Tunisia, located in a semi-arid zone, has limited water resources. The shortage of good
water quality in particular at the south regions required a brackish water desalination to …

Fourteen patients with metastatic malignant melanoma that had failed to respond to
standard dacarbazine-based chemotherapy treatment were entered into a phase II study of …

During the past 2 decades there have been chemotherapeutic advances in the management
of patients with advanced epithelial ovarian cancer. Nevertheless, new drug combinations …

Abstract Uranium (238 U) and thorium (232 Th) concentrations as well as radon (222 Rn)
and thoron (220 Rn) alpha activities per unit volume have been measured inside 18 medical …

Maternal renal disease is associated with high maternal and fetal morbidity. To establish an
animal model to study renal dysfunction in pregnancy and its potential role in programming …

To determine the effects of chronic maternal renal insufficiency on fetal renal function, we
studied nine fetuses whose mothers underwent subtotal nephrectomy at least 2 mo before …

Total activities due to the ingestion of 131I were evaluated in different compartments of the
human body of patients. It has been shown that the 131I activity in urine of patients …

We use a nuclear technique based on the determination of the detection efficiencies of solid
state nuclear track detectors CR-39 and LR-115 type II (SSNTDs) for alpha particles emitted …

[en] We developed three new and original methods based on the formalism of energy loss of
alpha-particles inside different media for evaluating the 238 U, 232 Th, 222 Rn, and 220 Rn …

Abstract Background: Pregnant women with Type 1 diabetes mellitus develop vascular
lesions similar to atheroma in the placental bed. These lesions are characterised by an …