Mix and match approach

The primary objective of this report is a mix and match approach towards innovative classes of multifunctional nanostructured composites and hybrid materials. Such materials are expected to stimulate evolutionary advances and revolutionary breakthroughs in emerging key technology areas. 

Compared to dendrimers, the size (from nanoscale up to microscale), shape (from spherical to rod-like), and structure of dendrons can be engineered more extensively. This structural/morphological flexibility of the materials has allowed for a library of hundreds of dendrons to be synthesized.[14] Some of the unique examples include Janus dendron hybrids and asymmetrically dendronized complexes that have been created via a mix-and-match approach of several dendron scaffolds with different architecture and topology.[14,ll,16]... 

Second, this fitting demonstrates the highly modular nature of upper-limb prosthetics today— components from many different manufacturers were used in a mix-and-match approach to obtain the most functional set of prostheses for the user. 

Treatments of Alzheimer s disease in the future will likely involve multiple pharmacology approaches with mixing and matching different mechanisms of therapeutic action. True or False. 

Fig. 9 Two alternative designs for a dendritic nanodevice cancer therapeutic. Configuration 1 is a therapeutic agent built around a single dendrimer molecule (70 A in diameter). Configuration 2 is a cluster reagent where multiple dendrimers are clustered together, each providing a different functional unit (approx. 200 A in diameter). The advantage to this latter approach is that functional units can be mixed and matched in a combinatory method to address almost any type of cancer. (From Ref., 2001 Kluwer Academic Publishers.)...

Although the company reported that there was an improvement in sales of about 20% a few months after the installation, it is imperative to understand the contribution of the system towards the overall sales. In order to identify the sales improvement due to the cross-selling function of the system, three-month point-of-sale (POS) data after the installation were collected to evaluate the impact of the system on sales performance. As customers were not interviewed or asked whether or not the purchase was influenced by the system, an alternative approach was adopted POS data were screened and those data recommended by the system for mixing and matching the detected items by the antenna within 30 minutes were counted as a successful application of the system. In Fig. 10.10, the total sales (ordinary sales and those initiated by the system) of the first three months after the installation are shown. The blue curve indicates the weekly change in total sales quantity and the pink curve provides the sold items which... 

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