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Moshe Coll ו Wajnberg, Eric . 2017. “Environmental Pest Management”. בתוך Environmental Pest Management, Pp. 1-17. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. doi:10.1002/9781119255574.ch1. Publisher's Version תקציר
Summary Increasing awareness and concerns regarding the adverse effects of pest management activities on human health and the environment have led researchers and, to a lesser extent non-governmental activists and policymakers, to seek ways to restrain harmful pest control practices. Conservation biologists, in their efforts to protect biodiversity, have begun to document the importance of the environment in pest management. At the same time, the Integrated Pest Management (IPM) approach, formulated more than 55 years ago, has for the most part failed to fulfil its mission developing effective, safe and sustainable plant protection systems. To this end, a new pest management paradigm is needed: a top-down, system-centric approach should replace the historical bottom-up, pest-centric viewpoint. This change is particularly important if we are to harness pest control activities to a global effort to increase food security and environmental protection.
Moshe Coll ו Wajnberg, Eric . 2017. “Environmental Pest Management”. בתוך Environmental Pest Management, Pp. 405-417. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. doi:10.1002/9781119255574.ch18. Publisher's Version תקציר
Summary For thousands of years, farmers have protected their crops by combating one pest at a time, using a single control method with very little consideration of the surrounding environment. In its early form, Integrated Pest Management (IPM) was intended to provide a more holistic approach to pest management than the ‘supervised control’ that was commonplace at the time. However, when public support later declined, agro-chemical companies were quick to step in and take on a major role in directing pest management back towards supervised control. To reduce yield losses to pests and produce more food in sustainable and environmentally compatible ways, major long-term governmental commitments are needed. We argue that governmental inputs acting to promote sustainable agricultural practices and nature conservation should have four main thrusts that are currently missing in most legislation: (1) establishing goal-oriented agro-environmental schemes, (2) externalizing the true costs of pesticide use, (3) strengthening the public extension service, and (4) soliciting goal-specific research.

A wide-ranging, interdisciplinary exploration of key topics that interrelate pest management, public health and the environment

This book takes a unique, multidimensional approach to addressing the complex issues surrounding pest management activities and their impacts on the environment and human health, and environmental effects on plant protection practices.

It features contributions by a distinguished group of authors from ten countries, representing an array of disciplines. They include plant protection scientists and officers, economists, agronomists, ecologists, environmental and public health scientists and government policymakers. Over the course of eighteen chapters, those experts share their insights into and analyses of an array of issues of vital concern to everyone with a professional interest in this important subject.

The adverse effects of pest control have become a subject of great concern worldwide, and researchers and enlightened policymakers have at last begun to appreciate the impact of environmental factors on our ability to manage pest populations. Moreover, while issues such as pesticide toxicity have dominated the global conversation about pest management, economic and societal considerations have been largely neglected. Environmental Pest Management: Challenges for Agronomists, Ecologists, Economists and Policymakers is the first work to provide in-depth coverage of all of these pressing issues between the covers of one book.

• Offers a unique multi-dimensional perspective on the complex issues surrounding pest management activities and their effect on the environment and human health

• Addresses growing concerns about specific pest management strategies, including the use of transgenic crops and biological controls

• Analyses the influence of global processes, such as climate change, biological invasions and shifts in consumer demand, and ecosystem services and disservices on pest suppression efforts

• Explores public health concerns regarding biodiversity, pesticide use and food safety

• Identifies key economic drivers of pest suppression research, strategies and technologies

• Proposes new regulatory approaches to create sustainable and viable crop protection systems in the framework of agroenvironmental schemes

Offering a timely and comprehensively-unique treatment of pest management and its environmental impacts in a single, interdisciplinary volume, this book is a valuable resource for scientists in an array of disciplines, as well as government officials and policymakers. Also, teachers of undergraduate and graduate level courses in a variety of fields are sure to find it a highly useful teaching resource.

coll bookA wide-ranging, interdisciplinary exploration of key topics that interrelate pest management, public health and the environment

This book takes a unique, multidimensional approach to addressing the complex issues surrounding pest management activities and their impacts on the environment and human health, and environmental effects on plant protection practices.

It features contributions by a distinguished group of authors from ten countries, representing an array of disciplines. They include plant protection scientists and officers, economists, agronomists, ecologists, environmental and public health scientists and government policymakers. Over the course of eighteen chapters, those experts share their insights into and analyses of an array of issues of vital concern to everyone with a professional interest in this important subject.

