The Advanced Practices Council (APC) of SIM commissioned two academic researchers (Gabe Piccoli and Federico Pigni) to help members learn how best to leverage the digital data streams being created every day, both inside and outside their firms, to provide greater value to customers and their firms. Piccoli and Pigni presented their findings at the May 2012 APC meeting. A key element of their p...

In this research, a new method for market-product strategic planning is presented. In this method, an expert system is designed on the basis of identifying important factors that are effective in a firm and analyzing the logical relations between them. The objective is to develop a decision support system (DSS) for helping managers to make strategic decisions. DDS can serve as suitable replacem...

Sulfonamide- and sulfone-induced hypersensitivity reactions are thought to be mediated through bioactivation of parent drug molecule(s) to their respective reactive metabolite(s). Recent studies have demonstrated that keratinocytes can bioactivate sulfonamides and sulfones. Using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and hapten-specific rabbit antisera developed in our laboratory, we found that inc...

Maintenance has been acknowledged by industrial management as a significant influencing factor of plant performance. Effective plant maintenance can be realized by developing a proper maintenance strategy. However, selecting an appropriate maintenance strategy is difficult because maintenance is a non-repetitive task such as production activity. Maintenance also does not leave a consistent trac...

There is a serious potential risk in the petrochemical production process, the Disaster Detection System(DDS) is of key equipment to monitor the production status, prevent and control the potential risk. However, the Initiating failure and Inhibiting failure would occur in the period of the Disaster Detection System(DDS) working. In order to identify the two failures by DDS itself, the paper pr...

OMG (Object Management Group) DDS (Data Distribution Service for Real-time Systems) is an open international communication middleware standard for real-time and embedded systems. In this paper, a communication middleware model based on OMG DDS for multi-robot environments is presented. With the help of DDS QoS mechanism and Publish/Subscribe paradigm, proposed communication middleware abstracts...

In this work, polymer-drugs conjugates used as drug delivery systems (DDS) are revised attending to their chemical conjugation. Namely, the classification of this type of DDS is based on the conjugation sites of the reactive groups (i.e., via end groups or pendant polymer groups). Advantages and limitations of these types of DDS are discussed through representative examples of polymer-drugs and...