This paper is an extension of Hsu and Hsu (Int J Ind Eng Comput 3(5):939–948, 2012) aiming to determine the optimal order quantity of product batches that contain defective items with percentage nonconforming following a known probability density function. The orders are subject to 100 % screening process at a rate higher than the demand rate. Shortage is backordered, and defective items...

This paper establishes the existence of a solution to the optimality equations in undiscounted semi-Markov decision models with countable state space, under conditions generalizing the hitherto obtained results. In particular, we merely require the existence of a finite set of states in which every pair of states can reach each other via some stationary policy, instead of the traditional and re...

This paper describes our approach to the evolution of enterprise privacy policies and related privacy management ecosystems. We argue that it is important to be able to express enforceable privacy policies, to explicitly manage accountability and to develop the whole privacy infrastructure, rather than just one part of this. In this paper we briefly illustrate our philosophy and vision, present...

This paper extends the two-class monetary growth model by incorporating fiscal activity along the lines of Pasinetti (Cambridge J. Econ. 13, 25–36). Despite this extension, the Cambridge equation is found to be one of long-run equilibria. It is shown that Fiscal policy decreases the accumulation of capital, through an increase in the proportional tax on profits. An inflationary monetary policy ...

During the management of the crisis after the earthquake occurred in Haiti in 12 January 2010, Brazil played an important role on the efforts of humanitarian assistance. Based on bibliography and documents the paper presents the role played by Brazil with the focus on the humanitarian assistance as part of country’ foreign policy as an emerging power to increase the presence into the internatio...

Socio-economic improvement of rural people especially women is one of the challenges in Bangladesh. While integrated farming system is the potential area of working opportunity of the women to improve their socio-economic conditions. Considering this issue, this paper was to examine the improvement of socio-economic status of women with increased participation in so-called “Integrated Farming S...

Agriculture and Rural Development Discussion Papers is an informal series produced by the Agriculture and Rural Development Department of the World Bank. These papers raise concepts and issues for discussion in the broader development community and describe ongoing research and/or implementation experiences from the Bank. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed herein are those...

The maintenance service policy plays a main role to assist any manufacturing organization for safe and available its equipment's and maintenance cost effective. Therefore, we need to estimate the costs of maintenance service policy. The partially step -stress accelerated life test is assumed when the lifetime of test units follows an extension of exponential distribution. Based on Type II censo...

The optimization problem for a stopped Markov decision process is considered to be taken over stopping times constrained so that E 5 for some xed > 0. We introduce the concept of a randomized stationary stopping time which is a mixed extension of the entry time of a stopping region and prove the existence of an optimal constrained pair of stationary policy and stopping time by utilizing a Lagra...

Wireless sensor network concept consist sensor nodes which are developed in the specific area senses and transmit data point to point. Delay constraint is the important point in the WSN. The delay guaranteed scheduling and flow control in WSN. Delay guaranteed are important for delay sensitive applications in WSN, Where data delivery is required in a timely manner e.g packet are send if they do...