We present and characterize a sequential angular compounding method for reducing speckle contrast in optical coherence tomography images of paint layers. The results are compared with postprocessing methods, and we show that the compounding technique can improve the speckle contrast ratio in B-scans by better than a factor of 2 in exchange for a negligible loss of resolution. As a result, image...

William Snyder Languages differ in the mechanisms they provide for combining existing words into new, “compound” words. This chapter will focus on two major types of compound: synthetic -ER compounds, like English dishwasher (for either a human or a machine that washes dishes), where “-ER” stands for the crosslinguistic counterparts to agentive and instrumental -er in English; and endocentric b...

The compounding of “sterile” products has made headlines in the news in the United States over the last several years, due the lack of sterile conditions in a compounding pharmacy causing an outbreak of fungal meningitis [1]. Although USP Chapter <797> was released in 2008 and outlines in detail procedures needed to keep pharmacies sterile, these lapses in sterility still occurred [2]. However,...

Abstract In this paper, we present a use of XML and relational database for developing and maintaining Japanese linguistic resources. In languages that do not provide word delimitation in texts (e.g. Chinese and Japanese), consistent delimitation definition of words in a lexicon is a critical issue to build POS tagged corpora. When we change the definition of word delimitation in the lexicon, w...

Another tragic parenteral nutrition compounding error.

Automated compounding devices are frequently used by pharmacists for the extemporaneous preparation of parenteral nutrition admixtures. This continuing shift from manual compounding procedures comes as a result of significant advances in automated technology, as well as in response to changing health care demands to provide admixture compounding in a safer, more efficient, and more accurate man...

The Principles-and-Parameters approach (Chomsky 1981) postulates that UG consists of the set of universal principles that are satisfied by any language, and parameters that define the points and the range of possible human languages. Under this approach, the process of language acquisition is a process of fixing the values of such parameters, and thus the elucidation of genetically endowed para...

The compounding cream market has exploded across the country in the past few years. There are numerous pharmacies promoting these products, many different combinations of topical medications available, and the cost of these formulations is quite high. This can be quite intimidating to a physician, especially when there is inadequate time available for them to thoroughly evaluate these products ...

FDA draft guidance on 503B compounding widely faulted.

Atherosclerotic plaque rupture can initiate stroke or myocardial infarction. Lipid-rich plaques with thin fibrous caps have a higher risk to rupture than fibrotic plaques. Elastic moduli differ for lipid-rich and fibrous tissue and can be reconstructed using tissue displacements estimated from intravascular ultrasound radiofrequency (RF) data acquisitions. This study investigated if modulus rec...