to resolve handling problem of nanoparticles, due to their small size, a new methodology of electro-spraying and freeze-drying was developed for colloidal nanoparticles of silica and titania to transform them to solid macro-scale nanoparticle assemblies.  the assemblies were then redispersed in an aqueous system to investigate the effect of formulation of original solutions and the process para...

n-methylol dimethyl phosphonopropionamide (mdpa) is one of the most utilized fire resistant (fr) finishes for cotton fabrics, utilized as part of a formulation with trimethylol melamine (tmm) to acquire better crosslinking and enhanced fr properties. the system parameters of the finishing treatment were upgraded for better fr properties and low mechanical loss to the fabric by the response surf...

The product and process parameters that determine successful freeze-drying are described and their interrelationships are explored. It is shown that the thermochemical and thermomechanical properties of water-soluble, amorphous materials form the basis of effective formulation design and that coordinated approaches to formulation and process development achieve optimum results with a minimum of...

PURPOSE The present study was conducted to evaluate whether the bioavailability of pregabalin capsules 150 mg manufactured by PT Dexa Medica was equivalent to the reference formulation. METHODS This was a randomized, open-label, two-period, two-sequence, and crossover study under fasting condition, with a 1-week washout period. Plasma concentrations of pregabalin from 20 subjects were determi...

A simple method is presented to reduce the number of scheduling parameters for gain-scheduled controller implementation. The method is based on careful reformulation of the dynamic representation using dimensionless parameters. Parameter re-scaling is necessary to transform from one unit system to another, and this work utilizes unit transformations carefully to act as an implicit method of gai...

This paper deals with the problem of identifying the inertia parameters of a manipulator. We begin by introducing the terminology of minimal linear combinations of the inertia parameters (MLC’s) that are liiearly independent of one another and determine the manipulator dynamics while keeping the number of linear combinations of the inertia parameters to a minimum. The problem is then to find an...

A new high dose rate 20 mm 32P intravascular brachytherapy (IVB) beta source used with automated stepping has recently been introduced. The AAPM Task Group 60 recommends that beta IVB sources should have well characterized dosimetric parameters in water. In this study, Monte Carlo simulations (MCNPX v 2.4) were used to derive these parameters for a 2 mm source segment rather than the entire 20 ...