Implementing a multi-criteria decision-making approach to a new party's election campaign - A case study.

During pre-election campaigns, parties make great efforts to persuade constituents to vote for them. Usually, new parties have smaller budgets and fewer resources than veteran parties. In particular, the more heterogeneous the party's electorate, the more critical the issue of resource allocation is.

Do COVID19 infection rates change over time and space? Population density and socio-economic measures as regressors.

The COVID19 pandemic motivated an interesting debate, which is related directly to core issues in urban economics, namely, the advantages and disadvantages of dense cities. On the one hand, compact areas facilitate more intensive human interaction and could lead to higher exposure to the infection, which make them the potential epicenter of the pandemic crisis. On the other hand, dense areas tend to provide superior health and educational systems, which are better prepared to handle pandemics, leading to higher recovery rates and lower mortality rates.

From COVID-19 adversity comes opportunity: teaching an online integrative medicine course.

Background: We examine the impact of a 5-day online elective course in integrative medicine (IM) taking place during the COVID-19 pandemic, attended by 18 medical students from two faculties of medicine in Israel.

Methods: The course curriculum addressed effectiveness and safety of IM practices highlighting supportive and palliative care, demonstrated the work of integrative physicians (IPs) in designing patient-tailored treatments and taught practical skills in communication regarding IM. Group discussions were conducted via Zoom with 32 physicians, healthcare practitioners and IM practitioners working in integrative academic, community and hospital-based settings, in Israel, Italy, UK and Germany.

One-Time Spinners and Spin-Thrill Seekers in Sex Offenses against Minors: Is Situational Prevention Possible?

This qualitative study examines (1) the circumstances under which "normative" individuals with no prior sexual attraction to children commit a sex offense against a minor with whom they had several times interacted during routine activities and (2) Their perception of situational deterrence exercised by adults present/nearby. The sample included eight of 14 offenders incarcerated in a prison rehabilitation unit (N = 20) for a sex offense against a minor. Content analysis of in-depth interviews indicated two types of offenders: The one-time spinners and the spin-thrill seekers both reported an unpremeditated sexual spin triggered by the victim.

Better later: evening practice is advantageous for motor skill consolidation in the elderly.

How does the time of day of a practice session affect learning of a new motor sequence in the elderly? Participants practiced a given finger tapping sequence either during morning or evening hours. All participants robustly improved performance speed within the session concurrent with a reorganization of the tapping pattern of the sequence. However, evening-trained participants showed additional gains overnight and at 1 wk posttraining; moreover, evening training led to a further reorganization of the tapping pattern offline.

"I Took the Trouble to Make Inquiries, So I Refuse to Accept Your Instructions": Religious Authority and Vaccine Hesitancy Among Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Mothers in Israel.

Voluminous scholarship has shown that religious leaders play an important role in helping patients cope with health issues. There is, however, little research on the impact of religious leaders on parents' decision-making processes pertaining to childhood vaccination. Ultra-orthodox Jewish religious leaders (rabbis) are considered authorities on health issues, and most of them encourage parents to vaccinate their children.

Fear of panoptic surveillance: using digital technology to control the COVID-19 epidemic.

Background: In a bid to reduce infection rates by COVID-19 the authorities in some countries, in collaboration with medical regulators and experts, have employed digital technologies to control and regulate citizens' behavior. Public opinion and the public's compliance with these technologies come into play here. The objective of the present study was to examine attitudes expressed in the public discourse toward the use of digital technologies to control people's behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic, as reflected in the media.

Pre-service teacher's self-perception of digital literacy: The case of Israel.

Teachers provide society with literacy needs. They instruct students to acquire the essential skills and competencies required for a successful social integration. Thus, the need to identify digital readiness in teachers.

Not completed but still identified: orthographic closure and word recognition among poor and typical native Arab readers.

The current study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of the orthographic representations among poor readers compared to typical readers. For this aim, an orthographic visual closure task was used. One hundred and twenty native Arab readers, 60 typical and 60 poor, from third, fifth and seventh grades, were participated in the current study.

The cause and effect problem: Is there mutual obesity among Arab Israeli couples?

The influence of the health-related behavior of one spouse on that of the other is an important research question with public policy reprecussions. Yet, we are unaware of any previous study, which considered endogeneity problems between couples. Moreover, only a few studies considered ethnic origin differences among couples.

Can Increased Recovery Rates from Coronavirus be explained by Prevalence of ? An Analysis at the US Statewide Level.

Previous research demonstrates that is considered a risk factor for COVID-19. The current study attempts to investigate the relationships between infection, mortality and recovery rates from coronavirus and the prevalence of ADHD at the US statewide level. Based on information from 2011 regarding the prevalence of across the US by state, findings suggest that, while there are no correlations between and population size, infection and mortality rates from coronavirus, recovery rates (recovery-population ratio) with the prevalence of .

Weight Loss, Dietary Preferences, and Reduction in the Sense of Smell with the Use of a Novel Nasal Device.

