Academic Articles & Research Papers

Postbiotics in Functional Foods: Preparation-Based Characterization, Gut–Brain Axis Interactions, and Translational Perspectives

Postbiotics are defined as preparations of inanimate microorganisms and/or their components that confer a health benefit on the host. Although interest in postbiotics has increased substantially, their translational use in functional foods ...

The geography of coordination

Geographically distributed development creates new questions about how to coordinate multi-site work. In this paper, we present four methods product development organizations used to coordinate their work: functional areas of expertise, pro...

Verifying the X for design framework capabilities in improving user experience evaluation activities

The literature offers methods and tools for user experience (UX) evaluation. Among them, the irMMs-based method exploits mental models related to specific situations of interaction. The literature also proposes frameworks and models to desc...

Innovative Industrial Design

Innovative Industrial Design – Principles and Practices provides a comprehensive and contemporary overview of industrial design, emphasizing the intersection of creativity, technology, and user-centered methodologies. This edited volume exp...

The digitalization of industrial design

The implication of digitalization of industrial design is expounded. After the roles of industrial design in product development process being analyzed, the framework and integration scheme of the digitalization of industrial design are pre...

How integrating industrial design in the product development process impacts on company performance

There is a growing belief that investing in industrial design is beneficial to company performance. This article sheds more light on how and when integrating industrial design in the product development process can enhance a company's compe...

The Roles of Marketing and Industrial Design in Discontinuous New Product Development *

Radical or “discontinuous” products based on new technological breakthroughs are playing an ever‐increasing role in the success of firms. However, little research has been conducted that investigates the roles of marketing and industrial de...

Perceptions of Industrial Design: The “Means” and the “Ends”

It is widely accepted that industrial design can play an important role in the development of innovative products, but integrating design‐thinking into new product development ( NPD ) is a challenge. This is because industrial designers hav...

How to measure consumer's inconsistency in sensory testing?

Consumer sensory testing is the basis for determining directions of product development in the food industry. However, while compliance assessment by trained and expert assessors is well developed, few information is available on testing co...

Should the fashion industry confront the sustainability challenge with 3D prototyping technology

In this paper, coming out of a broader research project on how the digital prototype can be effectively integrated in the product development process of the clothing industry, the authors investigate the relationship between Corporate Socia...

Graph Theory-Based Approach to Accomplish Complete Coverage Path Planning Tasks for Reconfigurable Robots

Extensive studies regarding complete coverage problems have been conducted, but a few tackle scenarios where the mobile robot is equipped with reconfigurable modules. The reconfigurability of these robots creates opportunities to develop ne...

8th International Congress of Society for Ethnopharmacology India – “Ethnopharmacology and Medicinal Plants – Approach towards product development”

Health Technology Assessment

This article describes health technology assessment (HTA) as an evaluation tool that applies systematic methods of inquiry to the generation and use of health technologies and new products. The focus of this article is on the contributions ...

Hackathons as Stepping Stones in Health Care Innovation: Case Study With Systematic Recommendations

BackgroundUntil recently, developing health technologies was time-consuming and expensive, and often involved patients, doctors, and other health care professionals only as passive recipients of the end product. So far, users have been mini...

Identifying Applied Aspects, Medical Fields, and Technological Trends in Developing Future Entrepreneurial Opportunities in Telemedicine

Introduction: Parallel with the growth of technologies, which affect the telemedicine, timely identification of telemedicine entrepreneurial opportunities seems to be necessary for the product development. This study aimed to identify appli...

An updated database of human maximum skin fluxes and epidermal permeability coefficients for drugs, xenobiotics, and other solutes applied as aqueous solutions

The dataset represented in this article is referred to by the review article entitled “Topical drug delivery: history, percutaneous absorption, and product development” (MS Roberts et al., 2021) [1]. The dataset contains maximal flux (Jmax)...

[Medical informatics].

Medical informatics is the discipline concerned with information and information streams in health care. The development of information technology has been intensified in recent years and is now influencing the international development wit...

Designing a Model for Improving Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs)

Business improvement has always been one of the basic issues in the business world. Due to the growing changes in technology, pervasive competition and the changing needs of customers, companies must pay attention to the permanence and impr...

The smartHEALTH European Digital Innovation Hub experiences and challenges for accelerating the transformation of public and private organizations within the innovation ecosystem

Digital innovation can significantly enhance public health services, environmental sustainability, and social welfare. To this end, the European Digital Innovation Hub (EDIH) initiative was funded by the European Commission and national gov...

Information Extraction From FDA Drug Labeling to Enhance Product-Specific Guidance Assessment Using Natural Language Processing

Towards the objectives of the UnitedStates Food and Drug Administration (FDA) generic drug science and research program, it is of vital importance in developing product-specific guidances (PSGs) with recommendations that can facilitate and ...