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![GettyImages-2155531148 electronic data, ePRO, eCOA]( "eCOA / ePRO")
Empower participants, clinicians, and observers. Enable convenient and accurate outcome reporting, enhancing data quality and study efficiency with electronic patient reported outcomes (ePRO) and electronic clinical outcome assessments (eCOA).
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Clinical trials safety monitoring and reporting is vital to ensure participant safety, data integrity and regulatory compliance.
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![GettyImages-1175279159 powder]( "Onsite Preclinical Services To Support Your Product Development: Powder Micromeritics")
Understanding the fine details of powder properties is crucial in the pharmaceutical industry, where the behavior of particulate matter can affect manufacturability and the efficacy of the final product.
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The MMPX-00002PSM is a passive MMIC (Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit) quadplexer designed to multiplex signals across four distinct frequency bands: DC–6 GHz, 8–10 GHz, 12–14 GHz, and 16–18 GHz.
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Consider the benefits of an integrated operations and project management approach across all phases and regions.
WHITE PAPERS AND CASE STUDIES
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![GettyImages-891264822 planning, meeting]( "Improving Patient Health And Safety: SOPs And Process Mapping")
Improving Patient Health And Safety: SOPs And Process MappingIn this study, a biotech company faced compliance challenges due to inadequate SOPs that lacked detailed process maps. Propharma stepped in to provide a strategy and project plan.
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![patient-voice-mental-health-GettyImages-1975794314]( "Executing Concurrent Decentralized RCTs And RWE At Scale")
Executing Concurrent Decentralized RCTs And RWE At ScaleSee how a team of four managed data for 40 peer-reviewed studies and 200,000 participants.
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![GettyImages-1168921630 drug study]( "Novel Platform For Execution Of Pragmatic Studies Boosts Cancer Trial Efficiency")
Novel Platform For Execution Of Pragmatic Studies Boosts Cancer Trial EfficiencyLearn how Flatiron partnered with Genentech and Foundation Medicine to develop a novel platform for the execution of pragmatic studies.
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![Menlo - switch array]( "Unlocking Endurance With MEMS Technology: Extending Relay Lifespan By 1000x")
Unlocking Endurance With MEMS Technology: Extending Relay Lifespan By 1000xExplore how innovative Ideal Switch technology is setting new benchmarks for reliability and efficiency in semiconductor testing.
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![HOD UV positioned at the outlet of the PW tank]( "Disinfection For Purified Water Loop For Kamada Pharmaceuticals, Israel")
Disinfection For Purified Water Loop For Kamada Pharmaceuticals, IsraelAn Atlantium HOD™ (Hydro-Optic Disinfection) UV system was installed at the outlet of a PW tank to serve as the primary disinfection barrier, with water circulating through the system at 6m³/hr before reaching the points of use.
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![GettyImages-1830042746-pen-document-checkmark-blue-shirt]( "Achieving Excellence In Clinical Research And Quality Management")
Achieving Excellence In Clinical Research And Quality ManagementLotus Clinical Research, founded in 2001, leverages regulatory expertise and digitalization to enhance quality, automate processes, and improve compliance in biopharmaceutical clinical trials.
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![chennai-india]( "Disinfection For Drinking Water Plant In Chennai, India")
Disinfection For Drinking Water Plant In Chennai, IndiaThe Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (CMWSSB) encountered significant challenges in treating high algae loads at its drinking water plant, which processes 1.5 million liters of water daily. The primary issue arose from the organic load in lake water, which, when treated with conventional chlorine disinfectants, resulted in harmful disinfection byproducts (DBPs).
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![Nordson - extruded tubing]( "Innovative Multilayer Extrusion Technology Solves Product Redesign Challenges")
Innovative Multilayer Extrusion Technology Solves Product Redesign ChallengesA multinational medical device company successfully worked to redesign a component used in cardiovascular surgery.
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![Probiotics Capsules GettyImages-1221076951]( "Bend Successfully Rescues Powder-Filled Capsule Program")
Bend Successfully Rescues Powder-Filled Capsule ProgramLearn how to overcome tech transfer challenges and ensure consistent content uniformity by leveraging multidisciplinary expertise and decades of commercial encapsulation experience.
