Aix-Marseille Université, Unité de Recherche en Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes (URMITE), UM63, CNRS 7278, IRD 198, INSERM 1095, IHU Méditerranée Infection, Faculté de Médecine et de Pharmacie, Marseille, France; Laboratoire Antibiotiques, Antifongiques, Physico-chimie, Synthèse et Activité Biologiques (LAPSAB), Faculté des Sciences de la Nature, de la Vie, de la Terre, et de l’U...

In Algeria, there are many isolated sites which are not yet connected to the conventional electrical grid and face severe problems of water for domestic consumption and irrigation purposes. There are some photovoltaic water pumping system (PVWPS) which are situated in remote areas. Due to the high cost of setting up and maintaining a large number of PVWPS, we present in this project a methodolo...

1 INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt, Domaine de Voluceau, B.P. 105, 78153 Le Chesnay Cedex, France 2 LPTHIRM and Département d’Aéronautique, Université de Blida, 09470 Blida, Algeria 3 Centre de Recherche Nucléaire d’Alger, 2 Boulevard. Frantz Fanon, BP 399, 16000 Alger, Algeria 4 LPTMC, UMR 7600 CNRS, Université de Paris, Tour 24, 4ème étage, case 121, 4 Place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France 5 XL...

Albert Camus (1913-1960) was born in Algeria, which was then a French colonial possession. His father was killed in battle in World War I a year after Albert’s birth, leaving his family in poverty. Camus worked his way through the university of Algiers by doing odd jobs, but dropped out after a severe bout of tuberculosis. He then turned to journalism, writing for an anti-colonial newspaper in ...

in semiarid regions such as saida, the steppe ecosystem is currently submitted to desertification under the combined effect of human activity and climate change. our study is a contribution to the assessment of the biodiversity of steppe formations through a phytoecological diagnosis at the south zone of the wilaya of saida. to achieve the objective of this study, a methodological approach base...

In Algeria, PCR sequencing of pla, glpD and rpoB genes found Yersinia pestis in 18/237 (8%) rodents of five species, including Apodemus sylvaticus, previously undescribed as pestiferous; and disclosed three new plague foci. Multiple spacer typing confirmed a new Orientalis variant. Rodent survey should be reinforced in this country hosting reemerging plague.

The paper describes the current provision of psychiatric services in Algeria - in particular, in-patient and out-patient facilities, child psychiatry and human resources. Education, training, associations and research in the field of mental health are also briefly presented. The challenges that must dealt with to improve psychiatric care and to comply with international standards are listed, by...

and 9 strains of African horse sickness virus) (5). The RT-qPCR tests confi rmed BTV viremia. The yak species in its natural biotope is usually rarely exposed to competent Culicoides vectors. Antibodies against BTV have been found in many wild ruminants (6), and our results extend the number of ruminant species susceptible to BTV. In the northern European BT outbreak, lesions in cattle and shee...