Mehdi Ben Slimane, Marilyne Huchet, Habib Zitouna,
The aim of this paper is to examine the effects of foreign direct investments (FDI) on food security for 55 developing countries in a panel framework over the period 1995–2009. There are various measures of food security that can be used. Our first contribution is to build a composite indicator that synthesizes the food indicators used by the Food and Agriculture Organization to measure the food availability and food utilization. Second, our empirical study is based on a model composed of a food ...
Tópico(s): World Systems and Global Transformations
2015 - Elsevier BV | International Economics
Reham Rizk, Mehdi Ben Slimane,
Tópico(s): Climate Change Policy and Economics
2018 - Springer Science+Business Media | Environmental Science and Pollution Research
Abir Ben Slimane, Damien Raclot, Olivier Evrard, Mustapha Sanaa, Irène Lefèvre, Mehdi Ahmadi, Mouna Tounsi, Cornélia Rumpel, Abdallah Ben Mammou, Yves Le Bissonnais,
Approximately 74 % of agricultural soils in Tunisia are affected by water erosion, leading to the siltation of numerous human-made reservoirs and therefore a loss of water storage capacity. The objective of this study was to propose a methodology for estimating the relative contributions of gully/channel bank erosion and surface topsoil erosion to the sediment accumulated in small reservoirs. We tested an approach based on the sediment fingerprinting technique for sediments collected from a reservoir ( ...
Tópico(s): Groundwater and Watershed Analysis
2013 - Springer Science+Business Media | Journal of Soils and Sediments
Atef Ben Nsir, Mehdi Darmoul, Maroua Zemmali, Abdelhafidh Slimane, Nejib Hattab,
<b><i>Background/Aims:</i></b> The most common cause of anterior plagiocephaly is the fusion of the unilateral coronal suture. In some rare cases, however, the fusion of the frontosphenoidal suture may lead to a resembling pattern with specific clinical and radiological features. The aim of the present study is to further enlighten this entity as it is misdiagnosed most of the time. <b><i>Methods:</i></b> A report of 2 cases of plagiocephaly due to frontosphenoidal ...
Tópico(s): dental development and anomalies
2016 - Karger Publishers | Pediatric Neurosurgery
Mehdi Ben Slimane, Leila Baghdadi,
In this paper, we contribute to the literature by studying the effect of internationalization on the conditional firm growth rate distribution in eight countries from the MENA region. We use four measures of internationalization: exporting status, two-way trade, export intensity and export experience. We use the BEEPS data from the Enterprise Survey of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the World Bank. The main results show that exporting status and export experience play an ...
Tópico(s): International Business and FDI
2019 - Springer Nature | Economics bulletin
Mohamed Jaber, Slimane Ben Miled, I. Hajjem, Dhouha Sahnoun, S Gharbi, Mehdi Mrad, Khaled Ben Romdhane, Z. Mnif, H. Oueslati, Sami Boussetta,
Illustrer à travers une série de 25 cas les aspects en imagerie des tumeurs ovariennes non épithéliales. Etude rétrospective d’observations radio-cliniques de patientes âgées de 15 à 65 ans explorées dans notre institution pour masse pelvienne (n = 21), tableau aigu de torsion ou hémorragie (5 cas), 2 femmes étaient enceintes au moment du diagnostic. Explorations morphologiques par échographie abdomino-pelvienne (25 P), TDM et IRM 10 chacune. Les marqueurs tumoraux ont été demandés pour 10 patientes. ...
Tópico(s): Renal and related cancers
2009 - Elsevier BV | Journal de Radiologie
Mehdi Mbarek, Hanen Bouaziz, Souha Jaouadi, Imen Sassi, Maher Slimane, Tarek Ben Dhieb,
Tópico(s): Estrogen and related hormone effects
2025 - BMJ | International Journal of Gynecological Cancer