The adverse effects of pest control have become a subject of great concern worldwide, and researchers and enlightened policymakers have at last begun to appreciate the impact of environmental factors on our ability to manage pest populations. Moreover, while issues such as pesticide toxicity have dominated the global conversation about pest management, economic and societal considerations have been largely neglected. Environmental Pest Management: Challenges for Agronomists, Ecologists, Economists and Policymakers is the first work to provide in-depth coverage of all of these pressing issues between the covers of one book.

M. Fine, Tsadok, R. , Meron, D. , Cohen, S. , ו Milazzo, M.. 2017. “Environmental Sensitivity Of Neogoniolithon Brassica-Florida Associated With Vermetid Reefs In The Mediterranean Sea”. Ices Journal Of Marine Science, 74, 4, Pp. 1074-1082.
David P Fenning, Bertoni, Mariana I, Shao-Horn, Yang , Lioz, Etgar , ו Gamliel, Shany . 2017. “Environmental Sensors Using Metal Halide Perovskites”.
Shai Levi, Zini, Avraham , Fischman, Stuart , ו Czerninski, Rakefet . 2017. “Epidemiology Of Oral, Salivary Gland And Pharyngeal Cancer In Children And Adolescents Between 1970 And 2011”. Oral Oncology, 67, Pp. 89 – 94. doi:10.1016/j.oraloncology.2017.02.010. Publisher's Version
Eitam Arnon, Rabani, Eran , Neuhauser, Daniel , ו Baer, Roi . 2017. “Equilibrium Configurations Of Large Nanostructures Using The Embedded Saturated-Fragments Stochastic Density Functional Theory”. J. Chem. Phys., 146, 22, Pp. 224111. תקציר
An ab initio Langevin dynamics approach is developed based on stochastic density functional theory (sDFT) within a new embedded fragment formalism. The forces on the nuclei generated by sDFT contain a random component natural to Langevin dynamics and its standard deviation is used to estimate the friction term on each atom by satisfying the fluctuation–dissipation relation. The overall approach scales linearly with system size even if the density matrix is not local and is thus applicable to ordered as well as disordered extended systems. We implement the approach for a series of silicon nanocrystals (NCs) of varying size with a diameter of up to 3nm corresponding to Ne = 3000 electrons and generate a set of configurations that are distributed canonically at a fixed temperature, ranging from cryogenic to room temperature. We also analyze the structure properties of the NCs and discuss the reconstruction of the surface geometry.
M Sartelli, Weber, DG, Ruppé, E, Bassetti, M, Wright, BJ, Ansaloni, L, Catena, F, Coccolini, F, Abu-Zidan, FM, Coimbra, R, Moore, EE, Moore, FA, Maier, RV, De Waele, JJ, Kirkpatrick, AW, Griffiths, EA, Eckmann, C, Brink, AJ, Mazuski, JE, May, AK, Sawyer, RG, Mertz, D, Montravers, P, Kumar, A, Roberts, JA, Vincent, JL, Watkins, RR, Lowman, W, Spellberg, B, Abbott, IJ, Adesunkanmi, AK, Al-Dahir, S, Al-Hasan, MN, Agresta, F, Althani, AA, Ansari, S, Ansumana, R, Augustin, G, Bala, M, Balogh, ZJ, Baraket, O, Bhangu, A, Beltrán, MA, Bernhard, M, Biffl, WL, Boermeester, MA, Brecher, SM, Cherry-Bukowiec, JR, Buyne, OR, Cainzos, MA, Cairns, KA, Camacho-Ortiz, A, Chandy, SJ, Che Jusoh, A, Chichom-Mefire, A, Colijn, C, Corcione, F, Cui, Y, Curcio, D, Delibegovic, S, Demetrashvili, Z, De Simone, B, Dhingra, S, Diaz, JJ, Di Carlo, I, Dillip, A, Di Saverio, S, Doyle, MP, Dorj, G, Dogjani, A, Dupont, H, Eachempati, SR, Enani, MA, Egiev, VN, Elmangory, MM, Ferrada, P, Fitchett, JR, Fraga, GP, Guessennd, N, Giamarellou, H, Ghnnam, W, Gkiokas, G, Goldberg, SR, Gomes, CA, Gomi, H, Guzmán-Blanco, M, Haque, M, Hansen, S, Hecker, A, Heizmann, WR, Herzog, T, Hodonou, AM, Hong, SK, Kafka-Ritsch, R, Kaplan, LJ, Kapoor, G, Karamarkovic, A, Kees, MG, Kenig, J, Kiguba, R, Kim, PK, Kluger, Y, Khokha, V, Koike, K, Kok, KY, Kong, V, Knox, MC, Inaba, K, Isik, A, Iskandar, K, Ivatury, RR, Labbate, M, Labricciosa, FM, Laterre, PF, Latifi, R, Lee, JG, Lee, YR, Leone, M, Leppaniemi, A, Li, Y, Liang, SY, Loho, T, Maegele, M, Malama, S, Marei, HE, Martin-Loeches, I, Marwah, S, Massele, A, McFarlane, M, Melo, RB, Negoi, I, Nicolau, DP, Nord, CE, Ofori-Asenso, R, Omari, AH, Ordonez, CA, Ouadii, M, Pereira