Moroccan goats are characterized by the presence of different populations identified only based on their phenotypes. The objectives of this study were to assess the genetic differentiation of the Draa goat breed and to analyze its genetic structure and its relationships with other local populations using 12 microsatellite markers. The screening was done in South Eastern and Southern Morocco on ...

the Management of Dependences between Activities Sylvain Lizotte & Brahim Chaib-draa Computer Science Department, Laval University, Ste-Foy, PQ, Canada, G1K 7P4 e-mail: {lizotte,chaib}@ift.ulaval.ca Short form of the title: Coordination = Management of Dependences Author to whom correspondence should be sent: B. Chaib-draa Mailing address: Département Informatique, Pav. Pouliot, Université Lava...

We investigated the hemolytic activity of Escherichia coli strain EC901 carrying plasmid pBJN406 containing genes draA-E involved in expression of the mannose-resistant Dr hemagglutinin, and in its isogenic insertion mutants devised with Tn5, Tn3, and TnphoA. While E. coli BN406 displayed rapid hemolytic activity against equine erythrocytes, insertion mutations in draD and draE, but not in draA...

Future wireless communication systems are expected to provide a broad range of multimedia services that have a significant traffic asymmetry between uplink and downlink. The code division multiple access time division duplex (CDMA-TDD) system is a promising solution to cope with the problem of traffic asymmetry. However, the TDD system is subject to inter-cell interference compared to frequency...

The problem for dynamic IP address assignment is manifest in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), especially in 4G all-IP-based heterogeneous networks. In this paper, we propose a ring-based address autoconfiguration protocol to configure node addresses. This work aims at the decentralized ring-based address autoconfiguration (DRAA) protocol, which has the capability to perform low latency and whos...

Different approaches have investigated the syntax and semantics of agent communication languages. However, these approaches have not indicated how agents should dynamically use communications. Instead of filling this pragmatics gap, most approaches have mainly focused on the structure of dialogues even though developers are more interested in agents capabilities of having useful automated conve...

Sunlight is the main source of vitamin D. Almost 80% D3 produced in skin. The region Draa Tafilalet benefits from long daily sunshine time. As such, D deficiency should be low this region. However, dressing habits can highly influence status. This study aimed to evaluate sun exposure and its relation status among general population Draa-Tafilalet, Morocco. Clinical, biological, sociodemographic...

this study was conducted at beresa watershed district of guraghe administrative zone, the southern regional state of ethiopia to evaluate the on-farm reproductive and egg production performances of local kei and its f1 crosses with fayoumi and rhode island red (rir) chicken breeds under farmers’ management. the local kei paternal line was mated with maternal lines of fayoumi and rir chickens to...

This research was supported at SRI htternational by the Defense Advanced Reseat~ch Projects Agency under contract N00039-79-C-0118 ~¢ith the Naval Electronic Systems Commaw t The views and conchtsions contained in this document are those of the author and should not be interpreted as representative of the official policiex either expressed or bnplied, of the Defense Advanced Research Projects A...