Advanced drug delivery systems (DDS) enhance treatment efficacy of different therapeutics in a dosage, spatial, and/or temporal controlled manner. To date, numerous chemical- or physical-based stimuli-responsive formulations or devices for controlled drug release have been developed. Among them, the emerging mechanical force-based stimulus offers a convenient and robust controlled drug release ...

Today’s Substation Automation Systems (SAS) are formed by diverse microprocessor-based devices that carry out several operations such as metering, monitoring, protection and actuation. Standards, such as IEC61850, aim at providing abstract component-based solutions that improve scalability and ease the replacement of the devices. This paper discusses the different types of communication traffic...

Jennifer S. Holtzman, DDS, MPH, Jami Ballantine, BS, Margherita Fontana, DDS, PhD, Alex Wang, BS, Alden Calantog, BS, Erika Benavides, DDS, PhD, Carlos Gonzalez-Cabezas, DDS, MSD, PhD, Zhongping Chen, PhD, and Petra Wilder-Smith, DDS, PhD School of Dentistry, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095 School of Dentistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 4810...

A DDS Bridge (DDSB) allows embedded devices with limited computing resources to participate in DDS communication using a non-DDS protocol. The DDSB incurs heavy overhead, because it connects between DDSB nodes and non-DDS nodes in the full-mesh topology. In this paper, we propose to apply the addressing algorithm of Chord for reducing connection overhead of DDSB. The proposed C-DDSB improves th...

Panax ginseng is one of the most highly valued herbal medicines in the Orient, where it has gained an almost magical reputation for being able to maintain the quality of life. The root of ginseng contains noble tetracyclic triterpenenoid saponins, which are thought to be the major effective ingredients in P. ginseng. The first committed step in ginsenoside synthesis is the cyclization of 2,3-ox...

Considerable research efforts have been used in the development of floating drug delivery system including gas generation system, swelling systems and low density systems. In the development of low density systems the porous carriers are used because of its characteristics such as stable uniform porous structure, high surface area, tunable pore size and well-defined surface properties. This rev...

In the Internet-of-Things (IoT), different types of devices can co-exist within a network. For example, there be cheap but inflexible and flexible in terms radio frequency (RF) capabilities. Thus, order to support ways improve throughput, we propose multichannel random access scheme based on power-domain non-orthogonal multiple (NOMA), where each or dynamic device (DD) dynamically choose one ch...

A new method for mixed level fault simulation of Data-Paths in Digital Systems represented with Decision Diagrams (DD) is proposed. We suppose that a register transfer level (RTL) information along with gate-level descriptions for RTL blocks are available. Decision diagrams (DDs) are exploited as a uniform model for describing circuits on both levels. The physical defects in the system are mapp...

OBJECTIVES To study dietary diversity and its relationship with socio-economic and nutritional characteristics of women in an urban Sahelian context. DESIGN A qualitative dietary recall was performed over a 24-h period. Dietary diversity scores (DDS = number of food groups consumed) were calculated from a list of nine food groups (DDS-9) or from a list of 22 food groups (DDS-22) which detaile...