University of Algiers Benyoucef Benkhedda

Interpretability Audits of Computer Vision Fundus Graders Under Tropical Heat-Induced Lens Haze: A Healthcare Calibration Fairness Evaluation

Fundus cameras deployed in tropical clinics accumulate heat-induced lens haze that degrades image contrast in ways that differ across camera bodies, operators and sessions, yet interpretability audits of diabetic retinopathy graders typically assume a stationary image-formation p...

Evaluation of Causal Attention-Sensitivity Audits for Artificial Intelligence Agriculture Pest-Diagnosis Models Under Field-Image Distribution Shift: An Interpretability Robustness Bound for Smallholder Spray-Advisory Reliability

Pest-diagnosis models deployed in smallholder spray-advisory systems are audited for interpretability robustness, yet the statistical behaviour of attention-sensitivity audits under field-image distribution shift remains uncharacterised. the present analysis formalises the causal...

Evaluation of Shapley-Value Attribution Audits for Artificial Intelligence Agriculture Extension Targeting Under District-Level Clientelism: A Governance Fairness-Redress Estimator for Excluded Smallholders

The problem is that AI targeting models optimise predicted yield response, but their feature attributions are silent on whether exclusion from extension visits is a model artefact or a political settlement. Because no field data are supplied, the argument is methodological and th...

Interpretability Audits of Graph Neural Diagnostic Models Under Silent Health Information Exchange Dropouts: A Computer Robustness Evaluation

Graph neural networks (GNNs) used for diagnostic prediction in health information exchange (HIE) settings are typically evaluated on complete graphs, yet real exchanges suffer silent dropouts in which entire facilities stop contributing edges without any missingness indicator. th...

Seismic Risk Governance for the Existing Building Stock in Algeria: A Structured Review of Technical and Governance Barriers

Urban seismic risk governance in the Global South faces a persistent implementation gap: although the technical knowledge and policy instruments required to assess and reduce building vulnerability are increasingly available, translating them into sustained, large-scale action re...

Advanced treatment of municipal wastewater using a native microalga Dactylococcus dissociatus MT1 from the Algerian Sahara

ABSTRACT Diagram showing the cultivation of the native D. dissociatus MT1 isolated from the Algerian Sahara for tertiary wastewater treatment. The process includes microalgal experimental setup, biomass production, and wastewater treatment, resulting in high removal of nutrient a...

Bladder wash as an alternative biological matrix for postmortem toxicology: A critical mini-review

Bladder wash has recently emerged as a potential alternative specimen in postmortem toxicology when urine is unavailable due to agonal bladder emptying, trauma, decomposition or other autopsy-related limitations. This critical mini-review evaluates the forensic relevance, analyti...

Vibration Analysis of 2D Porous Functionally Graded Beams With Inclined Cracks Under Thermo‐Hygro‐Mechanical Coupling

ABSTRACT This work provides an in‐depth investigation into wave propagation in functionally graded material (FGM) beams subjected to coupled thermo‐hygro‐mechanical loading. The proposed model explicitly accounts for the presence of cracks, material porosity, axial pre‐stress, an...

Effect of a tele-orthodontics platform on knowledge, attitudes, and practices among orthodontic professionals in Yemen: a single-arm pretest–posttest intervention study

Abstract Objectives To evaluate the effect of a tele-orthodontics platform on orthodontists’ and orthodontic residents’ knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) in Yemen, as well as to assess the platform’s acknowledged benefits, obstacles, and consultants’ responsiveness. Metho...

Modelling resilient species for the restoration of the Green Dam in Algeria

Algeria has long suffered from ongoing desertification, resulting in the progressive loss of vegetation and soil erosion. This has had a severe impact on rural livelihoods in the north, making local communities more vulnerable and causing a decline in biodiversity. In an attempt...