The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which patterns of response of typical children aged 3 to 10 in Israel, as reported in the Sensory Profile (Dunn, 1999), were similar to typical children in the United States. The Sensory Profile is a caregiver questionnaire designed to assess sensory processing abilities. A translated Hebrew version of the Sensory Profile was completed by p...

Since the establishment of Israel sex differentials in life expectancy at birth exhibited by Israeli Jews have been very low in comparison to other developed countries as a result of relatively high male and relatively low female life expectancy. To advance understanding of this phenomenon this paper explores cause-specific contributions to the difference in life expectancy between Israeli Jews...

We present a holographic treatment of Chern-Simons (CS) gravity theories in odd dimensions. We construct the associated holographic stress tensor and calculate the Weyl anomalies of the dual CFT. April 2004 ∗ Partially supported by GIF, the German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research, Minerva Foundation, the Center for Basic Interactions of the Israeli Academy of Sciences and the Einstein...

Purpose: To investigate the possible roles of season of birth and perinatal duration of dayligh (photoperiod) in the development of myopia. Design: Retrospective, population-based, epidemiological study. Participants: A total of 276 911 adolescents (157 663 male, 119 248 female) 16 to 22 years old Israeli-born conscripts to the Israeli Defense Forces who were examined during the 5-year period 200

the us-israeli relationship is regarded as one of the strongest relations between two states in the contemporary world. for a number of cultural, strategic, and political reasons, the us strongly supports the zionist regime. on the other hand, the role of the strong, influential israeli lobby in the us has yet been another significant factor for the close relations between the two countries wit...

The Israeli network converted to using a Metropolitan Area Network back in February 1994. This MAN network provides coverage over 250 kilometers and 3 major cities in Israel. The seven Israeli universities use Ethernet ports to the MAN running at 10 Mbit/s. This paper describes the lessons learned from running such a nationwide Ethernet netwo::k.

Abstract:This study intends to review Israel's efforts to increase political and economic relations with Arab countries. It is clear that most Arab countries did not have any ties with Israel since the 1980s, and only two Egyptian states had established political relations with Israel since the 1973 war. But over the past few years, and especially after the start of the third millennium, ...

The 1993 and 1995 Oslo accords resulted in the classification of the West Bank into three zones, referred to as Areas A, B and C. Area A is under Palestinian civil and security authority; Area B is under the Palestinian Authority while security responsibilities are shared by both the Israeli and the Palestinian authorities. Area C which comprises around 60 percent of the West Bank is under Isra...

[l] We use the term, trio, because most reports late in 1987 were about the Pakistani/Brain, the Lehigh and the Hebrew University viruses. Actually the Hebrew University wrus was not a single virus but consisted of several very s~rmlar viruses. was a boot sector infector. The Lehigh virus and the Israeli viruses infected executable code. The former attached itself only to COMMAND.COM; the Israe...