The purpose of the present study was to develop oral dispersible tablets containing prednisolone (PDS)-loaded chitosan nanoparticles using microcrystalline cellulose (MCC 101), lactose, and croscarmellose sodium (CCS). The PDS-loaded chitosan nanoparticles were formulated by ionotropic external gelation technique in order to enhance the solubility of PDS in salivary pH. Prepared nanoparticles w...

We define a parallel extension of a standard imperative programming language, which we call CIMP. This language has a semantics in the process calculus CCS. In order to demonstrate that a sub-language of CIMP is deterministic the notion of a semi-confluent process is defined. This process structure is shown to be preserved by the appropriate equivalences of CCS, and to have a set of operators w...

The Barut-Girardello coherent states (BG CS) representation is extended to the noncompact algebras u(p, q) and sp(N,R) in (reducible) quadratic boson realizations. The sp(N,R) BG CS take the form of multimode ordinary Schrödinger cat states. Macroscopic superpositions of 2n−1 sp(N,R) CS (2n canonical CS (CCS), n = 1, 2, . . .) are pointed out which are overcomplete in the N mode Hilbert space a...

This paper presents formal specification and verification of the multiparty call in ATM UNI signalling protocol. The protocol specification is written in the CCS process algebra (Calculus of Communicating Systems). Verification is done by using the NCSU-Concurrency Workbench. Due to the complexity of the protocol, the model is decomposed into three components. The protocol is verified by the mo...

Background Complex Congenital Scoliosis (CCS) is the most frequent cause of non-idiopathic Scoliosis. CCS is a frequent condition in Algeria, and is associated with severe spinal deformities due to failures of formation and segmentation. To date, there is no single treatment that can correct all the deformities in CCS, and the value of Brace Treatment (BT) is still debated. We report our experi...

The Semantic Web pursues interoperability at syntactic and semantic levels, to face the proliferation of data files with different purposes and representation formats. One challenge is how to represent such data, to allow users and applications to easily find, use and combine them. The paper proposes an infrastructure to meet those goals. The basis of the proposal is the notion of digital conte...

We use principal component analysis (PCA) to reduce the dimensionality of features of video frames for the purpose of content description. This low dimensional description makes practical the direct use of all the frames of a video sequence in later analysis. The PCA representation circumvents or eliminates several of the stumbling blocks in current analysis methods, and makes new analyses feas...

Weblogs have emerged as a new communication and publication medium on the Internet for diffusing the latest useful information. Providing value-added mobile services, such as blog articles, is increasingly important to attract mobile users to mobile commerce, in order to benefit from the proliferation and convenience of using mobile devices to receive information any time and anywhere. However,...

Gene expression during the potato (Solanum tuberosum) tuber lifecycle was monitored by cDNA-amplified fragment-length polymorphism, and several differentially expressed transcript-derived fragments were isolated. One fragment, named TDFL431, showed high homology to a copper (Cu) chaperone for Cu/zinc superoxide dismutase (CCS). The Ccs protein is responsible for the delivery of Cu to the Cu/zin...