... The conquest of Lydda (and of its neighbor, Ramla, some five kilometers to the south) was the ... Palestine and capture Rumallah and Nablus. Lydda and Ramla and the surrounding villages fell within the boundaries ... The only regular Arab troops defending Lydda (and Ramla) was a minuscule force of 125 men-the ... Transjordanian Arab Legion. The defenders of Lydda (and Ramla) were volunteer civilian residents, like the author, under ... absence of Arab regular troops in the Lydda-Ramla sector was that the Arab armies closest to ...
Tópico(s): Intelligence, Security, War Strategy
1998 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Palestine Studies
Margaret E. Daube-Witherspoon, Samuel Matej, Joel S. Karp, R.M. Lewitt,
... The 3D row action maximum likelihood algorithm (3D RAMLA) with spherically-symmetric basis functions (blobs) has recently ... but still using 3D basis functions (2.5D RAMLA. In this study 2.5D RAMLA and 3D RAMLA were applied to several patient and phantom PET datasets to assess their clinical performance. RAMLA performance was compared to that for the reconstruction ... maximization algorithm (FORE+OSEM), and FORE+2.5D RAMLA for various reconstruction parameters. The 3D Hoffman brain ... with the 3D reprojection algorithm (3DRP) and 3D RAMLA, as well, as FORE+FBP, FORE+OSEM, and ...
Tópico(s): Advanced X-ray and CT Imaging
2001 - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
... 3, “A Tale of Two Cities: Jerusalem and Ramla in the Early Islamic Period,” consists of an examination of two major case studies, Jerusalem and Ramla. The significance in the selection of these two ... established Romano/Byzantine politico-religious urban center, and Ramla, built as a new Muslim capital city.Jerusalem ... scholarship exists on the subject. Comparative examination of Ramla also raises this question.Ramla was a new city in the eighth century ... Caesarea” as the capital of the region. In Ramla, one finds a new concept of orthogonal urban ...
Tópico(s): Biblical Studies and Interpretation
2014 - Penn State University Press | Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology & Heritage Studies
Stephen Chiang, Chris Cardi, Samuel Matej, Hongming Zhuang, Andrew B. Newberg, Abass Alavi, Joel S. Karp,
... based upon the row action maximum likelihood algorithm (RAMLA) implemented on our clinical scanners. The purpose of ... was to investigate if the fully 3-D RAMLA reconstruction software brings an appreciable improvement in clinical ... our institution were reconstructed using 2.5-D RAMLA and 3-D RAMLA with differing reconstruction parameters. These scans were blindly ... image quality.Our study concluded that 3-D RAMLA on the CPET scanner reduces artifacts and image ... led to the routine use of 3-D RAMLA reconstruction on the CPET scanner at our institution.
Tópico(s): Digital Radiography and Breast Imaging
2004 - Lippincott Williams & Wilkins | Nuclear Medicine Communications
Produção Nacional
Jolyon A. Browne, A.B. de Pierro,
... authors present a row-action maximum likelihood algorithm (RAMLA) as an alternative to the EM algorithm for ... of computer simulations that the early iterates of RAMLA increase the Poisson likelihood in ECT at an ... phantoms, iterations 1, 2, 3, and 4 of RAMLA perform at least as well as iterations 45, ... that iterations 1, 2, 3, and 4 of RAMLA achieve comparable likelihood values as iterations 45, 60, ... subsets EM (OS-EM) algorithm and show that RAMLA is a special case of this modified OS- ...
Tópico(s): Radiation Dose and Imaging
1996 - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
Marión Prévost, Yossi Zaidner,
... focusing on the centripetal Levallois method at Nesher Ramla karst sinkhole, Israel. Nesher Ramla karst sinkhole is dated to the Marine Isotope ... the lithic organization at Unit III of Nesher Ramla (dated to MIS 5), which is dominated by ... The lithic data from Unit III of Nesher Ramla is further used in inter-site comparisons suggesting ...
