Effects of formulation parameters on the fractional release profile of diclofenac sodium from matrices having the manufacturing formulation ingredients are studied. As a content of cetyl alcohol (rate controlling agent) in the matrix increases, the fractional release decreases. The fractional release increases either by increasing sucrose content outside the granule or by decreasing sucrose...

Monique Deveaux’s Poverty, Solidarity, and Poor-led Social Movements makes a significant contribution to contemporary capability theories by challenging their individualism. Mainline versions of the Capabilities Approach (CA), including those developed Martha Nussbaum, Amartya Sen, Ingrid Robeyns, insist on methodological normative And with good reason: communitarianism most often reinscribes p...

This open access book discusses service design capabilities in innovation processes, and enables practitioners researchers to better understand the operational aspects of processes. It also a critical reflection on as multifaceted discipline.

ECAs ought to be entities endowed with dialogic and expressive capabilities. They are used in interactive systems in which they can communicate with users. Being involved in a communicative process implies to perceive signs displayed by the other interactants and to emit signs. ECAs ought to have qualities over two main computational domains: perception and generation. We consider another domai...