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"We characterize the dynamics of runners in the famous “Running of the Bulls” Festival by computing the individual and global velocities and densities, as well as the crowd pressure. In contrast with all previously s...

"The placement of obstacles in front of doors is believed to be an effective strategy to increase the flow of pedestrians, hence improving the evacuation process. Since it was first suggested, this counterintuitive featu...

This book focuses on Load Balance and High Availability clustering, clearly aiming at the practitioner. It intends to help a technical user design, build and maintain clustered services from the ground up. Theory on clus...

A self-emulsifying drug delivery system (SEDDS) of a poorly water soluble drug, irbesartan (IRB), was designed. The aim was to improve the solubility as well as dissolution rates of IRB. Solubility of IRB in different ...

Niosomes have been reported as a possible approach to improve the low skin penetration and bioavailability characteristics shown by conventional topical vehicle for Baclofen (centrally acting skeletal muscle relaxant)....

A family of new measures of point and graph centrality based on early intuitions of Bavelas (1948) is introduced. These measures define centrality in terms of the degree to which a point falls on the shortest path betwee...

BACKGROUND: Frailty is considered highly prevalent in old age and to confer high risk for falls, disability, hospitalization, and mortality. Frailty has been considered synonymous with disability, comorbidity, and other ...

BACKGROUND: About a third of home-dwelling older people fall each year, and institutionalized older people even report a two- or threefold higher rate for falling. Automatic fall detection systems have been developed to ...