Ensemble synthetic oversampling with pixel pair for class-imbalanced and small-sized hyperspectral data classification by Wei Feng, Yijun Long, Gabriel Dauphin, Yinghui Quan, Wenjiang Huang, Mengdao Xing

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Quality and Flavor of ‘Aliza’ Fruit: A Unique Pomelo × Mandarin Hybrid by Hagar Pardo, Abiola Owoyemi, Livnat Goldenberg, Yossi Yaniv, Ofir Benjamin, Adi Doron-Faigenboim, Ron Porat, Nir Carmi

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Latent Tuberculosis Treatment among Hard-to-Reach Ethiopian Immigrants: Nurse-Managed Directly Observed versus Self-Administered Isoniazid Therapy by Hashem Bishara, Manfred Green, Amer Saffouri, Daniel Weiler-Ravell

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Magneto-dielectric properties of doped ferrite based nanosized ceramics over very high frequency range by Ashish Saini, Pravendra Kumar, Blaise Ravelo, Sebastian Lallechere, Atul Thakur, Preeti Thakur

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The median age of a city’s residents and population density influence COVID 19 mortality growth rates: policy implications by Yuval Arbel, Yifat Arbel, Amichai Kerner, Miryam Kerner

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A novel approach for accurate quantification of lake residence time — Lake Kinneret as a case study by Yael Gilboa, Eran Friedler, Firas Talhami, Gideon Gal

“…The same is true for any other age class of water.The approach was applied to Lake Kinneret (Sea of Galilee) historical data collected over 32 years (1987-2018) and for prediction of long-term time series based on several future scenarios (inflows and outflows). …”
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Redistribution of Meiotic Crossovers Along Wheat Chromosomes by Virus-Induced Gene Silencing by Amir Raz, Amir Raz, Tal Dahan-Meir, Cathy Melamed-Bessudo, Dena Leshkowitz, Avraham A. Levy

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Inadequate identification of fatty liver disease, obesity, and metabolic syndrome by family physicians by Mahamid M, Khoury T, Amara H, Siadi M, Mohamed J, Mari A, Shalabi R, Sholy H, Nseir W

“…Mahmud Mahamid,1–3,* Tawfik Khoury,1,* Hana Amara,1 Mahmoud Siadi,1,3 Jabaren Mohamed,4 Amir Mari,1 Rafea Shalabi,5 Hisham Sholy,6 Wiliam Nseir3 1Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases Unit, EEMS, The Nazareth Hospital, Nazareth, Israel; 2Faculty of Medicine in the Galilee, Bar-Ilan University, Safed, Israel; 3Division of Internal Medicine, EMMS, The Nazareth Hospital, Nazareth, Israel; 4Cardiology Department, HaEmek Medical Center, Afula, Israel; 5Department of Internal Medicine, The Baruch Padeh Medical Center, Poriya, Israel; 6Liver Unit, Rambam Health Campus, Haifa, Israel *These authors contributed equally to this work Background: Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is an emerging condition and is constituted as a vital public health epidemic globally. …”
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Rapid and Low-Cost Detection and Quantification of SARS-CoV-2 Antibody Titers of ICU Patients with Respiratory Deterioration Using a Handheld Thermo-Photonic Device by Damber Thapa, Nakisa Samadi, Andrew Baker, Claudia dos Santos, Uriel Trahtemberg, Nima Tabatabaei

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Assisting primary care teams and patients in a culturally diverse periphery: impact on medical students’ future career choices by Nosaiba Rayan-Gharra, Lilach Malatskey, Marganit Ofir-Gutler, Rizan Sakhnini, Awni Yousef, Mohammad Khatib, Karl Skorecki, Sivan Spitzer

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Long‐term proliferation of large annual thistles in dry Mediterranean rangelands by Ori Segev, Carly Golodets, Zalmen Henkin, Haim Gorelik, Guy Dovrat

“…Using a 15‐year dataset from an extensive herbaceous pasture experiment in northeastern Galilee, Israel, we examined the effects of livestock management and climate on the cover and biomass of two dominant annual thistle species, Scolymus maculatus and Carthamus glaucus. …”
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Cardiac‐peripheral transvenous gradients of microRNA expression in systolic heart failure patients by Inbar Ben‐Zvi, Natalia Volinsky, Liza Grosman‐Rimon, Izhak Haviv, Guy Rozen, Nizar Andria, Nofar Asulin, Nufar Margalit, Ibrahim Marai, Offer Amir

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Medieval Roots of the Myth of Jewish Male Menstruation by Noga Roguin Maor, Ariel Roguin, Nathan Roguin

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Fodder, pasture, and the development of complex society in the Chalcolithic: isotopic perspectives on animal husbandry at Marj Rabba by Price, Max D, Rowan, Yorke M., Kersel, Morag M., Makarewicz, Cheryl A.

“…Here, we explore the role of multi-species livestock pasturing through carbon and nitrogen isotopic analysis of animal bones from Marj Rabba (Har Hasha’avi, West) in the Lower Galilee (ca. 4600–4200 cal. BC). Isotopic results suggest different pasturing/foddering of sheep compared with goats. …”
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Revisiting the species list of freshwater fish in Israel based on DNA barcoding by Roni Tadmor‐Levi, Tamar Feldstein‐Farkash, Dana Milstein, Daniel Golani, Noam Leader, Menachem Goren, Lior David

“…The study provides a thorough barcoding database, suggests significant species reconsiderations in the region, and highlights the Sea of Galilee and the Beit She'an valley streams as biodiversity “hotspots.” …”
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Cross-Modal Guidance Assisted Hierarchical Learning Based Siamese Network for MR Image Denoising by Rabia Naseem, Faouzi Alaya Cheikh, Azeddine Beghdadi, Khan Muhammad, Muhammad Sajjad

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Characterization of a Chickpea Mutant Resistant to <i>Phelipanche aegyptiaca</i> Pers. and <i>Orobanche crenata</i> Forsk by Shmuel Galili, Joseph Hershenhorn, Evgeny Smirnov, Koichi Yoneyama, Xiaonan Xie, Orit Amir-Segev, Aharon Bellalou, Evgenia Dor

“…Chickpea (<i>Cicer arietinum</i> L.) is a major pulse crop in Israel grown on about 3000 ha spread, from the Upper Galilee in the north to the North-Negev desert in the south. …”
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Early Detection and Intervention for Patients with Delirium Admitted to the Department of Internal Medicine: Lessons from a Pilot Initiative by Ron Oliven, Meital Rotfeld, Sharon Gino-Moor, Elad Schiff, Majed Odeh, Efrat Gil

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Racial and ethnic disparities in access to safe water and sanitation in high-income countries: a case study among the Arab-Bedouins of Southern Israel by Jesse D. Contreras, Haneen Shibli, Marisa C. Eisenberg, Ahmad S. Muhammad, Nadav Davidovitch, Mark A. Katz, Nihaya Daoud, Joseph N.S. Eisenberg

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Resolving the conflicts around Par2 opposing roles in regeneration by comparing immune-mediated and toxic-induced injuries by Gal Reches, Netta R. Blondheim Shraga, Florent Carrette, Assaf Malka, Natalia Saleev, Yehuda Gubbay, Offir Ertracht, Izhak Haviv, Linda M. Bradley, Fred Levine, Ron Piran

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