BACKGROUND Nonadherence with antipsychotic medication is an important clinical and economic problem in the treatment of schizophrenia. This study identified treatment patterns and clinical characteristics that immediately precede the initiation of depot typical antipsychotics in the usual treatment of schizophrenia patients with a recent history of nonadherence with oral antipsychotic regimens....

This paper introduces a novel variant of the cumulative vehicle routing problem (CCVRP) that deals with home health care (HHC) logistics. It includes multiple nonfixed depots and emergency trips from patients to closest depot. The aim is minimize system's delayed latency by satisfying mandatory visit times. Delayed corresponds caregivers' total overtime hours worked while visiting patients. A n...

In this paper, a tabu search heuristic is combined with slope scaling to solve a discrete depot location problem, known as the multicommodity location problem with balancing requirements. Although the uncapacitated version of this problem has already been addressed in the literature, this is not the case for the more challenging capacitated version, where each depot has a fixed and finite capac...

The study aims at investigating chemical speciation, bioavailability and risk assessment of some selected metals in soils around refined petroleum depot using the concentrations as variables to ascertain impacts activities within depot. Surface-soils (0–15 cm) were collected from premises Pipelines Product Marketing Company, Ibadan, Nigeria, while control samples 200 m away location. Electrical...