Background: Drugs play a strategic role as a health commodity. Thus, the supply chain management of drugs is an important issue to reducing costs and thereby improving patient health. Objective: This study evaluated the status of drug supply chain management and health reform in the pharmaceutical sector of teaching hospitals in Ahvaz, Iran. <strong...

Direct-fired supercritical CO2 power cycles, operating on natural gas or syngas, have been proposed as future energy technologies with 100 % carbon capture at a price competitive existing fossil fuel technologies. Likewise, blue green hydrogen may be used for generation to counter the intermittency of renewable In this work, ignition delay times (IDTs) were measured in high concentration bath o...

This paper estimates the long-run stock price effects of excess inventory using nearly 900 excess inventory announcements made by publicly traded firms during 1990-2002. It examines the stock price effects starting one year before through two years after the excess inventory announcement date. Statistically significant abnormal returns are observed during the year before the announcement and on...

This paper reviews inventory models with multiple supply options and discusses their contribution to supply chain management. After discussing strategic aspects of supplier competition and the role of operational flexibility in global sourcing, inventory models which use several suppliers in order to avoid or reduce the effects of shortage situations are outlined. Further, related inventory pro...

Automation in the drug distribution processes is helpful to pharmacists in creating new clinical services. We have ameliorated the drug inventory control system seamlessly connected with the physician order-entry system. This control system application, named Artima, allows inventory functions to be faster and more efficient in real time. The medicines used in our hospital are automatically fix...

background: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (copd) is usually considered one of the leading causes of death worldwide, so finding proper therapeutic strategies for this disease is of high importance. in this meta-analysis, we reviewed the existing literature on the efficacy and safety of conventional long acting beta agonists (labas) in copd patients. methods: we searched medline and goog...

In financial economics in general the objective function expresses the risk preferences of the decision maker, see for example the mean variance approach in portfolio theory. Only recently in inventory management instead of maximizing expected profit or minimizing expected cost risk-averse objective functions have been used for determining the optimal order quantity. Examples are the exponentia...