The importance of dominance and skyline analysis has been well recognized in multi-criteria decision making applications. Most previous works study how to help customers find a set of “best” possible products from a pool of given products. In this paper, we identify an interesting problem, creating competitive products, which has not been studied before. Given a set of products in the existing ...

Tumor infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) therapy has shown objective clinical response rates of 50% in stage IV melanoma patients in a number of clinical trials. Nevertheless, the majority of patients progress either directly upon therapy or after an initial period of tumor control. Recent data have shown that most TIL products that are used for therapy contain only low frequencies of T cells reacti...

Classical multicomponent preparations mostly derived from traditional usages in Western and Eastern phytotherapy have been under-evaluated for a long time as potential new pharmaceutical products. The regulatory scenario, in particular at the European level, has only recently considered these aspects proposing harmonized guidelines for the pharmaceutical registration of traditional herbal produ...

The I&MSL is a product development lab within the Consumer Products Division. Its role is to create new technology for products as well as to design new kinds of products embodying such technology. Products are manufactured at factories (called works) and such works also have design departments. The latter make small updates to existing designs and lead in the conversion of preliminary designs ...

In Brazil there is no classification of dermatological products by the presence of vehicles with sensitizing potential. The objective of this study is to create a database to classify such products based on the absence of the selected allergens, aiming at making it available for medical consultation. We conducted an observational study, from the content of labels and/or inserts on the compositi...

We study, in the context of object/relational mapping tools, the problem of describing mappings between inheritance hierarchies and relational schemas. To this end, we introduce a novel mapping model, called MORM+HIE , and investigate its mapping capabilities. We first show that MORM+HIE subsumes three well-know basic representation strategies for mapping a hierarchy to relations. We then show ...

Corresponding Author: Marini Abu Bakar Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia Email: [email protected] Abstract: seMeja is an ongoing research to develop a desktop system for university environment. To support the development of this system, an Application Programming Interface (API) is needed to provide access to online university services such as course notes, course schedules and...

Service platforms based on network are becoming even more important to physical end-products and services industry. As service platforms will become the founding infrastructure of our economies, the understanding of the value that a service platform can create is of great importance. The development of technology enhances a new way to create the value. Involving customers to co-create value is ...