Monitoring and controlling air quality parameters form an important subject of atmospheric and environmental research today due to the health impacts caused by the different pollutants present in the urban areas. The support vector machine (SVM), as a supervised learning analysis method, is considered an effective statistical tool for the prediction and analysis of air quality. The work present...

Tinggang Zhao Dept. of Math.,Lanzhou City University, Lanzhou 730070,P. R. CHINA B. K. Ben Mahmoud ESSTT/ 63 Rue Sidi Jabeur 5100 Mahdia, TUNISIA M. A. Toumi Dép. des Math.,Faculté des Sciences de Bizerte,7021, Zarzouna, Bizerte, TUNISIA O. P. Faromika Department of Physics, Federal Univ. of Technology, Akure, Ondo State, NIGERIA M. Dada Department of Physics, Federal Univ. of Technology, Minna...

Biomechanical model of the ankle to estimate the musculotendinous forces during an isometric plantar flexion S. Bennour a , N. Zarrouk b , M. Dogui b , L. Romdhane a & J.-P. Merlet c a Laboratoire de Mécanique de Sousse, École Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Sousse , 4054 , Sousse , Tunisia b Unité de Recherche Neurophysiologie de la Vigilance, de l'Attention et des Performances, Service d'Exploratio...

The aim of the study was to evaluate the seroprevalence of Anaplasma phagocytophilum in dromedary (Camelus dromedarius). Sera of 226 healthy dromedaries from three regions of Tunisia (Sidi Bouzid, Bouficha and Douz) were tested by indirect immunofluorescence (IFA). The overall infection rate was estimated at 29.2%. The study of risk factors showed that region, age, gender, presence of ticks and...

Cynara cardunculus.L exhibits an important adaptability to arid and semi-arid regions where high salinity is frequently present. Aiming to introduce its cultivation in the Mediterranean environment especially in Tunisia, it seemed interesting to study seed germination of eight populations of cardoon in four concentrations of NaCl: 0g/L, 2g/L, 4g/L, and 8g/L. Our results showed a good variabilit...

BACKGROUND Consumption of raw milk and unpasteurized dairy products is common in Tunisia where bovine tuberculosis remains enzootic. We herein investigated the frequency of M. bovis isolation from raw milk. METHODS Three hundred and six milk samples collected from 102 infected cows in different Tunisian regions were analysed. M. bovis isolates were further characterized by spoligotyping and v...

Based on mitochondrial 16S rRNA sequences, we suggest that the founder individuals of the introduced Greek population of Chamaeleo africanus originated in the Nile Delta region of Egypt. In Ch. chamaeleon, we discovered in the eastern Mediterranean new 16S rRNA haplotypes, being highly distinct from previously published western Mediterranean haplotypes. Eastern Mediterranean haplotypes were fou...

This paper introduces a new methodology to target direct transfers against poverty. Our method is based on observable correlates and on estimation methods that focus on the poor. Using data from Tunisia, we estimate ‘focused’ transfer schemes that improve anti-poverty targeting performances. Post-transfer poverty can be substantially reduced with the new estimation method. The impact of these s...