In this interview with Sabina Barone, Mehdi Alioua—Sociology Professor at the Université Internationale de Rabat (International University of Rabat), Morocco—reflects on transformations that Sub-Saharan African migration has brought to Moroccan society over last two decades, in particular reference identity and denominations foreign others, internal regional dynamics (im)mobility, challenges so...

The Kamar-e-Mehdi Formation (Callovian – Oxfordian) is the fill of a shelf lagoon situated in the western and central parts of the so-called Tabas Block for a N-S distance of 200-300 km. From the predominantly fine-grained carbonates, which in the depocenter reach more than 1000 m in thickness, 69 taxa of bivalves are described, which differ greatly in their preservation depending on their orig...

Grid is an environment that allows sharing of resources that are managed by diverse, independent administrative organizations that are geographically distributed. The main objective of grid is to enable users to solve problems using the available geographically distributed resources. To fully utilize these resources, effective discovery techniques are necessities. Grid resource discovery refers...

Researchers have attempted to augment the traditional cost/benefit analysis model used in the IT decision process. However, frequently social subsystem issues are inadequately considered. Survey data, collected from a U.S. sample of 200 executives, provides an empirical assessment of how these issues compare with other IT decision criteria given differing decision types. The social subsystem is...

Title: The Role of Inflammation in Hypoxic Pulmonary Hypertension: from cellular mechanisms to 1 clinical phenotypes. 2 3 Steven C. Pugliese, MD (corresponding author) 4 Developmental Lung Biology, Cardiovascular Pulmonary Research Laboratories, 5 Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine 6 Division of Pediatrics-Critical Care 7 Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics 8 Universit...

Objectives: The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of depressive disorder among brucellosis patient attending to the central university hospital in Hamadan, Iran. Methods: In this case-control study, the rate of depression was compared between 100 brucellosis patients as cases and 71 healthy controls. The depression was assessed with Zung Depression Scale and confirmed by a clini...

For early detection in cancer, it is necessary that cells be monitored on time. One of the first steps in the monitoring process is segmenting the cancer's cells. In this paper, we focused on the level set method and compared with snake active contour that use in image segmentation. Level set method is a fast and accurate approach that can be used in segmentation and reduce human interaction as...

Personalization of e-commerce applications is an issue that is gaining increasing importance with the advancing maturity of such systems. There is already e-commerce software on the market offering integrated e-shop and personalization functions. However, the available software is too timeconsuming and expensive for SMEs. With this in mind we saw a need to investigate the potential for personal...

L'hématome puerpéral est une complication rare parfois grave du post-partum. Sa prise en charge reste encore non consensuelle. L'objectif de notre travail est de discuter la possibilité et l'intérêt d'une prise en charge conservatrice en cas d'hématome de gros volume sous couvert de certaines conditions. Ainsi nous rapportons 3 cas d'hématomes périgénitaux de taille supérieure à 8cm pour lesque...