Depression is a frequent pathology that especially exposes to the suicidal risk. Lately, researches demonstrated that bipolar depression in the setting of a major bipolar disorder is more purveyor of such a risk. A depressive episode that appears in a cyclothymic temperament is considered as a bipolar II 1⁄2. In this form of soft bipolarity, suicidal risk appeared much higher than in classical ...

Blood and body fluid Exposure is a major occupational safety problems for health care workers. Therefor We conducted a descriptive and retrospective study to identify the characteristics of blood exposure accidents in health care settings which lasted five years (2005-2009) at the two university hospitals of Sfax. We have 593 blood exposure accidents in health care settings 152 (25.6%) health p...

The paper presents information and knowledge system named CK-Cartography. Its goal is to help Know-How and Knowing-That cartography through intuitive, understandable and user-friendly visualization allowing to share a communication common language between members of organization. In order to well design CK-Cartography, we propose a meta-model for knowledge cartography. This meta-model proposes ...

A new approach for automated diagnosis and classification of Magnetic Resonance (MR) human brain images is proposed. The proposed method uses Wavelets Transform (WT) as input module to Genetic Algorithm (GA) and Support Vector Machine (SVM). It segregates MR brain images into normal and abnormal. This contribution employs genetic algorithm for feature selection which requires much lighter compu...

While knowledge management (KM) is becoming an established discipline with many applications and techniques, its adoption in healthcare has been challenging. It facilitates the creation, identification, acquisition, development, preservation, dissemination, and finally utilization of various facets of a healthcare enterprise’s knowledge assets. Knowledge identification and preservation are two ...

Layered Double Hydroxides (LDH), anionic clays, is a family of compounds which have attracted considerable attention in recent years[1-4] such as catalysis[5], adsorption[6], ion exchange[7], biomedical application[8] and Defluoridation Capacity (DC)[9]. The structure of most of these materials corresponds to that of hydrotalcite[10]. LDHs are characterized by the general formula [M1-xM III x(O...

OBJECTIVE To illustrate through 10 pediatric cases, the clinical features, course, and importance of neuroimaging (especially MRI) in guiding the diagnosis of acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) and controlling patients after treatment. METHODS A retrospective review of 10 pediatric cases of ADEM, with special regard to the MRI features, presenting to the Pediatric Departments, Hedi C...

concentrations of zn, cu, cr, cd, pb and fe in surface marine sediments of the southern coast of sfax were studied in order to understand current metal contamination at the outlet of a mixed industrial and domestic wastewater effluent discharged into the seawater since 1953. we found that heavy metal concentrations (mg/kg dry weight) in surface marine sediments varied from 42 to 391 for zn, 15 ...

concentrations of zn, cu, cr, cd, pb and fe in surface marine sediments of the southern coast of sfax were studied in order to understand current metal contamination at the outlet of a mixed industrial and domestic wastewater effluent discharged into the seawater since 1953. we found that heavy metal concentrations (mg/kg dry weight) in surface marine sediments varied from 42 to 391 for zn, 15 ...

We have noted that, during the last few years, there has been a redistribution of the most common Candida species with an increase in non-C. albicans Candida species, particularly Candida glabrata. In many countries, the high frequency of Candida glabrata shows the highest resistance rates. The main objective of this investigation was to analyze the genotypic variability of invasive C. glabrata...