Galit Almoznino, Barsheshet, Shiran , Mazor, Sigal , Yanko, Robert , Sharav, Yair , ו Haviv, Yaron . 2021.
“Long-Term Adherence To Oral Stabilization Splints: Does Pain Matter?”. Quintessence Int, 53, 1, Pp. 68-76. doi:10.3290/j.qi.b2091287.
תקציר OBJECTIVE: Occlusal stabilization splints (OSSs) are first-line therapy for temporomandibular disorder (TMD) and sleep-related-bruxism (SRB). The main goal of this study was to quantify adherence rates to OSS therapy in TMD patients and among non-painful conditions such as clenching and bruxism. It was hypothesized that adherence rates would be similar to those for other chronic conditions.
METHOD AND MATERIALS: Medical records of 99 patients seen in the Orofacial Pain Clinic between 2006 and 2014 were reviewed. Patients meeting the inclusion criteria were interviewed over the telephone regarding OSS adherence.
RESULTS: Of the 99 patients interviewed, 80 had chronic orofacial pain related to TMD and 19 received OSS due to (non-painful) SRB. Patients were divided according to usage; the USER group (58 patients, 58.6%) used their OSS for more than 1 year; the NUSE group was the remaining 41 (41.4%) patients who used their device for less than 1 year. Of the patients with pain as the reason for OSS use, 50 (62.5%) were in the USER group and 30 (37.5%) were in the NUSE group. The most common diagnosis was masticatory muscle disorders (MMD) with a 71.4% adherence rate, representing 60.3% of the USER group, which was significantly higher than those with SRB and other facial pain (P = .039). The most common reasons for non-adherence were sleep difficulties with OSS (31.6%) and resolution of the problem (25%).
CONCLUSIONS: Patients reporting mild to major pain reduction had higher adherence rates than those with complete pain relief or none at all. Patients with MMD exhibited higher adherence rates than those with other facial pain types and SRB.
Summary Cyanobacteria are globally important primary producers and nitrogen fixers. They are frequently limited by iron bioavailability in natural environments that often fluctuate due to rapid consumption and irregular influx of external Fe. Here we identify a succession of physiological changes in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 occurring over 14–16 days of iron deprivation and subsequent recovery. We observe several adaptive strategies that allow cells to push their metabolic limits under the restriction of declining intracellular Fe quotas. Interestingly, cyanobacterial populations exposed to prolonged iron deprivation showed discernible heterogeneity in cellular auto-fluorescence during the recovery process. Using FACS and microscopy techniques we revealed that only cells with high auto-fluorescence were able to grow and reconstitute thylakoid membranes. We propose that ROS-mediated damage is likely to be associated with the emergence of the two subpopulations, and, indeed, a rapid increase in intracellular ROS content was observed during the first hours following iron addition to Fe-starved cultures. These results suggest that an increasing iron supply is a double-edged sword - posing both an opportunity and a risk. Therefore, phenotypic heterogeneity within populations is crucial for the survival and proliferation of organisms facing iron fluctuations within natural environments.
H.J. Hirsch, Benarroch, F. , Genstil, L. , Pollak, Y. , Derei, D. , Forer, D. , Ben-Yehuda, H.M. , ו Gross-Tsur, V.. 2021.
“Long-Term Weight Control In Adults With Prader-Willi Syndrome Living In Residential Hostels”. American Journal Of Medical Genetics, 185, Pp. 1175-1181. .
Publisher's Version I. Meirzada, Sukenik, N. , Haim, G. , Paltiel, Y. , ו Bar-Gill, N.. 2021.
“Long-Time-Scale Magnetization Ordering Induced By An Adsorbed Chiral Monolayer On Ferromagnets”. Acs Nano, 15, Pp. 5574–5579. .
Publisher's Version Wolfgang Lassmann. 2021.
Lost To Desire. London, England: Taylor & Francis.
Conventional control strategies for nitrogen-vacancy centers in quantum sensing are based on a two-level model of their triplet ground state. However, this approach fails in regimes of weak bias magnetic fields or strong microwave pulses, as we demonstrate. To overcome this limitation, we propose a novel control sequence that exploits all three levels by addressing a hidden Raman configuration with microwave pulses tuned to the zero-field transition. We report excellent performance in typical dynamical decoupling sequences, opening up the possibility for nano-NMR operation in low field environments.
Baolin Xue, Helman, David , Wang, Guoqiang , Xu, Chong-Yu , Xiao, Jingfeng , Liu, Tingxi , Wang, Lei , Li, Xiuping , Duan, Limin , ו Lei, Huimin . 2021.
“The Low Hydrologic Resilience Of Asian Water Tower Basins To Adverse Climatic Changes”, 155, Pp. 103996. .
