Yosef Kaplan. 1984. “Spinoza scholarship in Israel.” In Spinoza’s Political and Theological Thought, edited by De C Deugd, Pp. 19 - 22. Amsterdam, Oxford, New York: North-Holland Publishing Company.
A review of data on oral cancer in Israel revealed a lower incidence and a later onset age than in other countries. These data are reviewed and consideration is given to the high prevalence of smoking and the low incidence of alcoholism in Israel.
The effects of T-2 toxin on bacterial infection and leukocyte function and structure were examined in vivo and in vitro. Rats were innoculated with staphylococci after pretreatment with or without T-2 toxin. The T-2 pretreated rats failed to mount a cellular response to the bacteria. Blood and bone marrow cells were markedly suppressed by the T-2 toxin, the myeloid series being the most affected. In vitro studies with human leukocytes showed that small, nonkilling doses of T-2 toxin inhibited chemotaxis, chemiluminescence stimulated by bacteria, and phagocytosis of bacteria. It was concluded that this inhibition may contribute towards sepsis and rapid onset of death in T-2 toxin poisoning.
H Cedar, R Stein, Y Gruenbaum, T Naveh-Many, N Sciaky-Gallili, and A Razin. 1983. “Effect of DNA methylation on gene expression..” Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol, 47 Pt 2, Pp. 605-9.
Our tax system was designed for an economy with little or no inflation. The current paper shows that inflation causes capricious changes in the effective rate of tax on capital income and therefore in the real net rate of return that savers receive. This is not only a temporary disequilibrium effect but one which persists in steady-state equilibrium. Unlike earlier papers by Feldstein and by Green and Sheshinski, the current study recognizes that firms finance investment by both debt and equity in a ratio that depends on the tax rates and on the rate of inflation.(This abstract was borrowed from another version of this item.)
