The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between the use of ICT, the accumulation of e-skills and innovation capacities of teachers. A Web questionnaire was designed in order to examine the e-skills and the daily practices of vocational high-school teachers in Tunisia. The results and findings are based upon 288 HET respondents. A structural Equation model was developed in order...

Validation of optimisation model that estimates the musculotendinous forces during an isometric extension of knee S. Bennour, N. Zarrouk, M. Dogui, L. Romdhane & J.-P. Merlet a Laboratoire de Mécanique de Sousse, École Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Sousse, Université de Sousse, Sousse, 4054, Tunisia b Service d'Explorations Fonctionnelles du Système Nerveux, CHU Sahloul, Sousse, 4051, Tunisia c Equ...

Hassen Loukil, Imen Werda, Nouri Masmoudi, Ahmed Ben Atitallah, Patrice Kadionik University of Sfax, National School of Engineering, Sfax, Tunisia University of Sfax, High Institute of Electronics and Communication, Sfax, Tunisia IMS laboratory-ENSEIRB-MATMECA-University Bordeaux 1-CNRS UMR 5218, 351 Cours de la Libération, Talence Cedex, France E-mail: [email protected] Received May 1...

We explore the relationship between internal migration and poverty in Tunisia. We present a methodology combining potential outcomes approach with multiple imputation to highlight the effect of internal migration on poverty states. We find that probability of being poor decreases when leaving the poorest regions (the west areas) to the richer regions (greater Tunis and the east regions). Keywor...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this study was to survey the clinical and pathological features of breast cancer in the Center of Tunisia. DESIGN Characteristics of all breast cancer cases diagnosed in the Pathology Department, Farhet Hached Hospital, Sousse, Tunisia during a 15-year period (1993-2007) were analyzed. RESULTS A total of 2,404 new cases of breast cancer were recorded, only 48 being d...

This paper is a bibliometric study of the publication patterns of academic and research scientists of Maghreb countries: Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia. The comparative study of the scientific production in the countries of Maghreb is made using Scopus data during the period 1996-2009. Results show that the total scientific production of Tunisia is higher than that of both Morocco and Algeria, ev...

Twenty cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) cases were notified from December 2001 to February 2002, in a small village in the district of Oueslatia (governorate of Kairouan, central Tunisia) which is an endemic focus of infantile visceral leishmaniasis due to leishmania (L.) infantum and that had never been concerned previously by CL. The parasite typing of two isolates obtained from two children that...

1Higher Institute of Biotechnology, Monastir, Tunisia. 2Department of Ophthalmology, Farhat Hached University Hospital, Sousse, Tunisia. Haematology and Autoimmune Diseases Unit, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Monastir, Tunisia. Received: 29/04/03; accepted: 23/12/03 ABSTRACT Antiphospholipid antibodies may play an important role in the pathogenesis of retinal vascular occlusions; therefore...

1Microbiology Laboratory; 2Paediatric Service, Farhat Hached Hospital, Sousse, Tunisia. 3Centre de Protection Maternelle et Infantile (Centre PMI), Erriadh, Sousse, Tunisia. Received: 16/01/03; accepted: 07/10/03 ABSTRACT A 1-year prospective study in 2 paediatric outpatient clinics in Sousse, Tunisia, aimed to determine the presence of group A streptococci in acute pharyngitis cases and carrie...

This study is the first attempt to survey the diversity of fish digeneans in the Gulf of Gabes (southern coast of Tunisia). A total of 779 fishes belonging to 32 species were sampled. 53 species of Digenea belonging to 15 families were recorded. Among these species, 24 are reported for the first time from the coast of Tunisia. We report one new host record, Lecithochirium sp. from Sardinella au...