a Geo-resources Laboratory, associated Unit to CNRST (URAC42), Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Sciences and Technology Guéliz, Cadi Ayyad University, Abdelkarim Elkhattabi Avenue, Gueliz, P.O. Box 549, Marrakech, Morocco b Department of Geography, University of Ottawa, Ottawa (Ontario), Canada K1N 6N5 c HydrISE, Institut Polytechnique LaSalle Beauvais, 19 rue Pierre Waguet, F-60026 Bea...

The Kingdom of Morocco, situated at the North West tip of Africa and bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, covers an area of 710,850 km2. The population exceeds 30 million, children under the age of 15 representing 31 % of the population. Morocco faces the problems typical of developing countries; 19% of the population living below the poverty line and up to 50% being illite...

BACKGROUND Sheeppoxvirus (SPPV) is a member of the Capripoxvirus genus of the Poxviridae family, which causes significant economic losses in Morocco. The resurgence of the sheeppox disease during 2010 was characterized by an emergence of a classical nodular form for the first time in Morocco. However, little is known about the virus strain responsible for nodular form. In this study, thirty thr...

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...

Toxoplasmosis is a disease caused by a protozoal parasite: Toxoplasma gondii. This infection can cause severe illness when the organism is contracted congenitally or when it is reactivated in immunosuppressed people. In this paper we review for the first time prevalence and risk factors of T. gondii among pregnant women and HIV-infected adults in Morocco. A systematic review methodology was use...

BACKGROUND The aim was to use the existing surveillance data sources of cancer in Morocco that could be used to better describe cancer mortality and incidence trends in Morocco. METHODS National incidence data were derived from population-based cancer registries. Mortality data were collected from the international GLOBOCAN database. RESULTS An overview of the main results was presented. In...

in this study, the incomplete gamma function, an exponential function, a mixed-log function and a polynomial function were evaluated to describe the lactation curve in moroccan holstein-friesian dairy cows. data from 1990 to 1999, comprising 77130 monthly milk yields of 6029 dairy cows in 280 dairy herds, were used. edits were carried out by considering the lactation length (5 d and

Schistosomiasis is an endemic parasitic infection very linked to poverty. It is considered a world health problem since it infects people from 76 different countries especially tropical and subtropical regions. For many years, Morocco was endemic for shistosome infection. The unique form is urinary schistosomiasis and the first case was described in 1914. After an alarming prevalence rate (13 4...

In colonial North Africa a mutilating disease resembling syphilis was a focal point for French medical debate about the world history of syphilis, the physiological effects of climate and race, and the science of microbiology. From 1916 to 1919, the French venereologist Georges Lacapère established a pilot scheme in Fez, Morocco, for diagnosis and treatment of "native" syphilis. In 1923 he publ...

This paper is a bibliometric study of the publication patterns of academic and research scientists of Maghreb countries: Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia. The comparative study of the scientific production in the countries of Maghreb is made using Scopus data during the period 1996-2009. Results show that the total scientific production of Tunisia is higher than that of both Morocco and Algeria, ev...