Global Warming and Community Outreach (Semester Unknown) IPRO 331: Global Warming and Community Outreach IPRO 331 Final Presentation Sp08

 Evaluate and incorporate previous presentation feedback into new methods of addressing the scientific aspect of global warming. This primarily includes subdividing the issue into four major aspects that contribute to this effect.  Present material to a larger and more diverse audiences, including schools, community centers, libraries, non-profit organizations, and other possibilities.  Focus on solid, scientific data from credible sources that define why and how global warming is occurring, rather than discussing the politics and economics that surround the issue.  Create a platform for this IPRO to continue in the future, using resources and feedback received from the current semester.Deliverable

Global Warming and Community Outreach (Semester Unknown) IPRO 331: Global Warming and Community Outreach IPRO 331 Poster Sp08

 Evaluate and incorporate previous presentation feedback into new methods of addressing the scientific aspect of global warming. This primarily includes subdividing the issue into four major aspects that contribute to this effect.  Present material to a larger and more diverse audiences, including schools, community centers, libraries, non-profit organizations, and other possibilities.  Focus on solid, scientific data from credible sources that define why and how global warming is occurring, rather than discussing the politics and economics that surround the issue.  Create a platform for this IPRO to continue in the future, using resources and feedback received from the current semester.Deliverable

Global Warming and Community Outreach (Semester Unknown) IPRO 331: Global Warming and Community Outreach IPRO 331 Brochure Sp08

 Evaluate and incorporate previous presentation feedback into new methods of addressing the scientific aspect of global warming. This primarily includes subdividing the issue into four major aspects that contribute to this effect.  Present material to a larger and more diverse audiences, including schools, community centers, libraries, non-profit organizations, and other possibilities.  Focus on solid, scientific data from credible sources that define why and how global warming is occurring, rather than discussing the politics and economics that surround the issue.  Create a platform for this IPRO to continue in the future, using resources and feedback received from the current semester.Deliverable

Global Warming and Community Outreach (Semester Unknown) IPRO 331: Global Warming and Community Outreach IPRO 331 Project Plan Sp08

 Evaluate and incorporate previous presentation feedback into new methods of addressing the scientific aspect of global warming. This primarily includes subdividing the issue into four major aspects that contribute to this effect.  Present material to a larger and more diverse audiences, including schools, community centers, libraries, non-profit organizations, and other possibilities.  Focus on solid, scientific data from credible sources that define why and how global warming is occurring, rather than discussing the politics and economics that surround the issue.  Create a platform for this IPRO to continue in the future, using resources and feedback received from the current semester.Deliverable

Global Warming and Community Outreach (Semester Unknown) IPRO 331: Global Warming and Community Outreach IPRO 331 Ethics Sp08

 Evaluate and incorporate previous presentation feedback into new methods of addressing the scientific aspect of global warming. This primarily includes subdividing the issue into four major aspects that contribute to this effect.  Present material to a larger and more diverse audiences, including schools, community centers, libraries, non-profit organizations, and other possibilities.  Focus on solid, scientific data from credible sources that define why and how global warming is occurring, rather than discussing the politics and economics that surround the issue.  Create a platform for this IPRO to continue in the future, using resources and feedback received from the current semester.Deliverable

Global Warming and Community Outreach (Semester Unknown) IPRO 331: Global Warming and Community Outreach IPRO 331 Midterm Report Sp08

 Evaluate and incorporate previous presentation feedback into new methods of addressing the scientific aspect of global warming. This primarily includes subdividing the issue into four major aspects that contribute to this effect.  Present material to a larger and more diverse audiences, including schools, community centers, libraries, non-profit organizations, and other possibilities.  Focus on solid, scientific data from credible sources that define why and how global warming is occurring, rather than discussing the politics and economics that surround the issue.  Create a platform for this IPRO to continue in the future, using resources and feedback received from the current semester.Deliverable

Maltodextrin: A Novel Excipient Used in Sugar-Based Orally Disintegrating Tablets and Phase Transition Process

The recent challenge in orally disintegrating tablets (ODT) manufacturing encompasses the compromise between instantaneous disintegration, sufficient hardness, and standard processing equipment. The current investigation constitutes one attempt to fulfill this challenge. Maltodextrin, in the present work, was utilized as a novel excipient to prepare ODT of meclizine. Tablets were prepared by both direct compression and wet granulation techniques. The effect of maltodextrin concentrations on ODT characteristics—manifested as hardness and disintegration time—was studied. The effect of conditioning (40°C and 75% relative humidity) as a post-compression treatment on ODT characteristics was also assessed. Furthermore, maltodextrin-pronounced hardening effect was investigated using differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and X-ray analysis. Results revealed that in both techniques, rapid disintegration (30–40 s) would be achieved on the cost of tablet hardness (about 1 kg). Post-compression conditioning of tablets resulted in an increase in hardness (3 kg), while keeping rapid disintegration (30–40 s) according to guidance of the FDA for ODT. However, direct compression-conditioning technique exhibited drawbacks of long conditioning time and appearance of the so-called patch effect. These problems were, yet, absent in wet granulation-conditioning technique. DSC and X-ray analysis suggested involvement of glass-elastic deformation in maltodextrin hardening effect. High-performance liquid chromatography analysis of meclizine ODT suggested no degradation of the drug by the applied conditions of temperature and humidity. Overall results proposed that maltodextrin is a promising saccharide for production of ODT with accepted hardness-disintegration time compromise, utilizing standard processing equipment and phenomena of phase transition