Hemostatic polymers: the concept, state of the art and perspectives

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (23) ◽  
pp. 3567-3577 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabio di Lena
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
Hemostatic Agents ◽  
Critical Overview

This article presents a critical overview of the most significant developments in the use of polymers as hemostatic agents.

The Oxford Handbook of Peacebuilding, Statebuilding, and Peace Formation

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
Comprehensive Overview ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Peace And Conflict ◽  
Conceptual Foundations ◽  
Critical Overview ◽  
Local Levels

The Oxford Handbook of Peacebuilding, Statebuilding, and Peace Formation offers an authoritative and comprehensive overview of peacebuilding, statebuilding, and peace formation. With contributions from over thirty distinguished and leading scholars, the Handbook provides a timely, engaging, and critical overview of conceptual foundations, political implications, and tensions at the global, regional, and local levels. It examines the key policies, practices, examples, and discourses underlining various segments of peacebuilding, statebuilding, and peace formation both as discursive formulations and as policy practices. Organized around four major thematic sections, the Handbook offers a state-of-the-art synthesis of the most pressing contemporary peace and conflict issues and charts new pathways for responding to transnational insecurities.

scholarly journals Recycling Tire Rubber in Asphalt Pavements: State of the Art

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (21) ◽  
pp. 9076
Author(s):  
Saud A. Alfayez ◽  
Ahmed R. Suleiman ◽  
Moncef L. Nehdi
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
Permanent Deformation ◽  
Engineering Properties ◽  
Asphalt Pavements ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Tire Rubber ◽  
Durability Assessment ◽  
Overall Performance ◽  
Pavement Construction ◽  
Critical Overview

The use of recycled tire rubber in asphalt pavements to improve the overall performance, economy, and sustainability of pavements has gained considerable attention over the last few decades. Several studies have indicated that recycled tire rubber can reduce the permanent deformation of flexible pavements and enhance its resistance to rutting, reduce pavement construction and maintenance costs, and improve the resistance to fatigue damage. This paper provides a systematic and critical overview of the research on and practice of using recycled tire rubber in asphalt pavements in terms of engineering properties, performance, and durability assessment. This critical analysis of the state-of-the-art should enhance the understanding of using recycled tire rubber in asphalt pavements, define pertinent recommendations, identify knowledge gaps, and highlight the need for concerted future research.

scholarly journals The future of multimodal corpora

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 391-415 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dawn Knight
Keyword(s):  
Corpus Linguistics ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Future Developments ◽  
The Past ◽  
Current State ◽  
Linguistic Research ◽  
Multimodal Corpora ◽  
The Future ◽  
Multimodal Corpus ◽  
Critical Overview

This paper takes stock of the current state-of-the-art in multimodal corpus linguistics, and proposes some projections of future developments in this field. It provides a critical overview of key multimodal corpora that have been constructed over the past decade and presents a wish-list of future technological and methodological advancements that may help to increase the availability, utility and functionality of such corpora for linguistic research.

scholarly journals Polymeric Membrane for CO2/CH4 Separation

2021 ◽  
pp. 203-242
Author(s):  
N. Sazali
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Design ◽  
Gas Separation ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Gas Permeation ◽  
Polymeric Membrane ◽  
Separation Of Co2 ◽  
Future Direction ◽  
Critical Overview

This chapter presents a critical overview of polymeric membrane applications for CO2/CH4 separation. Comparative summary of availability and practice of different gas separation methods are outlined to give a state-of-the-art view of this technology. Detailed discussions on polymer-based membranes are also discussed in this work, highlighting the mechanism of selective gas permeation through the membranes. Future direction is discussed for possible new experimental design to maximize the membrane performances in separation of CO2/CH4.

