future applications — micromechanical systems for drug delivery and diagnostics

... gratitude and appreciation for their support and encouragement over the years of my study And my special thanks and appreciation to my wife and my daughter for their encouragement and patience ... been developed as a drug delivery system (DDS) for many peptide and protein drugs (Chan and Heng, 1998) An ideal DDS is able to control the drug concentration at the target site for a desired period ... -D-mannuronate (M for short) and -L-guluronate (G for short), linked randomly by -1,4 and -1,4 glycosidic bonds Sodium alginate, which is available commercially, is used primarily for its ability to form...

Ngày tải lên: 13/09/2015, 20:39

... Reminders for prescribing of antibiotics and drugs for asthma, COPD, and dyslipidaemia 23*/53/3,496 Sum scores for appropriate prescribing of antibiotics, statins, cholesterollowering drugs or drugs for ... guidelines for use of aspirin, oestrogen or calcium, ACEIs, heparin prophylaxis, and b-blockers Alerts for drug allergies 6*/276/5,219 and drug- drug interactions, and options for cost-effective ... system) and consisted of seven (11%) systems for geriatric patients [17,23,25, 35,37,42,65], three (5%) systems for paediatrics [32,43,73], four (6%) systems for women’s health [36,40,70,71], and...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 11:20

... DEVICES AND SENSOR SYSTEMS FOR OPTICAL TRACKING AND DISPLACEMENT SENSING APPLICATIONS Academic Dissertation to be presented with the assent of the Faculty of Technology, University of Oulu, for public ... help and support I thank all my co-workers for the pleasant working atmosphere I also wish to thank Markku Koskinen and Esa Jansson from Noptel and Ilkka Kaisto from Prometrics for their help and ... help and for the sincere interest they showed towards my work I wish to thank Prof Erkki Ikonen and Dr Kalevi Hyyppä for examining my thesis, and Mr Malcolm Hicks and Mr Janne Rissanen for revising...

Ngày tải lên: 03/10/2014, 22:39

... are designed for transdermal therapies to deliver drugs such as insulin and heparin On the other hand, microneedles can also be used for local delivery of other drugs, for example, drugs in anti-restenosis ... varying delivery of different therapeutics, which is essential for a more effective drug delivery system The direct delivery of DNA/portent based drugs into the metabolic system and the continuous delivery ... staying there for me and watching over me I also would like to thank my parents and the rest of my family, for their understanding and continual support I would like to thank my mum and dad for their...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 11:17

... for oral delivery, Chapter 10 for brain delivery, Chapter 11 for ocular delivery, and Chapter 12 for gene delivery Finally, the fourth section provides an overview of the clinical, ethical, and ... Revised and Expanded, edited by Robert A Nash and Alfred H Wachter 130 Ophthalmic Drug Delivery Systems: Second Edition, Revised and Expanded, edited by Ashim K Mitra 131 Pharmaceutical Gene Delivery ... and Industrial Applications, Second Edition, edited by Simon Benita 159 Nanoparticle Technology for Drug Delivery, edited by Ram B Gupta and Uday B Kompella Nanoparticle Technology for Drug Delivery...

