Tel Aviv University

Improved Outcomes and Low Rate of Medical Discharge at a Minimum 10‐Year Follow‐Up After Arthroscopic Bankart Repair With Remplissage for “Off‐Track” Engaging Hill‐Sachs Lesions With Subcritical Glenoid Bone Loss in Active‐Duty Servicemembers

Purpose To evaluate long‐term outcomes after arthroscopic Bankart repair with remplissage among active‐duty servicemembers under 45 years old with engaging Hill‐Sachs lesions (HSLs) and subcritical glenoid bone loss (GBL). Methods A retrospective review of prospectively collected...

AI-Guided De Novo Design Pipeline for Oral, Gut-Active Peptides That Stimulate GLP-1 Secretion and Promote Weight Loss in Diet-Induced Obese Rats

Abstract Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists have transformed obesity treatment, yet gastrointestinal intolerance, high cost and weight regain after discontinuation highlight the need for complementary strategies. Stimulating endogenous GLP-1 via nutrient-sensing G...

Relative height and vertical status in buildings

Abstract Motivated by research that associates higher positioning with well‐being, we expand the vertical price‐gradient literature by estimating the value of within‐ and between‐building “vertical status”: one's relative vertical position compared to others in the same building...

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...

Alzheimer’s disease neuropathological characterization of the dog brain and relationship to biofluid biomarkers and cognitive function

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder affecting more than 55 million people worldwide and is characterized by cognitive decline, amyloid-beta (Aβ) plaques, and neurofibrillary tangles. Although transgenic rodent models have advanced understanding of...

When the Challenge of Organizational Growth Becomes the Problem: Lessons from a Lean Transformation

When a specialized manufacturer experienced rapid growth, the surge caused rework to increase and delivery performance to slip. This account reveals how the company reversed its operational decline by resisting a purely technological fix and instead sequencing culture before capa...

Chemotherapy for Spinal Cord Intramedullary Pediatric Low‐Grade Glioma—A Systematic Literature Review

Pediatric intramedullary low-grade gliomas (PIMLGGs) are rare neoplasms that present unique clinical and management challenges. Although surgery remains the primary tool for tissue diagnosis and decompression, complete gross-total resection is frequently unfeasible due to the inf...

Respiratory morbidity at age 4 across COVID-19 and pre-pandemic birth cohorts: the role of atopic risk

The COVID-19 pandemic dramatically reduced early-life respiratory viral exposures, yet the long-term respiratory consequences for pandemic-born children remain unclear. We aimed to compare respiratory morbidity at age 4 between children born during versus before the pandemic and...

A Research Institute in Mandatory Palestine: The Roots of the Weizmann Institute of Science in the Daniel Sieff Research Institute, 1934–1944

This article examines the search for an appropriate managerial structure at the Daniel Sieff Research Institute in Mandatory Palestine between 1934 and 1944. It argues that two competing managerial models – a centralistic model rooted in the German research university tradition a...

Aridity regulates scale-dependent effects of multiple resource additions on productivity stability in Eurasian grasslands

Increasing the supply of multiple limiting resources generally reduces biodiversity and community stability in grasslands. Aridity is known to modify biodiversity-stability relationships, yet it remains unclear whether the effects of multiple resource supply on biodiversity and s...

Preoperative glycemic control and outcomes following metabolic and bariatric surgery in patients with type 2 diabetes

Abstract Background Metabolic and bariatric surgery (MBS) is an effective treatment for patients with obesity and type 2 diabetes (T2D). Preoperative T2D severity may influence perioperative safety and T2D outcomes after MBS. Methods A retrospective analysis of a single-center da...

Upcoming novel treatments for hidradenitis suppurativa: An overview of the pipeline

Abstract Recent developments in hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) have focused on targeting key inflammatory pathways implicated in the pathogenesis of the disease, including interleukin (IL)‐17, IL‐1, tumour necrosis factor (TNF), Janus kinase (JAK) and tyrosine kinase 2 (TYK2) sign...

A Sense of No Ending, Part 1 Never Grow Up: Narrative Formlessness and Ideological Stasis in YA Fantastic Fiction

Narrative gives meaning to the passage of time by organizing it into a structured whole. The Western structure of temporality traditionally implied teleology, or what Frank Kermode called “a sense of ending.” For the last two thousand years, narratives of the future employed two...

The Jewish December 1910; or, The Parting of Ways of Eretz Yisraeli Prose and Hebrew Modernism

The date in the article’s title hints at Virginia Woolf ’s famous assertion that in this month “the human character had changed,” a change that, according to Woolf, altered the forms of literary representation of subjective experience and marked the rise of twentieth-century mode...

Others’ Time, Time as the Other: Sami Berdugo and the Time of Immigration

Sami Berdugo’s poetics exposes a unique concept of time. It is a time that can be described as rhizomatic. Unlike space, time can be described as rhizomatic not merely in terms of its divergence into multiple paths but also in terms of being arrested, floating with no apparent pr...

Lagersprache: Primo Levi and the Language of Survival

The article examines survival and its place as a form of language dominating life in the camp in Primo Levi’s account. Such a focus on the nature of survival as a mechanism of the camp reveals the disintegration of the friend/enemy distinction and opens ambivalent ground between...

The Deleted Archive: Revisiting Alice Munro, Amnon Shamosh, Annie Ernaux and Yehoshua Kenaz

The essay develops the notion of “the deleted archive” on the basis of Derrida’s Archive Fever (1995) and through looking at several literary works: a short story by Alice Munro, a memoir by Amnon Shamosh, a diary by Annie Ernaux, and a novel by Yehoshua Kenaz. These works, which...

Aharon Shabtai’s Path to the Long Poem

What is the function of length in contemporary poetry and how can readers habituated to the short lyric poem tradition read—indeed, “interpret”—long sequences that seem recalcitrant to analysis? This essay tackles these questions by exploring Aharon Shabtai’s long-poem poetics. F...

Fractals, Wealth Distributions, and Non-Euclidean Geometry: Quadrant Lorenz Curves

Lorenz curves are a socioeconomic method of coding the statistics of positive-valued random variables. Standing at the confluence of fractals, wealth distributions, and non-Euclidean geometry, this paper presents quadrant Lorenz curves (QLCs): Lorenz curves whose shapes are that...

War of the Words: War and the Length of Poems

This essay explores the connection between war and the length of poems, reading the Anglo-American poetry of the twentieth century in the context of the world wars. The essay traces the changes in poetic length in Italian and Hebrew poetry, focusing on the long poems of Yehuda Am...