Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Management of Acute Periodontal Conditions—The EFP S2k Level Clinical Practice Guideline

BACKGROUND: The European Federation of Periodontology (EFP) has developed Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) for the treatment of periodontitis and for the management of peri-implant diseases. In accordance with the 2018 Classification, acute periodontal conditions are character...

Measurement Invariance of the Brief State Rumination Inventory Across Administration Methods, National Samples, and Sex

State rumination is a temporary activation of repetitive, negative, self-focused thinking in response to specific situational triggers or mood states. We present the results of two studies that examined the psychometric properties and measurement invariance of the Italian version...

Capital taxation, income shifting and retained earnings: evidence from dividend tax reforms

Abstract In this paper, we analyse the effects of dividend tax reforms on tax revenues, income shifting and earnings retention. We examine two significant policy changes in Israel during the 2010s. Using administrative tax records, we study a permanent increase of 5 percentage po...

Tonabersat Blocks Gap Junctions and Alleviates Thermal Pain Behavior in Mice

Gap junctions (GJs) are channels that enable exchange of ions and small molecules between cells, and have been implicated in the development and maintenance of neuropathic pain. Injury-induced glial activation in sensory ganglia is associated with increased coupling by GJs, which...

The Association Between IgA Nephropathy and Uveitis Using Clinical Setting Data

PURPOSE: To evaluate the association between IgA nephropathy (IgAN) and the incidence of uveitis. METHODS: Using a multicenter global research network, adult patients with IgA nephropathy (IgAN) were compared to a control cohort of patients diagnosed with nephrosclerosis followin...

Legacy-oriented communication in routine spiritual care and nurse practitioner notes in long-term care: a qualitative document analysis

Legacy-oriented communication can preserve meaning, dignity, identity, and relational continuity near the end of life, but little is known about how it is recorded in routine clinical documentation. This study examined legacy-oriented communication in spiritual care and nurse pra...

Unimodality for Radon Partitions of Random Vectors

Abstract Consider the (almost surely) unique Radon partition of a set of n random Gaussian vectors in $$\mathbb {R}^{n-2}$$ R n - 2 ; choose one of the two parts of this partition uniformly at random, and for $$0 \le k \le n$$ 0 ≤ k ≤ n , let $$ p_k $$ p k denote the probability...

Small clusters of $$^4$$He atoms in finite-cutoff effective field theory

Small clusters of \(^4\) He atoms are benchmark systems for universal few-body physics near the unitary limit. We study these systems using a finite-cutoff effective field theory calibrated to low-energy observables from the realistic LM2M2 potential. The chosen two-body cutoff r...

Radon-induced backgrounds in the NEXT-100 experiment

A bstract The NEXT-100 detector at the LSC aims at the first competitive search for the 0 νββ decay using a high-pressure 136 Xe electroluminescent time projection chamber. The first low-background run of NEXT-100 at 3.95 bar has been devoted to the measurement of the radon-induc...

From Rapid Progression to Long-Lasting Complete Response: A Wide Range of Ripretinib Activity for Metastatic GIST—A Real-World Cohort

Background: Ripretinib, a switch-control kinase inhibitor approved for advanced gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST), inhibits primary and secondary KIT and PDGFRA mutations. Real-world data from Western and Middle Eastern populations remain limited. We report outcomes from a mo...

Robotic assisted spinopelvic fixation for complex pelvic and spinopelvic fractures: our experience and surgical technique

Complex pelvic and spinopelvic injuries present significant surgical challenges, often requiring intricate reduction and stabilization. Minimally invasive techniques reduce soft-tissue complications but are technically demanding. This study evaluates the safety, feasibility, and...

Why some cities feel inclusive: The city ethos model of institutions and population-rootedness in European cities

How do cities sustain inclusive coexistence under conditions of diversity and demographic mobility? This article shifts the analytical focus to city-level inclusiveness, understood as a property of the city’s institutional-normative order rather than of interpersonal relations. B...

A Storage Process with Alternating Lévy Input

In this paper, we study a queueing process for which the dynamics are changed once the workload in the queue exceeds a predefined threshold, and these new dynamics stay in force until the queue is emptied, at which point the previous dynamics are again reinstalled. For general sp...

Formalizing Multi-graded Brenner–Schröer Proj Schemes and Dilatations of Rings in Lean4

Abstract We present a formalization in Lean4 of some multi-graded algebraic geometry constructions, focusing on the Brenner–Schröer Proj construction and algebraic dilatations of rings. Multi-graded Proj schemes, defined from rings graded by more general monoids than $$\mathbb {N...

Jewish Thought as an Educational Project: Implications for Research

The field of Jewish thought seeks recognition as a distinct discipline: What is Jewish about “Jewish thought”—its language, canon, contents, or historical affiliations? A prevalent scholarly paradigm presents Jewish thought as arising from an ongoing “encounter” between Jewish el...

Psychological, social, and ethical implications of population-based genetic testing among adults: a systematic scoping review protocol with a focus on cancer

The standard clinical genetic testing model for hereditary cancers applies stringent eligibility criteria and consistently misses large numbers of at-risk cancer-susceptibility-gene (CSG) carriers in the general population, leading to missed opportunities for cancer screening/pre...

Towards a deep-learning genomic tool for risk stratification and diagnostic support in sporadic ALS

Abstract Background A variety of common and rare genetic factors have been implicated in the development of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and the evidence is that a genetic component is present in most affected individuals. However, our current understanding of ALS genetic...

IgG4-related endobronchial lung disease and HIV: a case report and review of the literature

Immunoglobulin G4-related disease (IgG4-RD) is a systemic inflammatory disorder which typically presents as multiorgan infiltration by polyclonal IgG4-positive plasma cells and responds well to immunosuppression such as systemic corticosteroids. The co-occurrence of IgG4-RD among...

Gestational diabetes in multifetal versus singleton pregnancies: A multicenter cohort study

Abstract Introduction Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is associated with increased neonatal morbidity in singleton pregnancies, but evidence in multifetal pregnancies is limited. Current diagnostic thresholds are largely extrapolated from singleton data; It remains unclear wh...

Unconventional Materials for Light Dark Matter Detection

We propose the use of several unconventional materials as detectors for dark matter with mass beneath the MeV scale. These include the transition-metal dichalcogenide TiSe 2 hosting a low-energy plasmon in the charge-density-wave phase, Sr 2 RuO 4 containing a low-energy acoustic...