RHAMNOLIPIDS—BRIEF OUTLINE Biosurfactants, widely known as surfaceactive agents of biological origin, have carved a niche for themselves in the market due to their unique environmentfriendly properties. They have come a long way since first biosurfactant “surfactin” was purified and characterized by Arima et al. (1968). Biosurfactants have been researched thoroughly and satisfactorily since the...

This article intends to consolidate the concepts of pharmaceutical market access and highlight its growing importance in emerging markets. Market access has gained considerable attention worldwide as countries try to contain their escalating healthcare expenditures amidst the global economic slowdown. This has resulted in governments adopting stricter measures for new product approval. Thus, ph...

O ver the past decade, video laryngoscopy has profoundly transformed airway management. Its recent inclusion in the American Society of Anesthesiologists Difficult Airway Algorithm validates its adoption. Not surprisingly, the commercial success of the GlideScope (Verathon Medical), the first mass-produced video laryngoscope (VL), has inspired many other companies to enter the airway management...

NASA’s Aviation Safety Program involves investigation of the feasibility of advanced aviation weather information systems to reduce accident rates. Under this program, integrating weather information systems into the cockpit for General Aviation aircraft is being considered. A market research study was needed to identify the match of technologies and features for a successful cockpit weather sy...

Design principles play a central role in the architecture of the Internet as driving most engineering decisions at conception level and operational level. This paper is based on the EC Future Internet Architecture (FIArch) Group results and identifies some of the design principles that we expect to govern the future architecture of the Internet. We believe that it may serve as a starting point ...

In this short paper we present a technology brief on current Internet trends in its migration towards a communications infrastructure that may support business to business communications. In particular we look at the notion of policy managed networks and existing technologies that may be integrated to meet this goal in some way. Finally, we present some research issues that need to be resolved ...