Propolis is a hive product containing chiefly beeswax and plant-derived substances such as resin and volatile compounds. Propolis has been used as an antiseptic and wound healer since ancient times and interest for the product has increased recently. Probably few plant species contribute as major resin sources. Green propolis derives mainly from vegetative apices of Baccharis dracunculifolia (a...

The trace consists of cell information of about 29 days spanning across 700k jobs. This paper deals with statistical analysis of this cluster trace. Since the size of trace is very large, Hive which is a Hadoop distributed file system (HDFS) based platform for querying and analysis of Big data, has been used. Hive was accessed through its Beeswax interface. The data was imported into HDFS throu...

Quetiapine (QT) is a short acting atypical antipsychotic drug effective in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. This study aims at designing a novel dosage form of sustained release taste-masked QT orally disintegrating tablets (ODTs) based on solid lipid micro-pellets (SLMPs). QT SLMPs were prepared using the hot melt extrusion technique and utilizing three lipid carriers: Compritol, Precirol a...

An artificial neural network (ANN) was applied in conjunction with experimental data from mixture experimental design to predict the melting point of lipstick formulation. The experimental data were utilized for training and testing of the suggested model. By using performance of ANN, the optimum parameters were pitaya seed oil 25 w/w%, virgin coconut oil 37 w/w%, beeswax 17 w/w%, candelilla wa...

An emulsifier is a molecule with a hydrophobic/lypophilic end and hydrophilic end,respectively. Emulsifiers are used in stabilizing various oil-in-water and water-in-oil emulsions by reducing the surface energy and surface tension of the two interfaces. They find wide applications in food and pharmaceutical industries. Many of the emulsifiers can be obtained from natural sources. Some of them i...