Tópico(s): Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
2020 - Public Library of Science | PLoS ONE
Iris Groman-Yaroslavski, Marión Prévost, Yossi Zaidner,
... of flint tools from Unit III of Nesher Ramla, central Israel, an open-air Middle Paleolithic site, ... grip. The most widely used tools in Nesher Ramla were the naturally backed knives that according to ... one of the goals of knapping at Nesher Ramla. Tools with a lateral tranchet blow, representing a cultural marker of the Nesher Ramla inhabitants, show evidence of multiple use of both ...
Tópico(s): Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
2021 - Elsevier BV | Quaternary International
Takeshi Tomiyama, Keiichi Ishihara, Masaya Suda, Koji Kanaya, Minoru Sakurai, Naoto Takahashi, Hitoshi Takano, Koichi Nitta, Kenta Hakozaki, Shin‐ichiro Kumita,
... 3-dimensional row-action maximum likelihood algorithm (3D-RAMLA). Qualitative and quantitative analyses from the TOF-OSEM and 3D-RAMLA reconstructions were compared. Count profile curves revealed that ... higher with TOF-OSEM use than with 3D-RAMLA use (rest MBF: 0.955 ± 0.201 vs ... reconstruction was lower than that observed using 3D-RAMLA (2.25 ± 0.57 vs 2.46 ± 0. ...
Tópico(s): Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics
2014 - Springer Science+Business Media | Journal of Nuclear Cardiology
Michael D. Petraglia, Ash Parton, Huw S. Groucutt, Abdullah Alsharekh,
... the Middle Paleolithic open-air site at Nesher Ramla, on the central coastal plain of Israel. The ... other proxies from the multidisciplinary studies at Nesher Ramla, indicate an arboreal setting with relatively humid and ... that wood was used as fuel at Nesher Ramla. Given the scarcity of Middle Paleolithic sites in ... have yielded charcoal, this new data from Nesher Ramla constitutes an important contribution to the study of ...
Tópico(s): Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
2015 - Elsevier BV | Quaternary International
... is meager. The Middle Paleolithic site of Nesher Ramla, Israel, represents a rare case in which sidescrapers ... the life history of sidescrapers retrieved from Nesher Ramla. We ask how the LSF removal changed the ... and flat edge. The LSF removal at Nesher Ramla provides an exceptional case in which a simple ...
Tópico(s): Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
2015 - Elsevier BV | Quaternary International
Yossi Zaidner, Amos Frumkin, David E. Friesem, Alexander Tsatskin, Ruth Shahack‐Gross,
... the recently discovered open-air site of Nesher Ramla (Israel) and discuss their contribution to understanding site ... analysis of natural and anthropogenic processes at Nesher Ramla suggests a much wider spectrum of processes than previously reported for southern Levantine Paleolithic sites. Nesher Ramla shares certain depositional and post-depositional characteristics with ...
Tópico(s): Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
2016 - Elsevier BV | Quaternary Science Reviews
Llorenç Picornell-Gelabert, Ethel Allué, Marie Agnès Courty,
... the Middle Paleolithic open-air site at Nesher Ramla, on the central coastal plain of Israel. The ... other proxies from the multidisciplinary studies at Nesher Ramla, indicate an arboreal setting with relatively humid and ... that wood was used as fuel at Nesher Ramla. Given the scarcity of Middle Paleolithic sites in ... have yielded charcoal, this new data from Nesher Ramla constitutes an important contribution to the study of ...
Tópico(s): Isotope Analysis in Ecology
2016 - Elsevier BV | Quaternary International
Laura Centi, Iris Groman-Yaroslavski, Neta Friedman, Maya Oron, Marión Prévost, Yossi Zaidner,
... flint retouchers or “bulb retouchers” retrieved from Nesher Ramla and Quneitra, two Middle Palaeolithic, open-air sites in the Levant. The site of Nesher Ramla yielded the largest assemblage of bulb retouchers (n = ... a special emphasis on convergent morphotypes in Nesher Ramla. The use of retouched items as bulb retouchers ... bulb retouchers within some archaeological units of Nesher Ramla appear to be connected to the highly curated ...
