Perspectives: University of Haifa Israel Studies

2D analysis of earthquake ground motion in Haifa Bay, Israel

We study the earthquake response of the Zevulun Valley basin, underlying northern Israel‘s largest urban area with two-dimensional viscoelastic seismic modeling of a detailed geological section. We found that amplification of the horizontal vibrations, the ratio of basin to no-basin response spectra, correlates with basin depth. In the deepest portion of the basin (Qishon graben) long periods (...

Hardware and Software: Verification and Testing, 4th International Haifa Verification Conference, HVC 2008, Haifa, Israel, October 27-30, 2008. Proceedings

University of Haifa Tail Conditional Expectations for Elliptical Distributions

Significant changes in the insurance and financial markets are giving increasing attention to the need for developing a standard framework for risk measurement. Recently, there has been growing interest among insurance and investment experts to focus on the use of a tail conditional expectation because it shares properties that are considered desireable and applicable in a variety of situations...

The Open University of Israel

The density of a graph G = (V,E) with edge capacities {c(e) : e ∈ E} is c(E)/|V |. Finding dense components in graphs is a major topic in graph theory algorithms. The most basic problem is the Densest Subgraph problem, that seeks a subgraph of maximum density. This problem can be solved in polynomial time, and we will give a systematic description of several polynomial time algorithms for this ...

Prevalence of respiratory conditions among schoolchildren exposed to different levels of air pollutants in the Haifa Bay area, Israel.

During spring 1984, 2334 second and 2000 fifth-grade schoolchildren living in three Haifa Bay areas on the eastern Mediterranean coast with different levels of air pollution were studied. The parents of these children filled out American Thoracic Society and National Heart and Lung Institute health questionnaires, and the children performed the following pulmonary function tests (PFT); FVC, FEV...