This paper discusses a production-inventory system under random machine breakdown. Holding safety stock is the common way to mitigate effect of breakdown on shortages that may occur during repair time. Since holding can be costly, especially for expensive products, this investigates an alternative strategy in which it assumed production manager purchase same products from supplier order meet de...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of a rural clinical placement on students' self-perceived clinical skills and work location choice post-graduation. METHODS A one month rural placement program was introduced in 2008-2009 for 4(th) year dental undergraduates. Student's views on the rural exercise were collected by pre and post self-completion questionnaires, which were distributed to ru...

<p style='text-indent:20px;'>We address the problem of finding <inline-formula><tex-math id="M1">\begin{document}$ K $\end{document}</tex-math></inline-formula> best Zero-Inventory-Ordering (ZIO) policies an Economic Lot-Sizing Problem (ELSP) with id="M2">\begin{document}$ n time periods. To this end, we initially focus on devising efficient algorithm to determi...

BACKGROUND Originally a binary classifier, Lot Quality Assurance Sampling (LQAS) has proven to be a useful tool for classification of the prevalence of Schistosoma mansoni into multiple categories (≤10%, >10 and <50%, ≥50%), and semi-curtailed sampling has been shown to effectively reduce the number of observations needed to reach a decision. To date the statistical underpinnings for Multiple C...