AIMS Genetic association studies have reported the E23K variant of KCNJ11 gene to be associated with Type 2 diabetes. In Arab populations, only four studies have investigated the role of this variant. We aimed to replicate and validate the association between the E23K variant and Type 2 diabetes in Tunisian and Arab populations. METHODS We have performed a case-control association study inclu...

Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer among Tunisian women, and the incidence rates vary by region. Three Tunisian registries report age-standardized rates of 6.3/10(5) in the central region, 5.4/10(5) in the north, and 2.7/10(5) in the south. High-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) types and their variants differ in carcinogenic potential and geographic distribution. The HPV type and v...

In Sicily, the increasing presence of immigrants has given the society an important challenge which has also required the adoption of an intercultural view and intervention designed to deepen the needs of migrants. Immigrants living in Sicily are distributed above all in coastal areas. The most numerous migrant communities come from Romania, Tunisia and Morocco. In the province of Trapani, the ...

Background: The objective of this paper is threefold. First, we test the most important factors that determine the level of non-interest income for Tunisian banks. Second, we study the impact of non-interest income on banks’ profitability measured by both return on assets (ROA) and return on equity (ROE). Finally, we investigate the relationship between non-interest income and the level of risk...

This article quantitatively studies the patterns of Tunisian Arabic/French codeswitching and the possible implications for contact-induced change in the Tunisian dialect. The purpose is to account for the extent of the occurrence of code-switching across gender lines and levels of education and assess its role in the interference from French into Arabic, both at the lexical and structural level...

Rhouma, A., Boubaker, A., Nesme, X., and Dessaux, Y. 2006. Plasmid and Chromosomal Diversity of a Tunisian Collection of Agrobacterium tumefaciens Strains. Tunisian Journal of Plant Protection 1: 73-84. Biochemical and molecular characteristics of Agrobacterium tumefaciens strains isolated in Tunisia from different host plants were analysed. A collection of 109 isolates was obtained from diseas...

This paper examines the relatively under-researched field of health and safety of migrant workers, with special reference to Tunisian construction workers in the city of Modena in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna. The empirical material comes from questionnaires and interviews with Tunisian migrants, plus smaller numbers of interviews with employers and trade union representatives in Modena...

OBJECTIVE To study the mutation spectrum and phenotype-genotype correlation of Darier disease (DD) in Tunisian patients. DESIGN Case series. SETTING Referral center: Department of Dermatology (La Rabta Hospital), Tunis, Tunisia. PATIENTS Eight large Tunisian families with DD, with a total of 23 patients and 9 unaffected family members. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE Patients were investigated at ...

PURPOSE Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS) is genetically heterogeneous with 15 BBS genes currently identified, accounting for approximately 70% of cases. The aim of our study was to define further the spectrum of BBS mutations in a cohort of 44 European-derived American, 8 Tunisian, 1 Arabic, and 2 Pakistani families (55 families in total) with BBS. METHODS A total of 142 exons of the first 12 BBS-...

The paper describes the structure and the aims of a new modular educational programme in Manufacturing Engineering (ME) which will be developed in the scope of a European project and implemented in the Tunis College of Sciences and Techniques (ESSTT). Today, Tunisia looks forward to a high technology transfer. One of the national projects, that have a great effect on the Tunisian national econo...