Automated compounding devices are frequently used by pharmacists for the extemporaneous preparation of parenteral nutrition admixtures. This continuing shift from manual compounding procedures comes as a result of significant advances in automated technology, as well as in response to changing health care demands to provide admixture compounding in a safer, more efficient, and more accurate man...

Exploring long-term implications of valuation leads us to recover and use a distorted probability measure that reflects the long-term implications for risk pricing. This measure is typically distinct from the physical and the risk neutral measures that are well known in mathematical finance. We apply a generalized version of Perron-Frobenius theory to construct this probability measure and pres...

Since the development of federal standards for drug approval, the practice of medicine has historically involved the compounding of medications based on a physician's determination that a US FDA-approved product either did not exist, or could not be used for medical reasons. Today, prescriptions for non-FDA-approved compounded drugs may be driven by fanciful and largely unregulated pharmacy adv...

The compounding cream market has exploded across the country in the past few years. There are numerous pharmacies promoting these products, many different combinations of topical medications available, and the cost of these formulations is quite high. This can be quite intimidating to a physician, especially when there is inadequate time available for them to thoroughly evaluate these products ...

The Principles-and-Parameters approach (Chomsky 1981) postulates that UG consists of the set of universal principles that are satisfied by any language, and parameters that define the points and the range of possible human languages. Under this approach, the process of language acquisition is a process of fixing the values of such parameters, and thus the elucidation of genetically endowed para...