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Popular Nationalism and Attitudes toward Immigrants (PNATI): A Multistage Investigation of Popular Nationalism and its Effects on Attitudes toward Labor Immigrants and Asylum Seekers in Israel (PNATI)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

The general framework of the proposed research challenges the traditional approaches to popular attitudes toward labor immigrants and asylum seekers. Previous scholarship has highlighted either economic competition between immigrants and the host society or perceptions of symbolic threats posed by immigrants. The proposed research, in contrast, will be the first to investigate how attitudes toward ...
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Shaping Community Boundaries in a Networked Society: The Case of the ultra Orthodox Community in Israel (CBNS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

The recent penetration of ubiquitous digital technologies into bounded communities is dramatically reshaping the power structures within these communities and evoking formidable resistance from established traditional authorities. In light of the recent dramatic penetration of digital technologies amongst bounded communities, the proposed study seeks to examine the impact of free flowing and non-f ...
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Drug-Related Information Seeking and Scanning from Media and Interpersonal Sources as an Indicator of Drug Use Risk: An Innovative Approach to Drug Use Prevention (SSBD)

Start date: May 1, 2013, End date: Aug 6, 2017,

Information related to marijuana and prescription drugs is widely available and easily accessible to young adults. This information may shape decisions about drug use. The current proposal seeks to increase understanding of the role of active and passive (scanning) drug-related information seeking among young Israeli adults in transition to college/university.The objectives are to 1) develop measu ...
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Mechanisms of Emotion Control: Identifying Neuro-Cognitive Abnormalities Predisposing to Hypertension (COEM)

Start date: Jun 1, 2013, End date: May 31, 2017,

Essential hypertension (EH) is the most important risk factor for cardio- and cerebro-vascular diseases, the most common cause of premature death in industrialized countries. This proposal addresses the hypothesis that neuro-cognitive abnormalities serve as a key risk factors in the development of EH. It is well established that patients with EH, and healthy individuals genetically at risk to deve ...
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Representation in Legal Proceedings (RIPL)

Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

Litigation in person is a widespread phenomenon in common law jurisdictions. A right to litigate in person is treated as a fundamental right in both civil and criminal proceedings, regardless of whether the litigant or the defendant has the financial means to hire a lawyer or the capacity to conduct litigation effectively. The proposed research has two primary objectives. First, to establish a gen ...
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Rapid adaptation to varying odor concentration (RAPIDODORADAPTATION)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

In day-to-day life during navigation, hunting, escaping from predator and social interactions, animals rely on sensory information in general and on olfactory cues in particular. A general feature common to all forms of sensory processing is adaptation, whereby in the presence of continuous stimulation, sensory receptors exhibit a marked reduction in responsiveness. Perceptual adaptation attenuate ...
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Narrating the Past in the Hindu Himalayas: On Social Memory in South Asian Oral Traditions (NPHH)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

The Eurocentric notion of South Asian Hindu society as intrinsically ahistorical due to its perception of time as cyclical has resulted in more than two centuries of misreading of Indian traditions. While this misperception has been viewed with increasing suspicion in recent decades, the scholars who attempt to read Indian texts with the aim of deciphering indigenous perceptions of the past remain ...
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From Gene Regulatory Networks to Specification, Differentiation and Morphogenesis in the sea urchin embryo (ECT-SPEC-DIFF-MORPH)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Dec 7, 2016,

A fundamental challenge in developmental biology is to understand how regulatory networks transform regulatory information into cell fate specification and differentiation. Addressing this challenge requires a comprehensive analysis of the regulatory connections between the transcription factors present in a cell and their regulatory and structural targets through developmental time. The sea urchi ...
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Ambiguity in Foreign Language Vocabulary Learning (AMBIGUITY IN FLVL)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Dec 7, 2016,

Understanding the pattern of interactions between the languages of multilingual speakers, and the mechanisms supporting efficient learning of a foreign-language are imperative in today's global society. For one, the majority of individuals in the world use more than one language in their daily lives. Second, many individuals are required to learn a foreign-language as adults, to be able to acquire ...
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The Human Brain Project (HBP)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

Understanding the human brain is one of the greatest challenges facing 21st century science. If we can rise to the challenge, we can gain profound insights into what makes us human, develop new treatments for brain diseases and build revolutionary new computing technologies. Today, for the first time, modern ICT has brought these goals within sight. The goal of the Human Brain Project, part of the ...
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Native-Born Youth of African Immigrants and Cardiovascular Risk: A Mixed Methods Study (BYAIMS)

