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As an instance of online communities, online diabetes discussion forums mirror these characteristics and seem to track the growing impact of diabetes on individuals around the world. In this paper, we first systematically collected texts from online discussion forums about diabetes and then applied supervised machine learning techniques to analyze the online conversations. In order to analyse these...
Terahertz in-line sensing was successfully demonstrated for measuring the film coating thickness of individual pharmaceutical tablets during the film coating process. This paper reports our recent progress to further validate the terahertz in-line measurement technique with discrete element modelling for a lab-scale tablet mixing process inside a tablet pan coater.
Corporations are always in need to strengthen their security systems due to the assets they need to protect and ongoing security threats. Traditional security methods are at their maximum working capacity. In order to face present and future risks it is necessary a reliable identification system. In addition, it is essential to focus in a holistic security system approach which can be able to integrate...
Temperature monitoring of medicines is essential for product quality and patient safety. Product quality is influenced by temperature perturbations and time delays in interventions. Thanks to Internet of Things (IoT) considerable progress has been made in recent years in the improvement of temperature monitoring devices. However, temperature monitoring in medicine Cold Chain remains challenging. In...
The cocrystal of piracetam (PT) and hydroquinone (HQ) under grinding condition has been characterized by terahertz time-domain spectroscopic (THz-TDS) technique. Experimental results show that the characteristic features of the PT-HQ cocrystal are different from those of the corresponding starting materials, and the dynamic process of such pharmaceutical cocrystal formation has been monitored directly...
This study demonstrates the analysis of anisotropic pore structures of highly porous pharmaceutical powder compacts by combining terahertz time-domain spectroscopy and in-situ measurements of the liquid penetration using terahertz pulsed imaging.
Sorbitol, a widely-used sweetener and excipient, is of great interest to the pharmaceutical and food industries. Not only is it known to exist in multiple polymorphic solid-state forms, but sorbitol is also able to cocrystallize with solvent molecules with which it can form hydrogen bonds. Here, two cocrystal forms, sorbitol-water and sorbitol-pyridine, were extensively studied using both experimental...
The purpose of the paper is to design a comprehensive evaluation system for the Chinese pharmaceutical manufacturing industry from the stakeholders' respective, and then apply it to evaluate listed companies by using entropy weight method and building the grey cluster evaluation model. The final evaluation results provide a reference for the stakeholders. The system is conductive to promote and guide...
This article introduces the design of healthcare road map/forum for healthcare professionals, medical device manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies and average people working together to modernize healthcare based on the modern IT technologies such as cloud computing technologies, elastic search and big data. The software platform allows healthcare professionals, medical device manufacturers, pharmaceutical...
Hot-melt extrusion is a popular process in the field of industrial product manufacturing. In this work, a simple distributed parameter model consisting in partial differential equations derived from mass balances, well-adapted to the design of a control strategy, is expressed. Parameter identification is applied to a specific device with a complex screw geometry and provides a good representation...
This study performs an Affinity Analysis ondiagnosis and prescription data in order to discover cooccurrencerelationships among diagnosis and pharmaceuticalactive ingredients prescribed to different patient groups. Theanalysis data collected during consecutive visits of 4,473 patients in a 3 years period, focused on patients suffering byhypertension and/or hypercholesterolemia and appliedassociation...
Despite the fact that one of the main goals of corporate venture capital (CVC) investments in high-tech industries is to gain a window on future technologies, the relationship between CVC investments and strategies used to acquire technologies in the markets, such as licensing, has not been adequately explored. To address this gap, we build on the real option literature suggesting that CVC investments...
The formulation and the preparation of new pharmaceutical forms conducted by the great companies can represent a danger for the environment because of their toxic potential. The study suggests a new method for the treatment of the wastewater from the pharmaceutical industry that uses polyethylene glycols, sodium carboxymethyl cellulose as the forming matrix polymers and nitrites as toxic waste. The...
During the pharmaceutical process, it is inevitable that various defects emerge in the medicine vials which may greatly affect the product quality and reduce the productive efficiency. To address these problems, a method based on feature extraction and machine learning is developed for vial defect inspection. On image preprocessing, we used threshold algorithm to acquire the region of interest (ROI)...
The present work was developed in higher education with graduate students of Pharmaceutical Sciences in Pharmacology lectures of the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Coimbra, Portugal. During the semester was used the strategy of Quizzes, supported by the digital application Kahoot!. The students were challenged to elaborate multiple choice questions (quiz) about the subject, and answering in the...
The practical application of dielectrometry method to identify the pharmaceutical ingredients was held. The proposed waveguide-differential dielectrometer is used for the complex permittivity determination of high loss liquid such as water and water solutions in the millimeter wave range. This method allows a real-time determination of pharmaceutical ingredient content in water solution by measuring...
Blockchains are on the top of the Gartner Hype Cycle 2016 and many start-ups are integrating blockchains into their technology portfolio. While blockchains have emerged in the context of financial applications, non-financial application areas are of interest as well. In this paper, modum.io is presented, a start-up that uses IoT (Internet of Things) sensor devices leveraging blockchain technology...
High-potency sweeteners are applied to low-calorie diets and bitterness-masking ingredients in pharmaceutical products. We have studied taste sensors with lipid polymer membranes based on potentiometric measurement system for high-potency sweeteners. However, the sensor also responds to astringency substances because of hydrophobic characteristics of the lipid polymer membrane. In this study, we developed...
This paper makes an attempt to predict the movement of the stock price for the following day using Artificial Neural Network (ANN). For the purpose of this research, two companies from each industry have been chosen that is, TATA Motors and Honda Motors from the Automobile industry and Cadila Pharmaceuticals Ltd. and Glenmark Pharmaceuticals from the Pharmaceutical industry. The historical prices...
The present manuscript describes the area under curve (AUC) method for the estimation of oil (fatty acid) in cotton seed non-destructively. The theory for AUC method is the area at selected analytical wavelength ranges over the sample spectra is directly proportional to the concentration of the components of interest. The oil content in cotton seed samples were analyzed using Near Infrared reflectance...
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