E-commerce (EC) success and related influencing factors have not been investigated properly in the context of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), while these businesses possess very different characteristics as compared to large businesses. The purpose of this study is to provide a better and clearer understanding of business-to-business (B2B) EC value and success within SMEs, particular...

OBJECTIVES This study evaluates the effect of substitution of microcrystalline cellulose (MCC) with ethylcellulose (EC) on mechanical and release characteristics of theophylline pellets. MATERIALS AND METHODS The effect of addition of EC was investigated on characteristics of pellets with varying drug content prepared by extrusion-spheronization. Also the effect of type of granulating liquid ...

The heart is an extremely sophisticated organ with nanoscale anisotropic structure, contractility and electro-conductivity; however, few studies have addressed the influence of cardiac anisotropy on cell transplantation for myocardial repair. Here, we hypothesized that a graft's anisotropy of myofiber orientation determines the mechano-electrical characteristics and the therapeutic efficacy. We...

The traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is explained in the language of engineering cybernetics (EC), an engineering science with the tradition of rigor and long history of practice. The inherent connection is articulated between EC, as a science of interrelations, and the Chinese conception of Wuxing. The combined cybernetic model of Wuxing seems to have significant explaining power for the TCM...

N o v e m b e r / D e c e m b e r 1 9 9 9 I E E E S o f t w a r e 1 9 ince 1967, when a group of people from a variety of disciplines (most of whom would now be identified as computer scientists) met to discuss “Software Engineering”in southern Germany, computer scientists have discussed SE as if it were a subfield of computer science. Within CS departments we find people who specialize in auto...

In the multi-agent system (MAS) context, the theories and practices of evolutionary computation (EC) have new implications, particularly with regard to engineering and shaping system behaviors. Thus, it is important that we consider the embodiment of EC in “real” agents, that is, agents that involve the real restrictions of time and space within MASs. In this chapter, we address these issues in...

HIGHLIGHTS Electrical conductivity (EC) and N:K ratios modify zucchini fruit size. Organoleptic characteristics of fruits increase with EC. Total dry mass production plants showed interaction between ratio

OBJECTIVES The ability of nursing homes to manage the mental health needs of their residents is crucial to providing high quality care. An important element is preventing exacerbations of psychiatric conditions that trigger discharge from the nursing home (NH) because of an emergency commitment (EC) for an involuntary psychiatric examination. The objective of this study was to examine the relat...

Abderrahmane Beroual 1,*, Usama Khaled 2,3, Phanuel Seraphine Mbolo Noah 1 and Henry Sitorus 4 1 Ecole Centrale de Lyon, University of Lyon, Ampere CNRS UMR 5005, 36 avenue Guy Collongue, 69134 Ecully, France; [email protected] 2 Electrical Engineering Department, College of Engineering, King Saud University, Riyadh 11421, Saudi Arabia; [email protected] 3 Electrical Engineering Departme...

Numerous definitions and analytical techniques for elemental (or black) carbon (EC) have been published in the scientific literature, but still no generally accepted interdisciplinary definition exists. EC is not a single chemical compound, but is mainly composed of two parts of carbon contents: combustion residues from pyrolysis and combustion emissions formed via gas-to-particle conversion. A...