Publisher's Version תקציר Climate change has a significant impact on the runoff of basins in cold, dry areas. The quantification of regional ecohydrological responses to climate change such as warming and drought is essential for establishing proper water resource management schemes. We propose a simple and novel method based on the Budyko framework to evaluate the hydrologic resilience of 16 basins that conform the Asian Water Tower in the Tibetan Plateau (TP). Our method defines two metrics within the Budyko domain – tolerance (ψ) and plasticity (φ) – that characterize the hydrologic resilience of a basin. Based on an ecohydrological point of view, a basin is considered hydrologically resilient if ψ and φ are both greater than 1 or its φ is negative and ψ is greater than 1. Our results show that ψ varies between 0.27 and 0.74, with an average value of 0.45 and φ varies between 2 and 16.33, with an average value of 6.90, for 14 out of the 16 basins. Only two basins – Taohe and Datonghe – had negative φ (-11.67 and -8.11, respectively) and ψ greater than 1 (2.26 and 19.58, respectively), suggesting that these two are the only basins with a hydrologic resilience to climatic warming/drying in the TP. Within the non-resilient basins, we found vegetation to play a key role in the level of tolerance and plasticity indicating that basins with a larger vegetation cover display a lower capability to adapt to adverse climatic changes. Following these results, we call for afforestation efforts to be carefully considered in cold, dry areas. The proposed method and conclusions drawn by this study may help predict the hydrologic responses to future adverse climatic conditions.
Yoav Raz, Behar, Ehud , Ferber, Yair , Biagioni, Angelo , Galletti, Mario , Anania, Maria Pia, Pompili, Riccardo , Gemma, Costa , ו Zigler, Arie . 2021.
“Low Jitter Parabolic Profile Low Density Plasma Channel In 3D Printed Gas Filled Capillary”. Plasma Research Express, 3, Pp. 025014.
Akihiro Itoigawa, Fierro, Fabrizio , Chaney, Morgan E. , Lauterbur, M. Elise , Hayakawa, Takashi , Tosi, Anthony J. , Niv, Masha Y. , ו Imai, Hiroo . 2021.
“Lowered Sensitivity Of Bitter Taste Receptors To Β-Glucosides In Bamboo Lemurs: An Instance Of Parallel And Adaptive Functional Decline In Tas2R16?”. Proceedings Of The Royal Society B: Biological Sciencesproceedings Of The Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 288, 1948, Pp. 20210346. .
Publisher's Version David Stone, Koley, Somnath , Remennik, Sergei , Asor, Lior , Panfil, Yossef E. , Naor, Tom , ו Banin, Uri . 11/2021.
“Luminescent Anisotropic Wurtzite Inp Nanocrystals”. Nano Letters, 21, 23, Pp. 10032–10039. .
Publisher's Version תקציר Indium phosphide (InP) nanocrystals are emerging as an alternative to heavy metal containing nanocrystals for optoelectronic applications but lag behind in terms of synthetic control. Herein, luminescent wurtzite InP nanocrystals with narrow size distribution were synthesized via a cation exchange reaction from hexagonal Cu3P nanocrystals. A comprehensive surface treatment with NOBF4 was performed, which removes excess copper while generating stoichiometric In/P nanocrystals with fluoride surface passivation. 
The attained InP nanocrystals manifest a highly resolved absorption spectrum with a narrow emission line of 80 meV, and photoluminescence quantum yield of up to 40%. Optical anisotropy measurements on ensemble and single particle bases show the occurrence of polarized transitions directly mirroring the anisotropic wurtzite lattice, as also manifested from modeling of the quantum confined electronic levels. This shows a green synthesis path for achieving wurtzite InP nanocrystals with desired optoelectronic properties including color purity and light polarization with potential for diverse optoelectronic applications.Indium phosphide (InP) nanocrystals are emerging as an alternative to heavy metal containing nanocrystals for optoelectronic applications but lag behind in terms of synthetic control. Herein, luminescent wurtzite InP nanocrystals with narrow size distribution were synthesized via a cation exchange reaction from hexagonal Cu3P nanocrystals. A comprehensive surface treatment with NOBF4 was performed, which removes excess copper while generating stoichiometric In/P nanocrystals with fluoride surface passivation. The attained InP nanocrystals manifest a highly resolved absorption spectrum with a narrow emission line of 80 meV, and photoluminescence quantum yield of up to 40%. Optical anisotropy measurements on ensemble and single particle bases show the occurrence of polarized transitions directly mirroring the anisotropic wurtzite lattice, as also manifested from modeling of the quantum confined electronic levels. This shows a green synthesis path for achieving wurtzite InP nanocrystals with desired optoelectronic properties including color purity and light polarization with potential for diverse optoelectronic applications.
