'Section 47'.

Doctors and compulsory procedures: Section 47 of the National Assistance Act 1948.

There are several compulsory procedures which doctors may use in dealing with their patients. The best known is the Mental Health Act 1959 and information on its use is collected routinely and published annually.' Regional health authorities can also supply information from their statistics departments. There have been many comments about the workings of the Act from those concerned with runnin...

The ethics of compulsory removal under section 47 of the 1948 National Assistance Act.

Orders for removal under Section 47 of the 1948 National Assistance Act are little discussed. However, they involve severe infringements of the civil liberties of those affected. It is argued that all previously presented justifications for the use of these orders fail. Repeal of the act is called for. The Law Commission has drafted alternative legislation, but this has not been enacted. Until ...

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Section] Section] Section] Section] Section] Section] Section] Section] Section] Section] 0 Estimating Performance Measures in Stochastic Cyclic Schedules

This paper reviews a cyclic scheduling model of repetitive manufacturing environments consisting of exible machines and multi-stage jobs. We explicitly model two system performance measures, throughput and ow time, while incorporating variability arising from uncertainty in operation processing times. We present an iterative approximation scheme to estimate the two moment behavior of our perfor...