Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

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...

Judges, Soldiers, and Executioners: How Punishment (de)Legitimizes Violence

Abstract This article explores the complex and often contradictory ways in which framings of violence as punishment or as war can serve to legitimize or de-legitimize lethal violence. It analyzes how in different contexts, the attributes of modern state punishment – sanctions tar...

Kinetic simulation of the glow curve and isothermal decay in the thermoluminescence of LiF:Mg,Ti: the spatially correlated trapping center/luminescent center model

The spatially correlated trapping center/luminescent center (TC/LC) kinetic model is used to simulate the relative intensities of glow peaks 4, 5a, 5 and 5b in the thermoluminescence (TL) of LiF:Mg,Ti as well as their isothermal decay from 0 to 900 s at 160 °C. The results show t...

Occupational Therapy in High-Stress Environments: Exploring Cognitive and Emotional Job Demands

Date presented: April 24, 2026 Primary Author and Speaker: Janet Njelesani, janet.njelesani@nyu.edu

Reconfigurable ADAMS Modeling of Localized Bearing Defects: Validation and the Role of Modeling Choices in Dynamic Response

Localized defects in rolling-element bearings produce vibration responses governed by contact events, load transmission, defect geometry, and system dynamics. To examine these mechanisms in a controlled and reconfigurable setting, this paper presents an MSC ADAMS framework for lo...

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...

Integrating smartrock and seismic monitoring to investigate bedload transport dynamics during rapid increase of stages in ephemeral streams

Abstract. Bedload transport dynamics during rapid increases of stage remain poorly constrained, particularly in ephemeral streams where such conditions are common. We combined two cutting-edge monitoring techniques – smartrocks and seismic measurements – to investigate bedload tr...

From Isolated to Complex: Diagnostic Yield of Chromosomal Microarray and Exome Sequencing in Fetal Growth Restriction

ABSTRACT Objective To characterize the overall diagnostic yield of sequential chromosomal microarray (CMA) and exome sequencing (ES) across the phenotypic spectrum of fetal growth restriction (FGR). Methods A retrospective cohort of 320 consecutive FGR pregnancies presenting at ≥...

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...

The Poet as Entrepreneur: The Case of David Avidan

David Avidan (1934–95, Tel Aviv) was a revolutionary shapeshifter throughout his poetic career. As early as the 1950s, while his Hebrew contemporaries were publishing postsymbolist poetry, Avidan’s work already embodied the desire to produce poetry that would be read and consumed...

The Archive: Literary Perspectives on the Intersections between History and Fiction Introduction

The new issue of Dibur Literary Journal includes contributions from Julia Kristeva, Michal Ben-Naftali, Yotam Popliker, Marie-Pierre Ulloa, Jean-Michel Frodon, Eli Friedlander, Dina Stein, Keren Mock and the author Yael Neeman. "By looking at the relationships between art and arc...

Homophony in Multilingual Jewish Cultures

One of the distinctive features of multilingual Jewish cultures is the interpretation of a sacred Hebrew signifier by its phonic identity or proximity to a signifier in another language. This essay demonstrates the cultural creativity that might inhere in such “mistakes,” providi...

“The Need to Be Recorded”: Gabriel Preil’s Archival Prosthesis in the American Diaspora

“A poetics of the archive” has been preliminarily defined by critics as a poetics of re-collection and re-membering, a poetics in which the so-called proofs are subject to re-vision. The aim of this essay is to elaborate this definition and to argue, referring to Derrida’s concep...

Made in the Pauper’s Image: Theology and Economy in Modern Jewish Literature

The article examines the relations between economic thought and Jewishtheological discourse in modern Jewish literature in Yiddish and Hebrew from the late nineteenth century through the 1930s. Treating capitalism and Jewish theology as two parallel orders of representation, the...

A Legacy of Defeat: Ya’acov Bitton against Poetic Currency

My essay sheds light on current Israeli poetry that seeks to negate, resist, and avoid the currency of “poetic currency,” in three main senses: a poetry that refuses to serve as a valuable element of exchange, resists the current streams of Israeli culture, and avoids being a val...

The mitochondrial chaperone HSPD1 folds MTHFD2 independently of its co-chaperone HSPE1

Acquiring new cellular states entails metabolic reprogramming driven by changes in the expression of cytosolic and mitochondrial metabolic enzymes. Most mitochondrial proteins are synthesized in the cytosol and imported into the mitochondria in a linear form, after which they are...

The burden of blast injuries on a level i trauma center: a comparative analysis of blast versus blunt trauma

PURPOSE: We hypothesized that blast trauma results in a greater institutional resource burden than blunt trauma. METHODS: This retrospective study compared blast trauma patients (N = 321) to blunt trauma patients (N = 9,172). A Propensity Score Matching (PSM) on Age, Sex and Inju...

Filipino migrant workers navigating war online: Digital performative citizenship and the construction of belonging during the Israel–Hamas war

Research on migrant workers’ use of social media has largely focused on everyday contexts. Little attention has been given to their practices during major crises in their host countries where they lack citizenship. This study examines how Filipino live-in caregivers in Israel use...

Motherhood under moral rupture: Negotiating maternal legitimacy after an accidental child death under maternal care

This qualitative study examines how mothers negotiate maternal identity following the accidental death of a child under their care with perceived and/or attributed maternal responsibility. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 18 mothers who experienced such loss, the findings conc...

Light Reliable Spanners

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