Who were the Kaška?

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Optimal Nutrition Care for all, from Policy to Action – A National Nutrition Program in Israel

Abstract \ Background \ Malnutrition is a significant public health problem which includes both ends of the nutrition spectrum, with obesity and overweight at one end and under nutrition at the other. Israel is one of 14 countries in Europe which has joined the European Nutrition for Health Alliance (ENHA) whose common goals are ‘Optimal Nutrition Care for All\u27(ONCA). Israel is unique in that the four health maintenance organizations, which provide coverage for all, are fully computerized, with big accessible data. \ Objective \ Creating national awareness for better nutrition for all the population. \ Methods \ Four subcommittees were formed to develop policy: interventions in hospitals; within the community; communication and patient opinion; continuity of care with the aid of computerized and big data tools. \ Results \ All stakeholders signed a charter which included: Implementation of weighing in all health-care settings; screening for malnutrition; creating health quality indicators; improving the nutritional quality of food served to patients in hospital settings; continuity of treatment-care sequence; promoting a healthy lifestyle for the entire population and establishing a national malnutrition registry. \ Conclusion \ Multidisciplinary teams must work together at a national level towards reaching the goal of ‘Optimal Nutrition Care for All\u27 against malnutrition.

Carr, David M., Writing on the Tablet of the Heart: Origins of Scripture and Literature. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv + 330. Hardcover. U$S 65.00. ISBN 0195172973

This exceptionally erudite and readable book examines the educational curriculum in several ancient Near Eastern and Eastern Hellenistic cultures. In the wake of the renewed scholarly interest in the interplay between orality and textuality in pre-modern societies (especially the studies of Susan Niditch on ancient Israelite literature), Carr’s study breaks new ground by investigating the ways in which both writing and oral traditions worked in tandem in shaping the social identities of literate elites. Part I investigates the educational curriculums of two pre-alphabetic cultures, Mesopotamia and Egypt, which are then compared to the alphabetic cultures of early Israel and Greece. In cuneiform cultures the written media of instructional texts have survived in large numbers and provide a wealth of information pertaining to the subsequent revisions of the learning curriculum over the course of more than two thousand years. Though less abundant, the Egyptian educational materials demonstrate even more clearly how textuality was used as part of a broader process of enculturation of literate elites. The emphasis in both educational systems was not so much in preparing the students for everyday scribal tasks, but rather on passing on the basic core of “cultural texts”, which, as defined by Jan Assman, were highly authoritative compositions by virtue of their extreme antiquity and numinosity..

Towards the image of Dagon, the god of the Philistines

Singer Itamar. Towards the image of Dagon, the god of the Philistines. In: Syria. Tome 69 fascicule 3-4, 1992. pp. 431-450

Past links : studies in the languages and cultures of the ancient near east /

Includes bibliographical references

Muwatalli's prayer to the assembly of gods through the storm-god of lightning (CTH 381) /

Includes bibliographical references

Cellular Levels of Signaling Factors Are Sensed by β-actin Alleles to Modulate Transcriptional Pulse Intensity

The transcriptional response of β-actin to extra-cellular stimuli is a paradigm for transcription factor complex assembly and regulation. Serum induction leads to a precisely timed pulse of β-actin transcription in the cell population. Actin protein is proposed to be involved in this response, but it is not known whether cellular actin levels affect nuclear β-actin transcription. We perturbed the levels of key signaling factors and examined the effect on the induced transcriptional pulse by following endogenous β-actin alleles in single living cells. Lowering serum response factor (SRF) protein levels leads to loss of pulse integrity, whereas reducing actin protein levels reveals positive feedback regulation, resulting in elevated gene activation and a prolonged transcriptional response. Thus, transcriptional pulse fidelity requires regulated amounts of signaling proteins, and perturbations in factor levels eliminate the physiological response, resulting in either tuning down or exaggeration of the transcriptional pulse

Antiguo Oriente: Cuadernos del Centro de Estudios de Historia del Antiguo Oriente, 2006, n° 4 (número completo)

How old is the Kingdom of Edom? A review of new evidence and recent discussion / Eveline Van Der Steen ; Piotr Bienkowski -- A problem of pedubasts? / Dan´El Kahn -- Le ciel selon l´Hymne Orphique à Ouranos et selon des textes funéraires égyptiens (PT, CT, BD): une brève comparaison préliminaire / Amanda–Alice Marvelia -- An epigraphic reanalysis of Two Stelae from Firs Intermediate Period Dendera in the Cairo Museum / Tracy Musacchio -- Mass production in Mesopotamia / Morris Silver -- Iron Age “negative” pottery: a reassessment / Juan Manuel Tebes -- The Cordage from the 2001- Season of the excavations at Berenike (Egyptian Red Sea Coast): preliminary results / André J. Veldmeijer -- Article review. Carr, David M., Writing of the Tablet of the Heart: origins of scripture and literature / Itamar Singer -- Reseñas bibliográficas -- Política editoria