Journal articles: 'Tunis (Tunisia)'

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Makhlouf, K. "Tunis, Tunisia." Practical Neurology 11, no. 5 (September 14, 2011): 323–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/practneurol-2011-000005.

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Boedts, Bruno. "Ornithological observations around Tunis, Tunisia." Bulletin of the African Bird Club 23, no. 1 (2016): 64–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/p.310076.

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Hechiche, Abdelwahab. "THE JASMINE REVOLUTION BETWEEN SECULARISM AND ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISM; THE CASE OF TUNISIA AND THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT." Levantine Review 2, no. 2 (December 15, 2013): 119. http://dx.doi.org/10.6017/lev.v2i2.5360.

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The central impetus of this paper is the “un-Tunisian-like” hostile slogans emitted in early 2012 in honor of Hamas leader Ismail Hanya, during his official visit to Tunisia at that time. The slogans in question, among them “Kill the Jews!” were protested by many Tunisians, and were widely denounced as an insult to the Jews of the world, but more importantly perhaps, they were decried as affront to Tunisia’s own Jewish children. Upon his historic return from exile and from jail, one of Bourguiba’s first acts was to visit the poor Jewish quarter of “Hafsya,” a gesture that reminded us of the Bey of Tunis, and the King of Morocco, both of whom, courageously, during WWII, declared their total and unconditional commitment to the defense and protection of their Jewish subjects. Integrating its tolerant “Mediterranean” past, and charting a post-Jasmine Revolution future is one of the major challenges facing the Tunisia of today.

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Hadj Hamda, S., A. Ben Dhiab, C. Galán, and M. Msallem. "Pollen spectrum in Northern Tunis, Tunisia." Aerobiologia 33, no. 2 (November 15, 2016): 243–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10453-016-9464-0.

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Hendrickson, Burleigh. "MARCH 1968: PRACTICING TRANSNATIONAL ACTIVISM FROM TUNIS TO PARIS." International Journal of Middle East Studies 44, no. 4 (October 12, 2012): 755–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020743812000852.

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AbstractThis article examines the activism of Tunisian university students in the late 1960s. During the series of events surrounding the student protests of March 1968 at the University of Tunis, political activists across Tunisia and France forged communication networks or drew upon existing ones in order to further their political claims. The objectives of this article are to investigate the historical roots of these transnational networks in the colonial and postcolonial periods as well as to integrate Tunisia within the “global 1968.” Through an analysis of student protests and government reactions, I argue that ties with the former metropole shaped students’ demands and that a strictly national perspective of events is insufficient. In response to state repression, Tunisian activists shifted their struggle from global anti-imperialism toward the expansion of human rights on the national level. The networks proliferated over the course of 1968 and beyond as concrete realities shaped the direction of new claims.

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Bouattour, Ali, Fatma Khrouf, Adel Rhim, and Youmna M’ghirbi. "First Detection of the Asian Tiger Mosquito, Aedes (Stegomyia) albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae), in Tunisia." Journal of Medical Entomology 56, no. 4 (April 10, 2019): 1112–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjz026.

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AbstractAedes albopictus (Skuse) is a widespread invasive mosquito vector species with a distribution including tropical and temperate climates; its range is still expanding. Aedes albopictus populations were recently detected in Morocco and Algeria, the countries neighboring Tunisia, but never in Tunisia. In 2018, we initiated an intensive field study using BG-Sentinel Traps, ovitraps, larval surveys, and citizens’ reports to determine whether Ae. albopictus populations exist in Tunisia. In October 2018, we collected adults and larval stages of Ae. albopictus in Carthage, Amilcar, and La Marsa, less than 20 km, northeast of Tunis, the Tunisian capital. These Ae. albopictus larvae were primarily collected from Phoenician funeral urns at the archeological site of Carthage. This is, to our knowledge, the first detection of Ae. albopictus in Tunisia.

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Khammari, Hassen. "Disagreeing in Tunisian Arabic: a Politeness and Pragmatic Study." International Journal of Linguistics and Translation Studies 2, no. 3 (April 28, 2021): 46–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.36892/ijlts.v2i3.141.

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This research is a pragmatic and politeness study that deals with the speech act of disagreement in Tunisian Arabic, a variety of Arabic spoken in Tunisia. It accounts for disagreement in relation to the contextual factors of Social Distance, Social Power, and Rank of Imposition. Discourse Completion Test (DCT) is used to study the production of disagreement. Data was collected from a group of native speakers of Tunisian Arabic at “Institut Supérieur des Langues de Tunis, Tunisia”. Native speakers of TA used a variety of strategies, which were identified in other languages (e.g., Direct Refusal, Suggestion, Giving Account, and Request…) along with new strategies (e.g., Teasing, Unsympathetic advice, Challenge, and Criticism).The identification and quantification of the strategies of disagreement also helped develop insights into the Tunisian culture.

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Khiabany, Gholam. "Arab Revolutions and the Iranian Uprising: Similarities and Differences." Middle East Journal Of Culture And Communication 5, no. 1 (2012): 58–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187398612x624373.

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A year and a half after the Iranian uprising in 2009, the unprecedented popular uprisings in several Arab countries at the beginning of 2011 provided some of the most evocative moments when power met its opposite, in decisive and surprising ways. In a matter of weeks, some of the most powerful hereditary/republican regimes in the region, such as Tunisia’s and Egypt’s, crumbled under relentless pressure and opposition from highly mediated “street politics” that shook the foundations of authoritarian and repressive rule, undermining hegemonic structures and configurations of power within nation sates and between nations. Technology, as in the case of Iranian uprising, emerged as one of the main explanations on offer to make sense of this new wave of revolts against tyranny. The revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt in particular, inevitably drew some comparisons with the Iranian uprising of 2009. The most significant question for many Iranians was how come that the two revolts in Iran and Tunisia which immediately and rather simplistically labelled as ‘Twitter revolution’ had a totally different outcome? Many in Iran started raising such searching questions: “Chera Tunis Toonest v ma natoonestim?” (Why Tunisia could and we couldn’t) or “toonestan az Tunis miad”! (Capability comes from Tunis). So how can we compare Arab Revolutions with that of situation in Iran? What the different outcomes tell us about the similarities and the differences, and what lessons can be learnt? This paper takes a broader comparative frame, beyond technology, to explore the issue of power and revolutions and to examine the similarities as well as the differences between Iran and the Arab World.

