Bar-Ilan University

About: Bar-Ilan University is a education organization based out in Ramat Gan, Israel. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Poison control. The organization has 12835 authors who have published 34964 publications receiving 995648 citations. The organization is also known as: Bar Ilan University & BIU.

Models of Somatic Hypermutation Targeting and Substitution Based on Synonymous Mutations from High-Throughput Immunoglobulin Sequencing Data

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The Challenge of Workforce Management in a Global Society

Abstract: Social work managers are increasingly challenged by the growing need to effectively manage workforce diversity and to create a welcoming and inclusive organizational environment. This is particularly important in light of the disproportional representation of women and members of minority groups in human service organizations and the gap between diversity of the client population versus the diversity of the staff. With social identity theory and inclusion-exclusion conceptual framework as a backdrop, this study tests a comprehensive theory-based model of the relationship between diversity, organizational culture, and employee outcomes. Using structural equations modeling, the proposed model was tested in a representative sample of one hundred and fourteen employees in a high tech company in Israel. The results point to significant paths between diversity and organizational-culture variables and between organizational-culture variables such as fairness, inclusion, stress, and social support to emp...

On the Role of Urban‐to‐Rural Remittances in Rural Development

Abstract: The postulations presented concerning the role of urban to rural remittances in agricultural devleopment stem from a new theoretical approach to rural to urban migration. At the core of this approach lies the utility maximizing family in its specific agricultural context. The easing of the surplus and risk constraints becomes a crucial conditions for carrying out desired technical change. It is rural to urban migration of a family member (i.e. a son or daughter) that by bypassing the credit and insurance markets who are biased against small farmers facilitiates the change. This migration succeeds in accomplishing by means of its dual role in the accumulation of surplus (acting as an intermediate investment) and through diversification of income sources in the control over the level of risk. From the perspective of the question at hand the implication of the new theoretical approach is manifold. First it is clear that urban to rural remittances cannot capture the total effect that rural to urban migration bears on rural development. Secondly urban to rural remittances cannot be assumed to account for the total accumulation of surplus consequent upon migration. In principle a farm produced surplus and an urban produced surplus account in different situations with differing weights for the total accumulation of surplus consequent upon migration. Urban to rural remittances cannot account for the impact of rural to urban migration on agricultural development or for its total surplus accumulation effect yet it is important to attempt to quanitify these remittances. 2 serious problems are inherent in the usage and interpretation of existing evidence. The 1st problem stems from the intertemporal changes in the magnitude of the urban to rural remittances flow and the second arises from the prevalence of a counter flow. There is no reason why remittances (and migration at large) should not be manipulated to become a vehicle of rural propensity even if they were not conducive to agricultural development in the past. This may require some minimal institutional intervention. Sufficient evidence exists to suggest that rural to urban migration and urban to rural remittances can and have been used to transform agricultural modes of production. What a constructive approach should do is try to analyze why in other cases urban ro rural remittances have been less instrumental to agricultural development.

Attachment orientations, sexual functioning, and relationship satisfaction in a community sample of women

Abstract: The current research focuses on the detrimental effects of attachment insecurities on sexuality and relationship quality. A community sample of 96 women completed self-report scales tapping attachment orientations; relationship satisfaction; sex-related affect and cognitions; and sexual functioning. Findings indicate that although both attachment anxiety and avoidance were associated with aversive sexual affect and cognitions, attachment anxiety was more detrimental to sexual functioning. In addition, only attachment anxiety was significantly associated with relational and sexual dissatisfaction, however, sexual satisfaction mediates the association between attachment anxiety and relationship satisfaction. The possibility that attachment orientations are associated with different strategies and interaction goals in the operation of the sexual system within romantic relationships is discussed.