objective: the world is currently facing with various problems including water and soil pollution as well as a major threat to the health of the citizens due to the advancement at human civilization, technology development, pesticides and chemical fertilizers application, the increasing exploitation of natural resources by the agricultural sector and the increasing usage of fossil energy. there...

Boundary environmental pollution and pollution spillovers are important issues for improving the water quality of trans-boundary rivers. This paper explores the empirical effects of the evolution of the pollution reduction mandates on boundary pollution by studying the change of water pollution levels (as proxied by pH, BOD, COD and NH3-N) of key state monitoring stations from 2004 to 2014. The...

The aim of this study was to estimate the population burden of respiratory diseases in the Zasavje region of Slovenia that can be attributed to outdoor air pollution in order to gain relevant grounds for evidence based public health activities. In 2008, 981 schoolchildren (age 6 to 12 years) were observed in a prevalence study. The prevalence of chronic respiratory diseases (CRD) and frequent a...

The effects of magnesium stearate (MgSt) and shear stress on flow properties and hydrophobicity are not well known. Blends with different concentrations of magnesium stearate and varying amounts of shear were tested using three different procedures: the FT4 Rheometer test, a tap density analyzer, and the Washburn method, to better understand the relation of lubricant concentration, amount of sh...

Pharmaceutical industry is currently undergoing a transient phase with new orientation. Loss of financial resources, presence of new therapeutic agents and increasing cost of research and development have called for a full.scale restructuring within the pharmaceutical industry to retain even the most basic competitiveness. The development of new technologies has been as one way out of the dile...

funding combination is the most important issue for the companies while they know the amount of required capital. companies should be careful regarding the appliance of financial providing methods compatible with the investment strategy of company and profitability. this study seeks to examine the relationship between the capital structure and the profitability of pharmaceutical companies in ir...

pharmaceutical products prepared in pharmacies have the potential of contamination with different microorganisms. this is in part due to the unhygienic environment and also lack of a suitable preservative system. in this study, microbial quality of eucerin-urea ointments prepared at different pharmacies in tehran, at the point of sale and also after two weeks storage at room temperature was exa...

as global competition intensifies, research and development (r & d) organizations need to enhance their strategic management in order to become goal-directed communities for innovation and allocate their resources consistent with their overall r & d strategy. the world pharmaceutical market has undergone fast, unprecedented, tremendous and complex changes in the last several years. the pharmace...