Current issues and future prospects

Majors [13] has compiled the results of his perspectives survey of 14 leading separation scientists with an interest in CEC. As expected, there is a wide divergence in the opinions of these leaders with regard to current issues and future prospects for CEC. However, few underestimated the current technological difficulties of column manufacture, reproducibility of chromatographic and electro-osmotic properties of the packed capillary, and the short-term problems of competing with HPLC or CE, but the majority of scientists interviewed believe that like any new technique, these problems will be overcome and that CEC will become a routine method of analysis in time. 

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The purpose of this overview chapter is to provide perspectives in the current status and future prospects of controlled release drug delivery. This is accomplished by examining various delivery systems from a mechanistic point of view, exploring applications of these systems, and discussing relevant biopharmaceutical parameters. A major section of this book is devoted to fundamental issues and applications of transdermal and transmucosal delivery systems (Chapter 6,8,17-23). Other developing systems of future potential... 

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The chapters in Part II focus on various chnical applications of biotextile products, including details about the different devices, their therapeutic applications, their performance characteristics, current issues and shortcomings, active research emphasis and future prospects. An innovative use of resorbable polymers is in the dehvery of drugs, antimicrobials, growth factors and therapeutic agents. A detailed discussion of this is given in Chapter 9. 

Whether any of the above remedies would resolve the safety issues associated with thermal runaway, especially under conditions of operation and improper charging outside recommended temperature limits remains an open question. An overview of the controversies that have surrounded VRLA batteries and their performance can be gleaned from proceedings of recent INTELEC conferences. VRLA batteries with catalysts and other improvements have not yet been in the field long enough to determine whether the newer designs and additions will indeed prove the solutions to some of the VRLA problems. Controversy is still rampant over the current and future prospects for VRLA batteries in UPS applications. 

But even more than this, there is a need to change the mindset of the systematics community, many of whose members currently see research into such systems as an idiosynaatic diversion from mainsheam systematics or as a threat to the employment prospects of future taxonomists. These are not credible issues. Systematics has suffered, and continues to suffer, from an image of being out of step with a postmodern world that expects such systems to be developed, as they have in many other fields. The ability of systematics and taxonomy to confront and successfully contribute to the resolution of many of the major biological and ecological questions of the twenty-first century would not only benefit from the existence of such systems, but also requires that they exist. The alternative of simply training more systematists to provide the required number of rapid, high-quality and consistent taxonomic identifications is not a realistic option either in principle or in practice. 

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