‘smyrna’ type figs (zidi ‘zd’: dark fruit and thgagli ‘thg’; bidhi ‘bd’ and khedri ‘khd’: white fruit) originated from two areas of fig production in tunisia were subject to physico-chemical description and spectrophotometric analysis for their sugar (glucose, fructose and sucrose) and organic acid (citric and malic) contents. fruit weight ranged between 54 and 82 g, fruit width between 47 and ...

A great deal of controversy exists about the impact of Information technology on the global performance within the supply chain. Many theoretical explanations could be advanced to cover this issue. The present paper discusses this problematic and proposes that the climate of the interorganizational relationships could moderate the advantages of Interorganizational Information systems within the...

Tunisian Arabic is a dialect of the Arabic language spoken in Tunisia. Tunisian Arabic is an under-resourced language. It has neither a standard orthography nor large collections of written text and dictionaries. Actually, there is no strict separation between Modern Standard Arabic, the official language of the government, media and education, and Tunisian Arabic; the two exist on a continuum ...

This paper presents a fluoride health risk characterization approach to identify the hyper-sensitive population of adverse effect like tooth decay, dental fluorosis and skeletal fluorosis. In this context, a sampling campaign has been done over 100 Tunisian water consumption points (tap). Laboratory analysis results show that the quality of drinking water is affected by high fluoride concentrat...

A phonetic dictionary is an essential component of a speech recognition system or a speech synthesis system. Our work targets the generation of an automatic pronunciation dictionary for the Tunisian Arabic, in particular in the field of rail transport. To do this, we created two tools of phonetic vowelized and unvowelized words in the Tunisian Arabic. The proposed method to automatically genera...

Corpora are considered as an important resource for natural language processing (NLP). Currently, the Dialectal Arabic corpora are somewhat limited, particularly in the case of the Tunisian Arabic. In recent years, since the events of the revolution, the increasing presence of spoken Tunisian Arabic in interviews, news and debate programs, the increasing use of language technologies for many sp...

This paper reports hepatitis C virus (HCV) prevalence, genotypes and phylogenetic characteristics in 95 haemophilic Tunisian patients. The studied population included 3 groups of patients according to their date of birth: before 1985 when inactivation procedures for clotting factors was introduced, between 1985 and 1994 when systematic anti-HCV screening of Tunisian blood donors was introduced ...

The aim of this policy paper is to characterize the current situation Tunisian municipalities in matters climate change policies and actions understand barriers best practices. By surveying Tunisia, we were able provide an overview strategies, as well finding main First, found that most are facing different effects change. Second, majority do not have a strategy for mitigation adaptation at loc...

Since the Tunisian revolution, Tunisian Dialect (TD) used in daily life, has became progressively used and represented in interviews, news and debate programs instead of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). This situation has important negative consequences for natural language processing (NLP): since the spoken dialects are not officially written and do not have standard orthography, it is very costl...

Dialectal Arabic (DA) is significantly different from the Arabic language taught in schools and used in written communication and formal speech (broadcast news, religion, politics, etc.). There are many existing researches in the field of Arabic language Sentiment Analysis (SA); however, they are generally restricted to Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) or some dialects of economic or political inte...