Showing papers in "Heliyon in 2019"

TL;DR: The present review has been able to describe the different families of dyes and pigments used in textile finishing processes such as dyeing and printing, which are reactive, direct, dispersed, indigo, sulphur and vats.

TL;DR: The analytical results showed that three dimensions of e-service quality, namely website design, security/privacy and fulfilment affect overall e- service quality, while customer service is not significantly related to overall e -service quality.

TL;DR: A systematic review of some of the popular machine learning based email spam filtering approaches and recommended deep leaning and deep adversarial learning as the future techniques that can effectively handle the menace of spam emails.

TL;DR: The results of the present study illustrate that the highest cooling effect distance and cooling effect intensity are for large urban parks with an area of more than 10 ha; however, in addition to the area, the natural elements and qualities of the urban green spaces, as well as climate characteristics, highly inform the urbanGreen space cooling effect.

TL;DR: The present review discusses the L-proline accumulation, metabolism, signaling, transport and regulation in the plants, and discusses the effects of exogenous L-Proline during different environmental conditions.

TL;DR: Boprospecting for quorum quenching compounds can be an appropriate solution for controlling biofilm infections, according to a review of recent research and review articles.

TL;DR: This review summarizes some of the recent methods for extraction of HAp from natural sources including mammalian, aquatic or marine sources, shell sources, plants and algae, and from mineral sources.

TL;DR: For this purpose, hundreds of well recognized international and national journals, conference proceedings and other related documents were reviewed to draw a complete picture of recent water pollution status and its impact on public health in Bangladesh.

TL;DR: This study provides a circular economy insight on lithium-ion battery reuse and recycling and provides an updated global perspective on the state of the battery recycling industry.

TL;DR: This research shows that social, technological and regulatory barriers have a strong influence on the deployment of renewable energy, while economic barriers significantly influence it indirectly.

TL;DR: In this review the latest progresses in the dairy sector concerning the addition of numerous herbs and spices in different forms (i.e. powder, fresh, extract, essential oils) to dairy food has been conversed.

TL;DR: The synthesis and degradation mechanisms of chitosan micro/nanoparticles frequently used in drug delivery especially in pulmonary drug delivery are reviewed to understand whether these nanoparticles are biodegradable.

TL;DR: The compound 6:2 FTS was an important contributor to PFAS emissions in the studied Australian WWTPs, supporting the need for future research on its sources (including precursor degradation), environmental fate and impact in Australian aquatic environments receiving WWTP effluent.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that the method to estimate Eg by intersecting the straight-line fit of the Tauc segment with the photon energy axis is not appropriate for those samples containing more than one optical absorbing phase because systematic underestimation of the Eg value results.

TL;DR: This review focuses on the role of hydrolyzed proteins and peptides with antioxidant properties in various models and their mechanisms which include hydrogen or electron transfer, metal chelating, and regulation of enzymes involved in the oxidation-reduction process.

TL;DR: The present review highlights the pharmacological importance of Tinospora cordifolia viz antioxidant activity, antimicrobial activity, antibacterial activity, antifungal activity, anti-diabetic activity, anticancer anti HIV potential, antiosteoporotic effects, antitoxic effects, wound healing, anticomplementary activity, and immunomodulating activity, systemic infection and Parkinson's disease.

TL;DR: In this work, different mechanisms of heavy metal ions removal using ZnO particles were studied using solid precipitation technique and found that poor removal efficiency was observed for Cr(VI), Mn(II), Cd( II) and Ni(II) ions.

TL;DR: The results showed the potential of the fabricated agar-ZnO nanocomposite film as a promising packaging material to enhance postharvest shelf-life of fresh fruits like green grapes.

TL;DR: It is observed that computer self-efficacy and enjoyment as intrinsic motivations significantly predict continuance intention, while perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness and user perception were insignificant, which implies that computerSelf Efficacy and enjoying significantly affect the willingness of students to continue using Cloud e-learning application in their studies.

TL;DR: The emergence of some Campylobacter species as one of the main causative agent of diarrhea and the propensity of these bacteria species to resist the actions of antimicrobial agents position them as a serious threat to the public health.

TL;DR: This paper survey and compare existing routing protocols in wireless sensor networks, and introduces the different solutions that can be used to improve the network lifetime and focuses on energy efficient routing protocols as the area of the survey, in addition to network topology modeling.

TL;DR: The bioactivity study showed spherical deposition around the porous region of the scaffold HAp suggesting the growth of apatite in SBF media after 7 days of incubation, while antibacterial activity studies showed zones of inhibition with an increase in zinc ions concentrations.

TL;DR: Variance decomposition results do not rule out these effects of urbanization and globalization on CO2 emissions for South Africa in future, but only long-run significant emissions effect of globalization was noted.

TL;DR: The ability of VAuNPs and vanillin to be used as antibiotic adjuvants for inhibiting bacterial efflux pumps to potentiate antibiotics for addressing AMR problem affecting human health and environment is indicated.

TL;DR: Spectroscopic study of four samples of Argan wooden artifact pertaining to the 17th, 18th, 20th and 21st centuries to characterize their unknown structures by the study of their non degraded parts and to investigate changes occurred in their degraded parts due to the natural degradation process.

TL;DR: GPAgNPs were effective against four antibiotic resistant pathogens and they exhibited excellent antimicrobial activity against Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae and Candida albicans.

TL;DR: The study revealed that the mean soil loss from the watershed ranges between 25 and 30 t/ha−1 yr−1 which accounted for 25.8, 28.7 and 30.3 t/ ha/yr for 1973, 1995 and 2015 periods respectively.

TL;DR: Predictive analysis was carried out to determine the extent to which the fifth year and final Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of engineering students in a Nigerian University can be determined using the program of study, the year of entry and the Grade point Average for the first three years of study as inputs into a Konstanz Information Miner (KNIME) based data mining model.

TL;DR: Multiple V-shaped floating wicks are used to enhance heat absorption and thereby increase productivity of modified solar still in Rewa, India.

TL;DR: Electrochemical and computational calculations of adsorption and corrosion inhibition properties of two imidazole derivatives and quantum chemical calculations section of the study provides enough calculation and discussion on the relationship between corrosion inhibition and global reactivity descriptors.