Júnior, GA, Piazza, D, Pupelis, G, Rawson, TM, Rems, M, Rizoli, S, Rocha, C, Sakakushev, B, Sanchez-Garcia, M, Sato, N, Segovia Lohse, HA, Sganga, G, Siribumrungwong, B, Shelat, VG, Soreide, K, Soto, R, Talving, P, Tilsed, JV, Timsit, JF, Trueba, G, Trung, NT, Ulrych, J, van Goor, H, Vereczkei, A, Vohra, RS, Wani, I, Uhl, W, Xiao, Y, Yuan, KC, Zachariah, SK, Zahar, JR, Zakrison, TL, Corcione, A, Melotti, RM, Viscoli, C, ו Viale, P. 2017. “Erratum To: Antimicrobials: A Global Alliance For Optimizing Their Rational Use In Intra-Abdominal Infections (Agora).”. World Journal Of Emergency Surgery : Wjes, 12, Pp. 35. doi:10.1186/s13017-017-0147-0. תקציר
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A. Drori, Kan-tor, Y. , Nadorp, B. , Goldstein, C. , Buxboim, A. , Nahmias, Y. , ו Levy, L.. 2017. “Erratum To: When Every Second Counts: Novel Device To Shorten Chest Tube Insertion Time In A Pre-Hospital Setting (Pulmonary Therapy, (2016), 2, 2, (215-219), 10.1007/S41030-016-0020-4)”. Pulmonary Therapy, 3, Pp. 261. doi:10.1007/s41030-017-0031-9. Publisher's Version
Tarryn Schuldiner-harpaz ו Coll, Moshe . 2017. “Estimating The Effect Of Plant-Provided Food Supplements On Pest Consumption By Omnivorous Predators: Lessons From Two Coccinellid Beetles”. Pest Manag Sci, 73, 5, Pp. 976-983. doi:10.1002/ps.4410. תקציר
BACKGROUND: Plant-provided food supplements can influence biological pest control by omnivorous predators in two counteracting ways: they can (i) enhance predator populations, but (ii) reduce pest consumption by individual predators. Yet the majority of studies address only one of these aspects. Here, we first tested the influence of canola (Brassica napus L.) pollen supplements on the life history of two ladybeetle species: Hoppodamia variegata (Goeze) and Coccinella septempunctata (L.). We then developed a theoretical model to simulate total pest consumption in the presence and absence of pollen supplements. RESULTS: Supplementing a prey diet with canola pollen increased H. variegata larval survival from 50 to 82%, and C. septempunctata female oviposition by 1.6-fold. Model simulations revealed a greater benefit of pollen supplements when relying on C. septempunctata for pest suppression than on H. variegata. CONCLUSION: For these two predators, the tested pollen serves as an essential supplement to a diet of prey. However, the benefit of a mixed prey-pollen diet was not always sufficient to overcome individual decrease in pest consumption. Taken together, our study highlights the importance of addressing both positive and negative roles of plant-provided food supplements in considering the outcome for biological control efforts that rely on omnivorous predators. © 2016 Society of Chemical Industry.
Diego Rotman (Sala-manca) ו (Sala-manca), Lea Mauas . 2017. “The Eternal Sukkah Project”. Zeitschrift Für Kulturwissenschaften, 1. . Publisher's Version
Mark Braverman, Kun-Ko, Young , Rubinstein, Aviad , ו Weinstein, Omri . 2017. “Eth Hardness For Densest-\Emphk-Subgraph With Perfect Completeness”. בתוך Proceedings Of The Twenty-Eighth Annual Acm-Siam Symposium On Discrete Algorithms, Soda 2017, Barcelona, Spain, Hotel Porta Fira, January 16-19, Pp. 1326–1341. SIAM. doi:10.1137/1.9781611974782.86. Publisher's Version
M. Blaychfeld-Magnazi, Knobler, H. , Voet, Hillary , Reshef, N. , Weitzman, S. , Sumner, A.E. , ו Zornitzki, T.. 2017. “Ethnic Variation In The Association Of Hypertension With Type 2 Diabetes”. Journal Of Clinical Hypertension, 19, 2, Pp. 184-189. doi:10.1111/jch.12883. Publisher's Version תקציר
{Lifestyle changes occurring with urbanization increase the prevalence of both type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and hypertension (HTN). Yemenites who have immigrated to Israel have demonstrated a dramatic increase in T2DM but the prevalence of HTN in diabetic Yemenites is unclear. In a cross-sectional study, the authors evaluated the prevalence of HTN and lifestyle patterns in Israelis with T2DM of Yemenite (Y-DM) and non-Yemenite (NY-DM) origin. Y-DM (n=63) and NY-DM (n=120) had similar age (63±7 vs 64±7 years