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Dahmouni, A. W., M. Ben Salah, F. Askri, C. Kerkeni, and S. Ben Nasrallah. "Wind energy in the Gulf of Tunis, Tunisia." Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 14, no. 4 (May 2010): 1303–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2009.12.012.

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Sarmento, João. "Tourists’ walking rhythms: ‘doing’ the Tunis Medina, Tunisia." Social & Cultural Geography 18, no. 3 (April 26, 2016): 295–314. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2016.1174283.

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Romdhane, Syrine Ben, and Emna Jebali. "Determinants of Bank-Tunisian SMEs Funding in a Context of Information Asymmetry." Journal of Accounting, Business and Finance Research 13, no. 1 (September 17, 2021): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.20448/2002.131.1.14.

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This paper explores the determinants of access to finance for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the context of asymmetric information. Our sample consisted of 250 Tunisian SMEs financed by Arab International Bank of Tunisia, broken down by sector of activity, size and region. The results of multiple linear regressions showed that size, interest rate, trade credits and profitability have a significant influence on the total volume of credit. The bank considers the size of commercial and industrial SMEs, and those located in the District of Tunis and the Center-East, as a positive signal when considering a loan. The bank also considers high interest rates when considering loans to commercial SMEs, microenterprises and SMEs located in the District of Tunis. As far as innovation is concerned, the results showed that service SMEs, micro-enterprises and SMEs located in the District of Tunis and in the Center-East, find it difficult to get a credit. It is interesting to note that the bank neglects liquidity issues and the net worth of the SME in its financing decision, which contradicts the theoretical assumptions. Finally, we conclude that bank's financing of Tunisian SMEs is characterized by conditions dominated by the problem of asymmetric information.

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Mahmoud, Abdesselem. "Urban sustainability challenges : Democracy and spatial injustices in Tunisia." JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH 7, no. 2 (April 20, 2015): 1281–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.24297/jssr.v7i2.3563.

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In this paper, the author addresses spatial injustices in Tunisia, and seeks to which extent social and territorial inequalities could hamper democracy. Many urban disparities and social anomies such as informal sector, terrorism, unemployment, and usustainable development process threaten the vulnerable democracy transition in Tunisia. The author described and analyzed urban planning process since independency to noawadays. He analyzed the successive economic development policy makings undertook by a mono-party Nation-State. The top down development policies implemented until nowadays entailed a big gap between coastal areas and inland. The former benefitted of its site across the sea shores and proximity to Tunis and former regime. Many factors fostered export industries and tourism activities. The latters were left behind due to their lack of resources and urban planning policy dominated by neo liberal capitalist development in favor of Tunis urban primacy and the littoral where concentrated most foreign and local investments. Urban disparities and inequalities in Tunisia join in a networked society where local and global actors play a key role in economic, social, and urban development process in Tunisia. Tunisian society is a subsystem within a global system (Wallerstein2012), and what is happening is not conjonctural, but it is due to global social movements (Sassen 2007 ; Castells 2012 ; Braudel, 1992 ; Amin, 2003). Terrorism, pollution, inequalities are not per se, but are the negative results of a a myriad of factors: economic, politics, cultural, emotional, aesthetics, social and urban morphologies. Many economic, social, and political actors intervened and interconnected in public and private arenas and triggered those anomies. Fair urban policies are expected to be achieved through a multilevel governance in order to implement the revolution objectives in Tunisia. Otherwise, a representative democracy only, won't fulfil the well-being expected by large Tunisian people. Sustainable urban governance requires a multi-scalar bottom-up and top-down policy-making. In Tunisia, after democratic transition success, the state should be revamped, and compensate its deficit. A sustainable urban planning implies a holistic policy framework involving private and public sectors, and civil society actors locally, regionally, and globally.

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Chalghmi, Houssem, Ines Zrafi, Pierre-Yves Gourves, Jean-Paul Bourdineaud, and Dalila Saidane-Mosbahi. "Combined effects of metal contamination and abiotic parameters on biomarker responses in clam Ruditapes decussatus gills: an integrated approach in biomonitoring of Tunis lagoon." Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts 18, no. 7 (2016): 895–907. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c6em00139d.

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Assessment of the spatio-temporal metal contamination in Tunis lagoon (Tunisia) using an integrated approach and identification of the combined effects of metal contamination and abiotic parameters on the clams.

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Tagorti, Ghada. "Prevalence of canine parvovirus infection in Grand Tunis, Tunisia." Journal of Advanced Veterinary and Animal Research 5, no. 1 (2018): 93. http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/javar.2018.e251.

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Medien, Kathryn. "Foucault in Tunisia: The encounter with intolerable power." Sociological Review 68, no. 3 (August 27, 2019): 492–507. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0038026119870107.

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In September 1966, 10 years after Tunisia officially gained independence from French colonial rule, Michel Foucault took up a three-year secondment, teaching philosophy at the University of Tunis. This article offers an account of the time that Foucault spent in Tunisia, documenting his involvement in the anti-imperial, anti-authoritarian struggles that were taking place, and detailing his organizing against the carceral Tunisian state. Through this account, it is argued that Foucault’s entrance into political activism, and his associated work in developing a new analytic of power, was fundamentally motivated by his encounter with the neocolonial operatives of power that he witnessed and resisted while in Tunisia. In tracing the anti-colonial and anti-imperial struggles taking place concurrent to Foucault’s development of his analytic of power, albeit struggles that are shown to not take centre stage in his subsequent works, this article concludes by suggesting that taking seriously the scholar-activist archive presented may offer us a set of radical Foucauldian tools for resistance.

