In the name of restoring professionalism, an influential group of physician-educators have urged academic medical centers to take the lead in purging the house of medicine of the conflicts of interest created by industry's marketing. I argue that this revivalist movement is misguided, uses "conflict of interest" as an epithet, creates counter-productive incentives, and fails the duty to prepare...

The R&D of ceramic biomaterials has extensively progressed in Japan since commercial production of calcium phosphates of hydroxyapatite and β-tricalcium phosphate, A-W glass, chemicalsand SBF (simulated body fluid)-treated metals, and yttria-stabilized zirconia for dental and medical applications. The centers of R&D excellence in Japan consist of universities and national research institutes in...

[reaction: see text] The sesquiterpene (+/-)-herbertenolide was synthesized in seven steps from commercial 2-bromo-4-methylanisole. In the key step, two adjacent stereogenic quaternary centers were controlled by a highly chemoselective and stereospecific photodecarbonylation reaction of crystalline methyl-trans-3-(2-methyl-5-methoxyphenyl)-1,3-dimethyl-2-oxocyclohexancarboxylate (3). An efficie...

Cloud computing allows fast and efficient resource provisioning within data centers. In large companies this can lead to significant savings, thus creating market for complete cloud platforms. In addition to commercial products, several open source cloud platforms exist. This paper compares four cloud management platforms and identifies the factors affecting future success of each of the platfo...

This paper describes the experience and the results of using the VigilAgent agent methodology to develop surveillance systems. This work is based on the suitability of agent characteristics for developing surveillance systems. It is usual to develop them following an ad-hoc approach instead of using a methodology to guide stakeholders in achieving quality standards expected from commercial soft...

Department of Chemistry, Avinashilingam Deemed University for Women, Coimbatore641 043 ABSTRACT Lipophilicity which plays an important role in research into the structure-activity relationship of drug action has been theoretically predicted for few chromen-2-ones and chromen-2-thiones using commercial software HyperChem 7.0 and an internet computational software ALOGPS 2.1. In the compounds ana...

This paper focuses on the requirements for face images to be used in Machine Readable Travel Documents, defined in the ISO/IEC 19794-5 standard. In particular an evaluation framework is proposed for testing software able to automatically verify the compliance of an image to the standard. The results obtained for thee commercial software are reported and compared.

this study aimed to develop techniques for purification of cyanotoxins dissolved in water -particularly those produced by microcystis aeruginosa species - using natural clay, chemically modifiednatural clay, commercial clay and ion exchange and adsorbent resins. except for natural clay, chemical pretreatment was required to increase the adsorption capacity of the treatment materials. all the cl...