by Ian Davidson and Bruce Davies George R. Brown, eminent engineer and retired chairman of the Rice Board of Trustees, died Sa turday following a brief illness at age 84. B r o w n ' s c o n t r i b u t i o n s to i n d u s t r y , e d u c a t i o n a n d p h i l a n t h r o p y a r e a b u n d a n t . Brown entered Rice in 1917 with the intention of becoming a doctor , but he left the followin...

Contemporary psychiatry uses a variety of complementary approaches which enrich one another. In this paper, we describe the development of a brief psychodynamic approach for hospitalized patients with major depression, as well as the recent commercialization of an atypical neuroleptic depot medication. In addition, we discuss electro-convulsotherapy which, despite it has been widely and underst...

This short paper describes the design and development of a simple agent system aimed at addressing the food gathering problem set for the 2005 CLIMA contest. Our system is implemented as a collection of reactive agents which dynamically switch between a number of behaviours depending on interaction with their environment. Our agents maintain no internal representation of their environment and o...

Delivery of drug through topical route represents a most convenient and novel approach. The major difficulty arises while delivering a drug through skin is its action as a natural barrier nature which makes it difficult for most drugs to penetrate into and permeate through it. Conventional topical formulations have not proved to be effective in dermal delivery of drug. Novel drug delivery syste...

Long-acting injectable (LAI) antipsychotics can have considerable advantages over oral medications for the management of patients with schizophrenia. Despite the high prevalence of treatment nonadherence with oral pharmacotherapy, LAI antipsychotics are significantly underutilized in this patient population. The availability of newer LAI antipsychotic preparations combined with a resurgent inte...

Critical cleavage stress values and carbide sizes obtained in a recent work by Lee et al. [1] are recalculated using 2D and 3D FE simulations and new constitutive law, instead of small scale yielding assumption and likely improper choice for the behavior of SA 508 steel. A new model based on the weakest link concept with the determined carbide size distribution (CSD) is succesfully applied to p...

Solubility plays a major role in protein purification, and has serious implications in many diseases. We studied the effects of pH and mutations on protein solubility by calculating the transfer free energy from the condensed phase to the solution phase. The condensed phase was modeled as an implicit solvent, with a dielectric constant lower than that of water. To account for the effects of pH,...