The objective of the current study was to develop and optimize a sublingual tablet formulation of captopril which is an effective drug in the treatment of hypertension. Captopril containing tablets were prepared by direct compression method using different ingredients such as polyvinyl pyrrolidone, starch 1500, sodium starch glycolate and lactose (independent variables) and magnesium stearate, ...

Despite the numerous uses of chitin and chitosan as new functional materials of high potential in various fields, they are still behind several directly compressible excipients already dominating pharmaceutical applications. There are, however, new attempts to exploit chitin and chitosan in co-processing techniques that provide a product with potential to act as a direct compression (DC) excipi...

Fractal image compression exploits the self-similarity of an image to achieve the purpose of compression. In the standard algorithm, eight Dihedral transformations are applied on domain blocks to increase the codebook size, and therefore, the quality of reconstructed image can be improved. However, such mechanism consumes approximately eight times of the encoding time. On the other hand, if no ...

CONTENTS 5 7 Summary and Outlook 107 Acknowledgements V 6 CONTENTS Introduction Quantum information theory is the combination of quantum mechanics and information theory. The profit is on both sides: quantum mechanics gains valuable aspects concerning the physical interpretation of the theory, and information theory gains enhanced capabilities of information processing and communication. Classi...

We prove lower bounds for the direct sum problem for two-party bounded error randomised multipleround communication protocols. Our proofs use the notion of information cost of a protocol, as defined by Chakrabarti et al. [CSWY01] and refined further by Bar-Yossef et al. [BJKS02]. Our main technical result is a ‘compression’ theorem saying that, for any probability distribution μ over the inputs...

A direct cardiac compression (DCC) device is a non-blood contacting sleeve placed around the failing heart to actively assist blood pumping function. For design optimization of a DCC device, it is necessary to monitor the surface pressure exerted on the heart surface at multiple points during active assist, and to correlate this with device performance and cardiac output. In this paper, we pres...

BACKGROUND Biventricular direct cardiac compression (DCC) has the potential to support the failing heart without the complications associated with a blood/device interface encountered with the use of current ventricular assist devices. A clinically designed DCC device that provides compression pressure around the base of the heart in synchrony with native ventricular contractions was evaluated ...

Hsin-I Liu Vito Dai Avideh Zakhor Borivoje Nikolić University of California, Berkeley Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Berkeley, California E-mail: [email protected] Abstract. Achieving the throughput of one wafer layer per minute with a direct-write maskless lithography system, using 22-nm pixels for 45-nm feature sizes, requires data rates of about 12 Tb/s. In ou...

Vulnerability of the heel to ulceration in bed-bound persons is related to direct pressure-induced blood flow decreases. Periodic pressure reduction is a clinical strategy to help prevent ulcers by allowing flow-repayment hyperaemia that has a magnitude and duration thought to be related to the duration of the prior interval of ischaemia. However, there are reasons to question whether effects o...