A study was conducted in two selected areas of the Brazilian cerrado using Landsat imagery during a five years period (1996-2000), to address the following estimation issues: (1) burnt area using statistical sample techniques; (2) burnt scars permanence; and (3) recurrence of biomass burning. Regarding the burnt area estimates, a decrease of approximately 60% was observed during the period and ...

Smart city is a new form of information city and digital city and a new type of innovative means of planning and management of city, its theoretical research and construction practice have entered a period of rapid development. In-depth understanding of concept related to smart city will contribute to avoid the one-sidedness and blindness of smart city construction. This paper collects and anal...

This study presents a science mapping approach to analysing the thematic evolution of the e-Government field. We combine different bibliometric tools to analyse the evolution of the cognitive structure of this research topic, allowing us to discover the dynamics over different years and detecting the most prominent, productive, and highest-impact subfields. Science mapping provides a novel pers...

Governments need to devise services centered on citizens and their needs. The SMART project focuses on the development and validation of new service science methodologies in e-Government domain to achieve value added services able to satisfy explicit and implicit citizen needs. To reach its goals, SMART benefits from the experience of industrial and academic worlds that sharing multidisciplinar...

Asphaltic concrete for pavement construction in India are produced by using crushed stone, gravels etc. as aggregate. In north-Eastern region of India, there is a scarcity of stone aggregate. Therefore the road engineers are always in search of an optional material as aggregate which can replace the regularly used material. The purpose of this work was to evaluate the utilization of substandard...

Taking Taipei City Mayor’s Email-box (TCME) as a case, this study begins with using Buchanan and Tullock’s renown conceptual model of “calculus of consent” to depict the complex relation between citizen participation, e-government and public management. In the model, democratization means more citizens with consent on government’s actions via participation. However, the more citizens participat...

Serum elastase and its inhibitors were determined in the sera of heavily burnt patients. Serum elastase levels were elevated at two to eight days after a severe burn-accident and returned towards normal values from the 10th day on. Both alpha1-antitrypsin and alpha2-macroglobulin levels were also elevated in the sera of heavily burnt patients. alpha1-Antitrypsin showed a parallel evolution to t...

Reptiles in urban remnants are threatened with extinction by increased fire frequency, habitat fragmentation caused by urban development, and competition and predation from exotic species. Understanding how urban reptiles respond to and recover from such disturbances is key to their conservation. We monitored the recovery of an urban reptile community for five years following a summer wildfire ...

The use of Information Technologies in government (or e-government) has evolved during the last few years to make the interactions between government and citizens (G2C), government and businesses (G2B), and inter-agency relationships (G2G) more effective, democratic and transparent [1,6,8]. Moreover, in the most recent years we have observed two important trends with an impact in all these inte...