Background & Aim:Cognitive impairment is one of the age-related mental problems and a typical indicator of neurodegeneration. Eragrostis tremula Hochst. ex Steud. is a commonly used medicinal plant in Nigeria for memory enhancement. This study, therefore, aimed at evaluating the memory-enhancing potential of aqueous ethanolic extract of E. tremula in ...

Various methods are needed to extract information from current (digital) comics. Furthermore, the use of different (proprietary) formats by comic distribution platforms causes an overhead for authors. To overcome these issues, we propose a solution that makes use of the EPUB 3 specification, additionally leveraging the Open Web Platform to support animations, reading assistance, audio and multi...

Open source software (OSS) previously regarded as a fad by many academics has been rapidly adopted by both public and private sector organizations. The challenge facing most organizations is how to evaluate OSS adoption benefits. OSS adoption is a complex phenomenon which requires an interdisciplinary approach to understand the socio-technical, political, economic and legal benefits. The comple...

Cloud computing (CC) and open source software (OSS) both stand out to be valuable means to address prevailing requirements of small and medium-sized enterprises (SME). For instance, such requirements include their demand for flexibility, scarcity of skills and money, and their operative focus. This paper investigates the case of e-commerce adoption by means of CC and OSS in a venture capital dr...

Online dispute resolution is becoming the main method when dealing with a conflict in e-commerce. A family of defeasible reasoning patterns is used to provide a useful link between dispute resolution agents and legal doctrines. The proposed argumentation framework combines defeasible logic with temporal reasoning and argumentation with level of certainty. The evaluation of arguments depends on ...

this research is focused on facies distribution, palaeoecology and palaeoenvironment of the gurimember of the mishan formation in kuh-e shur and kuh-e kurdeh sections at the lar area, fars province.the guri member is composed of limestone, marly limestone and marl and the thickness at kuh-e shur andkuh-e kurdeh is about 72 and 110 meters, respectively. based on petrographical studies of 120 thi...

Purpose – This paper aims to present an approach where assumption personas are used to engage stakeholders in the elicitation and specification of security requirements at a late stage of a system’s design. Design/methodology/approach – The author has devised an approach for developing assumption personas for use in participatory design sessions during the later stages of a system’s design. The...

By developing an interactive open source-based WebGIS information portal on war and peace for the online services of the Federal Agency for Civic Education, the Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC) translates scientific knowledge into easily understandable and subsumable up-to-date information for the general public and young scholars. By aggregating globally scattered data and infor...

Recommender systems are being used by an ever-increasing number of E-commerce sites to help consumers find products to purchase. What started as a novelty has turned into a serious business tool. Recommender systems use product knowledge – either hand-coded knowledge provided by experts or “mined” knowledge learned from the behavior of consumers – to guide consumers through the often-overwhelmi...