Rising to the challenge: applying biofabrication approaches for better drug and chemical product development

Rising to the challenge: applying biofabrication approaches for better drug and chemical product development.

Many industrial sectors, from pharmaceuticals to consumer products, are required to provide data on their products to demonstrate their efficacy and that they are safe for patients, consumers and the environment. This period of testing typically requires the use of animal models, the validity of which has been called into question due to the high rates of attrition across many industries. There...

applying the kano model to design and new product development

customer satisfaction is the major concern to many leading companies throughout the world.customer satisfaction is the major concern to many leading companies throughout the world. more firms use satisfaction ratings as an indicator of the performance of products and services and as an indicator of the company’s future. as lately shown companies that are able to identify customer needs and alig...

Rising to the challenge.

GeKon - Applying Novel Approaches to GIS Development

This paper describes a few ideas concerned with geographical information systems (GIS) development. Those ideas come from a GIS development project named GeKon, which is now held on the Department of Computer Science at CTU. The first of them deals with a huge semantic gap between the complex structure of real world and its representation in GIS. Some papers describe this problem as a consequen...

Approaches to antiviral drug development.

At present, only a few drugs have been approved by the FDA for therapy of viral infections in humans. There is a great need for antiviral drugs with increased potency and decreased toxicity, as well as drugs to treat viral diseases for which no drug or vaccine is currently available. Two approaches for development of antiviral drugs are described--an empirical strategy and a rational strategy--...