Ines Ben Chobba, Ahmed Bekir, Riadh Ben Mansour, Noureddine Drira, Néji Gharsallah and Adel Kadri Laboratoire de Biotechnologies Végétales Appliquées à l’Amélioration des Cultures, Faculté des Sciences de Sfax, B.P. 1171, 3000 Sfax, University of Sfax, Tunisia. Département de Génie des procédés, ISET Sfax, Km 2,5 Rte de Mahdia, 3099 Sfax, University of Sfax, Tunisia. Unité de recherche Biotechn...

Triloculotrema euzeti n. sp. (Monogenea, Monocotylidae, Merizocotylinae) is described from the nasal tissues of the blackspotted smooth-hound Mustelus punctulatus collected from the coastal marine waters off Tunisia. The new parasite species is distinguished from the other two species of the genus, T. japanicae Kearn, 1993 and T. chisholmae Justine, 2009, by the morphology of the sclerotised ma...

There is general agreement that skill-enhancing school reforms in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region are necessary for economic, political and social reasons. Using studentlevel data from Jordan and Tunisia, this study assesses the relationship between skills and the following school incentive and accountability measures: pedagogical autonomy, school competition, freedom to hire and...

The authors report the identification of Leishmania strains isolated from the Centre and the South of Tunisia. 266 strains were isolated between 1998 and 2006 from human (n=221 strains) and dogs (n=45 strains) hosts. The isoenzymatic identification exhibits the presence of in total five zymodemes belonging to three Leishmanio complexes: Leishmania infantum, L. major and L. killicki. All strains...

Abstract This study underlines the ceramic BaTiO 3 dielectric layer adjacent to electrode of long-term reliability-improved Ni–Sn alloy internal -based multilayer capacitor clarify cause electric barrier formation. Electron energy loss spectroscopy measurements Ti L 3,2 near edges and O K edge structure changes characterize existence an oxygen vacancy region, approximately 60 nm in width, gener...

Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region’s current challenges for political and economic transformation. This MENA Trends Report focuses on the following issues: youth unemployment, gender, education, economy, the financial system, and the rule of law. It examines ten Arab countries: Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Libya, Tunisia, West Bank and Gaza, Syria, and Yemen. When comparisons ...

Climate change is expected to have serious environmental, economic, and social impacts on arid regions such as Tunisia country. This research uses a “bottom-up” approach, which seeks gain insights from the farmers themselves based farm household in south-east of Tunisia. Econometric analyses Main Component analysis was conducted this research. Finally, probit binary models were estimated determ...

The Greater Middle East Project was put forth by Colin Powel, the Minister of Defense at George Bush Administration on 12 September, 2002. The objectives which have been posed for this plan include: Economic reform, promotion of human rights, establishment of democracy and freedom of election in the Middle East which could be implemented by different instruments and tactics. Of course, it is ne...