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Near Infrared Spectroscopy: Applications In Pharmaceutical Industry

This work explores the comprehensive development of a near infrared (NIR) spectroscopic analytical technique for high-throughput applications for the determination of pharmaceutical raw materials and excipients in a pharmaceutical formulation. Advancements in the NIR spectrometry as quality and process control tool have been discussed. The applications include analyses of different types of samples, manufacturing and identification of active pharmaceutical ingredients based on specified experimental design. The samples were measured in diffusion or reflectance mode in a fourier-transform NIR spectrometer. Additionally, chemometric software was employed for quantitative interpretation of bands. The spectrometry can be utilized for identification of raw materials, their size, polymorphism and blend homogeneity.

What Do We Know about Radicalization? A Commentary on Key Issues, Findings and a Framework for Future Research for the Scientific and Applied Community

This IJCV focus section presents seven articles that resulted from a project involving a mix of researchers and practitioners working jointly on different aspects of radicalization. The current commentary provides an overview of these, examining how the findings inform our wider understanding, support previous findings and provide a framework for future research. It also synthesizes the issues raised and explores where this takes the scientific and applied community. Whilst based primarily on literature and lessons learned from Germany, many of the findings and recommendations are applicable to the wider international context. This collection of articles on the subject of radicalization therefore provides the reader with a broad and up-to-date understanding of key concepts, themes and issues, and an in-depth understanding of specific topics, ongoing challenges and knowledge gaps. It also provides a solid basis to inform evidence-based practice and highlights practitioner require-ments and gaps in understanding that need to be addressed. The knowledge presented here can therefore inform Preventing/Countering Violent Extremism efforts, which need to be practical, feasible, affordable and evidence-based.

Trauma, Emotion, and the Subject: Exploring Shifts Between Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience

With close attention to the dialogue and dispute between psychoanalysis and neuroscience, this essay examines the significant change the neuroscientific turn brought about in the definition, mechanism, and healing of trauma. Neuroscientific trauma studies are critical of Freud’s shift from dissociation to repression, from his definition of trauma as an overwhelming shock and its aftereffect to his tendency to regard it as a manifestation of the death drive. Informed by the neuroscientific discovery of nonconscious implicit memo ry as distinct from conscious explicit memory, trauma scholars elaborate the dissociation theory by arguing that trauma is indelibly imprinted in the implicit memory whereas the stress hormone produced by traumatic experience damages the explicit memory and trig gers amnesia. Unlike the explicit memory that registers the event in linguistic form, the implicit (or emotional/bodily) memory inscribes itself in the form of images. The emotion ally charged traumatic experience is committed to the amygdala, a part of the subcortical limbic system, which is evolutionarily hardwired for survival and operates independently of the neocortex regulating consciousness. New therapeutic methods, including EMDR and psychomotor therapy, are designed to desensitize and reprocess the traumatic memory by targeting this cerebral area. Trauma therapists inspired by neuroscience regard the brain/body or the neural self as the substrate of the psychic subject and aspire to transform the latter by affecting the former. While innovative and potentially game-changing in trauma studies, this approach also arouses concerns about the potential theoretical pitfalls of haz arding the neuroscientific translation of the neural into the mental.

Exploring Students’ Perception of Life Concept in Arguments about Artificial Intelligence- Focusing on the Case of Elementary and High School Students -

Exploring Students’ Perception of Life Concept in Arguments about Artificial Intelligence- Focusing on the Case of Elementary and High School Students -

Will Japan be Transitioned to an Immigration-dependent Country? Exploring Immigration and Social Infrastructure

Will Japan be Transitioned to an Immigration-dependent Country? Exploring Immigration and Social Infrastructure

Exploring the organic harmony of the Modern Pentathlon of sports

Exploring the organic harmony of the Modern Pentathlon of sports

Exploring the Underlying Factors for Building a School Community: Focused on the innovative school teachers’ interviews

Exploring the Underlying Factors for Building a School Community: Focused on the innovative school teachers’ interviews

Exploring the Measures to Improve General Elective Subject Curriculum of the 2015 Revised Art Curriculum through Implementing Curriculum Content Mapping with OECD Education 2030 Learning Framework

Exploring the Measures to Improve General Elective Subject Curriculum of the 2015 Revised Art Curriculum through Implementing Curriculum Content Mapping with OECD Education 2030 Learning Framework

Exploring Librarians’ Teaching Roles through Metaphor

Exploring Librarians’ Teaching Roles through Metaphor

Scratching the Surface - Exploring Betrayal as a Behavioral Shortcoming from David Grossman’s A Horse Walks into a Bar

Scratching the Surface - Exploring Betrayal as a Behavioral Shortcoming from David Grossman’s A Horse Walks into a Bar

Transformative thinking for business leaders in the 21st Century

This paper explores how business leaders can use transformative thinking to successfully facilitate corporate transformation in the 21st Century. The author explores the principles of transformative leadership put forward by published authors alongside the challenges of ensuring a business remains sustainable in a dynamic environment. The paper lays the groundwork for empirical research on transformative thinking and corporate transformation as a base for the development of sustainable business policy and organization development strategy. The author argues that business leaders have the responsibility to ensure their organizations stay attuned to the operating environment without losing focus in serving the needs of an evolving customer base. The article challenges business leaders to engage transformative thinking as a way of generating superior, non-traditional outcomes and creating a paradigm shift in organization performance. Key words: Transformative thinking, transformative leadership, business leadership, corporate transformation, 21st century leadership.

