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...

Like in most developing countries, tuberculosis represents a major public health problem in Morocco. This paper describes the first study combining molecular and conventional epidemiology of tuberculosis in Casablanca, the economic capital of this country. Molecular fingerprinting of the genomic DNA recovered from cultures of sputum of 150 patients was performed by MIRU-VNTR. This molecular mar...

BACKGROUND Therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) is an extracorporeal blood purification method for the treatment of diseases in which pathological proteins have to be eliminated. In the aim to demonstrate our single center activity, we analyzed our data since 2 years. METHODS Between years 2002 and 2005, 104 TPE procedures were performed on 42 patients. Median age and male/female ratio were 32 (...

Vijay Kher, Nattachai Srisawat, Eisei Noiri, Mohammed Benghanem Gharbi, Manjunath S. Shetty, Li Yang, Arvind Bagga, Rajasekara Chakravarthi and Ravindra Mehta; on behalf of the Acute Disease Quality Initiative (ADQI) Consensus Group Division of Nephrology and Kidney Transplant Medicine, Fortis Escorts Kidney and Urology Institute, Fortis Escorts Hospital, New Delhi, India; Division of Nephrolog...

The allele frequencies for eight short tandem repeat (STR) loci HUMvWA, HUMFES/FPS, HUMF13A, HUMF13B, HUMTHO1, HUMTPOX, HUMCSF1P0, HUMLPL included in Geneprint STR kits were obtained from 234 unrelated individuals in Casablanca.

Typical textual descriptions that accompany online videos are ‘weak’: i.e., they mention the main concepts in the video but not their corresponding spatio-temporal locations. The concepts in the description are typically heterogeneous (e.g., objects, persons, actions). Certain location constraints on these concepts can also be inferred from the description. The goal of this paper is to present ...