Ngày tải lên: 04/06/2014, 15:15

... test weights for each sport 12 Expert Systems for Human, Materials and Automation Knowledge engineering, forming of the knowledge base and coding of the stand-alone application lasted for about ... in preformulation and formulation studies of medicines specifically in solid dosage forms This system informs on the physical profile of powdered substances (APIs and excipients) used to formulate ... Nenad Rogulj and Vladimir Pleština University of Split, Croatia Introduction Selecting children for appropriate sport is the most demanding and the most responsible task for sport experts and kinesiology...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... Expert Systems for Human, Materials and Automation Table Radius parameters, mean incidence and parametric index for excipients DC 29 SeDeM Diagram: A New Expert System for the Formulation of Drugs ... SeDeM Diagram: A New Expert System for the Formulation of Drugs in Solid Form 33 Conclusions Here we developed an original methodology for the preformulation and powder substance characterization ... maximum amount required for a comprehensive understanding of the proposed formula From this first formulation, research can get underway for the final optimization of the formulation, taking into...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... statement and searching and formulating the answers on them QA-modeling helps to combine questions and answers in QA-model of the task and its parts and for checking them on the correctness and conformity ... create and use the icon for the necessary types or subtypes for Z-, Q- and A-objects QA-variables can be qualified as a definite type of Q- and A-objects For this type the icons for letters D and ... pseudo-code programs for different tasks As for QA-variables the special icons for letters „O“ (for operator) and „E“ (is executed) have been created and used instead icons for letters „Q“ and „A“ The...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... energy, and finance 110 Expert Systems for Human, Materials and Automation As a result of advances in natural and biological sciences, current engineering systems, subsystems, components and platforms ... language text, maps, tables, menus, and forms It can also handle input through several modes - menus, forms, and pointing 98 Expert Systems for Human, Materials and Automation Both the use of multi-modal ... cells combine to form tissues (e.g skin tissues, muscle tissues, bone tissues), tissues combine and form organs, organs combine to form organ systems, and organ systems combine to form the human...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... Expert Systems for Human, Materials and Automation 2.2.3 Health prognostics (HP) The word prognostic is taken from the Greek Prognostikos (of knowledge beforehand) It combines pro (before) and gnosis ... Structural health monitoring (SHM) SHM stands principally for structural health monitoring It also stands for structural health management, systems health monitoring and systems health management It must ... A framework for diagnostics, prognostics and health monitoring Advances in Health Monitoring and Management 119 2.6 Health and usage monitoring (HUMS) Health and Usage Monitoring Systems (HUMS)...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... users for this application (the ones that are used to employ finite elements applications, and the ones that are not), two options have been implemented: 146 Expert Systems for Human, Materials and ... knowledge and addition of new ones into knowledge base 166 Expert Systems for Human, Materials and Automation The first two components form the so-called knowledge base Representation and organization ... choice of the material model of the blank For a given process and deformation geometry, the forming limits vary from material to material, so knowledge of the formability of sheet metal is critical...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... personalization, Expert Systems with Applications 32(2006) 77-85 Kwang Hyuk Im, Sang Chan Park, Case-based reasoning and neural network expert system for personalization, Expert Systems with Applications ... temperature, Expert Systems with Applications 29(2005)835-838 Saha Podder, A.S Pandit, A Murugaiyan, D Bhattacharjee and R.K Ray, Phase transformation behaviour in two C-Mn-Si based steels Ander different ... 1995 to 2004,Expert Systems with Applications 28(2005),93-103 180 Expert Systems for Human, Materials and Automation Singh A., et al Predicting microstructural evolution and yield strength of...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... deterioration and other problems in reinforced concrete structures is indeed huge and enormously wide and of great interest to civil engineers There are standards for the use of reinforced concrete ... with a specific color (e.g Blue for water, pink for emulsion, yellow for gas, and brown for crude oil) Fig 28 Dynamic tracking of sensor 16 in water-dominant (a) and oil dominant (b) emulsion Interface ... designed, implemented and tested for realtime and accurate detection of the emulsion layer in a 4.35 m height tank In addition, it was 208 Expert Systems for Human, Materials and Automation demonstrated...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... creates the necessity to employ intelligent systems, due to the demand of a better performance and resolution of complex problems both for men as well as for the machines Gradually the time restrictions ... but for the implementation of the PID regulator used, defined in the previous formula and more commonly known as the Standard format Astrom & Hagglund (2006) Feng & Tan (1998), shown in the form ... itself and the specifications 254 16 Expert Systems for Human, Materials and Automation Will-be-set-by-IN-TECH Fig 17 Systems of Benchmark ordered from lower to higher L/T value Fig 18 Systems...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... description and a base price of standard using the exact - in the later stages of the design is based on information from a comparison of measurement and control equipment and bills of materials and ... propulsion, power, and the following marine systems 264 Expert Systems for Human, Materials and Automation (installation): fuel, lube oil, fresh water, sea water, compressed air, boiler and steam system, ... which was implemented in Visual Basic for Access, and can be used for any number of input and output parameters in the form fields database table [6] In applications of neural networks is required...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... trends and, based on them, plan for future, in terms of capacity growth and investments Moreover, benchmarking applications and components before they are installed on the network provides the information ... requires the ability to monitor devices, systems and network traffic for performance problems, and to take control and appropriately respond to them before they affect network availability Optimization ... system hardware and software components, whose parameters must be maintained and updated on regular basis 302 Expert Systems for Human, Materials and Automation On the other hand, performance management...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... Energization Quantity V+ and I+ or I+ V+ De-energization and or Isolated unit and Synchronism and Normal operation Out of service and Forced shutdown and Load increment and Load decrement and or or I+ P ... > 0.9pu and I1m > 0.05pu and Disturb = “normal” V1m > 0.9pu and I1m < 0.05pu and Disturb = “normal” V1m < 0.1pu and I1m < 0.05pu and Disturb = “normal” 0.1 0.05pu and ModV12 < 0.2pu and Disturb = “unbalanced” V0 > 0.05pu and −0.1

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... system for wireless ad hoc network They use fuzzy set theory for best-effort traffic regulation, and propose 354 Expert Systems for Human, Materials and Automation Expert Systems schemes for real-time ... quality of service of WLAN systems and the simulations and results were performed for the IEEE 802.11b system, the approach and the techniques are not limited to these systems, but are easily applicable ... chapter, we will briefly introduce expert systems (further ES), Command and Control Information Systems used in NATO and known solutions to simulate such systems The ES is defined as an intelligent...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... are run(step in Fig 4) For new scenarios, it is necessary to repeat steps and on Fig 386 Expert Systems for Human, Materials and Automation Expert system for analyzing performances of tactical ... report files The first is for detailed analysis using Tactical player, and the second one is user readable, which contains information about network performance and directions for network improvements ... Telecommunications and Computer Networks (SoftCOM), Split Krishnamoorthy, C S., & Rajeev, S (1996) Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems for Engineers Liebowitz, J (2004) The Handbook of Aplied Expert Systems...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... and causing tumor cell death The attachment of targeting ligands to the drug- conjugated capsules through established coupling protocols will further provide functional capsules for targeted drug ... targeted drug delivery applications 267 Overall, the simple, efficient, and general nature of the approach for the fabrication of a new class of monodispersed, single-component and thick-walled ... degradation and Dox-release studies at conditions resembling those within the living cells, nanocapsule uptake by LIM1215 human colorectal tumor cells, and delivery of the anticancer drug into...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 01:20