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ZAIBI, CHAHIRA, BURKHARD SCHARF, FINN ANDREAS VIEHBERG, DIETMAR KEYSER, and FEKRI KAMOUN. "Preliminary report on the living non-marine Ostracoda (Crustacea) from Tunisia with the description of a new Psychrodromus species." Zootaxa 3626, no. 4 (March 15, 2013): 499–516. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3626.4.5.

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Since 1928, Henri Gauthier has been the only zoologist to describe the extant non-marine ostracod fauna of Tunisia. In 2010, new samples of living non-marine ostracods were collected from central and southern Tunisia. A complete list of the 41 non-marine ostracods of Tunisiais presented, including the species of Gauthier’s work, published Holocene records, and new results from our field study. Historical faunal variations (El Melah Lagoon, Lac de Tunis, Sebkhas El- Guettiate and Dreîaa, and Lac Ichkeul) are briefly discussed and related to recent environmental changes. In 2006, El Melah Lagoon contained a freshwater, brackish, and a marine ostracod assemblage. In the future, this lagoon will probably dry up and become a sebkha. Lac de Tunis has developed from a marine bay over a lagoon connected to the Mediterranean Seato a brackish/freshwater environment. Sebkhas El-Guettiate and Dreîaa have developed from marine bays to dry salt flats. Lac Ichkeul is eutrophied and has become brackish since the time of Gauthier. We also describe a new species, Psychrodromus tunisicus n. sp., and present a determination key for the genus. The finding of a species of the genus Psychrodromus is the first report of this genus inNorth Africa.

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Høigilt, Jacob, and Kjetil Selvik. "Debating terrorism in a political transition: Journalism and democracy in Tunisia." International Communication Gazette 82, no. 7 (January 10, 2020): 664–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1748048519897519.

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In March 2015, in the midst of a political transition, Tunisia was rocked by a terrorist attack at the Bardo Museum in downtown Tunis in which 21 people were killed. How did Tunisian journalists manage the tension between a heightened sense of insecurity and the country’s uncertain democratic development? This article analyses journalistic commentary on the causes and implications of terrorism four years into the transition sparked by the Arab uprisings. It provides an empirically nuanced perspective on the role of journalism in political transitions, focusing on journalists as arbitrators in public debate. We argue that influential Tunisian journalists fell back on interpretive schema from the Ben Ali era when they tried to make sense of the Bardo attack, thus facilitating the authoritarian drift of the Tunisian government at the time. They actively contributed to the non-linearity of a political transition, despite enjoying real freedom of speech.

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Gall, O. Le, L. Svanella-Dumas, H. Fakhfakh, M. Marrakchi, and T. Candresse. "Frequent Occurrence of Lettuce mosaic virus in Cape Daisy (Osteospermum sp.) in Tunisia." Plant Disease 91, no. 11 (November 2007): 1514. http://dx.doi.org/10.1094/pdis-91-11-1514a.

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The potyvirus Lettuce mosaic virus (LMV) is a common pathogen of lettuce crops worldwide, but it also infects other Asteraceae spp. including ornamentals (2,3,4). Cape daisies (Osteospermum sp.) are widely grown perennial ornamentals reported to be natural hosts of LMV (2,4), which causes faint leaf mosaic and sometimes mild flower breaking. A preliminary observation of mosaic symptoms prompted a large-scale survey during the spring of 2005 in Cape daisies grown in the Tunis metropolitan area and the south of Tunisia (Djerba, Medenine). Two hundred seventy-one samples (Tunis: 14 sites, 219 samples; South: 9 sites, 52 samples) were randomly collected from nurseries, roadway plantings, and home gardens and analyzed. Ninety-three samples (Tunis: 40%, South: 12%; overall: 34%) showed distinct mosaic symptoms. LMV infection was verified by immuno-tissue printing on all collected samples (1), providing evidence for even higher infection levels (Tunis: 60%; South: 25%; overall: 56%). This technique, therefore, allowed the detection of symptomless infection in a significant proportion of samples. It should however, be stressed that symptoms can be very difficult to observe in water-stressed plants, a situation frequently observed in Tunisia. Subsequent PCR analysis with LMV-specific primers (1) of a subset of 24 symptomatic and tissue-print-positive samples confirmed LMV infection in all cases. This is to our knowledge, the first report of LMV infection in Cape daisies in Tunisia. The very high rate of infection observed suggests that these popular ornamentals might constitute a reservoir of LMV as previously reported in the United States (4). References: (1) H. Fakhfakh et al. J. Plant Pathol. 83:3, 2001. (2) R. Jordan and M. Guaragna. (Abstr.) Phytopathology 96(suppl.):S56, 2006. (3) O. Le Gall. No. 399 in: Description of Plant Viruses. A. T. Jones et al., eds. CMI/AAB, Kew, Surrey, UK, 2003. (4) D. C. Opgenorth et al. Plant Dis. 75:751, 1991.

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Challand, Benoît. "Current Legacies of Colonial Violence and Racialization in Tunisia." Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 40, no. 2 (August 1, 2020): 248–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-8524171.

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Abstract The article argues that the social life of racialization in Tunisia can be traced back to colonial norms and that one cannot speak of racialization in isolation of class differentials, elements that arose historically with the spread of the tandem colonialism-capitalism in North Africa. From a direct form of racialized violence leaving Muslim Tunisians on the low end of the colonial social ladder of worth, salaries, and the right to life, one moved to a more symbolic form of violence, with the south of the country quasi-racialized as less valuable than the urban coastal areas around Tunis and the Sahel in contemporary Tunisia. In a polity that reached independence more than six decades ago, one can witness the perpetuation of a north-south divide that dates back to the colonial times; but a historical reading of racialized brutality can help us recognize a distinct tradition of activism, in particular trade union activism around the Tunisian General Labor Union (UGTT) and protests in the southern part of the country, such as the one that led to the ousting of dictator Ben Ali in 2011. Through a discussion of diachronic forms of racialization, the article suggests that Giorgio Agamben's focus on juridical issues of exception is partly misleading, for many forms of exception arise outside of the realm of emergency.

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Messaoudi, Alain. "Au seuil de l’École de Tunis." Manazir Journal 2 (April 1, 2021): 82–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.36950/manazir.2020.2.6.

