Simon Rabinowitz
Yale University, Economics, Undergraduate
BACKGROUND & AIMS The eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) endoscopic reference score (EREFS) was developed to analyze adults with EoE and has been successfully applied to a pediatric cohort. The present study compares EREFS scores in... more
BACKGROUND & AIMS The eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) endoscopic reference score (EREFS) was developed to analyze adults with EoE and has been successfully applied to a pediatric cohort. The present study compares EREFS scores in younger and older children with EoE. METHODS The 99 patients were divided among three cohorts: 44 Active EoE (EoE-A); 16 EoE-remission (EoE-R), and 39 controls (esophageal dysfunction but < 15 eos/hpf). The cohorts were then subdivided into two groups: younger (≤ 10 years) and older (> 10 years) that were compared based on the composite and the individual components of their EREFS scores. RESULTS EREFS identified active EoE in all children with an AUC of 0.85, in older children with an AUC of 0.90 and in younger children with an AUC of 0.77. Mean EREFS for ≤ 10 years was 1.26 ± 1.19 and 2.71 ± 1.33 for > 10 years (p < 0.01). The three most common findings in our entire EoE-A cohort and in both ages were furrows, edema and exudates. EREFS scores in EoE-A patients had similar specificities (0.88 vs 0.89) and positive predictive values (0.89 vs 0.91) in both ages. CONCLUSIONS The present investigation confirms the utilization of EREFS scores in Pediatric EoE. Furthermore, EREFS can detect EoE and document response to treatment in both younger and older children. However, EREFS scores predicted EoE in the older children with a higher sensitivity (0.89 vs 0.63) and a higher negative predictive value (0.87 vs 0.59) than was seen in the younger cohort.
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Electric shocks and fires represent two different ways for rooftop photovoltaic energy systems to affect public health adversely during installation, operation or removal. Analysis of a U.S. Department of Energy residential application... more
Electric shocks and fires represent two different ways for rooftop photovoltaic energy systems to affect public health adversely during installation, operation or removal. Analysis of a U.S. Department of Energy residential application demonstration project suggest that the voltage generated by six modules connected in series could be sufficient to cause ventricular fibrillation and possibly death. Extrapolation of these results to future installations is limited by lack of failure mode data for various designs representing state-of-the-art module and rooftop applications. Two causes of fire include (i) electrical fires from short circuits and (ii) spontaneous combustion from heat build-up in dead air space. Crude upper-boundary estimates for fire-related risk are less than one reportable fire and less than 10−2 deaths per year per 10 MWp cumulative installed capacity. Although the marginal risk to society from these hazards may low, the potential risk to exposed individuals is high. Continued evaluation of safeguard effectiveness merits further consideration.
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One-year follow-up data on 16 patients is presented. Typical treatment approaches used in other programs (2) were not followed because they do not address the complexity of the military milieu. The program Screening and assessment. We... more
One-year follow-up data on 16 patients is presented. Typical treatment approaches used in other programs (2) were not followed because they do not address the complexity of the military milieu. The program Screening and assessment. We instituted a regional prevention and short-term treatment program for soldiers with anorexia nervosa. To identify cases, all female soldiers (more than 1,000) were weighed and measured once, on an unscheduled basis, during a six-month period
Research Interests: Brief Psychotherapy, Family Therapy, Body Image, Anorexia Nervosa, Israel, and 14 moreHumans, Hospitalization, Female, Cognitive Therapy, Feeding Behavior, Length of Stay, Adult, Patient Care Team, Public health systems and services research, Psychiatric Services, Military Personnel, Life Change Events, Combined Modality Therapy, and clomipramine
This paper presents an applied innovative rear-echelon approach for the treatment of recalcitrant soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder in the 1982 Lebanon-Israel War. This was used as an alternative to psychiatric... more
This paper presents an applied innovative rear-echelon approach for the treatment of recalcitrant soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder in the 1982 Lebanon-Israel War. This was used as an alternative to psychiatric hospitalization. Use was made of a short-term, goal-directed, multidisciplinary treatment approach within the confines of a clear military setting. Reintegration into military and civilian life was an integral part of the program. Results indicated that at discharge, all soldiers showed a markedly improved clinical picture. Follow-up results 2.5 years later indicated that the percentage of regulars who returned to combat units doubled, whereas the reservists showed a slight tendency toward deterioration. Follow-up 6 years later showed the continuation of the same tendency. Ramifications of our findings are extensively discussed.
