The intersection of deteriorating patients, Early Warning Scores, Rapid Response Teams and new monitoring technology These days, hospitals are treating increasingly complex patients with multiple co-morbidities. At any given time some of these patients may be rapidly deteriorating, for a variety of reasons. Every hospital must have a strategy to identify such patients, and be capable of providi...

Seasonal sedimentation, measured with the aid of artificial marker horizons, was markedly different in deteriorating as compared with stable marshes in the Mississippi River deltaic plain. Deteriorating marshes receive most sediment during storm events, whereas stable marshes receive substantial amounts of sediments during the spring river flood. The deteriorating marshes are accreting at a fas...

In this paper, we consider the slack due-window assignment model and study a single machine scheduling problem of linear time-dependent deteriorating jobs and a deteriorating maintenance activity. The cost for each job consists of four components: earliness, tardiness, window location and window size. The objective is to schedule the jobs and to assign the maintenance activity and due-windows s...

This paper studies the economic-order-quantity model (EOQ) for deteriorating items in two cases (with and without shortages) to evaluate how vendor managed inventory (VMI) affects supply chain. We consider two-level supply chain (single supplier and a single retailer) with one instantaneous deteriorating item. A numerical example and sensitivity analysis are provided to illustrate the effect of...

We consider the following single-machine time-dependent scheduling problem with constraints on the machine availability. There is given a set of independent and deteriorating jobs Jj , 1 ≤ j ≤ n, to be processed on a single machine, starting from time t0 > 0. The processing time pj of job Jj is a proportional function of the starting time Sj of this job, pj = αjSj, where Sj ≥ t0 and deteriorati...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper to develop an inventory model for instantaneous deteriorating items with the consideration of the facts that the deterioration rate can be controlled by using the preservation technology (PT) and the holding cost & demand rate both are linear function of time which was treated as constant in most of the deteriorating inventory model. Design/methodology/approac...