In this paper, we address the task of languageindependent, knowledge-lean and unsupervised compound splitting, which is an essential component for many natural language processing tasks such as machine translation. Previous methods on statistical compound splitting either include language-specific knowledge (e.g., linking elements) or rely on parallel data, which results in limited applicabilit...

Compounding in morphologically rich languages is a highly productive process which often causes SMT approaches to fail because of unseen words. We present an approach for translation into a compounding language that splits compounds into simple words for training and, due to an underspecified representation, allows for free merging of simple words into compounds after translation. In contrast t...

Sterile compounding in hospital, home care, and ambulatory care settings is undergoing changes. Barrier-isolation technology for the preparation of sterile compounding is becoming available. The regulatory influence of state boards of pharmacy and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on maintaining the sterility of parenteral products and that of the Occupational Safety and Healthy Administra...

Quality-control guidelines and processes have progressed considerably in the past eight years since the first publication of the United States Pharmacopeia regulations. Many state boards of pharmacy have put additional emphasis on quality control in their regulations. Fortunately, there are many resources available to the compounding pharmacist today, from third-party quality-control testing la...

It is apparent that the quality assurance program of a compounding pharmacy cannot adhere to the strict requirements of some of the general chapters in the United States Pharmacopeia. Those chapters containing such strict requirements that may impact pharmacy compounding should be studied thoroughly by the appropriate United States Pharmacopeia expert committee. Afterward, a determination shoul...

The RP-HPLC method, useful for the separation of a protein of the erythropoietin formulations with different stabilizers, was elaborated. Using this method, rhEPO, HSA and other proteins, can be determined, depending on the sample composition. The method is sensitive and rapid. Our results indicate that this method is useful for quality control of rhEPO in final drug preparations with albumin a...