Objective Advancements in medical technology have significantly increased the possibility of successful infertility treatment. Medical interventions in the initial process of pregnancy that intend to increase the chances of pregnancy create the risk of multifetal pregnancies for both mothers and fetuses. Physicians attempt to reduce the numbers of fetuses in order to decrease this risk and guar...

Group testing is a search paradigm where one is given a population S of n elements and an P is a subset of S defective elements and the goal is to determine P by performing tests on subsets of S. In classical group testing a test on a subset Q is a subset of S receives a YES response if [formula: see text] ≥ 1, and a NO response otherwise. In group testing with inhibitors (GTI), identifying the...

This article develops an integrated JIT lot-splitting model for a single supplier and a single buyer. In this model we consider reduction of setup time, and the optimal lot size are obtained due to reduced setup time in the context of joint optimization for both buyer and supplier, under deterministic condition with a single product. Two cases are discussed: Single Delivery (SD) case, and Multi...

familial defective apolipoprotein (apo) b 100 (fdb) causes early-onset coronary heart diseases (chd). it is produced by r3500q mutation of the apob gene resulting in decreased binding of ldl to ldl receptor. we screened the apo b gene for r3500q mutation in 130 hypercholesterolemic patients, among whom 30 patients met criteria of familial hypercholesterolemia (fh). the prevalence of r3500q alle...

this study deals with a two-level supply chain consisting of one manufacturer and one retailer. we consider an integrated production inventory system where the manufacturer processes raw materials in order to deliver finished product with imperfect quality to the retailer, where number of defective product has a uniform distribution. the retailer receives product and conducts a 100% inspection....

Market demand of the  perishable bakery  products are volatile. Hence, demand of such items are random variable. The most appealing demand distribution of such items is lognormal demand distribution. Using historical data, the parameters of lognormal distribution are obtained. But, there is a problem of overestimation or underestimation of the parameters. Fuzzy triangular numbers are used to ov...