Tópico(s): Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
2019 - Public Library of Science | PLoS ONE
Amos Frumkin, Chanan Dimentman, Israel Naaman,
The Ayyalon - Nesher Ramla (ANR) system combines hypogenic karst with endemic subterranean fauna. The unique faunal assemblage utilizes chemosynthetic food web based upon ... high endemism of terrestrial troglobites at Ayyalon - Nesher Ramla caves indicate longer isolation age, most probably ~14 ... middle Miocene sediments share similar features with Nesher Ramla sinkholes, suggesting that they share the same formation ...
Tópico(s): Turtle Biology and Conservation
2020 - Elsevier BV | Quaternary International
Marión Prévost, Laura Centi, Yossi Zaidner,
The open-air Middle Paleolithic site at Nesher Ramla, Israel, dated to the end of Marine Isotope ... the retouched edge of the blank. In Nesher Ramla, this technique is used for producing a specific ... 8-m-thick Middle Paleolithic sequence of Nesher Ramla representing the major typological category in some of ... analysis of the tools and spalls from Nesher Ramla Unit III, one of the richest archaeological layers ... the goal of the LTB technique at Nesher Ramla was to manufacture a tool with an edge ... along the 8-m-thick stratigraphy of Nesher Ramla suggests that the LTB technique was one of ...
Tópico(s): Paleopathology and ancient diseases
2020 - Elsevier BV | Quaternary International
... paper presents a row-action maximum likelihood algorithm (RAMLA), in which the relaxation parameter is controlled in ... coefficients among lines of coincidence response. The proposed RAMLA using the subset-dependent (dynamic) relaxation 'dynamic RAMLA (DRAMA)' provides a reasonable signal-to-noise ratio ...
Tópico(s): Advanced X-ray and CT Imaging
2003 - IOP Publishing | Physics in Medicine and Biology
... of the seven ribāṭs that protected the capital Ramla until the Crusader conquest. Like the others, Arsūf ... backed up by a fort) and linked to Ramla by a line of watchtowers. The overwhelming majority ... crafts, industry, farming, and trade. The proximity to Ramla made it necessary for regular soldiers and volunteers ...
Tópico(s): Global Maritime and Colonial Histories
2008 - Oxford University Press | Journal of Islamic Studies
A. Teymurazyan, Terence A. Riauka, H Jans, Don Robinson,
... backprojection (FBP) and row-action maximum likelihood algorithm (RAMLA). Statistical properties of the acquired data were evaluated ... Results obtained confirm the poor representation of both RAMLA- and FBP-reconstructed PET data by the Poisson distribution. We demonstrate that the noise in RAMLA-reconstructed PET images is very well characterized by ...
Tópico(s): Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging
2012 - Springer Science+Business Media | Journal of Digital Imaging
... in a specific part of central Palestine—the Ramla-Yavneh region—between ca. 640 and 800 C. ... of the rural and urban milieu in the Ramla-Yavneh region was by no means uniform, especially ...
Tópico(s): Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts
2013 - University of Chicago Press | Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
David E. Friesem, Yossi Zaidner, Ruth Shahack‐Gross,
... VI) of the Middle Palaeolithic site of Nesher Ramla was studied using geoarchaeological methods. Field observations indicate ... sites, and conclude that the setting of Nesher Ramla in a topographic low provided relative protection from ...
Tópico(s): Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
2013 - Elsevier BV | Quaternary International
... new town was built in Palestine, called al- Ramla (Ramlah of today). It was founded by the ... Muslims ruled the country for 1100 years, al-Ramla remained the sole example of a new town ...
Tópico(s): Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies
1997 - Cambridge University Press | Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society
Gilles Guérin, Hélène Valladas, Jean‐Louis Joron, Norbert Mercier, Jean‐Louis Reyss, Yossi Zaidner,
... de l’article concerne le site de Nesher Ramla (Judée, Israël), rare implantation de plein air à ... years ago. Then, we focus on the Nesher Ramla site (Judea, Israel), an exceptional open-air site ...
