A vegetarian alternative to gelatin, for use in food applications was proposed as a synergistic combination of 0–2 wt% low acyl gellan gum (LAG) and tamarind seed xyloglucan (TSX). The mechanical, thermal temperature-mediated release properties the gels were examined using rheology conductivity. influence addition grade emulsifier, Tween® 20, also investigated. It found that both total concentr...

A robot operating in isolation needs to reason over the uncertainty in its model of the world and adapt its own actions to account for this uncertainty. Similarly, a robot interacting with people needs to reason over its uncertainty over the human internal state, as well as over how this state may change, as humans adapt to the robot. This paper summarizes our own work in this area, which depic...

Pneumococcal conjugate vaccines induce serotype specific protection, with cross-protection seen between serotypes within certain serogroups. Though most serious pneumococcal infections are caused by relatively small number of serotypes, choices need to be made on the serotypes to be included in the vaccine because of the complexity and cost related to developing and producing vaccines with incr...

We investigate in this work the formulation of composite resistive pastes based on epoxy resins and graphite for micro-heater manufacturing via thick-film technology. These resistive pastes are designed for screenprinting onto a printed circuit board (PCB) substrate; further coating with expandable polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), a composite based on an elastomeric matrix and expandable microspher...

In this paper, we present a robust optimization formulation for dealing with demand uncertaintyin a dynamic pricing and inventory control problem for a make-to-stock manufacturing system. Weconsider a multi-product capacitated, dynamic setting. We introduce a demand-based fluid modelwhere the demand is a linear function of the price, the inventory cost is linear, the production ...

The objectives of present investigation were to achieve immediate release of paracetamol and tailored release of diclofenac sodium from bi-layer tablets. A 2(3) full factorial design was adopted using the amount of polyethylene glycol, microcrystalline cellulose and crospovidone as independent variables for fabricating paracetamol tablets. Diclofenac sodium tablets were prepared using hydroxypr...

A sustained release dosage form of Metformin HCl in the form of microspheres was prepared by the solvent evaporation method. Solvent evaporation method was attempted in both aqueous as well as oily manufacturing vehicles. Different polymers such as Ethyl Cellulose, Eudragit RS PO, Eudragit RL PO, Eudragit S 100, Eudragit RL 100 and different combinations of these polymers were tried and the res...

This paper presents the simultaneous solution of the optimal sequencing and optimal dynamic transitions of two multigrade polymerization CSTRs. The simultaneous formulation results in a Mixed-Integer Dynamic Optimization (MIDO) problem. The profiles of the state variables during dynamic transitions are discretized using orthogonal collocation on finite elements, transforming the MIDO problem in...