AAPS held its Annual Meeting and Exposition at the Convention Center in San Diego, California, during the week of November 2–6, 2014. The meeting is a premier gathering of pharmaceutical scientists from around the world and works to address the needs of the attendees, including members of over 40 Focus Groups in nine Sections, or scientific disciplines, including two focused on dissolution test...

BACKGROUND Support groups have proved to be effective in reducing the burden on family caregivers of dementia patients. Nevertheless, little is known about the factors that influence utilisation or quality expectations of family caregivers. These questions are addressed in the following paper. METHODS The cross-sectional study was carried out as an anonymous written survey of family caregiver...

Let G be a countable group, Sub(G) be the (compact, metric) space of all subgroups of G with the Chabauty topology and Is(G) ⊆ Sub(G) be the collection of isolated points. We denote by X! the (Polish) group of all permutations of a countable set X. Then the following properties are equivalent: (i) Is(G) is dense in Sub(G); (ii) G admits a ‘generic permutation representation’. Namely, there exis...

let h be a subgroup of a group g. h is said to be s-embedded in g if g has a normal t such that ht is an s-permutable subgroup of g and h ∩ t ≤ h sg, where h denotes the subgroup generated by all those subgroups of h which are s-permutable in g. in this paper, we investigate the influence of minimal s-embedded subgroups on the structure of finite groups. we determine the structure the finite grou...

Background Online focus groups have been increasing in use over the last 2 decades, including in biomedical and health-related research. However, most of this research has made use of text-based services such as email, discussion boards, and chat rooms, which do not replicate the experience of face-to-face focus groups. Web conferencing services have the potential to more closely match the face...

I consider how the saving behavior of consumers is affected by incomes in their reference group. Although standard life cycle models with interdependent preferences provide no clear cut prediction of how incomes in one’s reference group should influence savings, the empirical analysis points to an unambiguously negative effect: If incomes in the reference group are higher, savings are lower. Th...

A finite group G is called a B-group if every proper subgroup of G is either normal or abnormal in G. In this paper the authors classify the non-B-groups whose proper subgroups are all B-groups.

Well-being in a small group can be tied to how much its members interact. Small group tours are social occasions, and the discussion that ensues has been shown by ethnographers to be important for a more enriching experience. Increasing conversation can thus be seen as a way to improve social and psychological well-being. We present DramaTric, a mobile presentation system that delivers hour-lon...

Treatment and support of a child with DSD calls for experience and expertise in diagnosis, surgical techniques, understanding of psychosocial issues, and recognizing and accepting the significance of individual values of children, families, and support groups. The range of what is considered "appropriate" care and treatment is still very broad and critics point at major gaps between ethical gui...

groups are a prominent feature of today’s educational landscape, with black and Hispanic children regularly falling far behind white children. Although the achievement gaps narrowed somewhat during the 1970s and 1980s, they have since proved stubbornly resistant to closing further. If the nation is to achieve the goal of equal education as “a fact and a result,” to borrow President Lyndon Johns...