Patient's satisfaction level with community pharmacies services in Romania: a questionnaire-based study.

Introduction: The patient satisfaction questionnaires in literature are according to the community pharmacies services in the authors' countries and not all have psychometric reports to support the results. We designed a questionnaire specific to the services of community pharmacies in Romania to evaluate the level of patient satisfaction.

Methods: We carried out a cross-sectional study on voluntary patients.

Investigations on the Degradation Behavior of Processed FeMnSi-xCu Shape Memory Alloys.

A new functional Fe-30Mn-5Si-xCu (x = 1.5 and 2 wt%) biomaterial was obtained from the levitation induction melting process and evaluated as a biodegradable material. The degradation characteristics were assessed in vitro using immersion tests in simulated body fluid (SBF) at 37 ± 1 °C, evaluating mass loss, pH variation that occurred in the solution, open circuit potential (OCP), linear and cyclic potentiometry (LP and CP), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) and nano-FTIR.

Exoskeleton Hand Control by Fractional Order Models.

This paper deals with the fractional order control for the complex systems, hand exoskeleton and sensors, that monitor and control the human behavior. The control laws based on physical significance variables, for fractional order models, with delays or without delays, are proposed and discussed. Lyapunov techniques and the methods that derive from Yakubovici-Kalman-Popov lemma are used and the frequency criterions that ensure asymptotic stability of the closed loop system are inferred.

Low potential manganese ions as efficient electron donors in native anoxygenic bacteria.

Systematic control over molecular driving forces is essential for understanding the natural electron transfer processes as well as for improving the efficiency of the artificial mimics of energy converting enzymes. Oxygen producing photosynthesis uniquely employs manganese ions as rapid electron donors. Introducing this attribute to anoxygenic photosynthesis may identify evolutionary intermediates and provide insights to the energetics of biological water oxidation.