P 2 c bjective: To examine current and future physical therapy (PT) job surplus/shortage rends across the United States. esign: Forecast models and grading methodology previously published for nursing were sed to evaluate individual state PT job shortages from 2008 to 2030. etting: Not applicable. articipants: Not applicable. ethods: The forecast model used to project PT job supply and demand a...

An EOQ (Economic Order Quantity) model for a deteriorating item with quadratic demand pattern and quadratic holding cost and constant deterioration rate is considered in this paper. In addition, shortages and partial backlogging are allowed. It is assumed that the backlogging rate acts as not only a variable, but also depends on the length of the waiting time up to next replenishment during the...

I our prior work on product diffusions in presence of a capacity constraint, we postulated that a firm operating in such an environment should always attempt to fulfill as much of the present demand as is possible with the capacity constraint. In other words, the firm would never have demand backlogged while accumulating inventory. In this note, we derive a sufficient condition for the optimali...

This paper studies dynamic inventory and pricing decisions for a set of substitutable products over a finite planning horizon. We present a general stochastic, price-dependent demand model that unifies many commonly used demand models in the literature. Unsatisfied demands are backlogged. There are linear purchasing, inventory-holding, and backordering costs. The objective is to maximize the to...

An inventory model for deteriorating items with stock and price dependent demand is developed. Holding cost is considered as function of time. Shortages are not allowed. Numerical examples are provided to illustrate the model and sensitivity analysis is also carried out for parameters.