Pediatric hospitalists continue to search for ways to provide the safest and highest quality of care for our patients. We all want to recognize the deteriorating patient and bring additional resources to the patient or the patient to the resources. Pediatric Early Warning Systems (PEWS) have been developed, and some even validated, as tools to quickly identify the deteriorating hospitalized ped...

Bridge management systems have become increasingly sophisticated over the past decade and provide valuable information about the structural condition of all bridges in the national database. At the same time, reliability methods have gained increasing prominence and are used to forecast life-cycle performance over many decades of structural life. Such reliability analyses need to be updated bas...

With the aim of tracking the deteriorating process of a specific individual multi-state system consisting of more than one multi-state component, a dynamic reliability assessment method which can utilize systemlevel observation history to dynamically update the reliability function of multi-state degraded systems is developed in this paper. The current and future state probabilities of componen...

A deterministic inventory model with two levels of storage (own warehouse and rented warehouse) with non-instantaneous deteriorating items is studied. The supplier offers the retailer a trade credit period to settle the amount. Different scenarios based on the deterioration and the trade credit period have been considered. In this article, we have framed two models considering single warehouse ...

The proposed study considers both product deterioration and production process deterioration in a traditional Economical Production Quantity model. In this model, backlog and rework process are also taken into consideration while the production process is assumed to be imperfect. Unserviceable products will be manufactured as a result. Unserviceable products are kept in storage until the end of...

Supply chain management is concerned with the flow of material and information linking across suppliers & users. The coordination among processes plays vital role when different types of products are moving from many suppliers to number of buyers and it turns into more difficult phase when products are deteriorating in nature. Current study employs the same bases to develop a model, where deter...

While the development and application of inventory control models of deterioration products is one of the main concerns of researchers and practitioners, most studies done in this field have focused on inventory models under fixed supply lead time assumption. In this paper, at first we study researches done in inventory control of deteriorating items and classify them based on modeling approach...