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In this study, the amount of psychological distress reported by soldiers is investigated and measured over time. The soldiers--enlisted and career--were randomly chosen while visiting five different military primary care clinics (for... more
In this study, the amount of psychological distress reported by soldiers is investigated and measured over time. The soldiers--enlisted and career--were randomly chosen while visiting five different military primary care clinics (for ostensible somatic problems) and administered the General Health Questionnaire (Goldberg and Huxley, 1980). A third of the subjects were given the GHQ a year later. Fifty-two percent showed psychological stress: combat soldiers showed considerably less distress than technical/maintenance and administrative soldiers, and the psychological stress findings remained relatively stable over time. Possible explanations for these findings are discussed.
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The terminal fibrinogen degradation product fragment D1 is known to regulate fibrinogen synthesis but the determinants in the D1 molecule responsible for this property are not known. The effect of fragment D1 on fibrinogen synthesis by... more
The terminal fibrinogen degradation product fragment D1 is known to regulate fibrinogen synthesis but the determinants in the D1 molecule responsible for this property are not known. The effect of fragment D1 on fibrinogen synthesis by the isolated perfused rat liver was studied using the (14C) carbonate method. Addition of 25 mg of fragment D1 to 100 ml of whole blood perfusate resulted in a significant increase in fibrinogen synthesis. When the C-terminal end of the gamma-chain of D1 was further plasmin-degraded to form fragment D3 this fibrinogen-enhancing effect was lost. Our studies suggest that the C-terminal of the gamma-chain of fragment D1 plays a role in regulating fibrinogen synthesis by the isolated rat liver.
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This preliminary study concerned examining a number of psychosocial and medical factors involved in the referral of 207 conscripted soldiers to an Israel Air Force Base Mental Health Clinic. These factors were age, sex, education, source... more
This preliminary study concerned examining a number of psychosocial and medical factors involved in the referral of 207 conscripted soldiers to an Israel Air Force Base Mental Health Clinic. These factors were age, sex, education, source of referral, and timing of referral during service. The nature of medical complaints before and after psychological intervention was also examined. Results suggest an effective medical psychological cooperation can significantly reduce minor psychological problems in a population of drafted soldiers.
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This study investigated the amount of psychological distress reported by 182 soldiers in the Israeli military and compared soldiers&amp;amp;amp;#39; self-ratings of distress with ratings by military physicians of observed distress.... more
This study investigated the amount of psychological distress reported by 182 soldiers in the Israeli military and compared soldiers&amp;amp;amp;#39; self-ratings of distress with ratings by military physicians of observed distress. Comparisons indicated a low detection rate by physicians with only 13% of self-reported cases of emotional distress identified. This and several related findings were taken to indicate shortcomings in medical care. Possible remedies include additional psychiatric training for military physicians, less frequent rotation of physicians to allow for more stable care, and the initiation of mental health education among soldiers.
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The complex nature of malingering observed in the military is examined, and a practical approach to the handling of such behaviour in the clinical setting is outlined. The complementary tasks of the mental health professional, the primary... more
The complex nature of malingering observed in the military is examined, and a practical approach to the handling of such behaviour in the clinical setting is outlined. The complementary tasks of the mental health professional, the primary care physician, and other community agents are discussed.
