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Research Poster Presentations
P O S T E R 9 0
Counterfeit Prescription Drugs
Paskualine Rrotani
Faculty Mentor: Professor Alan Zimmerman
Department of Business
As Americans become more dependent on
prescription drugs, drug counterfeiters are seizing
new opportunities to infiltrate the market.
Unfortunately, it is a major challenge for U.S. law
enforcement to control the importation of these
potentially dangerous pharmaceuticals. A U.S.
investigation by the Food and Drug Administration
found that about 88 percent of pharmaceuticals
that are imported from other countries contain
unapproved drugs. Many of these drugs pose
potential health risks. About 200,000 people die
from taking tainted malaria medications each year.
In Nigeria, for example, more than 2,500 have died
from fake vaccinations, according to a report
released by the World Health organization (WHO).
China, Mexico and India are the primary suppliers
of these illicit medications.
Counterfeiting of medications is having a deep effect
on U.S. pharmaceutical companies and is, without
doubts, doing harm on a world wide scale. In Europe,
the Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development (OECD) is doing a major analysis of
the drug counterfeiting issue and is recommending
various measures of how to deal with this matter.
The fight against counterfeited pharmaceuticals will
not be easy and it will take a long effort by the world
community to put an end to this latest curse that
humanity has inflicted on itself.
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P O S T E R 9 2
Eigenmodes of Advection
Diffusion Operators
Ensela Mema
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Andrew Poje
Department of Mathematics
We use Chebyshev spectral methods to numerically
determine the spectrum of the advection-diffusion
operator on bounded domains with Dirichlet
boundary conditions. We show that the long time
behavior of solutions, for large sets of initial
conditions, is dominated by the “gravest”
eigenmode, the mode with the slowest decay rate.