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![240327_BMJ1L8A6473]( "Leveraging Single-Use Solutions To Solve Working Cell Bank Challenges")
Leveraging Single-Use Solutions To Solve Working Cell Bank ChallengesDiscover how custom manifolds enhance allogeneic therapy development from formulation to commercialization by improving process control, scalability, and efficiency.
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![dunea]( "Collaborative Tech: How Dunea Is Boosting Network Visibility And Resilience")
Collaborative Tech: How Dunea Is Boosting Network Visibility And ResilienceIntegrating high-frequency sensor data with digital twins enhances network visibility and accelerates response times. This collaborative approach allows utilities to detect anomalies instantly, optimize maintenance, and simulate operational scenarios to ensure long-term system resilience.
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![miGRATE]( "Enhancing Treatment Capacity With miGRATE™ Technology At Verrado WRF")
Enhancing Treatment Capacity With miGRATE™ Technology At Verrado WRFDue to rapid population growth in its service area, Verrado Water Reclamation Facility (WRF) in Verrado, Arizona faced a challenge. Its existing treatment capacity of 1.54 millions of gallons per day (MGD) had become insufficient to meet the rising demand and comply with both Total Suspended Solids (TSS) and Total Nitrogen (TN) permits.
NEWS
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Enhanc3D Genomics Launches Suite Of 3D Multi-Omics Solutions To Accelerate Drug Development1/14/2025
Enhanc3D Genomics (‘Enhanced’ or ‘the Company’), an innovator in 3D genomics technology, today announced the launch of a suite of integrated multi-omics solutions to accelerate and improve the precision of drug discovery.
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New Land Grant Research Detects Dicamba Damage From The Sky7/9/2025
Drones can now detect subtle soybean canopy damage from dicamba at one ten-thousandth of the herbicide’s label rate — simulating vapor drift — eight days after application.
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Ovarro Opens New Asia Pacific Headquarters8/27/2025
Water technology provider Ovarro has opened a new Asia Pacific headquarters and production facility in Selangor, Malaysia.
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Masdar And Iberdrola Announce €5.2B UK Offshore Wind Deal And Full Energization Of 476MW German Offshore Wind Farm7/10/2025
Masdar, a global clean energy leader, and Iberdrola, one of the world’s largest energy companies, have reached two major milestones with a €5.2B co-investment in the UK’s East Anglia THREE offshore wind farm – the largest offshore wind transaction of the decade – and the full energization of their 476MW Baltic Eagle project in Germany.
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SJW Infrastructure Improvement Progressing At Cambrian Tank Replacement Project5/29/2025
San Jose Water (“SJW” or “the Company”), a wholly owned subsidiary of H2O America, has made meaningful progress on its Cambrian Tank Replacement project, a major investment in the long-term reliability and seismic resilience of the Company’s water system.
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Mixing and Blending
Mixing and blending are terms that have specific meaning in the food industry. Most food processing experts use the word mixing to describe the process of combining wet and dry materials.
Blending is the term used to describe the process of combining only dry ingredients. The term blending is generally reserved for powders, flakes and granules of varying bulk densities and particle size that require gently blending and minimal contact with blender blades.
Agitation is often used synonymously with the term mixing. However, in food processing, agitation is used to ensure the mixing process to get a homogenous mix is completed faster.
Many industries require the mixing of free-flowing powders. The art of mixing involves different dilution geometries (a geometry is a way of combining unequal amounts of fine powders to ensure an equal distribution).
The geometric mix used depends on the size distribution, shape, particle density, composition and internal structures. Other properties include flow ability, bulk density, mixture quality, dustiness and properties of segregation.
Industrial mixers are used to do the blending and mixing. The shape and hardness of the materials being mixed affects the horsepower required to run the mixer. The type of mixer used in a production line varies depending on the materials that need to be mixed or blended. Paddle mixers are often the best choice for production line mixing because they are easy to clean, have less surface area, and have a minimal number of parts.
Mixing and blending is generally a sub-process within an overall process cycle so when placing a mixer it is important to consider how it integrates into the whole system. That includes impacts to both upstream and downstream product handling.