It is the purpose of this chapter to provide standards for the functional properties of packaging systems used for solid oral dosage forms (SODF) and liquid oral dosage forms (LODF) for pharmaceuticals and dietary supplements. Definitions that apply to this chapter are provided in Packaging and Storage Requirements á659ñ. The tests that follow are provided to determine the moisture vapor transm...

Linux containers in the commercial world are changing the landscape for application development and deployments. Container technologies are also making inroads into HPC environments, as exemplified by NERSC’s Shifter and LBL’s Singularity. While the first generation of HPC containers offers some of the same benefits as the existing open container frameworks, like CoreOS or Docker, they do not a...

This development provides a framework for container types like sets and maps such that generated code implements these containers with different (efficient) data structures. Thanks to type classes and refinement during code generation, this light-weight approach can seamlessly replace Isabelle’s default setup for code generation. Heuristics automatically pick one of the available data structure...

The optimization of container ship and depot operations embeds the k-shift problem, in which containers must be stowed in stacks such that at most k containers must be removed in order to reach containers below them. We first solve an open problem introduced by Avriel et al. (2000) by showing that changing from uncapacitated to capacitated stacks reduces the complexity of this problem from NP-c...

Operating System-level virtualization, also known as a container, is an increasingly popular approach to isolating applications that use the same underlying OS kernel [2, 5–7]. Containers have recently gained popularity as the default back-end for Docker, an application packaging and distribution system used by companies including Google [3]. The purported reason to use containers over a hardwa...

Despite limitations of glass packaging for vaccines, the industry has been slow to implement alternative formats. Polymer containers may address many of these limitations, such as breakage and delamination. However, the ability of polymer containers to achieve cost of goods sold (COGS) and total cost of delivery (TCOD) competitive with that of glass containers is unclear, especially for cost-se...