objective(s): chitosan, a biodegradable and cationic polysaccharide with increasing applications in biomedicine, possesses many advantages including mucoadhesivity, biocompatibility, and low-immunogenicity. the aim of this study, was investigating the influence of ph, ratio of azelaic acid/chitosan and molecular weight of chitosan on loading efficiency of azelaic acid in chitosan particles. mat...

Believe that VSM involves the concurrent improve of processes, organizations, and their supporting information systems to achieve radical improvement in time, cost, quality, and customer’s regard for the company’s products and services.  Nowadays, simulation is the most important way to do VSM and improving logistics processes. A time study was performed by measuring the time duration per proce...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Chronic inhibition of nitric oxide (NO) synthesis is associated with hypertension, myocardial ischemia, oxidative stress and hypertrophy; expression of adrenomedullin (AM) and intermedin (IMD) and their receptor activity modifying proteins (RAMPs 1-3) is augmented in cardiomyocytes, indicating that the myocardial AM/ IMD system may be activated in response to pressure loading an...

Market weight pigs are subjected to numerous stressors during the marketing process from loading at the farm to stunning at the packing plant. These stressors have important implications for animal well-being and fresh pork quality traits. The objectives of this presentation are to review: 1) pre-harvest stressors in pigs; 2) common measures of stress during handling and transportation; and 3) ...

This report investigated safety and dosing recommendations of intravenous caspofungin in hepatic insufficiency. In the single-dose study, 8 patients each with mild and moderate hepatic insufficiency received 70 mg of caspofungin. In the multiple-dose study, 8 patients with mild hepatic insufficiency and 13 healthy matched controls received 70 mg on day 1 and 50 mg daily on days 2 through 14. Ei...

experiments were carried out to observe the influence of loading type on concrete beam specimens. beam specimens made of similar concrete mixture with the same geometry were tested under three point static loading and low velocity drop weight impact loading. load – displacement behavior, absorbed energy dissipation capacity, stiffnesses, failure modes of beam specimens were obtained and discuss...

Parallel Wireless Communications area of research that enables mobile clients to multiple wireless networks concurrently. This concurrent bandwidth aggregation techniques t wireless communications on mobile devic aggregation can be performed using wireless device or cooperatively across devices within w of each other.. The aggregation can be a application-layer, transport layer like Multi layer...

We consider the problem of concurrent execution of multiple frequent itemset queries. If such data mining queries operate on overlapping parts of the database, then their overall I/O cost can be reduced by integrating their dataset scans. The integration requires that data structures of many data mining queries are present in memory at the same time. If the memory size is not sufficient to hold...

Polycrystalline aluminum oxide (Al2O3) based materials have both personnel and ground vehicle armor applications. However, their ballistic performance can vary significantly. At the root of this problem is the identification of the fundamental macro and micro mechanisms of deformation and failure in the ballistic event which has proven very elusive over the years. Using a newly developed soft r...