The purpose of this paper is to give a comprehensive understanding of the role and importance of e-catalogs in today’s e-commerce strategies. The main contribution of our work is a systematic approach towards the classification and evaluation of platforms and tools used for building e-Catalogs. Further we define e-catalogs in a broad sense and we examine the benefits introduced by their use. We...

Accurate approximate relations for the e}ective elastic moduli of two! and three!dimensional isotropic dispersions are obtained by truncating\ after third!order terms\ an exact series expansion for the e}ective sti}ness tensor of d!dimensional two!phase composites "obtained in the _rst paper# that perturbs about certain optimal dispersions[ Our third!order approximations of the e}ective bulk mo...

This investigation aimed to examine the protective function of vitamin E on rat bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) treated with cadmium chloride. Rat bone marrow MSCs were extracted using flashing-out and cultured in DMEM containing 10% FBS and 100 U/ml Pen/Strep. At the end of the third passage, cells were divided into 4 groups including control, cadmium chloride, cadmium chloride + vit...

Developing the e-services has directed organizations to aspire to achieve more market share in the competitive market. Consequently, they must present their services in such a system that customers return to the website and apply the e-services of that organization. This matter has become a serious challenge in this field and has generated a notion such as e-loyalty that various factors affect ...

Protecting privacy against bribery/coercion is a necessary requirement in electronic services, like e-voting, e-auction and e-health. Domain-specific privacy properties have been proposed to capture this. We generalise these properties as enforced privacy : a system enforces a user’s privacy even when the user collaborates with the adversary. In addition, we account for the influence of third p...

Background and Aims: The rate of urinary tract infection caused by the extended-spectrum-β-lactamase- (ESBL) producing Escherichia coli (E. coli) is increasing worldwide. This study aimed to assess the frequency of blaCTX-M genes in the E. coli isolated from urinary tract infection (UTI) in outpatients. Methods: 240 E. coli bacteria were isolated from the outpatients’ urine samples in the Kerma...

A third-order in time numerical IMEX-type algorithm for the StokesDarcy system for flows in fluid saturated karst aquifers is proposed and analyzed. A novel third-order Adams-Moulton scheme is used for the discretization of the dissipative term whereas a third-order explicit Adams-Bashforth scheme is used for the time discretization of the interface term that couples the Stokes and Darcy compon...