Abstract To support smart cities in aligning information technology (IT) and business strategies to achieve urban digitalization, this study aims present an Enterprise Architecture Framework (EAF) facilitate the digitalization of environments. Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) was employed design a research model, mixed-mode methodology employed. Quantitative data from survey questionnaires use...

Objective: In the present work, the effects of different fractions of Coriandrum sativum (C. sativum), on pentylenetetrazole (PTZ)-induced seizures and brain tissues oxidative damage were investigated in rats. Materials and Methods: The rats were divided into the following groups: (1) vehicle, (2) PTZ (90 mg/kg), (3) water fraction (WF) of C. sativum (25 and 100 mg/kg), (4) n-butanol fraction (...

An electric arc furnace (EAF) is known as nonlinear and time variant load that causes power quality (PQ) problems such as, current, voltage and current harmonics, voltage flicker, frequency changes in power system. One of the most important problems to study the EAF behavior is the choice of a suitable model for this load. Hence, in this paper, a probabilistic three-phase model is proposed base...

This research was conducted in order to evaluate fatigue behavior of asphalt mixes containing Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) steel slag. After initial evaluation of the properties of EAF steel slag using X-ray Diffraction (XRD) and Scanning Electric Microscope (SEM), six sets of laboratory mixtures were prepared. Each set were treated replacing various portions of limestone aggregates of the mix wi...

Abstract This study aimed to find the characteristics of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans (PCDD/Fs) in fine particulate matter from different stationary emission sources (coal-fired boiler, CFB; municipal waste incinerator, MWI; electric arc furnace, EAF) Taiwan relationship between PM 2.5 -bound PCDD/Fs with Taiwanese mortality risk. was quantified using gravimetry correspon...

Emissions of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans (PCDD/Fs) from the stack flue gases, fly ashes and bottom ashes of various stationary sources were investigated. The mean total PCDD/F I-TEQ concentration of flue gas ranged from 0.00681 to 0.703 ng I-TEQ/Nm. However, the emission factor of PCDD/F from various incinerators was 0.00827 to 3.50 μg I-TEQ/ton, whereas it was 5.36 μg I...

BACKGROUND Sleep disorders are accompanied by several complications, and currently used soporific drugs can induce unwanted effects such as psychomotor impairment, tolerance, amnesia, and rebound insomnia. OBJECTIVES The present study was carried out to investigate if Ocimum basilicum has a sleep-prolonging effect. MATERIALS AND METHODS This work was an experimental study on 72 mice which w...

Escherichia coli strains isolated from children with diarrhea were collected from 16 hospitals in different districts in Thailand during 1985 and 1986 and submitted to the National Reference Laboratory. Isolates were identified by serogrouping or as enterotoxigenic E. coli (ETEC), enteroinvasive E. coli (EIEC), enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC) adhesin factor (EAF) E. coli, or Shiga-like-toxin (S...

antioxidant effects of ethyl acetate fraction of mentha spicata (l.) were evaluated against 4-nitroquinoline-1-oxide injected mice. for this study, experiment setup consisted of 36 albino mice of either sex divided into 6 groups: control (25% dmso in water), ethyl acetate fraction (eaf) alone group (80, 160 mg/kg body weight-bwt), 4-nqo (7.5 mg/kg bwt-ip) alone and 4-nqo + eaf. eaf and vehicles...

Objective: To identify novel genes implicated in epilepsy with auditory features (EAF) in phenotypically heterogeneous families with unknown molecular basis. Methods: We identified 15 probands with EAF in whom an LGI1 mutation had been excluded. We performed electroclinical phenotyping on all probands and available affected relatives. We used whole-exome sequencing (WES) in 20 individuals with ...