On ALT and Field Reliability: Challenges and Solutions

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhengfang Qian ◽  
Joe Tomase
Keyword(s):  
Failure Modes ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Test Procedure ◽  
Reliability Prediction ◽  
Test Statistics ◽  
Current State ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Field Reliability ◽  
Virtual Qualification ◽  
Critical Overview

This paper presents a critical overview of the current state-of-the-art of Accelerated Reliability Tests (ALTs) and field reliability. Investigations have been focused on a few critical issues, including test philosophy, test physics, test procedure, and test statistics. It has been identified that there is a huge gap between ALT and field reliability. Challenges and solutions include bridging gap between deterministic and statistical approaches, identifying failure modes/mechanisms and their interaction, making scientific judgement of complicated ALT procedures, determining sample size and targeted failure rate for test plans, building databases of ALT and field reliability for knowledge discovery, and developing powerful and integrated tools for virtual qualification and reliability prediction.

scholarly journals Disclosure Quality Measurement in the Public Sector: A Structured Literature Review

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Bisogno ◽  
Francesca Citro ◽  
Serena Santis ◽  
Aurelio Tommasetti
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Quality Measurement ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Disclosure Quality ◽  
The Public ◽  
Future Research Agenda ◽  
Critical Overview ◽  
Structured Literature Review

The study investigates previous research concerning disclosure quality measurement in the public sector context. The principal motivation for undertaking this analysis is the growing body of literature that has examined this issue from different perspectives in light of the increasing attention paid by academics and practitioners to the transparency and accountability of public sector entities. The study adopts a structured research methodology, aiming to offer a critical overview of the state of the art, highlighting the main issues investigated by scholars and the areas of research which are under-investigated, unveiling emerging gaps. In so doing, this study outlines a future research agenda.

scholarly journals Modeling, dialogue, and globality: Biosemiotics and semiotics of self. 1. Semiosis, modeling, and dialogism

2003 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-63
Author(s):  
Augusto Ponzio
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Specific Reference ◽  
Original Formulation ◽  
Nature And Culture ◽  
Theoretic Foundations ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Critical Overview

With our paper we intend to offer a critical overview of state of the art in semiotics, with specific reference to theoretical problems concerning the relationship between culture and nature. In other words, we intend to focus on the relationship between the concepts of semiosphere (Lotman) and biosphere (Vernadsky) considering the various approaches to this issue and proposing our own point of view. An important reference for a valid overview view of semiotics today is the Handbook Semiotik/Semiotics. It is no incident that the subtitle of this work is A Handbook on the Sign-Theoretic Foundations of Nature and Culture. In this handbook a fundamental role is carried out by Thomas A. Sebeok and his particular approach to semiotics, which may be designated as ‘global semiotics’. One of the pivotal concepts in Sebeok’s global semiotics is that of modeling which traverses nature and culture. This concept connects natural semiosis and cultural semiosis and ensues in an original formulation of the relationship between the notions of ‘semiosphere’ and ‘biosphere’. Such problematics respond to semiotic research in Tartu today, especially as it finds expression in the present journal. And, in fact, as in his book of 2001, Global Semiotics, Sebeok often underlined the importance of the Estonian connection himself in his writings for the development of semiotics.

scholarly journals A Snapshot of Transdermal and Topical Drug Delivery Research in Canada

Pharmaceutics ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahdi Roohnikan ◽  
Elise Laszlo ◽  
Samuel Babity ◽  
Davide Brambilla
Keyword(s):  
Transdermal Delivery ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Short Review ◽  
Therapeutic Agents ◽  
Topical Drug Delivery ◽  
Research Groups ◽  
Non Invasive ◽  
Delivery Routes ◽  
Critical Overview

The minimally- or non-invasive delivery of therapeutic agents through the skin has several advantages compared to other delivery routes and plays an important role in medical care routines. The development and refinement of new technologies is leading to a drastic expansion of the arsenal of drugs that can benefit from this delivery strategy and is further intensifying its impact in medicine. Within Canada, as well, a few research groups have worked on the development of state-of-the-art transdermal delivery technologies. Within this short review, we aim to provide a critical overview of the development of these technologies in the Canadian environment.

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