The microRNA (miRNA) pathway is well established to be involved in host-pathogen interactions. As key insect pollinators, bees are suffering from widely spreading viruses, especially honeybees and bumblebees. In order to better understand bee-virus interaction, we comparatively analyzed the involvement of the bumblebee miRNA pathway upon infection by two different viruses. In our setup, an avir...

O of the most fundamental assumptions held by applied anthropologists is the view that the anthropological perspective can be fruitfully applied in any human endeavor. As stated by P. Higgins and A. Paredes in their introductory notes to Classics of Practicing Anthropology 1978-1998 (Society for Applied Anthropology, 2000), this has been the underlying philosophy of Practicing Anthropology sinc...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To examine relationships between oncology nurses' attitudes toward death and caring for dying patients. DESIGN Cross-sectional, descriptive, and correlational. SETTING Israeli Oncology Nurses Society annual conference in June 2006. SAMPLE A convenience sample of 147 Israeli nurses who were exposed to death in their daily work. Most worked in oncology departments and wer...

A health survey was carried out among 8259 second- and fifth-grade schoolchildren living in three towns along the Israeli coast. The schoolchildren performed the following pulmonary function tests: forced vital capacity, forced expiratory volume in 1 sec, and peak expiratory flow, their parents filled out an American Thoracic Society-National Heart and Lung Institute health questionnaire. The a...

OBJECTIVE Since its foundation in 1948, Israel has received large waves of immigrants, mainly from Europe (Ashkenazic Jews, or Ashkenazim) and from North Africa and other Middle Eastern countries (Sephardic Jews. or Sephardim). In Israeli society, Ashkenazic Jews are an advantaged ethnic group, whereas Sephardic Jews are relatively disadvantaged. Little is known about the differences in drinkin...

The Israel Journal of Health Policy Research (IJHPR) will soon be completing its fifth year of publication. In the 5 years since the IJHPR's launch in January 2012, it has published over 250 articles, achieved an impact factor of 1.35, and secured a place in many of the leading journal databases including, most recently, Medline. The IJHPR's annual rate of submissions continues to increase, wit...

In the past two years, against backdrop of Covid-19 epidemic, civil disobedience has been on rise in Israeli society. While preserves boundaries discourse and democracy, it also poses a real danger to existence Attitudes toward reflect core values particular culture. Thus, attitudes obedience or society must be examined with respect religious roots Jewish This article examines towards issue for...

The longstanding occupation, military operations, and siege have left their imprint on all aspects of life in Gaza including the family as core unit society. This article analyses impact Israeli practices structure Palestinian found Writes Back: Short Stories from Young Writers Gaza, Palestine. More specifically, paper argues that although various forms aggression harsh humanitarian conditions ...

1. Zhu Y, Fournier PE, Eremeeva M, Raoult D. Proposal to create subspecies of Rickettsia conorii based on multi-locus sequence typing and an emended description of Rickettsia conorii. BMC Microbiol. 2005;5:11. 2. Fournier PE, Dumler JS, Greub G, Zhang J, Wu Y, Raoult D. Gene sequence-based criteria for identifi cation of new Rickettsia isolates and description of Rickettsia heilongjiangensis sp...

This paper examines discriminatory attitudes of Israeli Jews towards non-Jewish immigrants admitted into Israel under the Law Return. We looked at three spheres discrimination: admission, political rights, and welfare rights focused on role realistic socioeconomic symbolic threats in emergence attitudes. used a mixed-methods approach that allowed to test our hypotheses among representative samp...