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On the occasion of the inauguration of the first gallery founded by artists in Tunis, the painters Moses Levy, Pierre Boucherle, Antonio Corpora and Jules Lellouche published in 1936 a manifesto affirming their autonomy, beyond mercantile logics and national assignments. However, a national reading of their works prevailed in the press, at that time. This article proposes to put this founding event of the « École de Tunis » into context, by reinscribing it in a century-old history. This past is marked by the presence of French and Italian artists between 1840 and 1880, by the failure of a policy of asserting a French artistic model with an aborted project for a French museum around 1890, and by the affirmation of an artistic life characterised since the 1910s by its pluralism and even its eclecticism. This article thus intends to contribute, through the example of pictorial production, to the historicisation of discourses on the plurality or cultural identity of Tunisia, which are still today objects of debate.

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Gannouni Khemiri, Imene. "“Pretty as a Picture”." Journeys 22, no. 1 (June 1, 2021): 89–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/jys.2021.220106.

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Recently, there has been an upsurge of interest in travel writing, postcolonialism, and landscape politics. However, studies of travel writing addressing the notion of the picturesque have not yet explored the idea of aesthetic sensibility in British travel narratives in the Regency of Tunis. This article examines the aesthetics of the picturesque in three British travel accounts: Grenville Temple’s Excursions in the Mediterranean: Algiers and Tunis (1835); Robert Lambert Playfair’s Travels in the Footsteps of Bruce in Algeria and Tunis (1877); and Henry Spencer Ashbee and Alexander Graham’s Travels in Tunisia (1887). These travelers used the picturesque in different but interlinked ways; they oscillated between finding the uncanny landscape an object of delight where it conformed to British aesthetic doctrine and an object of derision where they noted aesthetic deficiencies. By the turn of the nineteenth century, this picturesque way of seeing shifted into an Orientalist desire for “Otherness.”

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Robert Hunter, F. "Recent Tunisian Historical Writing on State and Society in Modern Tunisia." Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 20, no. 1 (July 1986): 23–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026318400058910.

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One problem faced by many Western historians of the Middle East and North Africa is a relative ignorance of what is being produced by the local scholars themselves. In the case of the Maghreb, for example, without regular visits to the area, an American researcher may have to wait several years to learn about the publication of a new book or a local research project relevant to his own interests. This observation is certainly true for Tunisia, where a small, active group of historians at the University of Tunis has been examining aspects of Tunisia's political and social evolution in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but whose works, with few exceptions, are not well known to scholars in America.

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Pegorin, Elisa, and Luca Eula. "Post-War Modern Architecture in Tunisia." Louis I. Kahn – The Permanence, no. 58 (2018): 74–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.52200/58.a.3s7gvgoz.

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At the end of the spring of 1943, the German forces were finally defeated in Northern Tunisia and had to leave the country. This allowed the French protectorate to take power and in the years that followed, thanks to massive American economic aid, undertake a very important project of architectural construction and reconstruction. All of Tunisia was involved but the four main cities (Tunis, Bizerte, Sousse and Sfax), whose populations were expanding, saw entire parts of themselves reconstructed. Today, a unique experience of modernity still remains in the tissue of all these cities, but with big issues of conservation.

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CHAIBI, MARWA, MOUNA ANTIT, MARWA BOUHEDI, MIGUEL A. MECA, PATRICK GILLET, ATF AZZOUNA, and DANIEL MARTIN. "A new species of Flabelligeridae (Annelida), Trophoniella radesiensis n. sp., from Tunisia." Zootaxa 4571, no. 4 (March 28, 2019): 551. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4571.4.7.

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The family Flabelligeridae was previously represented in Tunisia by four genera including four species: Bradabyssa villosa (Rathke, 1843), Therochaeta flabellata (M. Sars in G.O. Sars, 1872), Pherusa plumosa (Müller, 1776), and Piromis eruca (Claparède, 1869). In this paper we report a fifth genus, Trophoniella, for the first time in Tunisia. The specimens were collected in Radés Station, Gulf of Tunis (Central Mediterranean) and belong to a new species, namely Trophoniella radesiensis n. sp., which is characterized by having: (1) a very smooth tunic, body covered dorsally, ventrally, and laterally by sediment grains (except in the posterior region), and (2) well-developed parapodia showing short neurohooks from chaetiger 6 to 19 and anchylosed neurohooks from chaetiger 20. Based on the 16S, the new species belongs to a low supported Piromis/Trophoniella clade and shows a 16.1% of genetic distance from Trophoniella hephaistos Jimi & Fujiwara, 2016, the single known species of the genus sequenced to date. [Zoobank lsid: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:D7C85C70-87FF-4AF4-8599-A8462B3FB8B1]

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Marini, Giorgio. "“Moses c’est le maître à nous tous”:." Manazir Journal 2 (April 1, 2021): 66–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.36950/manazir.2020.2.5.

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The paper focuses on the artistic work of Moses Levy (Tunis, 1885 - Viareggio, 1968), painter and printmaker active in Italy, Tunisia and Paris. A peculiar figure of cosmopolitan painter, whose father was British and the mother Italian, and whose art eludes attempts at univocal classification. On the contrary, it remains emblematic of the fruitfulness made possible by the encounter between different artistic traditions, as well as the reciprocal enrichment offered by the plurality of cultures. Deeply linked by birth to the Jewish community in Tunis, he moved to Italy at a very young age, where he came into contact with the major exponents of the Tuscan school of painting around the turn of the century, starting with Giovanni Fattori. Constantly commuting between the two shores of the Mediterranean, he became an example of dialogue between different worlds, between his African roots, his Tuscan upbringing, his French-speaking culture and his stays in Paris, where he met Chagall and Picasso and could not fail to find a natural identification with Matisse’s pure rhythms and solar charge. A regular exhibitor at the Salons Tunisiens, in 1936 he was a co-founder of the Le Quatre group and later one of the promoters of the École de Tunis. Thus, the local artists saw in Levy the master who had been able to promote the birth of a modern art that was representative of Tunisian culture and people, but free from any easy Orientalist stereotype or folkloric flavour.

