Recycled incomplete identification procedures for blood screening

Recycled incomplete identification procedures for blood screening

The operation of blood bank systems is characterized by two crucial factors: testing procedures and perishability. We propose a new testing procedure that we term Recycled Incomplete Identification Procedure (RIIP). In RIIP, groups of pooled blood units which are found contaminated in a so-called ELISA test are divided into smaller subgroups and again group-tested by ELISA, and so forth, until ...

Group Testing Procedures with Quantitative Features and Incomplete Identification

We present a group testing model for items characterized by marker random variables. An item is defined to be good (bad) if its marker is below (above) a given threshold. The items can be tested in groups; the goal is to obtain a prespecified number of good items by testing them in optimally sized groups. Besides this group size, the controller has to select a threshold value for the group mark...

Tandem queues with impatient customers for blood screening procedures

We study a blood testing procedure for detecting viruses like HIV, HBV and HCV. In this procedure, blood samples go through two screening steps. The first test is ELISA (antibody Enzyme Linked Immuno-Sorbent Assay). The portions of blood which are found not contaminated in this first phase are tested in groups through PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction). The ELISA test is less sensitive than the PC...

Voting procedures with incomplete preferences

We extend the application of a voting procedure (usually defined on complete preference relations over candidates) when the voters’ preferences consist of partial orders. We define possible (resp. necessary) winners for a given partial preference profile R with respect to a given voting procedure as the candidates being the winners in some (resp. all) of the complete extensions of R. We show th...

Procedures for screening chemicals for carcinogenicity.