Daniel Sand, Rappel, Pnina , Marmor, Odeya , Bick, Atira S, Arkadir, David , Lu, Bao-Liang , Bergman, Hagai , Israel, Zvi , ו Eitan, Renana . 2021.
“Machine Learning-Based Personalized Subthalamic Biomarkers Predict On-Off Levodopa States In Parkinson Patients”. Journal Of Neural Engineering, 18, 4, Pp. 046058. doi:10.1088/1741-2552/abfc1d.
Publisher's Version Konstantina Kourou, Manikis, Georgios , Poikonen-Saksela, Paula , Mazzocco, Ketti , Pat-Horenczyk, Ruth , Sousa, Berta , Oliveira-Maia, Albino J, Mattson, Johanna , Roziner, Ilan , Pettini, Greta , ו others, . 2021.
“A Machine Learning-Based Pipeline For Modeling Medical, Socio-Demographic, Lifestyle And Self-Reported Psychological Traits As Predictors Of Mental Health Outcomes After Breast Cancer Diagnosis: An Initial Effort To Define Resilience Effects”. Computers In Biology And Medicine, 131, Pp. 104266.
Daniel Maier, Baden, Christian , Stoltenberg, Daniela , De Vries-Kedem, Maya , ו Waldherr, Annie . 2021.
“Machine Translation Vs. Multilingual Dictionaries: Assessing Two Strategies For The Topic Modeling Of Multilingual Text Collections”. Communication Methods & Measures, 16, Pp. 19-38. .
Publisher's Version תקציר The goal of this paper is to evaluate two methods for the topic modeling of multilingual document collections: (1) machine translation (MT), and (2) the coding of semantic concepts using a multilingual dictionary (MD) prior to topic modeling. We empirically assess the consequences of these approaches based on both a quantitative comparison of models and a qualitative validation of each method’s comparative potentials and weaknesses. Our case study uses two text collections (of tweets and news articles) in three languages (English, Hebrew, Arabic), covering the ongoing local conflicts between Israeli authorities, settlers and Palestinian Bedouins in the West Bank. We find that both methods produce a large share of equivalent topics, especially in the context of fairly regular news discourse, yet show limited but systematic differences when applied to highly variable social media discourse. While the MD model delivers a more nuanced picture of conflict-related topics, it misses several more peripheral topics, especially those unrelated to the dictionary’s focus, which are picked up by the MT model. Our study is a first step towards instrument validation, indicating that both methods yield valid, comparable results, while method-specific differences remain.
Ron Shaar, Matmon, Ari , Horwitz, Liora K, Ebert, Yael , Chazan, Michael , Arnold, M. , Auma\^\itre, G. , Bourlès, D. , ו Keddadouche, K. . 2021.
“Magnetostratigraphy And Cosmogenic Dating Of Wonderwerk Cave: New Constraints For The Chronology Of The South African Earlier Stone Age”. Quaternary Science Reviews, 259, Pp. 106907. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.106907.
Publisher's Version תקציר Cave sediments pose dating challenges due to complex depositional and post-depositional processes that operate during their transport and accumulation. Here, we confront these challenges and investigate the stratified sedimentary sequence from Wonderwerk Cave, which is a key site for the Earlier Stone Age (ESA) in Southern Africa. The precise ages of the Wonderwerk sediments are crucial for our understanding of the timing of critical events in hominin biological and cultural evolution in the region, and its correlation with the global paleontological and archaeological records. We report new constraints for the Wonderwerk ESA chronology based on magnetostratigraphy, with 178 samples passing our rigorous selection criteria, and fourteen cosmogenic burial ages. We identify a previously unrecognized reversal within the Acheulean sequence attributed to the base of the Jaramillo (1.07 Ma) or Cobb Mtn. subchrons (1.22 Ma). This reversal sets an early age constraint for the onset of the Acheulean, and supports the assignment of the basal stratum to the Olduvai subchron (1.77–1.93 Ma). This temporal framework offers strong evidence for the early establishment of the Oldowan and associated hominins in Southern Africa. Notably, we found that cosmogenic burial ages of sediments older than 1 Ma are underestimated due to changes in the inherited 26Al/10Be ratio of the quartz particles entering the cave. Back calculation of the inherited 26Al/10Be ratios using magnetostratigraphic constraints reveals a decrease in the 26Al/10Be ratio of the Kalahari sands with time. These results imply rapid aeolian transport in the Kalahari during the early Pleistocene which slowed during the Middle Pleistocene and enabled prolonged and deeper burial of sand while transported across the Kalahari Basin.