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ABSTRACT The relative absence of {bar {nu}}{sub {mu}}-induced charged current events with respect to {nu}{sub {mu}}-induced events at large ({gt}0.45) and large {ital y} ({gt}0.70) enables us to limit the right handed coupling of the weak... more
ABSTRACT The relative absence of {bar {nu}}{sub {mu}}-induced charged current events with respect to {nu}{sub {mu}}-induced events at large ({gt}0.45) and large {ital y} ({gt}0.70) enables us to limit the right handed coupling of the weak current. Our data restrict {vert bar}{eta}{vert bar}{sup 2}={vert bar}{ital g}{sub {ital R}}/{ital g}{sub {ital L}}{vert bar}{sup 2}{lt}0.0 015 with 90% C.L. Within the framework of left-right symmetric models, this measurement imposes a limit upon the mixing angle of the left and right handed bosons. Unlike the limits imposed by the {mu}-decay and nuclear {beta}-decay experiments, our limit is valid irrespective of the mass of the right handed neutrino.
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ABSTRACT Measurements have been made of muon-production and penetration-depth probabilities (punchthrough probabilities) for showers produced by 40-, 70-, and 100-GeV negative hadrons incident on an iron-scintillator calorimeter of a... more
ABSTRACT Measurements have been made of muon-production and penetration-depth probabilities (punchthrough probabilities) for showers produced by 40-, 70-, and 100-GeV negative hadrons incident on an iron-scintillator calorimeter of a maximum depth of 4.8 m of steel. These results are also given for incident 70-GeV identified pions and kaons. Comparisons are made of punchthrough probabilities measured with pulse heights from scintillation counters and drift chambers. The transverse-radius distributions of particles in hadronic cascades are presented as a function of depth in the calorimeter.
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Soldiers with severe Posttraumatic Stress Disorder who did not respond favourably to the front echelon treatment units, were treated in a rear echelon treatment centre, named Combat Fitness Retraining Unit, an alternative to psychiatric... more
Soldiers with severe Posttraumatic Stress Disorder who did not respond favourably to the front echelon treatment units, were treated in a rear echelon treatment centre, named Combat Fitness Retraining Unit, an alternative to psychiatric hospitalization. The soldiers were given individual clinical interviews; their combat potential scores were measured to tap premorbid factors which may have contributed to the development of symptoms. Analysis indicated that (1) in the clinical interview subjects showed clear interpersonal, school, family, and army adjustment problems prior to the trauma, (2) soldiers with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder treated in the rear unit tended to come from the lower end of the military combat potential level. Ramifications of these findings were carefully elucidated.
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The importance of health responsibility as one aspect of a health-promoting lifestyle has been emphasized repeatedly. Yet there are only a few empirical studies of its role in preventive behavior. We examined the relationship between... more
The importance of health responsibility as one aspect of a health-promoting lifestyle has been emphasized repeatedly. Yet there are only a few empirical studies of its role in preventive behavior. We examined the relationship between health responsibility and early-detection practices for breast and cervical cancer. A group of 253 women employees of a large industrial company participated in a cancer screening program subsidized by the employer. They completed questionnaires assessing health responsibility and reported early-detection practices: frequency of breast self-examination and physician breast examinations, frequency of Pap tests, and time lapsed since last Pap test and breast examinations. Health responsibility was a significant independent predictor of breast examination indicators but not of Pap tests. Education level was an important predictor for Pap tests, and age predicted most early-detection practices. The findings lend some support to the role of health responsibility in initiating breast examinations. Better prediction of early-detection practices could be achieved by adding cognitive and emotional components to the existing responsibility scale and by distinguishing between retrospective and prospective responsibility.
Research Interests: Nursing, Health Promotion, Self Care, Medicine, Humans, and 13 moreWorkplace health promotion, Female, Cancer Screening, Cervical Cancer, Empirical Study, Middle Aged, Early Detection, Adult, Public health systems and services research, Breast Self Examination, Occupational therapy services in mental health services, Breast Neoplasms, and Uterine Cervical Neoplasms
Abstract: With reading, as with all academic content and skills, effective instruction is informed by sound assessment. Teachers' knowledge about classroom-embedded reading assessment must continue to be developed so that they can... more
Abstract: With reading, as with all academic content and skills, effective instruction is informed by sound assessment. Teachers' knowledge about classroom-embedded reading assessment must continue to be developed so that they can use the information it yields to ...