The book includes articles, documentation and a catalog of the Ethnographic Department of the Museum of the Contemporary. It is the fruit of a long-term project carried out at the Mamuta Art and Research Center and curated by the Sala-Manca Group. It contains articles by Yoram Bilu, Rachel Elior, Freddie Rokem and Diego Rotman on the Dybbuk; by Galit Hasan-Rokem and Daphna Ben-Shaul on Sukkot, and on the Eternal Sukkah project; by Shalom Sabar on electric Shabbat candles, and by Lea Mauas and Diego Rotman on different art projects. The book also includes documentation of artworks and a project by Itamar Mendes-Flohr, Yeshaiahu Rabinowtz, Ktura Manor, Hannan Abu Huseein, Reuven Zehavi, Sala-Manca, Samuel Rotman, Shira Borer, Nir Yahalom, Chen Cohen, Pessi Komar, Adi Kaplan, and Shahar Carmel, among others.
Bolaji Babajide Salam, Malka, Siva Kumar , Zhu, Xiaobiao , Gong, Huiling , Ziv, Carmit , Teper-Bamnolker, Paula , Ori, Naomi , Jiang, Jiming , ו Eshel, Dani . 2017. “Etiolated Stem Branching Is A Result Of Systemic Signaling Associated With Sucrose Level”. Plant Physiology, 175, 2, Pp. 734–745. doi:10.1104/pp.17.00995. Publisher's Version תקציר
The potato (Solanum tuberosum) tuber is a swollen stem. Sprouts growing from the tuber nodes represent loss of apical dominance and branching. Long cold storage induces loss of tuber apical dominance and results in secondary branching. Here, we show that a similar branching pattern can be induced by short heat treatment of the tubers. Detached sprouts were induced to branch by the heat treatment only when attached to a parenchyma cylinder. Grafting experiments showed that the scion branches only when grafted onto heat- or cold-treated tuber parenchyma, suggesting that the branching signal is transmitted systemically from the bud-base parenchyma to the grafted stem. Exogenous supply of sucrose (Suc), glucose, or fructose solution to detached sprouts induced branching in a dose-responsive manner, and an increase in Suc level was observed in tuber parenchyma upon branching induction, suggesting a role for elevated parenchyma sugars in the regulation of branching. However, sugar analysis of the apex and node after grafting showed no distinct differences in sugar levels between branching and nonbranching stems. Vacuolar invertase is a key enzyme in determining the level of Suc and its cleavage products, glucose and fructose, in potato parenchyma. Silencing of the vacuolar invertase-encoding gene led to increased tuber branching in combination with branching-inducing treatments. These results suggest that Suc in the parenchyma induces branching through signaling and not by excess mobilization from the parenchyma to the stem.GlossaryADapical dominanceCFDAcarboxyfluorescein diacetateRBK‘Russet Burbank’Tre6Ptrehalose 6-phosphateCFcarboxyfluorescein
Berenice Castillo, Capp, Gordon , Moore, Hadass , De Pedro, Kris , Pineda, Diana , Benbenishty, Rami , ו Astor, Ron Avi. 2017. “An Evaluation Of The Use Of Educational Resource Guides For Military Students In Public Schools”. Military Behavioral Health, 5, Pp. 172–177.
Luis MOYA, MAS, Erick , ו KOSHIMURA, Shunichi . 2017. “Evaluation Of Tsunami Fragility Curves For Building Damage Level Allocation”. Research Report Of Tsunami Engineering, 34, Pp. 33-41. . Publisher's Version תקציר
