Let N denote the set of positive integers. The asymptotic density of the set A ⊆ N is d(A) = limn→∞ |A ∩ [1, n]|/n, if this limit exists. Let AD denote the set of all sets of positive integers that have asymptotic density, and let SN denote the set of all permutations of the positive integers N. The group L consists of all permutations f ∈ SN such that A ∈ AD if and only if f(A) ∈ AD, and the g...

background chronic kidney disease (ckd) is an emerging worldwide epidemic but littledata concerning african populations are available. objectives we aimed to assess prevalence of ckd in adult populations of saint-louis, northern senegal. patients and methods in a population-based survey between january and may 2012, we included 1037 adults ≥ 18 years of age who resided in saint-louis. socio-dem...

1 Département Informatique et Télécommunications, Ecole Polytechnique de hiès (EPT), hiès BP A10, Senegal 2 Laboratoire Images, Signaux et Systèmes Intelligents (LISSI-E.A.3956), Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne, Créteil, France 3 Laboratoire d’Analyse Numérique et d’Informatique (LANI), Université Gaston Berger (UGB), Saint-Louis BP 234, Senegal Département de Mathématique et Informat...

OBJECTIVES To stress the importance of social and environment (nutritional) factors in determining the growth spurt during puberty and the risk of excessive adiposity, two contrasting adolescent populations, one from a rural area of Senegal (West Africa) and the other from Martinique (French West Indies), were compared. DESIGN Cross-cultural comparison of contrasting populations. Adolescents ...

VIDENCE has been presented in previous communications from this that the antigens in the serum of a species of doves (Pearlneck or Streptopelk chinensis), specific for that species as contrasted with either of two other species (Senegal, St. senegalensis, or Ring dove, St. risork), segregated in back-cross individuals in accordance with genetic expectation. Subsequent data have supported this f...

Harvest and post-harvest operations constitute principal constraints to rice production, especially in irrigated systems, because of the larger yield that has to be handled. Post-harvest crop losses of up to 35% have been reported and attributed to inefficiency of manual threshing of rice by small-scale farmers. This leads to poor grain quality and rejection of locally produced rice. The Africa...

The D4D-Senegal challenge is an open innovation data challenge on anonymous call patterns of Orange’s mobile phone users in Senegal. The goal of the challenge is to help address society development questions in novel ways by contributing to the socio-economic development and well-being of the Senegalese population. Participants to the challenge are given access to three mobile phone datasets. T...

This study investigates to what extent West-African French accents can be distinguished, based on recordings made in Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Mali and Senegal. First, a perceptual experiment was conducted, suggesting that these accents are well identified by West-African listeners (especially the Senegal and Ivory Coast accents). Second, prosodic and segmental cues were studied by using speec...

Undiscovered, conventional oil and gas resources were assessed in the Senegal Province as part of the U.S. Geological Survey World Petroleum Assessment 2000 (U.S. Geological Survey World Energy Assessment Team, 2000). Although several total petroleum systems may exist in the province, only one composite total petroleum system, the CretaceousTertiary Composite Total Petroleum System, was defined...

This analysis uses Senegal as a test case to study the assumptions made by the governance agenda. Afer briefly charting the growth of the governance model and the theoretical assumptions on which it rests, the study outlines an alternative view of state action based on legitimacy and survival. The bulk of the study examines the economic reform process in Senegal, and argues that the governance ...