The nuclear arms control regime—centered on the 1968 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT)—faces five challenges: failure of nuclear disarmament by the five NPT-licit nuclear powers (China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States); possible cheating by non-nuclear signatories like North Korea and Iran; India, Israel, and Pakistan remaining outside the NPT; terrorists’ interest ...

M. Chertkov,1 G. Falkovich,2 and I. Kolokolov3 1Physics Department, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544 2Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey and Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel 3Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia (Received 3 September 1997) The probability density function (PDF) of passive scalar dissipation P sed is found analytica...

precipitation regime refers to distribution of seasonal- monthly precipitation. by studying this character, it could be find out about the most important parts of mechanism(s) dominant in temporal distribution of precipitation. precipitation regime can have positive or negative effects on other environmental components performance. in the present research, the monthly data in 73 stations during...

In the state of Israel wastewater management (WWM), the legal responsibility of municipalities, was neglected for decades, resulting in pollution of the scarce water resources and the environment. This trend was reversed during the 1990s. This paper analyses the evolution process of the national WWM regime and its effect on WWM at the municipal level, and explains the paradigm shift. It is foun...

Inflation targeting is gaining popularity as a framework for conducting monetary policy. At the same time many countries employ some sort of foreign exchange intervention policy assuming that these two policies can coexist. This paper attempts to show that both policies are not sustainable. Israel is a classic test case. We test our hypothesis using information from the financial markets. The r...

A few results generalizing well-known classical model theory ones have been obtained in the framework of institutions these last two decades (e.g. Craig interpolation, ultraproduct, elementary diagrams). In this paper, we propose a generalized institutionindependent version of the Beth definability theorem.

the purpose of this research is to examine the effect of the islamic awakening in the arabic countries of the middle east and north africa on israeli ontological security and, it's strategy ofclosure and deviationin the regional level. in other words, after occurrence of the developments, the ontological security and identity of israel faced with what challenges? this research argues that ...

The paper studies evolution of different aspects in Iran–Israeli relations the Syrian crisis. Basic developments Iran Israeli confrontations and analysis its specific are retrospectively shown. author examines key internal external factors, influencing nature conflict character development. argues that regional international environment determined more than religious cultural differences two na...

Lack of substantial occupational therapy research is a recognized and persistent problem; which is often discussed throughout the literature but not truly addressed. Action must be taken to involve clinicians in the effort to substantiate the efficacy of treatments through outcome studies. We offered several proactive recommendations that could be implemented on a national level to encourage he...