HHS ruling on Plan B introduces new risk for drugmakers

Pathobiology introduces a new category.

HHS Walks the Middle Ground in Final Ruling on Nondiscrimination: Drug Access and Formulary Construction Still Unguided.

HHS walks a middle ground in final nondiscrimination rule.

An Integrated Risk-Based Technique for Project Plan Selection

  Selecting an effective project plan is a significant area in the project management. The present paper introduces a technique to identify the project plan efficient frontier for assessing the alternative project plans and selecting the best plan. The efficient frontier includes two criteria: the project cost and the project time. Besides, the paper presents a scheme to incorporate Directed Ac...

A New Optimization Model for Designing Acceptance Sampling Plan Based on Run Length of Conforming Items

The purpose of this article is to present an optimization model for designing an acceptance sampling plan based on cumulative sum of run length of conforming items. The objective is to minimize the total loss including both the producer and consumer losses. The concept of minimum angle method is applied to consider producer and consumer risks in the optimization model. Also the average number o...

“the effect of risk aversion on the demand for life insurance: the case of iranian life insurance market”

abstract: about 60% of total premium of insurance industry is pertained?to life policies in the world; while the life insurance total premium in iran is less than 6% of total premium in insurance industry in 2008 (sigma, no 3/2009). among the reasons that discourage the life insurance industry is the problem of adverse selection. adverse selection theory describes a situation where the inf...