This study was carried out of the region of Monastir in Central Tunisia, between July and August 2010. Larvae were collected using a floatation technique with magnesium sulfate in mud samples. The fourth instar larva of Culicoides cataneii Clastrier, 1957 and Culicoides sahariensis Callot, Kremer, Bailly-Choumara, 1970 are described, illustrated and drawn. Measurements of instars IV are also pr...

In this paper, we apply data mining technologies to a 100-year global land precipitation dataset and a 100-year Sea Surface Temperature (SST) dataset. Some interesting teleconnections are discovered, including well-known patterns and unknown patterns (to the best of our knowledge), such as teleconnections between the abnormally low temperature events of the North Atlantic and floods in Northern...

We examine aid-induced Dutch Disease—after controlling for the effects of remittances and FDI flows—in the context of two North African countries, Morocco and Tunisia. We do so by performing a multivariate time series analysis of aggregated annual data over the period 1980-2009. Aid causes real exchange rate appreciation in the case of Morocco, especially in the long run, but has no effect on t...

Tunisia was showcased for a long time as an example of poverty reduction achievement and pro-poor growth. Yet, after halving its poverty rates a revolution took the world by surprise early in 2011 and since then nothing is known about its poverty levels. To fill that gap, this analysis develops and compares multiple cross-survey imputations (using household budgetary and labor force surveys), p...

1 University 7 November Carthage, Faculty of Sciences of Bizerta, Tunisia [email protected] REGIM: Research Group on Intelligent Machines, University of Sfax, ENIS, Department of Electrical Engineering, BP W 3038, Sfax, Tunisia [email protected] PAMI: Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Labora tory, Systems design Engineering Department University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3...

Received 30 Apr, 2014 Accepted 25 June, 2014 (006360) 1Laboratoire de Biochimie des Lipides, Département de Biologie, Faculté des Sciences de Tunis, ELmanar-Tunisia, e-mail: [email protected] 1Laboratoire de Biochimie des Lipides, Département de Biologie, Faculté des Sciences de Tunis, 2092 ELmanar-Tunisia *Corresponding author Physicochemical properties and antioxidant activity of Tunisian da...

Human herpesvirus 8 (HHV8) is a herpesvirus that is always associated with Kaposi sarcoma. An enzyme-linked immunoenzymatic assay was used to detect antibodies to the latent nuclear antigen of HHV8 in kidney transplant patients and kidney transplant candidates from Tunisia. A significantly high HHV8 seroprevalence was documented; 17% of kidney transplant patients and 23% in kidney transplant ca...

Sarrah M’Barek 1, Christian Pellevoisin 2, Christophe Chesné 3, Francois Busquet 4 and Ouajdi Souilem 5 Unit of Functional Proteomics and Organic Food Preservation, High Institute of Applied Biological Sciences of Tunis (ISSBAT), University of Tunis El Manar, Tunisia; Episkin Academy, Lyon, France; Biopredic International, Saint-Gregoire, France; CAAT-Europe, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, G...