3.7 and FORMRULES, Intelligensys Ltd). Two sustained release formulations and innovator product were selected and their effectiveness was compared by in vivo tests in rabbits. In conclusion, proposed controlled release formulations were found to be an alternative and to be more effective for longer periods than the commercial one.”
“Y-Ba-Cu-O (YBCO) and Sm-Ba-Cu-O thin films have

been used for the first time Selleck GSK3326595 as heterogeneous seeds to multiseed successfully the melt growth of bulk YBCO in a multiseeded melt growth process. The use of thin film seeds, which may be prepared with, highly controlled orientation (i.e., with a well-defined a-b plane and precisely known a-direction), is based on their superheating properties and reduces significantly contamination of the bulk sample by the seed material. A variety of grain boundaries were obtained by varying the angle between the seeds. Microstructural studies indicate that the extent find more of residual melt deposited at the grain boundary decreases with increasing grain boundary contact angle. It is established that the growth front proceeds continuously at the (110)/(110) grain boundary without trapping liquid, which leads to the formation of a clean grain boundary. (C) 2010 American Institute of Physics. [doi :10.1063/1.3465301]“
“To be a part of the therapy in the patients’ surroundings, nurses need to know about patient’s behaviors, needs, feelings, and ways to define these behaviors.

However, to obtain information on patient, nurses particularly need

to be aware of themselves and understand the effects they have on their surroundings. This study was aimed to investigate the effect of self awareness education on the self efficacy and sociotropy autonomy characteristics of nurses in a psychiatric inpatient clinic at Zagazig University Hospitals. The sample was composed of 19 nurses who on the job. Three tools were used for data collection: nurses BLZ945 inhibitor characteristics data form, self efficacy scale, and sociotropy autonomy scale. The study result indicated that the psychiatric nurses self efficacy was improved at post educational program, a significant difference was observed between the pre-test and post-test mean scores for the total nurses autonomy and total nurses sociotropy (P<0.05). However the mean score of total Sociotropy autonomy didn’t differ significantly at pre and post educational program (P=0.488), and a highly significant correlation was present between total of self efficacy and total of sociotropy autonomy at pre and post educational program (P<0.05). It was concluded that self awareness education program had a positive effect on the development of self efficacy and sociotropy autonomy characteristics of nurses in a psychiatric clinic. It is recommended that, self awareness education should be applied as continuing education for nurses working in psychiatry clinics and further studies should be carried out with bigger and different sample groups, along with control groups. [Hanem A.