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El May, Moufida, Dhekra Souissi, Hela Ben Said, and Mahmoud Dlala. "Geotechnical characterization of the quaternary alluvial deposits in Tunis City (Tunisia)." Journal of African Earth Sciences 108 (August 2015): 89–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2015.05.003.

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Rifi, Mouna, Gaël Le Pennec, Mohamed Ben Salem, and Jamila Ben Souissi. "Reproductive strategy of the invasive cockle Fulvia fragilis in the Bay of Tunis (Tunisia)." Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 91, no. 7 (March 14, 2011): 1465–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0025315411000099.

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This study is the first work on the reproductive biology of lessepsian bivalve Fulvia fragilis. Monthly and bimonthly samplings were made in the period from April 2006 to October 2007, at the Bay of Tunis (northern Tunisia). From histological preparations of gonad, a gametogenic scale was drawn up based on eight stages: sexual rest; initiation of gametogenesis; advanced gametogenesis; ripe; partial spawning; advanced spawning; restoration; and spent. After examination of gonad preparations, F. fragilis appeared to be a simultaneous hermaphrodite species. Spawning was continuous all along the year, scarce in winter and with peaks during the rest of the year. The spawning peaks were positively correlated with the rise of the sea surface temperature and the nutrient availability. Furthermore, the presence of oocytes surrounded by spermatozoa in female and male follicles and in male gonoducts was observed. Self-fertilization may occur in this species. High summer mortalities probably due to the combination of vulnerability of the bivalve in response to the reproductive effort and high temperature stress were recorded. The F. fragilis reproduction strategy explains the success of its installation on the Tunisian coast.

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Ounifi Ben Amor, Khadija, and Mouna Rifi. "Spolna zrelost, stanište i ekološki aspekti rasprostranjenosti jednakonošca Sphaeroma venustissimum u tuniskim vodama." Acta Adriatica 59, no. 1 (June 28, 2018): 61–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.32582/aa.59.1.5.

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A total of 4665 specimens of Sphaeroma venustissimum Monod, 1931 were collected between February 2012 and January 2013, in Tunis Southern Lagoon, a brackish area located in northern Tunisia. This species was mainly recorded in the Atlantic Ocean and recently extended its natural range toward the southern Mediterranean Sea. Biological and ecological traits were not available to date with special regard to its native and recipient habitat. S. venustissimum isopoda inhabits area below stones covered by biofouling and empty nests of barnacles. The species occursand reproduces in Tunis Southern Lagoon throughout the year with a peak in early spring and late summer. Males significantly outnumbered females during high reproductive activity period (May - July). The first gravid female was observed at 7 mm and the fecundity ranged between 6 and 17 eggs. Among the gravid females, a significant relationship was noted between the importance of brood versus total body length for all ovigerous female cohorts. The recruitment occurred throughout the year with a winter peak. S. venustissimum have established a sustainable population in Tunisia and have spread into the wild in its new host area.

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Dhouibi, Raoudha, Abir Mabrouk, and Emna Rouetbi. "Bank Transparency and Risk Taking: Empirical Evidence from Tunisia." International Journal of Economics and Finance 8, no. 5 (April 25, 2016): 111. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijef.v8n5p111.

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<p>An important unresolved issue in finance is the extent to which bank transparency promotes or undermines banking risk-taking. Financial accounting information is an essential component of transparency and a necessary condition for market discipline. This latter can be conceptualized as a market-based incentive scheme with which investors in banking securities penalize banks for greater risk-taking by asking for higher returns on their investments. However, in developing countries, where financial markets are insufficiently developed, the role of market discipline in limiting banks’ risk-taking may be restricted.</p>This paper examines the impact of transparency, as measured by voluntary disclosure of financial information, on the fragility of Tunisian banks. This study is motivated by the decision of the Central Bank of Tunisia to implement the directives of the second Basel Accord to improve the soundness and the safety of the Tunisian banking system. We examine a sample of ten Tunisian banks listed on the Stock Exchange of Tunis over the period 2000-2011. The results show that transparency has no effect on Tunisian banks’ risk-taking. Similarly, the results indicate that the capital adequacy ratio has no effect on the non-performing loans rate. These results may undermine the effectiveness of the guidelines of the Basel Committee agreements to reduce risk-taking by Tunisian banks.

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Obeid, Hassan, and Souheila Kaabachi. "Empirical Investigation Into Customer Adoption Of Islamic Banking Services In Tunisia." Journal of Applied Business Research (JABR) 32, no. 4 (June 30, 2016): 1243–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.19030/jabr.v32i4.9734.

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This paper seeks to identify the main factors influencing the adoption of Islamic banking by conventional bank customers in Tunisia. Based on a primary data collected by self-administered questionnaires involving a sample of 239 respondents located in Tunis City, the results of this study demonstrate that religious commitment, the amount of information held by consumers about Islamic finance, the relative advantage of Islamic banking and its compatibility with consumer values, lifestyle, and banking habits are predictors of its adoption. However, it is worth noting that social influence does not have any effect on customers’ decisions to use this new banking service. The findings also reveal that there is a general lack of information about the Islamic banking among Tunisian consumers. By identifying the drivers of Islamic banking acceptance among potential adopters, this paper aims to help bank managers target their actions and strategies more effectively.

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Kałaska, Maciej, Maciej Jędrusik, and Tomasz Wites. "A new guidebook analysis method for the study of tourist-historic cities: The case of the Maghreb." Geographia Polonica 93, no. 2 (2020): 287–301. http://dx.doi.org/10.7163/gpol.0174.

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This paper proposes a new guidebook analysis method for the study of tourist–historic cities, which are well recognized in the Maghreb; hence, six cities from this region were selected for the research sample (Algiers and Constantine in Algeria, Marrakesh and Tangier in Morocco, and Sousse and Tunis in Tunisia). The main purpose of this research paper is to indicate the advantages and disadvantages of this original method.

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Tagorti, Ghada. "Disease prevalence among young dogs in Grand Tunis, Tunisia: A retrospective study." Veterinary World 12, no. 4 (April 2019): 489–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.14202/vetworld.2019.489-495.