A Study on the Application of IPA Method for Exploring the Properties of Urban Residents' Choice of Indoor Plants

A Study on the Application of IPA Method for Exploring the Properties of Urban Residents' Choice of Indoor Plants

Exploring the Meaning of Preparation for Retirement of Middle-Aged Korean-Chinese Migrant Women

Exploring the Meaning of Preparation for Retirement of Middle-Aged Korean-Chinese Migrant Women

Getting Beyond "Why": A Reflection on "To Act with Justice and Love Tenderly: Exploring the Church's Call for Inclusion"

Getting Beyond "Why": A Reflection on "To Act with Justice and Love Tenderly: Exploring the Church's Call for Inclusion"

To Act with Justice and Love Tenderly: Exploring the Church’s Call for Inclusion

To Act with Justice and Love Tenderly: Exploring the Church’s Call for Inclusion

Exploring the Causes of Increasing Sensational Advertising and Regulatory Methods in Internet Newspapers

Exploring the Causes of Increasing Sensational Advertising and Regulatory Methods in Internet Newspapers

Quelle transition énergétique, quelles croissance et développement durables pour une nécessaire transition écologique ? Présentation

Face à la crise climatique et environnementale toujours plus prégnante au fil des années, cet article examine les conditions de mise en oeuvre de la transition énergétique dans un contexte de transition écologique. Il présente, dans un premier temps, l'état de la littérature sur les relations ambivalentes entre la consommation d'énergie et la croissance économique. Il examine en second lieu comment, dans chaque pays ou groupe de pays, la transition vers une économie décarbonée s'inscrit dans les différentes formes de développement durable qui sont promues ; face à l'urgence climatique, ces dernières contribuent aux nécessaires transitions écologiques et environnementales à l'échelle de la planète. Classification JEL : Q40, Q50, Q43, Q56

A century old regeneration problem of Shorea robusta Gaertn. F. in south Asia: SWOT analysis (Review)

Shorea robusta (Sal) Gaertn. F. a commercially and ecologically important forestry species of south Asia, is facing serious regeneration problem since last century. The continuously diminishing natural regeneration is associated with numerous abiotic and biotic factors, like edaphic, micro-climatic, physiological, genetic, anthropogenic, pathogens, insect-pests, etc. Following a good seed year and timely commencement of monsoon, Sal seeds germinate readily, and thousands of seedlings cover the forest floor. Subsequently, these get afflicted with die-back syndrome impeding shoot growth. Regular fire incidences during hot and dry season further aggravates the problem. Among biotic factors, Hoplocerambyx spinicornis , Cylindrocladium floridanum and Inonotus shoreae causes severe heartwood decay, blight and dieback leading to mortality. Moreover, over-exploitation, illegal felling, grazing, etc., have severely depleted the Sal forest. This review systematically explores the factors contributing to regeneration problem in S. robusta and opines appropriate silvicultural operations and management strategies for the conservation of Sal forests through SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) analysis. We emphasized on the ecological aspects, soil characteristics, micro-climatic factors and importance of associated species to develop sustainable management regimes. Highlighting all facets of Sal regeneration problem and SWOT assessment, we suggest comprehensive weaknesses and threat perceptions to formulate strategies to seal the gaps.

Exploring the Principle of Dewey's Expansion of Experience and Imagination based on Social Life

Exploring the Principle of Dewey's Expansion of Experience and Imagination based on Social Life

The experiential nature of ELF reformulations in the multimodal representations of modern and ancient sea-odysseys

This chapter explores the latest stage of a research project carried out at the University of Salento, which aims to investigate the effects of emotions on the positive reconsideration of mass migrations and intercultural socialization. In particular, this study illustrates the linguistic and multimodal strategies of production of four videos that are informed by an unbiased discursive frame for the multimedia representations of sea-journeys. In these clips, the linguistic and audiovisual associations between samples of Western and Non-Western migration narratives are meant to assist viewers in acknowledging that travelers from past and present times experience shared emotions and feelings when leaving their native countries in search for better life conditions. The activation of this perlocutionary effect is pursued by means of hybridizations between written and oral accounts of sea-voyages and between ‘epic movie’, ‘mockumentary’ and ‘journalistic interview’ genres. Narrations are retextualized into ‘experiential reformulations’ that resort to modern variations of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) in order to underline, through their structural and phonetic characteristics, the dramatic and life-threatening nature of migrations. The audiovisual composition mixes factual and cinematic properties so as to attract envisaged viewers’ attention and then induce, in them, the positive reconsideration of the objects of representation. After detailing the main phases of experiential reformulation and illustrating the multimodal composition of the four videos, this chapter comments on the results of a reception study of the multimedia research products, in order to enquire into the empirical reception of genre and text hybridization, as well as into the accessibility level of the ELF variations that represent the verbal dimension of the videos.