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Peter K Mercure

Robert P Haley, Jr

Shih-Yaw Lai

Michael S Paquette

Sam L Crabtree

Jose J Longoria

Saeed J Siavoshani

Ronald Van Daele

Michael Cook

Susan J Babinec

Thomas H Kalantar

Mark T Bernius

Paul E Cranley

John L Sugden

Andreas Mayer

Herbert Bongartz

Flor A Castillo

Robert B Fletcher

W Chris McDougall

Bettina Rosner

Kristine L Danowski

Larry S Sun

Rudolfo Salmang

Douglas P White

Michelle A Pressler

Jahne Simon

Malcolm W Warren, Ii

Diedre A Strand

Christopher M Jones

Jeff Watkins

Mark S B Felix

Peter R Rony

A method for processing a thermoplastic material that comprises a microwave-sensitive polymeric region, wherein the method includes exposing the microwave-sensitive polymeric region to microwaves; wherein the exposing results in an increase in the temperature of the polymeric region; and processing the thermoplastic material is disclosed.

Use of microwave energy to selectively heat thermoplastic polymer systems

A microwave-sensitive thermoplastic composition that includes a microwave-receptive additive; and a thermoplastic polymer; wherein the microwave-receptive additive is selected from the group consisting of sepiolite clay, molecular sieves formed from ammonium ion salts or hydrogen ion salts, aluminophosphates, silicoaluminophasphates, silicotitanates, organo-modified clays, molecular sieves or zeolites having a caged organic microwave receptive material, and combinations thereof.

Additives for the use of microwave energy to selectively heat thermoplastic polymer systems

A device useful for oral drug delivery device consisting of: (a) a capsule, tablet or pill designed to disperse in the gastrointestinal system; (b) an RFID tag positioned in the capsule, tablet or pill, the RFID tag comprising an antenna; (c) an object selected from the group consisting of a magnet, a ferromagnetic object, a ferrite object and an electromagnetic shielding object positioned within, over or adjacent the antenna of the RFID tag to alter the antenna characteristics of the RFID tag so that if the RFID tag is interrogated before the capsule, tablet or pill disperses in the gastrointestinal system, the response of the RFID tag is sufficiently altered or attenuated to determine that the capsule, tablet or pill has not dispersed in the gastrointestinal system and so that if the RFID tag is interrogated after the capsule, tablet or pill has dispersed in the gastrointestinal system, the object separates from the RFID tag so that the response of the RFID tag is sufficiently detectable to determine that the capsule, tablet or pill has dispersed in the gastrointestinal system. Alternatively, a switch can be used to signal ingestion of the device, and change the response of the device.

Oral drug compliance monitoring using radio frequency identification tags

Methods of synthesizing stable oscillatory chemical systems from chemical systems having at least one output dynamically related to at least one input are provided. The output and input of the chemical system are selected such that a dynamic relation exists between the input/output pair. The chemical pair is then analyzed to determine whether the response of said output to a change in the input is a cumulative response or resilient response. If the input/output response relationship of the selected input/output pair is determined to be resilient, then the methods require connecting a feedback block between said output and said input, said feedback having non-linear dynamics and inverting preaction hysteresis characteristics, or optionally repeating the selection and analysis steps with the different input/output pair until said output exhibits a cumulative response to a change in the input. If the response is determined to be cumulative, the methods require connecting a feedback block between said chemical system output and said chemical system input, said feedback block having non-linear dynamics and inverting Schmitt trigger hysteresis characteristics.

Oscillatory systems and methods of synthesizing same

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