The pharmaceutical industry has been receiving greater scrutiny lately due in large part to the many public and private legal enforcement actions taken against pharmaceutical manufacturers. These enforcement actions, along with legal developments such as the OIG Compliance Guidance for Pharmaceutical Manufacturers, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act's statutory guidelines for public corporations, the HIPAA...

There is an increasing need for geometric 3D models in the movie industry, the games industry, mapping (Street View) and others. Generating these models from a sequence of images is much cheaper than previous techniques (e.g. 3D scanners). These techniques have also been able to take advantage of the developments in digital cameras and the increasing resolution and quality of images they produc...

This article gives a glimpse of the early development of automatic control in Sweden covering the period up to the mid 1960s. Much of the early developments took place in industry and the defense establishments. Process control, particularly in the pulp and paper industry, power systems, and military projects were strong drivers for the technology. The article ends with the emergence of control...

ANALYTICA will take the dynamic growth of products and solutions for laboratory technology, diagnostics and analysis into account at the ANALYTICA Forum. Industry experts and service providers will introduce the latest developments and discuss their bene® ts and potential applications with an audience of industry professionals. The trends and highlights of the ANALYTICA Forum at a glance: autom...