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Aim: A retrospective study was undertaken to determine the occurrence, and the distribution of the most common clinical conditions of young dogs encountered at the National School of Veterinary Medicine clinic, Tunisia, from September 2012 to July 2013, based on sex, age, breeds, and season variation. Materials and Methods: A total of 515 cases were examined, and 11 clinical conditions were recorded. Clinical examination was performed. X-ray examination and necropsy were carried out only when needed. Results: Of the 515, 298 cases (57.86%) were male, while 217 (42.14%) were female. The breed-wise difference in the occurrence of various health problems was statistically significant. Nevertheless, no significant association was found between the occurrence of a disease and age. The commonly found clinical conditions were traumatic injuries (22.72%), ectoparasitic infections (20.58%), and gastroenteritis (13.40%). The occurrence of diseases was the highest (60.19%) in the wet season (September-February) followed by 39.81% in the dry season (March-July). Conclusion: The current study presents the first recorded data about the major clinical conditions of young dogs in Tunisia. These findings can be used to develop more effective disease management and control strategies.

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Allal-Elasmi, M., M. Feki, Y. Zayani, M. Hsairi, S. Haj Taieb, R. Jemaa, H. Sanhaji, S. Omar, A. Mebazaa, and N. Kaabachi. "Prehypertension among adults in Great Tunis region (Tunisia): A population-based study." Pathologie Biologie 60, no. 3 (June 2012): 174–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.patbio.2011.03.007.

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Blum, Jennifer, Selma Hajri, Hela Chélli, Farouk Ben Mansour, Nabiha Gueddana, and Beverly Winikoff. "The medical abortion experiences of married and unmarried women in Tunis, Tunisia." Contraception 69, no. 1 (January 2004): 63–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.contraception.2003.08.019.

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Faleh, Majdi. "Restoration of Tangible and Intangible Artefacts in the Tunisian Landscape: ‘Boutique Hotels’ and the Entrepreneurial Project of Dar Ben-Gacem." Journal of Heritage Management 4, no. 1 (June 2019): 22–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2455929619852863.

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This research stems from a theoretical study of the Medina of Tunis, as a continuity of the author’s doctoral research. The broader study from which the concepts are drawn is part of a PhD project, in architecture and humanities, focused on the effects of globalization on the Medina of Tunis. Studies and publications of the houses of the Medina of Tunis are lacking from the literature, in the Anglo-Saxon world, thus the interest of the author is to build a new body of knowledge examining historical restoration projects in Tunisia. This research article traces the challenges faced by the Medina of Tunis in the twenty-first century. It does so by evaluating a restoration and conversion project of seventeenth century Dar Ben-Gacem into a boutique hotel or ‘Hotel de Charme’. The project is unique as it reflects an architectural and entrepreneurial initiative of its owners aiming to work alongside the Medina’s small businesses, local artisans and the community at large. In this context, this research examines the architectural and socio-cultural challenges faced by the owners as well as the architects to preserve the identity of the building while diversifying the use of its spaces. This study first examines the history of Dar Ben-Gacem and the transition of the traditional courtyard house into a ‘cosmopolitan’ guest house that attracts visitors and tourists from all cultures and nationalities. Later, it explores the motivations and commitments of the owners to revive tangible and intangible artefacts through architecture as well as the social and cultural entrepreneurship of Tunisia’s rich cultural history. Ultimately, this theoretical study evaluates the challenges faced in such projects to revive the cultural heritage of the house while shaping a ‘story’ of a generation. Restoration projects in the Medina vary in scale and purpose. The consideration of both tangible and intangible artefacts in this historical context is highly important as it delves into the question of heritage in the age of tourism and globalization.

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Chaldeos, Antonios. "The Greek Community in Tunis through 16th – 17th Centuries." Chronos 34 (October 25, 2018): 51–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.31377/chr.v34i0.152.

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The region of North Africa, because of its geographical position in the Mediterranean basin, was a perpetual field of cultural osmosis and religious syncretism. Since Tunisia is located in the centre ofthe Mediterranean Sea and the North African coast, people of different nationalities, races and religions used to live there. The 16th century, marked by the conflicts of the Spanish kings with the Ottoman Empire for supremacy in the Mediterranean Sea. In the early 16th century, the North Africa coast was the base for the pirates acting in the Mediterranean such as the Barbarossa brothers, who, after the conquest of Algiers, took the place of the trustee in the name of the High Port. In the second half of the 16th century, Spain took under control several coastal cities, but only for only a short period, since they were conquered by the Ottoman Empire. The first Ottoman conquest ofTunis took place in 1534 under the command of Barbarossa Hayreddin Pasha, the younger brother of Oruq Reis, who was the Kapudan Pasha of the Ottoman Fleet during the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent. However, only in 1574, Kapudan Pasha UluqAli Reis managed to integrate Tunisia into the Ottoman Empire (Spencer 1995: 73; Braudel 1976: 1066-1068). The Ottoman reign established permanently in the area, creating the eyalets of Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli (Hess 2010: 253). The expansion of the Ottomans in North Africa, from Libya to Algeria, and the suppression of the Admiral Sinan Pasha of the Knights of Malta

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Widz, Monika, and Teresa Brzezińska-Wójcik. "Assessment of the Overtourism Phenomenon Risk in Tunisia in Relation to the Tourism Area Life Cycle Concept." Sustainability 12, no. 5 (March 5, 2020): 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12052004.

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Tunisia is a destination where organised mass tourism has prevailed since 1985. This trend is still being observed, despite the unstable geopolitical situation in North Africa. Current reports from booking portals indicate that this country will be one of the most popular tourist destinations in 2020. Therefore, the aim of the study was to determine the prospects for sustainable development in Tunisia in 2020–2025 as means to prevent the negative effects of overtourism. The research was conducted in three stages: (1) analysis of the phases of tourism development in Tunisia from 1960 to 2019 in relation to the Tourism Area Life Cycle concept, (2) identification of the destination’s evolution in 2015–2019 with the method of trend function exploration, and (3) an attempt to assess the risk of overtourism in Tunisia in light of Tourism Carrying Capacity on the basis of the Tourism Intensity Index and Tourism Density index. The study results revealed three phases of development in Tunisia, i.e. exploration, involvement, and development. The verification of the trend function indicated that Tunisia would enter the consolidation phase in 2020. The highest risk of overtourism is estimated for three governorates—Tunis, Sousse, and Monastir.

