Zohar, whose name in Hebrew means “illumination,” was born in early 1939 c.e. and grew up in Haifa, Israel. This volume is offered in tribute to Zohar – and in celebration of his 64th birthday. Two academic symposia were held to mark this event: a one-day symposium, held in Tel Aviv, Israel on May 16, 2003, and a week-long symposium, held in Taormina, Sicily, from June 29 to July 4, which gave ...

BACKGROUND The study aimed to compare purgative anorexia and bulimia nervosa patients in regard of their level of aggression and impulsivity traits, as well as dynamics of selected impulsive behaviours over time-course of eating disorder treatment. SUBJECTS AND METHODS 30 females with purgative anorexia nervosa, 33 females with purgative bulimia nervosa and 31 controls were included. Impulsiv...

Rhubarb is commonly used to treat constipation in China and anthraquinones (AQs) are the active components present in rhubarb. However, an increasing number of studies have reported that AQs induce nephrotoxicity. In the present study, rhubarb total free anthraquinones (RTFA) oral colon-specific drug delivery granules (RTFA-OCDD-GN) were prepared to determine whether RTFA-OCDD-GN could reduce t...

The paper presents the experiences made with the design and implementation of the PEACE message-passing kernel. PEACE is the object-oriented parallel operating system developed for the MANNA parallel computer. MANNA is a dual-processor-node distributed-memory machine using crossbar technology for node interconnection. Performance figures of the PEACE kernel configurations are presented and thei...

o undertaking, however vast, has ever surpassed my courage, " professed Peter Paul Rubens, whose work comprised cathedral domes and altarpieces, portraits , landscapes, and designs for sculpture and architecture. Courage also drove his exuberant style of fl amboyant color and movement. " That Homer of painting, the father of warmth and enthusiasm in art, " said of him Eugene Delacroix, eclipsed...

We study an inhomogeneous sandpile model in which two different toppling rules are defined. For any site only one rule is applied corresponding to either the Bak, Tang, and Wiesenfeld model [P. Bak, C. Tang, and K. Wiesenfeld, Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 381 (1987)] or the Manna two-state sandpile model [S. S. Manna, J. Phys. A 24, L363 (1991)]. A parameter c is introduced which describes a density of...