Bar-Ilan University

Sputtered NiCu Thin Films on Nickel Foam for Overall Electrochemical Water Splitting in Alkaline Media

Development of high‐performance and low‐cost electrocatalysts is essential for commercialization of alkaline water electrolysis. The fabrication of nickel‐copper (NiCu) thin films is reported with a Ni:Cu atomic ratio of 3:1, directly deposited onto nickel foam using sputtering....

Dissociating task, semantic, and response conflict in cognitive aging: evidence from a low-cognitive control Stroop paradigm

Abstract Cognitive aging is often associated with increased Stroop interference, but it remains unclear whether this reflects a broad decline in inhibitory control or selective impairments in specific conflict-resolution mechanisms. The present study examined age-related differen...

Photoinduced Plasmon‐Polariton Mediated Energy Storage

ABSTRACT Development of new means of remotely induced energy storage is important for varied applications, including minimization of energy loss and heat effects in computation devices, solar energy generation, and data transmission. Here, we demonstrate a new concept by which ph...

Devotion and Emotion: Moralized Joy in the Parma Hebrew Psalter

In the late thirteenth or early fourteenth century, Parma Psalter, a luxury, small format North Italian Hebrew codex, the depiction accompanying Psalm 149 features a strikingly rare scene: a tightly consolidated Jewish choir led by a gesticulating choirmaster. While previous scho...

Evidential practices in interaction: transforming perception into corroborative evidence

This study explores the evidential use of the Hebrew particle hine in spoken interaction. Traditionally described as a presentative particle that directs attention to entities in the immediate speech situation, hine has recently been reanalyzed as more fundamentally marking a cha...

Beyond Word-Local ECC: A Bounded-Residual Certified Post-Failure Recovery Architecture for Clustered Upsets in Interleaved SRAM

Physical faults can cross error-correcting code (ECC) word boundaries even when static random-access memory (SRAM) protection remains word-local. This work proposes a bounded-residual certified post-failure recovery architecture for interleaved single-error-correcting, double-err...

Brain Gadolinium Biodistribution, Clearance, and Retention Following High-Dose Contrast-Agent Exposure in Mice: A Multimodal Study

We evaluated gadolinium biodistribution, clearance, and long-term brain retention following high-dose gadolinium-based contrast agent (GBCA) exposure in 90 mice. Macrocyclic and linear agents were assessed using particle-induced X-ray emission (PIXE) alongside complementary eleme...

Beyond the buzz: analyzing (re)politicization in higher education

Abstract In contemporary higher education studies, ‘politicization’ is frequently invoked when describing state-university tensions, yet the term often serves as a rhetorical device rather than an analytical tool. Drawing on scholarship in political science and sociology, we addr...

The EnPlace® Device for Advanced Apical Prolapse: Anatomical Outcomes and Long-Term Satisfaction

Background: Apical pelvic organ prolapse remains a considerable surgical challenge given its comparatively high recurrence rates. The EnPlace® device provides a mesh-free, minimally invasive option for sacrospinous ligament fixation (SSLF). This study evaluates the long-term safe...

PrimerDesigner: Designing Efficient Primers for Synthesizing Large Protein Libraries Without Cross-Hybridization

Efficient synthesis of large protein libraries is key to making high-throughput biochemistry scalable. Advances in DNA microarray technology now allow more than 170,000 designed oligonucleotides to be synthesized in a single array, dramatically reducing cost and enabling pooled a...

LED Photoactive Antibacterial Carbon Nanomaterial Surfaces

Carbon-based nanomaterials are potentially antimicrobial in water treatment, healthcare, and environmental applications. The antibacterial properties of various carbon nanomaterial surfaces have been investigated; however, studies including direct comparisons between carbon nanom...

Infectious morbidity and microbiological findings in early and late preterm prelabor rupture of membranes managed expectantly

OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to describe and compare maternal infectious morbidity, microbiological findings, and neonatal outcomes among pregnancies with early (<34 weeks) and late (34 + 0-36 + 6 weeks) prelabor rupture of membranes (PPROM) managed expectantly at a...

Experimental study of Kohn anomalies and phonon dispersion in graphene using Raman spectroscopy

The phenomenon of Kohn anomalies (KA) in graphene is characterized by a linear phonon dispersion law at the Γ and K points of the first Brillouin zone. Until now, experimental confirmation of the KA has been based on the observation of phonon softening during inelastic x-ray scat...

Between Documents and Literature: Narration in the Pre-modern Islamicate World. A Special Issue in Honour of Prof. Miriam Frenkel

This special issue is dedicated to Prof. Miriam Frenkel and is inspired by her trail-blazing work bridging the perceived gap between documentary and literary texts. Broadly speaking, documentary te...

When sparse aging telemetry misrepresents shared-rail safety: A hotspot-aware evaluation of monitor placement in systolic arrays

Sparse aging telemetry in a shared-rail systolic array must preserve the voltage decision set by the most demanding processing element (PE), not merely reconstruct local temperature or degradation. This paper presents an architecture-level framework that evaluates monitor placeme...

Child neglect from a legal perspective: A quantitative analysis of Israeli court judgments over half a century

BACKGROUND: Child neglect is a prevalent but complex and multifaceted form of maltreatment, with definitions that vary across legal and cultural contexts. Despite its well-documented harm, it remains underexamined in judicial decision-making. OBJECTIVE: This study examines how ch...

Heritage Speakers Telling Fictional Stories in Two Languages: Cross-Linguistic Differences in Macrostructure

PURPOSE: The article aimed to examine cross-linguistic differences in macrostructure abilities in the narratives of 5- to 6-year-old preschool children from diverse heritage language (HL) backgrounds who speak Hebrew as the societal language (SL). METHOD: = 20). Narratives were c...

Did Nationwide Mental Health Insurance Reform in Israel Increase Access to Community-Based Care?

Israel's nationwide mental health reform (July 1, 2015) transferred responsibility and funding for mental healthcare from the Ministry of Health to Israel's four Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs), aiming to improve access and availability, integrate mental health into gener...

AI-Mediated Mental Health Support: The Role of Attachment Orientation and Psychological Distress

General-purpose generative AI (GenAI) models are increasingly serving as quasi-social agents, representing a novel form of informal AI-mediated help-seeking. This study examined associations between adult attachment orientations (Experiences in Close Relationships-Relationship St...

Resistance of a Pump-Keyed Multi-Core Fiber Channel to Learning-Based Known-Plaintext Attacks: Identifiability Limits and Dimensional Scaling

Physical layer protection can complement conventional cryptography, but its contribution under repeated key use depends on whether an adversary can learn the channel’s input–output map. We evaluate a pump-keyed multi-core fiber (MCF) architecture in a physically parameterized sim...