For the past two millennia the Holy Land was under the yoke of successive invaders and oppressors, not a fertile ground for growth of historiographic traditions. Consequently, earthquake cataloguers had to rely largely on chronicles and texts written at distant administrative and cultural centers of the day, where earthquake destruction suffered by a culturally and economically depressed provin...

Terrestrial runoff and river input dominates urban pollutant loading rates Often draining directly into the surfzone, this pollution degrades surfzone water quality, leading to beach closures (e.g., Boehm et al., 2002), increases health risks (e.g., diarrhea and upper respiratory illness) (Haile et al., 1999), and contains both human viruses (Jiang and Chu, 2004) and elevated levels of fecal in...

We study learning algorithms that are restricted to using a small amount of information from their input sample. We introduce a category of learning algorithms we term d-bit information learners, which are algorithms whose output conveys at most d bits of information of their input. A central theme in this work is that such algorithms generalize. We focus on the learning capacity of these algor...

nucleus of Parkinsonian patients 2 Marc Deffains , Peter Holland , Shay Moshel , Fernando Ramirez de Noriega , 3 Hagai Bergman 1,2 & Zvi Israel 5 4 1 Department of Medical Neurobiology, The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical 5 School, Jerusalem, 91120, Israel 6 2 The Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences, The Hebrew University, 7 Jerusalem, 91904, Israel 8 3 Alpha Omega Engineering Lt...

Anticholinergic drugs are used widely in the treatment of peptic ulcer, though their value is disputed. The ideal preparation should be long-acting, and should reduce gastric acid secretion throughout both day and night without causing side effects. Short-acting preparations were shown to inhibit gastric secretion only in doses which produced side effects (Sun and Shay, 1955). Different conclus...

We recently described the boundary-like expression pattern of the extracellular matrix molecule tenascin-C (Tnc) in the developing mouse olfactory bulb (OB) (Shay et al., 2008). In the present study, we test the hypothesis that Tnc inhibits olfactory sensory neuron (OSN) axon growth in the developing OB before glomerulogenesis. The period of time before glomerular formation begins, when axons r...