Psammomys mange clcctivement les tiges et les feuilles salees et succulentes de plusieurs especes de plantes de la famille des Chenopodiacees. Des donnees sur les preferences et les besoins alimentaires de 1'animal sont presentees et notamment sur les quantites qu'il peut ingerer lorsqu'il mange exclusivement soit Suaeda mollis, soit Traganum nudatum, sdit Salsola foetida. Au laboratoire comme ...

The goal of non-parametric option pricing models is to price and risk mange financial derivatives in a model-free approach. Standard option pricing models need to assume a certain dynamics for the underlying. Model parameters are calibrated (or bootstrapped) to match certain conditions. These can be an exact fit to some market instruments whenever possible, a best fit otherwise, or some risk mi...

BACKGROUND Sarcoptic mange has recently emerged in wild boar in Switzerland, raising the question of the origin of the infection. The main aim of this study was to assess the extent of exposure of the wild boar populations to Sarcoptes scabiei in Switzerland, prior to and after the detection of mange cases, to determine whether the mite has been recently introduced into the populations concerne...

An epidemiological survey was undertaken from March to September 2010 to assess the prevalence and zoonotic aspects of scabies in small ruminants in two agro-ecological zones in southern Benin. Small ruminant (n = 444) smallholders and 1,807 of their animals (1,233 West African dwarf goats and 574 West African dwarf sheep) were included in the study. The animals underwent physical examination a...