OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of a rural clinical placement on students' self-perceived clinical skills and work location choice post-graduation. METHODS A one month rural placement program was introduced in 2008-2009 for 4(th) year dental undergraduates. Student's views on the rural exercise were collected by pre and post self-completion questionnaires, which were distributed to ru...

<p style='text-indent:20px;'>We address the problem of finding <inline-formula><tex-math id="M1">\begin{document}$ K $\end{document}</tex-math></inline-formula> best Zero-Inventory-Ordering (ZIO) policies an Economic Lot-Sizing Problem (ELSP) with id="M2">\begin{document}$ n time periods. To this end, we initially focus on devising efficient algorithm to determi...

BACKGROUND Originally a binary classifier, Lot Quality Assurance Sampling (LQAS) has proven to be a useful tool for classification of the prevalence of Schistosoma mansoni into multiple categories (≤10%, >10 and <50%, ≥50%), and semi-curtailed sampling has been shown to effectively reduce the number of observations needed to reach a decision. To date the statistical underpinnings for Multiple C...

Fulfillment on demand is one of the problems uncertainty that usually afflicts a company because raw materials and products are expected to be obtained at right place time relatively low cost. PT XYZ companies located in Bogor with process processing mining form gold ore as main mineral silver secondary its operations requires some supporting spare parts hauling equipment machinery, which cone ...