BACKGROUND Acute neurogenic pulmonary edema, a common and underdiagnosed clinical entity, can occur after virtually any form of injury of the central nervous system and is a potential early contributor to pulmonary dysfunction in patients with head injuries. OBJECTIVE To explore myocardial function in patients with evident neurogenic pulmonary edema after traumatic head injury. METHODS Duri...

À travers les cas de deux associations caritatives la ville Sfax, en Tunisie, l’analyse se focalise sur trois instruments d’action – le livre comptable, l’organigramme et base des données bénéficiaires –, afin mettre au jour tensions ambiguïtés dynamiques mise forme bureaucratique l’action associative. Ces montrent que définition associative ouvre davantage marges manœuvre pour responsables ass...

This study follows on from the work urban climate of Sfax and its energy repercussions. The spatial configuration heat island (UHI) distribution thermal comfort indices, index (HI), universal (UTCI) temperature humidity wind (THW), resulting car survey method, essentially show impact land use distance coastline air temperatures. A maximum difference 7 °C between city centre countryside is measu...

Spatial and temporal variations of reproduction variables the two cyclopoid copepods Oithona nana Giesbrecht, 1893 similis Claus, 1866 were evaluated monthly from September 2007 to August 2008 in four ponds at different salinities solar saltern Sfax, Tunisia, under hypersaline conditions. Along salinity gradient abundance O. declined 14,900 ± 15,200 ind. m-3 (A1) 6,800 7,200 (C31) 13,800 17,100...

Intraspecific nest parasitism is a phenomenon that attracts the attention of biologists since it helps in saving endangered species such as Slender Billed Gull. The problem comes from fact parasite female lays its eggs another (host) same which causes abandon by host. This behavior significant reduction future birds number and leads to expansion this specie. Thus, there has been an urgent neces...

Industrial treated wastewater (TWW) could be an attractive alternative fto fresh water use in agriculture due to the shortage resource especially Mediterranean region. Furthermore, TWW represent efficient substitute for crop production thanks its high load nutrient. However, content of salts or mineral as well organic pollutants can affect safety, productivity and growth. A simple way reduce am...

INTRODUCTION Identifying newborns who weight 4000 g or more is important because birth of macrosomic fetuses is associated with adverse peripartum outcomes. Ultrasound is widely used for this purpose Our objective was to evaluate the diagnostic value of sonographic measurement of fetal abdominal circumference (AC) over 350 mm for the prediction of fetal macrosomia and shoulder dystocia, to spec...

Based on light and scanning electron microscopical studies of nematode specimens (males and mature females) collected from the ovary of groupers (Serranidae, Perciformes) in the Mediterranean Sea off Tunisia (near Tunis and Sfax), two gonad-infecting species of Philometra Costa, 1845 (Nematoda, Philometridae) are reported: Philometra inexpectata n. sp. from the mottled grouper Mycteroperca rubr...

Sequence-related amplified polymorphism (SRAP) markers preferentially amplify open reading frames and were used to study the genetic diversity of Tunisian pistachio. In the present study, 43 Pistacia vera accessions were screened using seven SRAP primer pairs. A total of 78 markers was revealed (95.12%) with an average polymorphic information content of 0.850. The results suggest that there is ...