This paper discusses the applicability of tsunami fragility curves to estimate the damage of buildings due to tsunami. Tsunami fragility curves have been developed empirically out of the damage data obtained from large scale tsunami disasters (Koshimura et al., 2009; Mas et al., 2012a; Suppasri et al., 2011, 2013). Fragility curves can provide an overall idea of the impact of a tsunami event, however, for disaster mitigation purposes a desired application for these curves is the assessment of possible future damage due to tsunami. Thus, this report aims on evaluating the applicability of tsunami fragility curves for building damage estimation. Our hypothesis is that a building damage estimation due to tsunami performed with fragility curves developed in the same location and urban characteristics (i.e. building type, layout, topography, etc.) should provide a high accuracy. This is expected since the data (event and buildings) used to develop the fragility curve contains the sample use for the evaluation. 
Magdalena Obermaier, Koch, Thomas , ו Baden, Christian . 2017. “Everybody Follows The Crowd?Effects Of Opinion Polls And Past Election Results On Electoral Preferences.”. Journal Of Media Psychology, 29, Pp. 1-12. . Publisher's Version תקציר
Opinion polls are a well-established part of political news coverage, especially during election campaigns. At the same time, there has been controversial debate over the possible influences of such polls on voters’ electoral choices. The most prominent influence discussed is the bandwagon effect: It states that voters tend to support the expected winner of an upcoming election, and use polls to determine who the likely winner will be. This study investigated the mechanisms underlying the effect. In addition, we inquired into the role of past electoral performances of a candidate and analyzed how these (as well as polls) are used as heuristic cues for the assessment of a candidate’s personal characteristics. Using an experimental design, we found that both polls and past election results influence participants’ expectations regarding which candidate will succeed. Moreover, higher competence was attributed to a candidate, if recipients believe that the majority of voters favor that candidate. Through this attribution of competence, both information about prior elections and current polls shaped voters’ electoral preferences.
Michael Peer, Nitzan, Mor , Bick, Atira , Levin, Netta , ו Arzy, Shahar . 7/5/2017. “Evidence For Functional Networks Within The Human Brain'S White Matter.”. Journal Of Neuroscience, 37, 27, Pp. 6394-6407. . Publisher's Version תקציר
Investigation of the functional macro-scale organization of the human cortex is fundamental in modern neuroscience. Although numerous studies have identified networks of interacting functional modules in the gray-matter, limited research was directed to the functional organization of the white-matter. Recent studies have demonstrated that the white-matter exhibits blood oxygen level-dependent signal fluctuations similar to those of the gray-matter. Here we used these signal fluctuations to investigate whether the white-matter is organized as functional networks by applying a clustering analysis on resting-state functional MRI (RSfMRI) data from white-matter voxels, in 176 subjects (of both sexes). This analysis indicated the existence of 12 symmetrical white-matter functional networks, corresponding to combinations of white-matter tracts identified by diffusion tensor imaging. Six of the networks included interhemispheric commissural bridges traversing the corpus callosum. Signals in white-matter networks correlated with signals from functional gray-matter networks, providing missing knowledge on how these distributed networks communicate across large distances. These findings were replicated in an independent subject group and were corroborated by seed-based analysis in small groups and individual subjects. The identified white-matter functional atlases and analysis codes are available at http://mind.huji.ac.il/white-matter.aspx Our results demonstrate that the white-matter manifests an intrinsic functional organization as interacting networks of functional modules, similarly to the gray-matter, which can be investigated using RSfMRI. The discovery of functional networks within the white-matter may open new avenues of research in cognitive neuroscience and clinical neuropsychiatry.
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