Philip Ellman Lecture

Homeland Security: From Mathematical Models to Policy Implementation: The 2008 Philip McCord Morse Lecture

This paper is the archival record of the INFORMS Philip McCord Morse Lecture delivered in 2008. It describes the author’s research on four topics in homeland security and public health: preparedness and response to a bioterror anthrax attack, preparedness and response to a bioterror attack on the food supply, routes of transmission and infection control for pandemic influenza, and biometrics (e...

OR FORUM-Rocket Science Retailing: The 2006 Philip McCord Morse Lecture

Retailing is a huge industry. In the United States, retail business represents about 40% of the economy and is the largest employer. Retail supply chain management is still more art than science, but this is changing rapidly as retailers begin to apply analytic models to the huge volume of data they are collecting on consumer purchases and preferences. This industry-wide movement resembles the ...

OR Forum - Homeland Security: From Mathematical Models to Policy Implementation: The 2008 Philip McCord Morse Lecture

Improved Ellman procedure for erythrocyte cholinesterase.

The procedure of Dietz et al. (Clin. Chem. 19: 1309-1313, 1973) for plasma cholinesterase (EC 3.1.1.7) gives a background absorbance of 1.4 A when extended to erythrocyte cholinesterase (EC 3.1.1.8) measurement, because the peak absorbance of the reaction product, 5-thionitrobenzoate, coincides with the hemoglobin Soret band at 410 nm. Consequently, the precision of erythrocyte cholinesterase m...

Betty Philip

The colon is a site where both local and systemic delivery of drugs can take place. Local delivery allows topical treatment of inflammatory bowel disease. However, treatment can be made effective if the drugs can be targeted directly into the colon, thereby reducing the systemic side effects. This review, mainly compares the primary approaches for CDDS (Colon Specific Drug Delivery) namely prod...