Background: This abstract is a report of a qualitative study, in which the disease perception of the first generation of Moroccan immigrants with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is the prime subject. The purpose of this research project was to develop insight into the role of culture and background in relation to disease perception and the possible relation between disease perception and ...

This dibsertat10n presents an investigation of the phenomenon of complementation 1n the syntax of Moroccan Arabic, a language which has not been the subject of extensive research 1n theoretical syntax. In particular, the present study examines a construction which I have termed "Matrix-Object Dislocation." This construction is similar to Left-Dislocation, in that the interpretive operation in b...

Agriculture is a vital sector in Morocco; it contributes 13% to the gross domestic product and employs around 30% of total workforce 70% rural areas. This puts agriculture sensitive spot where affects livelihoods great proportion population. Moroccan agricultural development programs (viz. Green Morocco Plan 2008-2019 Generation 2020-2030) aim enhance farmers by focusing on valorisation small f...

Casablanca, Morocco's economic capital continues today to fight against the proliferation of informal settlements affecting its urban fabric illustrated especially by the slums. Actually Casablanca represents 25% of the total slums of Morocco (Banque Mondiale, 2006). These are the habitats of all deprived of healthy sanitary conditions and judged precarious from the perspective humanitarian and...

The Mediterranean or Moroccan locust, Dociostaurus maroccanus (Thunberg), poses a continual threat to agriculture and habitats for livestock in Spain and other Mediterranean countries. This species must be controlled to prevent the growth of high-density migratory gregarious populations that develop in well-defined outbreak areas (Latchininsky and LaunoisLuong, 1992). Since 1990, our group has ...

BACKGROUND Tuberculosis (TB) remains a global health problem. Several studies have implicated genetic host factors in predisposing populations to TB disease. In this study, we have selected NSMAF (Neutral Sphingomyelinase Activation Associated Factor) as a candidate gene to evaluate its level of association with TB disease in a Moroccan population for two reasons: first, this gene is located in...

Background. An interindividual variability in response to Clopidogrel has been widely described in patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS). The contribution of genetics on modulating this response was widely discussed. The objective of our study was to investigate the potential effect of i-T744C P2Y12 polymorphism on Clopidogrel response in a sample of Moroccan ACS patients. We tried also ...

Worldwide variation in the distribution of BRCA mutations is well recognised, and for the Moroccan population no comprehensive studies about BRCA mutation spectra or frequencies have been published. We therefore performed mutation analysis of the BRCA1 gene in 121 Moroccan women diagnosed with breast cancer. All cases completed epidemiology and family history questionnaires and provided a DNA s...

AIMS To investigate the differences in perinatal death and child mortality between different ethnic groups in the Netherlands. METHODS Retrospective analysis of data collected between 1990 and 1993 in the national obstetric registry comprising 569 743 births. Retrospective analysis of all death certificates of 0 to 15 year old children routinely collected between 1979 and 1993, comprising 20 ...