settling efficiencies normally obtained in conventional rectangular settling tanks having detention periods of usually more than 2 hr. The settlers can be rectangular, circular, or any other convenient shape. They can be ei...

The grapsid crabs Chasmagnathus granulata and Cyrtograpsus angulatus are considered as key species within the benthic communities of estuaries and brackish coastal lagoons in the southwestern Atlantic region. In controlled laboratory experiments, we studied the intensity of interspecific predation as well as intraand intercohort cannibalism in setllers in relation to refuge Ž . availability, pr...

The adhesion of early settlers of dental plaque to the tooth surface has a role in the initiation of the development of dental plaque. The hydrophobic surface properties of the bacteria cell wall are indirectly responsible for the adhesion of the bacteria cell to the acquired pellicle on the tooth surfaces. In this study, the effect of aqueous extract of two plants (Psidium guajava and Piper be...