Tópico(s): Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
2017 - Elsevier BV | L Anthropologie
A.M. Abu Shama, H.A. Wanas, Sara El-Nahrawy,
... localities (Gebel North Gunna, Gebel South Gunna, Ain Ramla, El-Quss Abu Said and Bir Karawin). In ... western part of the studied area at Ain Ramla-ElQuss Abu Said section, a conformable relation is ... Paleocene/Eocene boundary is not recognized in Ain Ramla-ElQuss Abu Said and South Gunna sections because ...
Tópico(s): Geological formations and processes
2018 - Elsevier BV | Journal of African Earth Sciences
... typological variability throughout the archaeological sequence of Nesher Ramla (Israel). Nesher Ramla is a Middle Palaeolithic open-air site found ...
Tópico(s): Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
2020 - Elsevier BV | Quaternary International
Israel Hershkovitz, Hila May, Rachel Sarig, Ariel Pokhojaev, Dominique Grimaud‐Hervé, Emiliano Bruner, Cinzia Fornai, Rolf Quam, Juan Luís Arsuaga, Viktoria A. Krenn, María Martinón‐Torres, José Marı́a Bermúdez de Castro, Laura Martín‐Francés, Viviane Slon, Lou Albessard‐Ball, Amélie Vialet, Tim Schüler, Giorgio Manzi, Antonio Profico, Fabio Di Vincenzo, Gerhard W. Weber, Yossi Zaidner,
... a previously unknown archaic Homo population, the “Nesher Ramla Homo ” (see the Perspective by Mirazon Lahr). The ... linked to either Homo sapiens or Neanderthals. Nesher Ramla Homo was an efficient hunter of large and ...
Tópico(s): Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
2021 - American Association for the Advancement of Science | Science
Marión Prévost, Iris Groman-Yaroslavski, Kathryn M. Crater Gershtein, José-Miguel Tejero, Yossi Zaidner,
... the open-air Middle Paleolithic site of Nesher Ramla in Israel. The item, found in an anthropogenic ... The engraved bone from Unit III at Nesher Ramla is one of the oldest deliberate abstract manifestations ...
Tópico(s): Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
2021 - Elsevier BV | Quaternary International
Evgeny Rogozin, Tsilia Lazarovitch, Miriam Weinberger,
... two large mixed Jewish-Arab cities—Lod and Ramla. The incidence of murine typhus among the Arab ... 2013. The average annual incidence among Arabs in Ramla was 10.1/100,000. Among Jews, incidences ... in Lod and 0.4/100,000 in Ramla. The classical triad of fever, headache, and rash ...
Tópico(s): Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research
2019 - American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene | American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
... of an enclave economy after World War I. Ramla M. Bandele explores the concept of diaspora itself ...
Tópico(s): Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
2009 - Association of College and Research Libraries | Choice Reviews Online
O. Bar-Yosef, Bernard Vandermeersch, B. Arensburg, Anna Belfer‐Cohen, Paul Goldberg, H. Laville, Liliane Meignen, Yoel Rak, John D. Speth, Eitan Tchernov, S. Weiner, Geoffrey A. Clark, Andrew Garrard, Donald O. Henry, Frank Hole, Derek Roe, Karen Rosenberg, Lynne A. Schepartz, John J. Shea, Fred H. Smith, Erik Trinkaus, Norman M. Whalen, Lucy Wilson,
... Middle Palaeolithic human behaviour: The case of Nesher Ramla (Israel), Quaternary International 624 (Jun 2022): 4–18. ... Yossi Zaidner The Levallois Flaking System in Nesher Ramla Upper Sequence, Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology 4, no. ...
Tópico(s): Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
1992 - University of Chicago Press | Current Anthropology
Anton Micallef, A. T. Williams,
... popular Maltese bathing areas (Mellieha, St. George's, Ramla and Ghajn Tuffieha Bay) was carried out by ... St. George's, had the lowest conservation value, Ramla and Ghajn Tuffieha bay had the highest conservation ...
Tópico(s): Economic and Environmental Valuation
2003 - Springer Science+Business Media | Journal of Coastal Conservation