this paper discussed the application of information and communication technology (ict) in pharmaceutical product marketing in nigeria. data for the study was obtained from 76 pharmaceutical firms in southwest nigeria which comprised of about 95% of the pharmaceutical companies that were into manufacturing of drugs in nigeria. the categories of firms surveyed include retail pharmacy, combination...

Global and balanced performance measurement in Quality Policy Deployment is a key element of quality management in public Higher Education Institutions (HEI ́s). This paper describes the design of a fuzzy linguistic model for measuring Quality Policy Deployment in a Colombian public HEI. The proposed model integrates Balanced Scorecard (BSC) principles with the theory of fuzzy sets for treatment...

This article critiques the Fuzzy-set Qualitative Analysis (fs/QCA) methodology by examining its applicability in three studies in the field of comparative social policy. In each of these three test cases, I focus on the validity of fuzzy-set’s claimed function – its ability to combine theoretic discourse and evidence analysis. All three studies investigate welfare state reform in the late twent...

Across the world medicines are the ubiquitous technology in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disease. Pharmaceutical policy, as part of national health care policy, is concerned with the provision and use of medicines. Pharmacists are critical to the medicines management process, yet are often largely detached from policy development. Logically, they should inform Government policies ...

information plays a vital role in effective management of any system. with the health management information system (hmis) specific information may be provide to support o the decision makers at various levels of the health system to assist evidence-based decision making. pharmaceutical distributor companies have reported their sales data to moh at monthly intervals. each company should report ...

The application of fuzzy set theory to renewal reward processes is proposed in this paper. The reward is modeled as a fuzzy random variable. A theorem which presents the long-run average fuzzy reward per unit time is stated. A procedure to obtain the best T-age replacement policy with fuzzy cost structure is developed. The original problem is transformed into a nonlinear program in order to eva...

lthough fuzzy set theory and  sheaf theory have been developed and studied independently,  ulrich hohle shows that a large part of fuzzy set  theory  is in fact a subfield of sheaf theory. many authors have studied mathematical structures, in particular, algebraic structures, in both  categories of these generalized (multi)sets. using hohle's idea, we show that for a (universal) algebra $a$, th...