Social media is increasingly important for political and social activism in Mexico. In particular, Twitter has played a significant role in influencing government decision making and shaping the relationships between governments, citizens, politicians, and other stakeholders. Within the last few months, some commentators even argue that Mexican politics has a new influential actor: “I’m Number ...

Viral hepatitis represents an important health problem in the South Mediterranean countries, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco. Emerging natural history and epidemiological information reveal differences in the overall epidemiology, risk factors and modes of transmission of viral hepatitis A, B, C, D, E infections in the South Mediterranean region. The differences in the in incidence a...

During September 2010, 133 female sand flies were caught inside houses of patients with cutaneous leishmaniasis in the focus for this disease in southeastern Tunisia and subsequently dissected. One specimen was positive for Leishmania protozoa. This sand fly species was identified as Phlebotomus sergenti, and the parasite was identified as L. tropica. This is the first report of P. sergenti inv...

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...

West Nile virus (WNV) is a mosquito-transmitted Flavivirus belonging to the Japanese encephalitis antigenic complex of the Flaviviridae family. Its spread in the Mediterranean basin and the Balkans poses a significant risk to human health and forces public health officials to constantly monitor the virus transmission to ensure prompt application of preventive measures. In this context, predicti...

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: Nouri.Masmoudi@enis.rnu.tn Received May 1...

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...

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...

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...