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Pinchas Halpern

Assoc Professor of Emergency Medicine, Emeritus, Tel Aviv University
Verified email at tlvmc.gov.il
Cited by 6761

Corporate acquisitions: A theory of special cases? A review of event studies applied to acquisitions

P Halpern - The journal of Finance, 1983 - JSTOR
MERGERS OCCUR WHEN an acquiring firm and a target firm (s) agree to combine under
legal procedures established in the states in which the merger participants are incorporated …

Mechanics of respiratory muscles

A Ratnovsky, D Elad, P Halpern - Respiratory physiology & neurobiology, 2008 - Elsevier
Lung ventilation is a mechanical process in which the respiratory muscles are acting in
concert to remove air in and out of the lungs. Any alteration in the performance of the …

[PDF][PDF] The globalization of emergency medicine and its importance for public health

P Anderson, R Petrino, P Halpern… - Bulletin of the World …, 2006 - SciELO Public Health
Emergency medicine (EM) is a global discipline that provides secondary disease prevention
and is also a tool for primary prevention. It is a horizontally integrated system of emergency …

An economic analysis of limited liability in corporation law

P Halpern, M Trebilcock, S Turnbull - U. Toronto LJ, 1980 - HeinOnline
The merits of the doctrine of limited liability in corporation law have been the subject of
passionate disagreement amongst otherwise level-headed commentators ever since its …

[BOOK][B] Naval History of World War I

PG Halpern - 2012 - books.google.com
There have been a number of studies published on the activities of British and German
navies during World War I, but little on naval action in other arenas. This book offers for the …

Mass casualty terrorist bombings: a comparison of outcomes by bombing type

JL Arnold, P Halpern, MC Tsai, H Smithline - Annals of emergency …, 2004 - Elsevier
STUDY OBJECTIVE: We compared the epidemiologic outcomes of terrorist bombings that
produced 30 or more casualties and resulted in immediate structural collapse, occurred …

Midazolam versus propofol for long-term sedation in the ICU: a randomized prospective comparison

…, P Sorkine, M Freedman, E Geller, P Halpern - Intensive care …, 1997 - Springer
Objective: To compare the efficacy, safety, and cost of midazolam and propofol in prolonged
sedation of critically ill patients. Design: Randomized, prospective study. Setting: General …

Reducers and other Cilk++ hyperobjects

M Frigo, P Halpern, CE Leiserson… - Proceedings of the twenty …, 2009 - dl.acm.org
This paper introduces hyperobjects, a linguistic mechanism that allows different branches of
a multithreaded program to maintain coordinated local views of the same nonlocal variable …

Threat-related attention bias variability and posttraumatic stress

…, O Levi, E Fruchter, K Ginat, P Halpern… - American Journal of …, 2015 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective: Threat monitoring facilitates survival by allowing one to efficiently and accurately
detect potential threats. Traumatic events can disrupt healthy threat monitoring, inducing …

On the heterogeneity of leveraged going private transactions

P Halpern, R Kieschnick… - The Review of Financial …, 1999 - academic.oup.com
In contrast to previous literature, we argue that are two types of poorly performing firms going
private through a leveraged buyout (LBO). One group consists of firms in which managers …