-An inventory model for deteriorating items and shortages with finite production rate and stochastic demand rate is developed when the supplier offers delay period to the retailer for due payment against purchases and the retailer in turn extends the trade credit offer to its customers. This policy of passing on of the credit period is well known as two-level of credit financing. Items in the s...

The purpose of this study was to investigate differences in social characteristics (level of education, working and family status, and criminal record) between heroin addicts, cannabis users and a control group. Additional goal was to explore the possibility of discerning subjects of different addiction status (of both gender) based on their scores on Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ). In...

The aim of this study was to investigate QoL (quality of life) of patients with esophageal cancer in northern Henan province, China, and to accurate evaluate and reflect the relationship between patient characteristics and QoL. In the high risk area of esophageal cancer in the north of Henan province, 735 patients with esophageal cancer were investigated. The Eysenck personality questionnaire (...

Objectives: The aim of this study is to confirm the main hypothesis of this work indicating that impairment of abstract thinking is met with in non psychotic psychiatric patients more than is usually believed. Method: The study group consists of 60 subjects; 20 non psychotic psychiatric patients (1 0 obsessives and 10 conversion), 20 schizophrenic patients and normal subjects. Impaired abstract...

It is known that personality is important in computer-mediated communication (CMC), influencing both how we express ourselves, and how we are perceived. Here we build in two ways on previous work which has used the LIWC text analysis tool to derive language factors relating to personality. First, we investigate whether linguistic factor structure in e-mail is similar to that in weblogs, and how...

in this paper, the study deals with the lead time and setup reduction problem in the vendor-purchaser integrated inventory model. the cost of capital (i.e., opportunity cost) is one of the key factors in making the inventory and investment decisions. lead time is an important element in any inventory system. the proposed model is presents an integrated inventory model with controllable lead tim...

OBJECTIVE The main goal of this research was to investigate the complex relationships among coping styles, personality, burnout, and anxiety using a moderated mediation analysis. METHODS A random cluster sampling procedure was used to select a total of 1274 physicians from two tertiary grade A hospitals in Heilongjiang Province, which is located in northeast China. The Zung Self-Rating Anxiet...