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1. Replaced semistructued outpatient case records at a military psychiatric clinic with a structured recording and feedback system to improve clinicians' performance in completing records. Four records kept by each of the... more
1. Replaced semistructued outpatient case records at a military psychiatric clinic with a structured recording and feedback system to improve clinicians' performance in completing records. Four records kept by each of the clinic's 14 clinicians were compared ...
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Plasma membrane receptors control macrophage activities such as growth, differentiation and activation, migration, recognition, endocytosis and secretion. They are therefore important in a wide range of physiological and pathological... more
Plasma membrane receptors control macrophage activities such as growth, differentiation and activation, migration, recognition, endocytosis and secretion. They are therefore important in a wide range of physiological and pathological processes including host defence, ...
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1. Curr Top Microbiol Immunol. 1992;181:1-37. Antigen markers of macrophage differentiation in murine tissues. Gordon S, Lawson L, Rabinowitz S, Crocker PR, Morris L, Perry VH. Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford,... more
1. Curr Top Microbiol Immunol. 1992;181:1-37. Antigen markers of macrophage differentiation in murine tissues. Gordon S, Lawson L, Rabinowitz S, Crocker PR, Morris L, Perry VH. Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, United Kingdom. ...
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Research Interests: Positron Emission Tomography, Medicine, Prospective studies, Humans, Female, and 15 moreMale, Differential Diagnosis, Aged, Cardiac Catheterization, Middle Aged, Coronary Angiography, Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography, Nuclear Cardiology, Public health systems and services research, Prognosis, Myocardial Perfusion Imaging, Coronary Artery Disease, The American, Severity of Illness Index, and Cardiovascular medicine and haematology
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Wheat germ agglutinin (WGA) has been used to define biochemical differences between exudate and resident macrophages in the peritoneal cavity of mice. Western blotting with 125I-WGA identifies a restricted set of glycoproteins in elicited... more
Wheat germ agglutinin (WGA) has been used to define biochemical differences between exudate and resident macrophages in the peritoneal cavity of mice. Western blotting with 125I-WGA identifies a restricted set of glycoproteins in elicited peritoneal macrophages (M phi) (recruited with thioglycollate or periodate) and fully activated M phi (recruited with live Bacille Calmette-Guérin, or heat-killed Corynebacterium parvum); the major species migrates with Mr 89-115 kDa in 10% acrylamide gels. These glycoproteins are not detected in resident peritoneal M phi, nor in thymocytes, neutrophils, lymphocytes and a variety of non-M phi cell lines. The binding of WGA is sensitive to neuraminidase, which exposes binding sites on these proteins for peanut agglutinin and reduces their electrophoretic mobility; these features are typical of O-linked sialo-oligosaccharides. In culture, exudate M phi increase their WGA-binding content over 48 h, and continue to display a phenotype distinct from tha...
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Background Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) is defined as esophageal dysfunction in the presence of > 15 intraepithelial eosinophils per high-power field (eos/hpf) in either the mid or distal esophagus. The current focus of EoE... more
Background Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) is defined as esophageal dysfunction in the presence of > 15 intraepithelial eosinophils per high-power field (eos/hpf) in either the mid or distal esophagus. The current focus of EoE pathologic evaluation is the peak eosinophil count (PEC), although histologic features other than eosinophilic inflammation are also commonly observed. In addition, histologic variance between the mid and distal esophagus in EoE has not been rigorously studied. The aim of our study was to utilize a recently developed EoE histologic scoring system (EoEHSS) to compare the mid and the distal esophageal histology in patients with active EoE (EoE-A), EoE in remission (EoE-R), and gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). Methods EoEHSS was used to prospectively evaluate the severity and extent of changes in multiple histopathologic features (PEC; basal zone hyperplasia (BZH); eosinophilic abscesses (EA); eosinophil surface layering (ESL); dilated intercellular spac...
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Page 1. Journal of Applied Psychology 1978, Vol. 63, No. 1, 62-72 Effects of Top-Down Departmental and Job Change upon Perceived Employee Behavior and Attitudes: A Natural Field Experiment Douglas T. Hall Department ...