Introduction: Exposure to food odors are known to increase food intake. Olfaction declines from age 50 years.

Objective: We examined changes in the sense of smell, body weight, food preferences, and parameters of metabolic status, following the use of a specially designed nasal device.

Can reduction in infection and mortality rates from coronavirus be explained by an obesity survival paradox? An analysis at the US statewide level.

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a declared global pandemic with multiple risk factors. Based on recent empirical studies, obesity is considered by several researchers as one of the serious risk factors for coronavirus-related complications. Yet, other scholars argue in favor of the existence of an obesity survival paradox.

Adjustment to Higher Education: A Comparison of Students With and Without Disabilities.

The present study examined adjustment to higher education among students with disabilities from a multifaceted perspective (academic, social, emotional, institutional) immediately following their first year of study and onward, with three primary objectives. First, we examined whether students with no disabilities adjust better to higher education than do students with disabilities (mental, physical, sensory, ADHD/LD). Second, we examined differences among the specific disability groups in adjustment to higher education overall and in specific subscales.

[THE FATE OF THE JEWISH STAFF OF THE MEDICAL INSTITUTE IN THE CITY OF STAVROPOL DURING THE HOLOCAUST].

In the first two decades of the 21st century, research on the history of Jewish medicine during the Holocaust expanded. Studies were written on the medical activity in German-occupied areas, particularly the large and medium-sized ghettos in Poland, Lithuania, and Czechoslovakia, in addition to Holland, Hungary, and Germany, and Jewish physicians' activity in the camps. Conspicuously absent is the study of Soviet Jewish medicine and physicians in areas occupied by the Germans in World War II with the German offensive against the Soviet Union, which began on 22 June 1941.

Normative beliefs about cyberbullying: comparisons of Israeli and U.S. youth.

We examined how normative beliefs about cyberbullying influenced the choice of electronic aggression in hypothetical peer-to-peer scenarios. Data was collected from 1097 Israeli and 1196 U.S.

Gender differences in the effect of employee-manager friendships on salary dynamics in CPA firms.

We study the effect of employee-manager relations on salary increases. We use data obtained from a longitudinal survey, carried out among auditing team members in leading Israeli CPA firms (which are subsidiaries of American firms). Our main findings suggest that the degree of friendship with the team manager is positively correlated with the rate of the salary increase, particularly among female workers whose team manager is also a female.

The many faces of music: Attending to music and delight in the same music are governed by different rules of processing.

Music generates manifold experiences in humans, some perceptual and some hedonic. Are these qualia governed by the same principles in processing? In particular, do the loudness and timbre of melodies combine to produce perception and likeability by the same rules of integration? In Experiment 1, we tested selective attention to loudness and timbre by applying Garner's speeded classification paradigm and found both to be perceptually integral dimensions. In Experiment 2, we tested liking for the same music by applying Norman Anderson's functional measurement model and found loudness and timbre to combine by an adding-type rule.

Academic Achievements of College Graduates With Learning Disabilities Vis-a-Vis Admission Criteria and Academic Support.

Postsecondary entrance examination scores are generally low predictors of college achievement (grade point average [GPA]) for students with learning disabilities (LD). The difficulties with meeting academic requirements have raised the awareness of the needs of students with LD for support services. The present study examined the adequacy of entrance criteria to academic studies for students with LD and the effectiveness of three support levels during their academic studies in increasing their academic gains.

Direct excitation of higher excited state and kinetics of photoreactions.

Excited-state reactions (ESR) play an essential role in chemical, physical, and biological processes. The mathematical models are usually used to study ESR in kinetics and steady-state regimes. In these models, the excitation pulse populates the first excited state (the first singlet level) of the primary molecular form.

The Association of Pension Income with the Incidence of Type I Obesity among Retired Israelis.

Previous studies have identified obesity and overweight as the fourth leading risk factor for global mortality. The objective of the current study is to investigate gender differences and the impact of wealth and income from pensions, sociodemographic variables, and self-assessment of health conditions on the projected probability to become obese in the postretirement age (67 years and older). We are unaware of previous studies, which explored the direct relationship between obesity, monetary income from pensions, wealth, and self-assessment of health conditions.

[RETIRE WITHOUT LEAVING - DOCTORS WHO CONTINUE TO WORK AFTER RETIREMENT].

Background: Retirement is a tipping point and a significant change in lifestyle for people who have worked for most of their lives. Life without work, a social framework, employment, content and a sense of necessity are a blow to the self-image and identity of a person who feels that retirement was imposed on him only because he reached a certain age specified in the law.

Objectives: To examine the post-retirement tendency of physicians to continue working in various public frameworks.

Cyberbullying and its influence on academic, social, and emotional development of undergraduate students.

This study investigated the influence of cyberbullying on the academic, social, and emotional development of undergraduate students. It's objective is to provides additional data and understanding of the influence of cyberbullying on various variables affecting undergraduate students. The survey sample consisted of 638 Israeli undergraduate students.