Tel Aviv University

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...

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...

Truth Elicitation in a Nonstrategic Environment

A principal decides which party deserves a prize. Only the parties observe the state that determines who is deserving. The principal gives each party a text describing the conditions under which that party deserves the prize and asks each to report the state. The parties are nons...

On the class of systems which are disjoint from every ergodic system

In this note, we give a fairly direct proof of a recent theorem of Górska, Lemańczyk and de la Rue which characterises the class of measure-preserving transformations that are disjoint from every ergodic measure-preserving transformation. Our proof works just as well for any coun...

Quantifying the direct and indirect impact of COVID-19 vaccination: evidence from Victoria, Australia

Vaccines not only directly protect vaccinated individuals but also contribute to protecting the entire population via indirect herd-immunity benefits. However, researchers have long struggled to quantify these indirect effects at the population level, hindering the assessment of...

Prevalence and Long-Term Incidence of Ocular Manifestations in Sarcoidosis: A Large Nationwide Population-Based Study

Purpose Ocular involvement causes major vision-threatening morbidity in sarcoidosis. Population-based evidence on the full ocular spectrum, long-term incidence, and organ-specific patterns remains limited.Methods Nationwide 1:1 matched case-control study with a longitudinal retro...

Incidence and Predictors of Complications After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation According to VARC‐3 Criteria: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis

BACKGROUND: Despite continuous advancements in devices and techniques, transcatheter aortic valve implantation remains associated with complications impacting outcomes. In 2021, the Valve Academic Research Consortium (VARC) introduced the VARC-3 criteria to better classify proced...

Raman Spectroscopy at Metal Interfaces: A Numerical Study of the Strong Coupling Regime

Abstract We investigate how proximity to a metal nanostructure, particularly to a flat mirror or a cavity confined between two mirrors, affects the vibronic structure of the Raman scattering signals. We find that such proximity, particularly for the strong-coupling situation enco...

Carbapenemase-producing Kluyvera spp.: epidemiology of an evolving species

Abstract Background Kluyvera spp. are increasingly recognised as significant pathogens in humans. Recent reports of carbapenemase-producing (CP) Kluyvera spp. raise a concern that they may be disseminating carbapenemases to other species undetected. Research on CP-Kluyvera spp. i...

Discrepancies Between SNOT-22 Questionnaire, Objective Assessments, and Histopathologic Findings in Chronic Rhinosinusitis With Nasal Polyps

Background The Sinonasal Outcome Test-22 (SNOT-22) is widely used to evaluate symptom burden in chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP), yet its relationship with objective disease measures, pathological features, and specific endotypes remains unclear. Objective To ass...

Childhood sexual abuse and disordered eating: distinct pathways linking complex PTSD with binge eating disorder and night eating syndrome

While childhood sexual abuse (CSA) is a known risk factor for disordered eating, the specific mechanisms linking CSA to symptoms of Complex Post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD), Binge Eating Disorder (BED), and Night Eating Syndrome (NES) remain under-researched. This study inv...

Lithium chloride in vitro treatment shows potential to rescue the neuronal phenotype caused by WDFY3 haploinsufficiency

We provide a comprehensive phenotypic characterization of loss-of-function (LoF) variants in WDFY3 based on the largest cohort reported to date (n = 32). Our findings define a monogenic disorder marked by neuropsychiatric features (including autism and ADHD), mild to moderate neu...

Acoustically Activatable Drug‐Loaded Nanodroplets for Mechanochemical Therapy in Solid Tumors

ABSTRACT Stimulus‐responsive nanomedicines promise controlled therapy, yet most systems rely on passive delivery and lack precise, externally programmable activation while maintaining clinical compatibility. Here we engineer sub‐200 nm, perfluorocarbon (PFC)‐core nanodroplets (ND...

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...

Deep learning-based body weight estimation from lower abdominal CT scans

Abstract Body weight is a key parameter for assessing the risk of an osteoporotic hip fracture by autonomous finite element analysis based on lower abdominal computed tomography (CT) scans. To allow opportunistic diagnosis of this fracture risk by any lower abdominal ? CT scan, w...

Clinical and System-Level Factors Associated With Digital Replantation Following Complete Traumatic Thumb or Other-Finger Amputation: A National Inpatient Analysis, 2016–2021

Purpose Digital replantation is traditionally guided by injury mechanism, functional priority, ischemia time, and patient factors. Pediatric age is commonly considered a favorable indication, whereas advanced age is often assumed to reduce candidacy. We examined associations of a...

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...

Defining Success in Ptosis Surgery: Outcome Heterogeneity and Priorities for Standardization

Ptosis surgery aims to restore eyelid position, visual function, facial expression, and, in children, visual development. Yet reported success rates reflect how success is defined as much as what surgery achieves. Studies use different eyelid-height thresholds, symmetry criteria,...

Malnutrition in Maintenance Dialysis: From Metabolic Disorder to Multisystem Complications

Malnutrition and protein-energy wasting (PEW) are closely related yet distinct clinical entities. While malnutrition broadly refers to nutritional deficits arising primarily from inadequate dietary intake, PEW is a complex syndrome specific to chronic kidney disease characterized...