Compared to the triumphalist celebrations at the beginning of the Popular Front government in 1936, the Bastille Day ceremonies that were held in France three years later appear to have been rather perfunctory exercises that took place in the context of a paralyzed political system. From an Algerian perspective, however, the celebrations of 1939 were far from unspectacular. In the runup to the ...

The success of machine learning for automatic speech processing has raised the need for large scale datasets. However, collecting such data is often a challenging task as it implies significant investment involving time and money cost. In this paper, we devise a recipe for building largescale Speech Corpora by harnessing Web resources namely YouTube, other Social Media, Online Radio and TV. We ...

Nowadays, sentiment analysis research is widely applied in a variety of applications such as marketing and politics. Several studies on the Arabic sentiment analysis have been carried out in recent years. These studies mainly focus on Modern Standard Arabic among which few studies have investigated the case of Arab dialects, in this case, Egyptian, Jordanian, and Khaliji. In this paper, we prop...

Background: Olive oil is a source of antioxidants and poses positive effects on human health. The objective of this study was firstly to identify and quantify the phenolics of some Algerian olive oils; secondly, the antioxidant activity of the samples was assessed. Methods: The virgin olive oils used in this study were derived from three Algerian cultivars, including Azeradj, Bouchouk, and Che...

We present a deterministic model which describes the dynamics of tuberculosis in Algerian population where the vaccination program with BCG is in place since 1969 and where the WHO recommendations regarding the DOTS (directly-observed treatment, short course) strategy are in application. The impact of an intervention program, targeting recently infected people among all close contacts of active...

BACKGROUND Mal de Meleda (MIM 248300), also referred to as keratosis palmoplantaris transgrediens of Siemens, is a rare autosomal recessive skin disorder with a prevalence in the general population of 1 in 100,000. The main clinical characteristics are transgressive palmoplantar keratoderma, hyperhidrosis, and perioral erythema, but there are also associated features such as brachydactyly, nail...

It has been previously shown in Tunisian and Algerian families that the locus for SCARMD maps to the proximal part of 13q, and in Algerian families that the disease is associated with deficiency of the 50 kDa dystrophin associated glycoprotein (50DAG). We have tested this linkage in six families from Morocco where this disease is also prevalent. In one family the 50DAG was tested and found to b...

PURPOSE To document the clinical characteristics and inheritance pattern of epilepsy in multigeneration Algerian families. METHODS Affected members from extended families with familial epilepsy were assessed at the University Hospital of Oran in Algeria. Available medical records, neurological examination, electroencephalography and imaging data were reviewed. The epilepsy type was classified...

The genetic heterogeneity of congenital hearing disorders makes molecular diagnosis expensive and time-consuming using conventional techniques such as Sanger sequencing of DNA. In order to design an appropriate strategy of molecular diagnosis in the Algerian population, we explored the diversity of the involved mutations by studying 65 families affected by autosomal recessive forms of nonsyndro...