Start date: Jul 1, 2012, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

Cardiovascular risk factors (CR) are the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in developed countries. By adolescence, CR of diet, exercise, blood pressure, body mass index, and smoking already are predictive of adulthood morbidity. Although genetics play a part in CR, health behaviors are the major contributors. Health status and service use differ between ethnic/racial groups (including im ...
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GAS SEEPS AND SUBMARINE SLIDES IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN: TOWARD COMPREHENSIVE GEOHAZARD PREVENTION (GASTIME)

Start date: May 1, 2012, End date: Apr 30, 2016,

The objectives of this proposal are to study the shaping mechanisms behind gas seepage and slope stability in the Levantine basin (eastern Mediterranean), and to understand the geological forces shaping and controlling sedimentary basins under similar conditions. Fluid escape features and mass transport deposits are common in hydrocarbon-prone basins. Thus, studying the relationship between these ...
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Marine microbial interactions – physiology, genomics and ecological modeling (MICROBES-2-MODEL)

Start date: Mar 1, 2012, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

Interactions between marine microorganisms such as symbiosis, competition, and allelopathy determine the structure and function of microbial communities, yet are relatively unstudied. We must understand these interactions at multiple levels in order to predict how marine microbial communities will evolve in a changing world. Here, I propose to study interactions between Prochlorococcus, the most ...
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Social Information Processing and Exposure to Political Violence: Relations to Maladaptive Behavior in Preschool Children (SIP in Israel)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2014,

The project proposed here aims to expand our understanding of the origins of maladjusted behaviors in children exposed to political violence by examining the complex set of links among levels of exposure to political violence, Social Information Processing patterns, and disruptive behavior in preschool children in Israel. Exposure to political violence refers here to constant and unpredictable exp ...
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Bilingualism, Foreign Language Learning and Executive Control (Predicting FLL)

Start date: Oct 1, 2009, End date: Jan 6, 2014,

This project has two interrelated goals. The first objective is to achieve a better understanding of the positive cognitive consequences of life long bilingualism, specifically in the domain of executive function. To this end, the performance of monolingual English and bilingual Hebrew-English speakers will be compared on several variants of the task-switching paradigm, sensitive to different mani ...
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Israel Researchers' Night 2013 (IRN2013)

Start date: May 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

"• With 7 years of experience, support (in time, efforts and funds) from Israel Ministry of Science and Technology, 36,500 visitors last year, one Guinness World Record, 14 venues all over Israel from Kiryat-Shmona in the very north to Eilat in the very south and a National TV, National Radio and major newspapers coverage our strong consortium is really committed to Researchers' Night success.• In ...
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Models and generic interfaces for easy and safe Battery insertion and removal in electric vehicles (EASYBAT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

"“The Battery is the Car”. New traction battery packs make the fully electric & plug-in vehicles more and more capable. Their share of the price of the car is set to become even more dominant. Factors driving this include the strident demand for better car range. Battery packs increasingly incorporate electronics for safety and power conversion. The integration of these new complex battery packs p ...
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Exploiting Social Networks for Building the Future Internet of Services (SocIoS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Feb 28, 2013,

In SocIoS we intend to use Social Networks as a vehicle towards the implementation of the Internet of Services concept. Social Networks have the potential to be the ideal future service marketplace because they concentrate four basic characteristics: mass participation of users, overabundance of material to be commercially exploited (i.e. content and social graphs), platforms based on web service ...
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Israel Researchers' Night 2012 (IRN2012)

Start date: May 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2012,

"Over 6 years of experience with Researchers' Night project and many more of engaging youngsters to science and scientists thought us that the more personal we make the event the more effective it will be on the long terms. In Researchers' Night 2012 we will try to make it moving, touching and unique by all means.Scientists will wear special shirts or badges to be easily identified and will call t ...
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Strengthening and development of Earth Observation activities for the environment in the Balkan area (OBSERVE)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2012,

"Balkan countries do not have a coherent and continuous approach towards the challenge of implementing integrated Earth Observation (EO) applications in environmental monitoring and management. It should be mentioned that the Balkan countries, except Greece, are not ESA members. Besides, Albania, Serbia, Bulgaria, FYROM, Montenegro and Bosnia Herzegovina are also not members of the GEO.The defect ...
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