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Troudi, Azza, Meha Fethi, Mohamed Selim El Asli, Jean Michel Bolla, Naouel Klibi, and Jean Michel Brunel. "Efficiency of a Tetracycline-Adjuvant Combination Against Multidrug Resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa Tunisian Clinical Isolates." Antibiotics 9, no. 12 (December 17, 2020): 919. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics9120919.

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The growing number of multidrug resistant strains in Tunisia has become a serious health concern contributing to high rate of mortality and morbidity. Since current antibiotics are rapidly becoming ineffective, novel strategies to combat resistance are needed. Recently, we demonstrated that combination of a tetracycline antibiotic with various polyaminoisoprenyl adjuvants can sustain the life span and enhance the activity of these drugs against Pseudomonas aeruginosa reference strain (PA01). In the context of our continuing studies, the effective approach of antibiotic-adjuvant was investigated against a large panel of P. aeruginosa Tunisian clinical strains collected from the Military Hospital of Tunis. In this paper, we demonstrated that the combination of a farnesyl spermine compound 3 used at concentrations ranging from 2.5 to 10 µM, in the presence of doxycycline or minocycline leads to a significant decrease of P. aeruginosa antibiotic resistance.

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Hazelton, Robert H., Robert M. Sargent, Erich R. Gundlach, Mohamed Anis Boussetta, Ahmed Ben Djebara, and Sahbene Ben Fadhel. "PREVENTION AND ABATEMENT OF MARINE POLLUTION IN TUNISIAN COMMERCIAL PORTS." International Oil Spill Conference Proceedings 2001, no. 2 (March 1, 2001): 1449–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.7901/2169-3358-2001-2-1449.

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ABSTRACT In addition to having ports that ship and receive oil and other commercial products by sea, the Republic of Tunisia is exposed to potential spills from vessels that are routed close to shore as they transit the Mediterranean. This paper summarizes a study that was conducted to evaluate Tunisia's commercial ports' oil spill contingency plans, response equipment, and response management systems, for the purposes of increasing the spill response capability of the Tunisian Office of the Merchant Marine and Ports (OMMP) and bringing each plan up to criteria established by Tunisia's 1996 oil spill legislation and international standards. The four ports evaluated were Bizerte, Tunis-Goulette-Radès (TGR), Sfax, and Zarzis. Interviews and discussions were conducted with representatives of the OMMP, the Agency for Environmental Protection (ANPE), the Tunisian Petroleum Activities Enterprise (ETAP), the Tunisian Navy and Merchant Marine, the Directorate General of Energy, the state-owned oil transportation company (TRAPSA), and selected private sector oil companies. The equipment review entailed analysis of existing equipment in each port, potential spill size and location, time to respond, and environmentally sensitive areas needing protection. Specific recommendations were made for improving the readiness posture of Tunisia's commercial ports and for the purchase of additional spill-response equipment and services. Implementation of these recommendations will result in a significantly improved capability on the part of the private and public sector users of Tunisia's commercial ports to respond effectively to marine oil spills, should one occur. This paper highlights the readiness capability of each port and the extent of oil transportation activities, and provides recommendations to improve response via equipment purchases, improvement of the existing response management system, implementation of a training and exercise program, and changes to the port contingency plans.

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ANTIT, M., S. GOFAS, C. SALAS, and A. AZZOUNA. "One hundred years after Pinctada: an update on alien Mollusca in Tunisia." Mediterranean Marine Science 12, no. 1 (April 11, 2011): 53. http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/mms.53.

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The occurrences of non-indigenous marine molluscs in Tunisia are reviewed, based booth on a literature survey and on original material. Species are accepted as established if there are two independent reports, either geographically separate or at least one month apart in time. On these grounds, 14 species are accepted (12 alien and 2 expanding their range from elsewhere in the Mediterranean), 3 aliens need confirmation but are likely to meet the standards for acceptation on a short future, and 5 records are rebutted or questioned. Two more species may be considered as cryptogenic, the reports are reliable but it is not clear indication that they are not indigenous. Two of the alien species are reported for the first time in Tunisian waters: the nudibranch Polycerella emertoni qualifies as established, and the bivalve Anadara transversa is tentatively identified from a juvenile live-taken specimen, which awaits further confirmation.The occurrence of aliens in Tunisia is balanced between presumably Lessepsian species of tropical Indo-Pacific origin, and species from other sources including species from the Tropical Atlantic introduced through shipping. Nevertheless there is a prevalence of Lessepsian species towards the Gulf of Gabes in the south, whereas the shipping activity in Tunis harbour may be the main pathway of introduction in the north.

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Handrick, Susann, Malena Bestehorn-Willmann, Simone Eckstein, Mathias C. Walter, Markus H. Antwerpen, Habiba Naija, Kilian Stoecker, Roman Wölfel, and Mohamed Ben Moussa. "Whole genome sequencing and phylogenetic classification of Tunisian SARS-CoV-2 strains from patients of the Military Hospital in Tunis." Virus Genes 56, no. 6 (October 9, 2020): 767–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11262-020-01795-9.

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AbstractIn the present work, two complete genome sequences of SARS-CoV-2 were obtained from nasal swab samples of Tunisian SARS-CoV-2 PCR-positive patients using nanopore sequencing. The virus genomes of two of the patients examined, a Tunisian soldier returning from a mission in Morocco and a member of another Tunisian family, showed significant differences in analyses of the total genome and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). Phylogenetic relationships with known SARS-CoV-2 genomes in the African region, some European and Middle Eastern countries and initial epidemiological conclusions indicate that the introduction of SARS-CoV-2 into Tunisia from two independent sources was travel-related.

