in this ever changing business scenario, success of the company lies in understanding the customer preferences, tastes and anticipating the changes required in existing or new products being offered. it was desired to develop a model which allows decision makers to decompose a complex problem in a hierarchical structure to show the relationship of the goals, objectives, criteria and alternative...

Tissue-engineered constructs need to become quickly vascularized in order to ensure graft take. One way of achieving this is to incorporate endothelial cells (EC) into the construct. The adipose tissue stromal vascular fraction (adipose-SVF) might provide an alternative source for endothelial cells as adipose tissue can easily be obtained by liposuction. Since adipose-EC are now gaining more in...

This paper introduces three approaches to using Evolutionary Computation (EC) in Music (namely, engineering, creative and musicological approaches) and discusses examples of representative systems that have been developed within the last decade, with emphasis on more recent and innovative works. We begin by reviewing engineering applications of EC in Music Technology such as Genetic Algorithms ...

Ethylcellulose (EC) based microencapsulated drug delivery systems are being extensively studied throughout the world for achieving extended drug release and protecting the core substance from degradation. The in vitro evaluation of EC microcapsules have elucidated that their particle characteristics are very useful to control drug release behavior, since these enable drugs to be released at a c...

Traditional methods often employed to solve complex real world problems tend to inhibit elaborate exploration of the search space. They can be expensive and often results in sub-optimal solutions. Evolutionary computation (EC) is generating considerable interest for solving real world engineering problems. They are proving robust in delivering global optimal solutions and helping to resolve lim...

objective(s): this study evaluates the effect of substitution of microcrystalline cellulose (mcc) with ethylcellulose (ec) on mechanical and release characteristics of theophylline pellets. materials and methods: the effect of addition of ec was investigated on characteristics of pellets with varying drug content prepared by extrusion-spheronization. also the effect of type of granulating liqui...

Objective(s): This study evaluates the effect of substitution of microcrystalline cellulose (MCC) with ethylcellulose (EC) on mechanical and release characteristics of theophylline pellets. Materials and Methods: The effect of addition of EC was investigated on characteristics of pellets with varying drug content prepared by extrusion-spheronization. Also the effect of type of granulating liqui...

EC-KitY is a comprehensive Python library for doing evolutionary computation (EC), licensed under the BSD 3-Clause License, and compatible with scikit-learn. Designed modern software engineering machine learning integration in mind, can support all popular EC paradigms, including genetic algorithms, programming, coevolution, multi-objective optimization, more. This paper provides an overview of...

Current strategies for tissue engineering of bone rely on the implantation of scaffolds, colonized with human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSC), into a recipient. A major limitation is the lack of blood vessels. One approach to enhance the scaffold vascularisation is to supply the scaffolds with endothelial cells (EC).The main goal of this study was to establish a coculture system of hMSC and EC fo...