Publications related to Controlled Substances Act

Charge-Selectively Permeable Self-Healing Microcapsules

Microcapsules possessing a selective permeability are well-suited vessels for conducting cell studies or chemical reactions that require selective exchanges of reagents over a prolonged time. Most currently reported microcapsules are single-use delivery ca ...

WILEY2023

Selectively permeable microcapsules

Chuen-Ru Li

Microcapsules are appealing containers for delivering active ingredients, such as drugs and cosmetics, or conducting chemical and biological reactions on a small scale. To control the timing and location of release of these encapsulants, the shells of micr ...

EPFL2023

Heartbeat-enhanced immersive virtual reality to treat complex regional pain syndrome

Olaf Blanke, Marco Solcà, Bruno Herbelin, Andrea Serino, Roberta Ronchi, Javier Bello Ruiz, Thomas Schmidlin

OBJECTIVES: To develop and test a new immersive digital technology for complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) that combines principles from mirror therapy and immersive virtual reality and the latest research from multisensory body processing. METHODS: In t ...

2018

Impact Assessment of Pesticides Applied in Vegetable-Producing Areas in the Saharan Zone : the Case of Burkina Faso

Edouard René Gilbert Lehmann

The present thesis aimed at characterizing the extent of the pesticide contamination and resulting impacts on the environment and the human health in market garden-ing areas in Burkina Faso. Analytical procedures were developed and validated for multi-clas ...

EPFL2017

Emerging risks from ballast water treatment: The run-up to the International Ballast Water Management Convention

Urs von Gunten

Uptake and discharge of ballast water by ocean-going ships contribute to the worldwide spread of aquatic invasive species, with negative impacts on the environment, economies, and public health. The International Ballast Water Management Convention aims at ...

Elsevier2014

Effects of clofibric acid alone and in combination with 17 beta-estradiol on mRNA abundance in primary hepatocytes isolated from rainbow trout

Kristin Schirmer

Clofibric acid (CA) is the active substance of lipid lowering drugs. It is resistant to degradation, polar in nature, and has been found ubiquitously in the aquatic environment. Though CA is classified as a peroxisomal proliferator in rodents and is consid ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2014

Effective Consumption Scheduling for Demand-Side Management in the Smart Grid using Non-Uniform Participation Rate

Karl Aberer, Tri Kurniawan Wijaya, Xin Liu

Periods of peak consumer demand in today’s electricity sector are expensive to satisfy and can be the source of power failures. One possible solution is the use of demand-side management (DSM) applying dynamic pricing mechanisms. However, instead of reduci ...

2013

Occurrence and fate of micropollutants in the Vidy Bay of Lake Geneva, part I: Priority list for environmental risk assessment of pharmaceuticals

Tamar Kohn, Chiara Perazzolo

Pharmaceuticals are substances designed to have a biological effect in humans. Their presence in the environment, especially in surface waters, is of increasing concern because of their potential risk to non-target species. A large number of pharmaceutical ...

Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry Press2010

Gold(III) compounds as anticancer agents: Relevance of gold-protein interactions for their mechanism of action

Paul Joseph Dyson, Christian Hartinger, Angela Casini

Gold(III) compds. constitute an emerging class of biol. active substances, of special interest as potential anticancer agents. During the past decade a no. of structurally diverse gold(III) complexes were reported to be acceptably stable under physiol.-lik ...

2008

Toxicity assessment of the main pesticides used in Costa Rica

Raphael Charles

The impacts of the 30 active substances, most used in Costa Rica (reference year 1998), are evaluated using two models originally developed to support comparative assertions in the context of the life cycle assessment: the multimedia fate, exposure and eff ...

2007

Wastewaters : occurrence of pharmaceutical substances and genotoxicity

The major pathways of human pharmaceuticals into the environment are from their use by individuals either at home or under medical supervision in hospitals, and to a lesser extent by the disposal of unwanted or out of date drugs. The administered pharmaceu ...

EPFL2005

Stability of Ag nanoparticles dispersed in amphiphilic organic matrix

Philippe Buffat, Elena Suvorova Buffat

Nano- and thin-film technologies based on novel systems associating metals particles to polymer matrix open a broad range of different applications. Such composites were found to be more efficient and safe, for instance, in biomedical needs. The Ag/poly(N- ...

2005

Modeling the influence of intermittent rain events on long-term fate and transport of organic air pollutants

The deposition of particles and substances in air is under strong influence of the precipitation patterns of the atmosphere. Most multimedia models, like type III Mackay models, treat rain as a continuous phenomenon. This may cause severe overestimation of ...

2005

Assessing toxic impacts on aquatic ecosystems in life cycle assessment (LCA)

Jérôme Payet

In the last decade, several Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methods for assessing impact of products on living resources have been developed. Beyond the quantified assessments of impacts on living systems, it also checked the feasibility of the impact assessme ...

EPFL2004