background cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer among women worldwide. organized cervical screening and vaccination against human papilloma virus (hpv) have been successful interventions for prevention of invasive cervical cancer (icc). because of cultural and religious considerations, icc has low incidence in iran and many other muslim countries. there is no organized cervical scre...

background: alcohol dependence (ad) is a major reason for morbidity and visits to emergency medical settings. however, the detection of ad is often difficult or overlooked. this study aimed to develop a brief screening questionnaire in hindi language for detection of ad in an emergency medical setting. methods:  the authors in consultation devised a set of questions related to ad in the hindi l...

Unlike the traditional integrated supplier–buyer coordination model, this research incorporates overlapped delivery and imperfect items into the production–distribution model. This model improves the observable fact that the system might experience shortage during the screening duration and also takes quantity discount into account. This approach has not been discussed in previous integrated su...

The aim of this paper is to numerically investigate a PH/PH/1 inventory model with reneging of customers and finite shortage of items. We assume that arrivals occur according to a phase type renewal process. The associated phase type distribution has representation ( , ) U α . The service times are identically and independently distributed random variables having common phase type distribution ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the screening practices and preparticipation evaluation (PPE) forms used to identify college athletes at risk for the female athlete triad (triad). DESIGN Phone and/or e-mail survey. SETTING National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I universities. PARTICIPANTS All 347 NCAA Division I universities were invited to participate in a survey, with 257 parti...