As scholars in Caribbean Studies struggle to deconstruct the complicated cultural history of colonialism, visual representations — such as painted imagery, sketches, photographs and lithographs, often accompanied by “word imagery” (i.e. elaborate word descriptions that are meant to stand in for the image) — are increasingly recognised as valid and unique sites that challenge the story of Wester...

BACKGROUND The Council for Higher Education in Israel published an extensive report in 2007, calling for a significant increase of undergraduate medical education in Israel in ambulatory care settings. The objective of this article is to propose an action plan aimed at shifting undergraduate medical education in Israel towards ambulatory education. CONTEXT The main barriers to increasing ambu...

We consider the following activation process in undirected graphs: a vertex is active either if it belongs to a set of initially activated vertices or if at some point it has at least 2 active neighbors. A contagious set is a set whose activation results with the entire graph being active. Given a graph G, let m(G, 2) be the minimal size of a contagious set. We consider the binomial random grap...

1 The Laboratory for Molecular Epidemiology and Antibiotic Research, Division of Epidemiology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center affiliated to the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel. 2 Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, Ha'Emek Medical Center, Afula, Israel 3 Department of Cinical Microbiology and Immunology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Av...

Roi Baer, Daniel Neuhauser, Petra R. Ždánská, and Nimrod Moiseyev Institute of Chemistry and the Lise Meitner Center for Quantum Chemistry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90025, USA Department of Chemistry, Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Isra...

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Mayo Medical School, and Consultant, Division of Executive and International Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA; and Editor-in-Chief, Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal and Director of the Department of Neonatology and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel, and the Ruth & Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Israe...

Vladimir Sorin1,*, Aya Mizrahi2, Patricia Ohana2, Suhail Ayesh2, Tatiana Birman2, Abraham Hochberg2, Abraham Czerniak1 Department of Surgery “A”, E.Wolfson Medical Center, Holon, Israel Department of Biological Chemistry, Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel __________________________________________________________________________________ *Correspon...