Structural analysis of flexible pavements has been and still is currently performed using a multi-layer elastic theory. However, for thinly surfaced pavements subjected to light to medium volumes of traffic, the importance of non-linear stress-strain behaviour of unbound granular materials (UGM’s) requires the use of more sophisticated numerical models for structural design and analysis of such...

The Saharan genus Ctenophilothis Kryzhanovskij, 1987 is revised. Its two species, C. chobauti (Th6ry, 1900) and C. altus (Lewis, 1885), differ mainly by the shape of their mandibles, protibia, and elytral striae. Ctenophilothis is likely a monophyletic genus known so far only from the Algerian, Moroccan, and Egyptian Sahara. The neotype of C. chobauti and lectotype of C. altus are designated. T...

The general objective of this study is to clear up the relative importance of prosody in the identification of a foreign accent. The methodology we propose, based on the prosody transplantation paradigm, can be applied to different languages or language varieties. Here, it is applied to Magrhrebianaccented French: we wanted to study what is perceived when the segmental and suprasegmental charac...

The distribution of the toxic dinoflagellate Gymnodinium catenatum Graham in the Mediterranean Sea was once restricted to the eutrophic waters of the Alborán Sea. In September 1999, this taxon was found for first time in the Algerian basin, being the dominant species at subsurface depths (~1 cell mL–1) associated with low salinity waters. The geographical expansion of this exotic species is not...

Background Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) are chronic inflammatory diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, which clinically present as one of two disorders, Crohn’s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC). The CD23 is a multifunctional molecule expressed on various cells. It is know as the low-affinity receptor for the Fc portion of IgE. It expression at the cell surface of phagocytic cells...

This paper presents solution of optimal power flow (OPF) problem of a power system via an Ant Colony Optimization Meta-heuristic method. The objective is to minimize the total fuel cost of thermal generating units and also conserve an acceptable system performance in terms of limits on generator real and reactive power outputs, bus voltages, shunt capacitors/reactors, transformers tap-setting a...

Research into various aspects of slavery and the related conversions has multiplied in recent years. This contribution investigates case Fatima, a young woman belonging to Turkish–Algerian elite, who was captured 1608 by Tuscan Knights Saint Stephen. Rescued her parents entrusted some Corsican merchants for safe return home, she remained Calvi (Corsica) because embraced Christianity. Thus, loca...