Morphological productivity (roughly: the readiness with which a word formation process forms new words) has long been one of the central mysteries of morphology. There are many detailed qualitative descriptions of word formation processes that list the restrictions for the possible bases for an affix (like the restriction that -able attaches to verbs in English) or the restrictions on a given c...

Compounding is present in a large variety of languages in different proportions. Compound rate in the text obviously depends on the language, but also on the genre and the domain. Scientific and technical texts are especially conducive to compounding, even in the languages that are not traditionally admitted as highly compounding ones. In this article we address compound splitting of specialize...

OBJECTIVE We review the historical regulation of drug compounding, concerns about widespread use of non-Food and Drug Admiistration (FDA)-approved compounded bioidentical hormone therapies (CBHTs), which do not have proper labeling and warnings, and anticipated impact of the 2013 Drug Quality and Security Act (DQSA) on compounding. METHODS US government websites were searched for documents co...

Deformations of the atherosclerotic vascular wall induced by the pulsating blood can be estimated using ultrasound strain imaging. Because these deformations indirectly provide information on mechanical plaque composition, strain imaging is a promising technique for differentiating between stable and vulnerable atherosclerotic plaques. This paper first explains 1-D radial strain estimation as a...

The mechanical and thermal properties of injection-molded recycled polyethylene were studied, specifically with respect to the influence large-scale washing melt-compounding from post-consumer packaging waste. Three types materials studied: those taken after sorting, sorting washing, melt-compounding, including melt-filtration, all a material flow. further processed on laboratory scale compared...

BACKGROUND Compounded lomustine is used commonly in veterinary patients. However, the potential variability in these formulations is unknown and concern exists that compounded formulations of drugs may differ in potency from Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved products. HYPOTHESIS/OBJECTIVES The initial objective of this study was to evaluate the frequency and severity of neutropenia ...

As our college has struggled to develop perspective about the monumental task of assessing our curriculum, a familiar mantra from my days as a hospital pharmacist emerged above the clatter: high risk, high cost, high volume. This adage reminded the hospital performance improvement team to focus its efforts on the aspects of health care that are high risk or high cost for the patient and institu...