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... as rational functions of R, r, and s. In fact, the same argument shows further that none of these expressions can be expressed as rational functions of R, r, s, a, b, c, and K, where a, b, and c are the lengths of the sides of the... more
... as rational functions of R, r, and s. In fact, the same argument shows further that none of these expressions can be expressed as rational functions of R, r, s, a, b, c, and K, where a, b, and c are the lengths of the sides of the triangle and K is its area. ... [1] Anders Bager, ???A Family of ...
A stainless steel external tendon splint was used in repair of cadaver tendons and compared with standard tendon repairs with suture. The splint was combined with a Kessler repair and tested against the Kessler, Becker, and Savage repairs... more
A stainless steel external tendon splint was used in repair of cadaver tendons and compared with standard tendon repairs with suture. The splint was combined with a Kessler repair and tested against the Kessler, Becker, and Savage repairs in fresh human cadaver flexor digitorum profundus tendons. Biomechanical testing was done on a tensile testing machine, and load-displacement curves were generated.
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The cyclic stress-strain behaviour of a wide variety of rigid polymers has been studied. Three classes of fatigue response can be defined, each class displaying a characteristic evolutionary pattern in the stress-strain relation as... more
The cyclic stress-strain behaviour of a wide variety of rigid polymers has been studied. Three classes of fatigue response can be defined, each class displaying a characteristic evolutionary pattern in the stress-strain relation as deformation proceeds from the initial fatigue cycle to fatigue-crack propagation. Ductile polymers undergo a marked decrease in deformation resistance prior to crack formation; the detailed mechanism
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The yield behaviour of poly(methylmethacrylate) (PMMA) has been investigated in tension and compression over a range of testing temperatures and strain-rates. Both tensile and compressive yield stresses were found to increase... more
The yield behaviour of poly(methylmethacrylate) (PMMA) has been investigated in tension and compression over a range of testing temperatures and strain-rates. Both tensile and compressive yield stresses were found to increase monotonically with increasing strainrate and decreasing temperatures. Compressive yield stresses were in general found to be more dependent on strain-rate.
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To compare anxiety of 15 hirsute women and of 20 control subjects (student nurses) seen at the Soroka Medical Center, Israel, three hypotheses were considered: patients with hirsutism have significantly higher state anxiety than the... more
To compare anxiety of 15 hirsute women and of 20 control subjects (student nurses) seen at the Soroka Medical Center, Israel, three hypotheses were considered: patients with hirsutism have significantly higher state anxiety than the control sample; patients with hirsutism show significantly higher trait anxiety than the control sample; the extent of hirsutism generates no significant differences in state or trait anxiety. The two groups were compared on the Hebrew version of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory. The first two hypotheses were confirmed but no correlation was found between extent of hirsutism and state or trait anxiety. The findings are discussed and implications made with regard to physicians&#39; understanding of the hirsute patient.
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If the boundaries between art and life dissolve it will be the result of artists migrating towards a new order of artmaking, abandoning the conventional standards and practices and becoming'new practitioners' or systems... more
If the boundaries between art and life dissolve it will be the result of artists migrating towards a new order of artmaking, abandoning the conventional standards and practices and becoming'new practitioners' or systems integrators, who produce situations, contexts and ...
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... 60510 A. Bodek, HS Budd, P. de Barbaro, and WK Sakumoto University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627 PH Sandler and WH Smith University of ... functions be well known, it is crucial that the calibration of Ehad relative to EJ,... more
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... I wish to thank the many people who supplied details about unsolved problems and papers that reference problems: Julia Abrahams, Petter Bjarstad, FS Cater, Peter Giblin, Doug Hensley, James Hirschfeld, Melvin Hochster, Kenneth R.... more
... I wish to thank the many people who supplied details about unsolved problems and papers that reference problems: Julia Abrahams, Petter Bjarstad, FS Cater, Peter Giblin, Doug Hensley, James Hirschfeld, Melvin Hochster, Kenneth R. Kellum, Armel Mercier, Thomas E. Moore ...