The Institute of Medicine identified “timeliness” as one of six key “aims for improvement” in its most recent report on quality. Yet patient delays remain prevalent, resulting in dissatisfaction, adverse clinical consequences, and often, higher costs. This tutorial describes several areas in which patients routinely experience significant and potentially dangerous delays and presents operations...

Overcoming significant technical and human difficulties, Zara recently deployed a new process that relies extensively on sophisticated operations research models to determine each inventory shipment it sends from its two central warehouses to its 1,500 stores worldwide. By taking a retail size-assortment view of a store’s inventory, the model incorporates the link between stock levels and deman...

hot-melt extrusion is one of the most widely applied processing technologies in the plastic, rubber and food industry. today this technology has found its place in the array of pharmaceutical manufacturing operations. melt extrusion process are currently applied in the pharmaceutical field for the manufacture of a variety of dosage forms and formulations such as granules, pellets, tablets, supp...

‎the harmonic index of a connected graph $g$‎, ‎denoted by $h(g)$‎, ‎is‎ ‎defined as $h(g)=sum_{uvin e(g)}frac{2}{d_u+d_v}$‎ ‎where $d_v$ is the degree of a vertex $v$ in g‎. ‎in this paper‎, ‎expressions for the harary indices of the‎ ‎join‎, ‎corona product‎, ‎cartesian product‎, ‎composition and symmetric difference of graphs are‎ ‎derived‎.

Over the last three decades a large number of Operations Research (OR) studies in the context of developing nations have been published. Many of these studies deal with public policy issues. Using OR case studies in the context of Bangladesh health and agriculture sectors, this study investigates the development process of these models and identifies the challenges for implementing the results ...

In this paper we deal with the location of hyperplanes in n{ dimensional normed spaces. If d is a distance measure, our objective is to nd a hyperplane H which minimizes points and d(x m ; H) = min z2H d(x m ; z) is the distance from x m to the hyperplane H. In robust statistics and operations research such an optimal hyperplane is called a median hyperplane. We show that for all distance measu...

a graph of size n is said to be graceful when is possible toassign distinct integers from {0, 1, . . . , n} to its verticesand {|f(u)−f(v)| : uv ∈ e(g)} consists of n integers. inthis paper we present broader families of graceful graphs; these families are obtained via three different operations: the third power of a caterpillar, the symmetric product of g and k2 , and the disjoint :union: of g...

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Cataract surgery is ranked among the most frequent operations, affecting a population over 65 years of age.Its prognosis often favorable, however, there are rare complications including inflammation anterior segment known as Anterior Segment Toxicity Syndrome . majority our patients were men and diabetes appear in almost half all present various symptoms first 24 hours dominated by attack thera...