Ariel University

Glycemic risk stratification in older adults with heart failure: the prognostic role of HbA1c in an aging society

Glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) is central to diabetes mellitus (DM) management, but its prognostic value in older adults, aged ≥80 years, with heart failure (HF) remains uncertain. Thus, the study aimed to evaluate the association between HbA1c levels and all-cause mortality among...

Political polarisation and democratic backsliding: Moldova’s Paradox

Moldova has been prone to socio-political polarisation due to historical, ethno-linguistic, and geopolitical factors. However, portraying modern Moldova as being torn between the West and the East oversimplifies the case. In Moldova, socio-political polarisation is indeed on the...

Lytic bone lesions in a patient diagnosed with breast cancer – Sarcoidosis

Abstract Sarcoidosis is an inflammatory disease of unknown cause with protean manifestations and presentations which may affect almost any organ. Involvement of intra-thoracic organs (lungs, lymph nodes), reticuloendothelial system, skin, and eyes is predominant. The histological...

Advocacy and Representation Claims in Social Media Campaigns

Social media has become a central arena for civic activism, yet relatively little attention has been paid to the specific claims activists make to justify their actions and legitimize their public role. This study distinguishes between two complementary forms of claim-making in d...

Asymmetric Dishonesty in Markets: A Field Experiment on Male Sellers and Buyer Gender

ABSTRACT Dishonest behavior is a pervasive phenomenon that imposes substantial economic and social costs on society. While the literature extensively documents gender differences in who lies, far less attention has been paid to whether sellers discriminate in their dishonesty bas...

Higher-order local constraints from reciprocal symmetry and entanglement entropy of charged-particle multiplicity distributions in pp collisions

Abstract The KNO-violating term $$f_s$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:msub> <mml:mi>f</mml:mi> <mml:mi>s</mml:mi> </mml:msub> </mml:math> of the charged-particle multiplicity distribution in pp collisions measures the relative deviation of $$\lang...

Potential reverse spin bias of cannabinoids versus pharmaceutical analgesics for pain treatment: a systematic review based critical interpretive synthesis of meta-analyses

Cannabinoid-based medicines and conventional pharmaceutical analgesics often demonstrate similarly modest analgesic effects in randomized controlled trials (RCTs), yet meta-analyses of these treatment classes frequently reach different interpretive conclusions. We examined whethe...