Characterisation of complex mixtures is a common tool especially in oil processing industry. Characterisation procedures result in experimentally gained characterisation curves, but for the simulation of industrial processes the definition of a substitute mixture is required. Traditionally, a system of pseudocomponents is derived from the TBP (True Boiling Point) characterisation curve, but the...

Hemosol has been one of the pioneering leaders working since 1985 in an effort to bring to market a human hemoglobin based oxygen therapeutic which would serve several important clinical needs. Hemosol welcomes the publication of this most current Guidance document as a timely response to many major developments in this field in the past near-decade. Below Hemosol first offers some general comm...

This paper arguesUSmanufacturers still fail to identifymetrics that predict performance results despite two decades of intensive investment in data-mining applications because indicators with the power to predict complex results must have high information content as well as a high impact on those results. But data mining cannot substitute for experimental hypothesis testing in the search for pr...

The onslaught of COVID 19 forced the closures schools, but upon their gradual reopening need for high quality substitute school teachers was at an all-time high. Although many districts were in well before pandemic struck, this disease illuminated fact that across nation short supply. In economic environment where other jobs may offer higher pay, more benefits, less stress, and professional res...

BACKGROUND The decision to start long-term tube-feeding in elderly people is complex. The process by which such decisions are made is not well understood. The authors examined the factors involved in the decision to start long-term tube-feeding in cognitively impaired older people from the perspective of the substitute decision-maker. METHODS A telephone survey was administered to the substit...