This study attempts to provide a comprehensive insight into the prevailing genetic status of Indigenous Tunisian rabbit population using microsatellite markers. Fifteen rabbit populations from villages of Tozeur and Gafsa area were analysed using a panel of 36 microsatellite markers. 294 individuals from these populations were genotyped. In general, high genetic diversity (observed heterozygosi...

This study determined the prevalence of inherited factor V Leiden mutation in a group of 128 thrombosis patients (102 with venous thrombosis and 26 with arterial thrombosis) attending a hospital in Sousse, Tunisia, and a control group of 100 with no history of thrombosis. Using an allele-specific PCR amplification technique, factor V Leiden was found in significantly more patients (20.3%) than ...

This paper aims at identifying the sources of comparative advantage and the bottlenecks of the Tunisian economy. By using an activity analysis model and yearly data on the input-output structure and the factor endowments, the paper determines the evolution of the potential of the Tunisian economy between 1983 and 1996 and some of its key aspects that the industrial restructuring program of 1996...

this study empirically investigates the relationship between the timeliness of the financial reporting and the corporate governance proxies for companies listed on the tunisian stock exchange during 2009.it investigates the role of the corporate governance mechanisms on the timeliness of corporate financial reporting besides; it investigates the relationship between the company size, leverage, ...

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We reviewed five studies undertaken by the same research group on the possible links between mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) variation and asthenozoospermia, all carried out on Tunisian men. A thorough assessment of these articles reveals that all five studies were carried out on virtually the same cohort of patients, although this information was concealed by the authors. Thus, the results were 'sli...

Tunisia’s tax system has undergone significant structural reforms over the last several decades. Even so, its structure exhibits some major flaws, shortcomings that spill over to and affect the performance of the overall Tunisian economy. Further, the tax system continues to underperform in some fundamental ways, ways that also affect the rest of the economy. Finally, the structure of the Tunis...

This paper seeks to detect hot and cold IPO cycles in the Tunisian share market using a Markov regime switching model. Using a set of IPO activity measures (number of IPOs, level of underpricing, market conditions and duration), we establish a model which estimates these activity measures in hot and cold periods respectively. We depict the turning points from 1998 to 2012 for each activity meas...

Climate change and direct anthropogenic impact are recognized as two major factors affecting catchment runoff. This study investigated the separate effect of each these for runoff from important Tunisian Merguellil catchment. For this purpose, more than forty years hydrological data were used. The methodology was based on characterization, NDVI index to monitor land use dynamics, Budyko approac...