This article re-examines Jewish population in what is now Israel using historical estimates from Ottoman, Mandatory British and United Nations sources recent data the Israeli census bureau. A logistic model generates backward extrapolations forward projections. The quantifies three waves of immigration totalling about 3.5 million. Subtracting immigrant total numbers gives main empirical traject...

this study reports the length-weight relationship (lwr), fulton's condition factor ( k ), and sex ratio of the non-native catfish hoplosternum littorale (hancock, 1828) in florida for the first time. sampling was conducted from november 2013 to april 2014 in tosohatchee wildlife management area in christmas, florida. a total of 477 specimens were caught (6.4-13.5 cm tl). the allometric coeffici...

The purpose of this study is to offer a multi-disciplinary framework to examine the continuing digital participation divide and within-group use variance among millennials. We focus on millennials due to the size of their population segment. We further critically examine assumptions of homogeneous adoption of emerging Information and communication technologies (ICTs) among “digital natives.” We...

Tree Substitution Grammar rules form a large and expressive class of features capable of representing syntactic and lexical patterns that provide evidence of an author’s native language. However, this class of features can be applied to any general constituent based model of grammar and previous work has done little to explore these options, relying primarily on the common Penn Treebank annotat...

In this paper we investigate how teaching programming to the modern generation of students, “digital natives” who grew up with Google and Facebook and do not know the world before the Internet, can be improved through a highly visual game-like approach. Many programming teachers report that modern programming students have short attention span, lack concentration and have poor motivation to lea...

INTRODUCTION    Stent implantation has become the treatment of choice for native aortic coarctation (CoA) and postsurgical aortic recoarctation (reCoA) in adults and adolescents. OBJECTIVES    This study aimed to compare the immediate and long‑term outcomes of patients with native CoA and postsurgical reCoA who underwent stent implantation in our center. PATIENTS AND METHODS    The data of 136 ...

-Large-scale assessments are useful tools for identifying population status of trout and other species throughout their ranges. We reviewed published and unpublished assessments for 15 native inland trout species in the United States to (1) evaluate common elements; (2) estimate lost habitat for native trout and (3) identify effective approaches or actions taken after completion of assessments ...

The genetic and demographic impact of European contact with Native Americans has remained unclear despite recent interest. Whereas archeological and historical records indicate that European contact resulted in widespread mortality from various sources, genetic studies have found little evidence of a recent contraction in Native American population size. In this study we use a large dataset inc...

In the years before English settlers established the Plymouth colony (1616-1619), most Native Americans living on the southeastern coast of present-day Massachusetts died from a mysterious disease. Classic explanations have included yellow fever, smallpox, and plague. Chickenpox and trichinosis are among more recent proposals. We suggest an additional candidate: leptospirosis complicated by Wei...

Eradication and population reductions are often used to mitigate the negative impacts of non-native invasive species on native biodiversity. However, monitoring the effectiveness of non-native species control programmes is necessary to evaluate the efficacy of these measures. Genetic monitoring could provide valuable insights into temporal changes in demographic, ecological, and evolutionary pr...