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McPhail, Alexander A. "Why Don't Households Connect to the Piped Water System? Observations from Tunis, Tunisia." Land Economics 70, no. 2 (May 1994): 189. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3146321.

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Ksia, Sonia, Hanen Smaoui, Manel Hraoui, Aida Bouafsoun, Ihem Boutiba-Ben Boubaker, and Amel Kechrid. "Molecular Characteristics of Erythromycin-ResistantStreptococcus pyogenesStrains Isolated from Children Patients in Tunis, Tunisia." Microbial Drug Resistance 23, no. 5 (July 2017): 633–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/mdr.2016.0129.

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El Alimi, Souheil, Taher Maatallah, Anouar Wajdi Dahmouni, and Sassi Ben Nasrallah. "Modeling and investigation of the wind resource in the gulf of Tunis, Tunisia." Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 16, no. 8 (October 2012): 5466–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2012.05.004.

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El Ouderni, Ahmed Ridha, Taher Maatallah, Souheil El Alimi, and Sassi Ben Nassrallah. "Experimental assessment of the solar energy potential in the gulf of Tunis, Tunisia." Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 20 (April 2013): 155–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2012.11.016.

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Saïdi, Hanen, Radhia Souissi, and Fouad Zargouni. "Grain size characteristics of superficial sediments of the Gulf of Tunis (NE Tunisia)." Arabian Journal of Geosciences 7, no. 8 (July 20, 2013): 3365–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12517-013-1008-0.

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Bouguerra, Seifeddine, and Safa Bhar Layeb. "Determining optimal deployment of electric vehicles charging stations: Case of Tunis City, Tunisia." Case Studies on Transport Policy 7, no. 3 (September 2019): 628–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cstp.2019.06.003.

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Di Francesco, Antonietta, Daniela Salvatore, Sonia Sakhria, Elena Catelli, Caterina Lupini, Mohamed Salah Abbassi, Ghaith Bessoussa, Salma Ben Yahia, and Noureddine Ben Chehida. "High Frequency and Diversity of Tetracycline Resistance Genes in the Microbiota of Broiler Chickens in Tunisia." Animals 11, no. 2 (February 2, 2021): 377. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani11020377.

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Tetracycline resistance is still considered one of the most abundant antibiotic resistances among pathogenic and commensal microorganisms. The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of tetracycline resistance (tet) genes in broiler chickens in Tunisia, and this was done by PCR. Individual cloacal swabs from 195 broiler chickens were collected at two slaughterhouses in the governorate of Ben Arous (Grand Tunis, Tunisia). Chickens were from 7 farms and belonged to 13 lots consisting of 15 animals randomly selected. DNA was extracted and tested for 14 tet genes. All the lots examined were positive for at least 9 tet genes, with an average number of 11 tet genes per lot. Of the 195 animals tested, 194 (99%) were positive for one or more tet genes. Tet(L), tet(M) and tet(O) genes were found in 98% of the samples, followed by tet(A) in 90.2%, tet(K) in 88.7% and tet(Q) in 80%. These results confirm the antimicrobial resistance impact in the Tunisian poultry sector and suggest the urgent need to establish a robust national antimicrobial resistance monitoring plan. Furthermore, the molecular detection of antibiotic resistance genes directly in biological samples seems to be a useful means for epidemiological investigations of the spread of resistance determinants.

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Boulahia-Kheder, Synda. "The Whitefly Dialeurodes citri: A New Pest on Citrus in Tunisia?" Tunisian Journal of Plant Protection 16, no. 1 (June 30, 2021): 11–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.52543/tjpp.16.1.2.

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Whiteflies invaded citrus orchards in Tunisia in the 90’s. Two species: Aleurothixus floccosus and Parabemisia myricae have been recorded successively infesting citrus and causing severe damage in Cap-Bon (North-East of Tunisia). These pests were first controlled by several insecticidal applications but with a relative efficiency. Then two biological control programs have been deployed completing the action of native natural enemies especially for P. myricae. The result was a very satisfactory control of both whitefly species, to a point that they almost disappeared from orchards for about 30 years. In 2017, a third whitefly species, identified as Dialeurodes citri, was observed during a prospection in citrus orchards in Takelsa region (Cap-Bon). It was a common species in Algeria, but never caused damage in Tunisia. In 2020, D. citri was found again with very high population densities in the regions of Menzel Bou Zelfa (Cap-Bon) and Tunis. These observations confirmed its change of status and spread in Tunisia. The main morphological and biological traits to distinguish between D. citri and the other two whitefly species, already recorded in Tunisia, were described and first observations on its infestation were reported. Some recommendations to manage this new pest are given.

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Latrech, Basma, Hiba Ghazouani, Lasram Asma, Boutheina M. Douh, Mansour Mohsen, and Abdelhamid Boujelben. "Long-term trend analysis of climatic variables and reference evapotranspiration over different urban areas in Tunisia." Brazilian Journal of Biological Sciences 6, no. 12 (2019): 189–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.21472/bjbs.061218.

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In this study, the trend analysis of annual climatic variables including Tmax, Tmin, Tmean, RHmean, WS and SR as well as FAO-56 PM ET0 were investigated in three locations in Tunisia during 1984-2007. The Mann-Kendall Test, the Sen's Slope Estimator and linear regression tests were used for the analysis. The obtained results showed a significant increasing trends (a < 0.001) and (a < 0.01) in annual Tmax, Tmin and Tmean at all the considered locations. However, Tmin increase faster than Tmax with a slope of magnitudes ranging between 0.057 to 0.1 oC year-1. For RHmean, a non-significant tendency of decrease was observed in Chott-Mariem station. However, significantly increasing trends were found for Kelibia and Tunis Carthage. Concerning the WS variable, a tendency of decrease is observed during the study period for all the stations. Nevertheless, the statistical analysis of decreasing tendency of wind speed varied from non-significant for Tunis Carthage to highly significant (a <= 0.001) at Chott-Mariem and Kelibia. Despite the highly significant upward trend of temperature, the temporal pattern of mean annual FAO56 PM-ET0, over the different stations, did not exhibit any significant trend except for Kelibia station.

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