In this study, we explore social media use by politicians by investigating affordances, effects and associated constraints of introducing social media within eParticipation. Based on an interpretive case study in the ...

This study aims to reexamine some traditional usability principles in the context of social media. The instrument was based on 14 items of usability dimensions (i.e. learnability, flexibility, and robustness) proposed by ...

This paper is aimed to investigate the factors affecting the awareness of Muslim students towards halal food products. The variables used are religious belief, self-identity and media exposure as the independent variables ...

Preparation of nickel dispersed on sulfated zirconia pillared montmorillonite(Ni/S-Zr/MMT) and its application as catalyst in citronellal conversion was investigated. Preparation of material was conducted by three main ...

The influence of calcination temperature on the synthesis of zirconia-pillared saponite (PILS) and on its catalytic activity in menthol esterification has been studied. Zirconia pillarization was conducted using zirconium ...

In present work, titania dispersed in aluminium pillared saponite was prepared by using microwave irradiation technique as a more efficient calcination procedure instead of conventional calcination by slow heating. Several ...

Iron-pillared bentonites (Fe/Bents) were successfully prepared using a ferric chloride precursor. The prepared samples were characterized using XRD, BET and SEM-EDX. The results show that the pillared bentonite physicochemical ...

Ceramic membranes based on TiO2-kaolinite have been prepared using natural kaolinite, and their utilization in water filtration has been examined. This research aimed to evaluate the effect of TiO2 content on the physicochemical ...

This paper reports an investigation of the microwave-assisted synthesis of silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) using extract of stinky bean (Parkia speciosa Hassk) pods (BP). The formation of Ag NPs was identified by instrumental ...

In the present work, synthesis of ZnO dispersed onto activated carbon (ZnO/AC) is reported. Synthesis was conducted by using impregnation method by zinc acetate as precursor at varied Zn content. A systematic characterization ...