Adsorption and assembly of colloidal particles at the surface of liquid droplets are at the base of particle-stabilized emulsions and templating. Here we report that electrohydrodynamic and electro-rheological effects in leaky-dielectric liquid drops can be used to structure and dynamically control colloidal particle assemblies at drop surfaces, including electric-field-assisted convective asse...

Efforts to ensure access to expensive, patented drugs Developing countries were not required to grant patents on medicines until 2005, but under US government threats of trade sanctions, Thailand and Brazil began doing so at least ten years prior to this date. Brazil has used price negotiations with multi-national pharmaceutical companies to lower the price of newer patented antiretrovirals. Ho...

This paper outlines how collaborative approaches were used to successfully generate research opportunities and enhance knowledge transfer in the development of new products. The researchers were drawn from across four disciplines within the University of Ulster and worked closely with an industrial partner to develop and test new approaches to the design and development of soft body armour. The...

Background The Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) is a response of the European Union to the increasing number of falsified medicines present in the legal supply chain within the Member States of the community. Effective implementation of the new regulations will depend on the effective cooperation of all parties involved in the distribution of medicinal products including the managers of phar...

In today's competitive world, there are several strategies to deal with the fast changing environment, among which New product development (NPD) is a common strategy. However, almost half of the resources that companies devote to NPD are spent on products that may fail. This issue is particularly highlighted in the pharmaceutical industry mainly because of a long development-time, low success r...

peptidase 4 (DPP4) inhibitor for type 2 diabetes. The compound looked to be safe and efficacious from the phase 2 trial results. However, it was barely differentiated from Merck’s (Whitehouse Station, New Jersey) Januvia (sitagliptin) and AstraZeneca’s (London) and Bristol-Myers Squibb’s (Princeton, New Jersey) Onglyza (saxagliptin). The company had a partnership already announced with a specia...

Today, the world becomes ever more computerized and a growing number of users possess an increasing amount of different identities in this digitalizing world. Nevertheless, users have to be able to run these computerized systems smoothly in this changing environment. In order to do so, digital identities and their access rights have to be properly managed and controlled along the various stages...

stock return is usually considered to be affected by firm’s financial ratios as well as economic variables. fundamental method assume that stock returns is not solely related to the stock market. most result come from the company condition , industry situation and whole economy. in this paper, this relationship between stock return and fundamentals is studied using the data for 22 pharmaceutica...

We consider a highly-qualified individual with respect to her choice between two distinct career paths. She can choose between a mid-level management position in a large company and an executive position within a smaller listed company with the possibility to directly affect the company’s share price. She invests in the financial market including the share of the smaller listed company. The uti...

Earnings management is the activity of managers pharmaceutical companies in an effort to influence financial statement information that aims deceive stakeholders who want know performance and condition company. This thought be influenced by company size profitability factors. So this study find out, analyze explain how size, earnings effect measures on manufacturing sub-sector Pharmaceutical li...