time, cost and quality are considered as the main components in managing each project. previous researches have mainly focused on the time-cost trade-off problems. recently quality is considered as the most important factor in project�s success, which is influenced by time acceleration that is the less time is spent the more success is gained. in time-cost-quality trade-off problems, each act...

WE may approach the topic of Session 3 by asking two different questions. What should (and can) the practicing physician do? What can the patient contribute and how can the physician obtain the patient's cooperation? Aspects of these questions have already been discussed in the course of this symposium. Obviously, the large majority of hypertensive patients, independent of the degree or severit...

The outcome of 19 consecutive children referred with sleep disorders and managed by behavioural methods is described. An 84% success rate is reported, which was maintained at 6 months' follow up. Successful outcome was associated with absence of marital discord and attendance of both parents at treatment sessions.

WE may approach the topic of Session 3 by asking two different questions. What should (and can) the practicing physician do? What can the patient contribute and how can the physician obtain the patient's cooperation? Aspects of these questions have already been discussed in the course of this symposium. Obviously, the large majority of hypertensive patients, independent of the degree or severit...

INSPECTION OF the Hodgkin’s disease (HD) mortality curve (Fig 1) gives cause for satisfaction with the progress of the past 30 years. United States mortality, which remained above 1.8 per 100,000 per year in the 1950s and early 1960s, had decreased to 0.47 by 1994.1 The most recent 5-year survival figure is 81%.2 Whereas HD accounted for 30% of total lymphoma deaths in 1950, it accounted for on...

In this paper, we consider the problem of managing a fleet of trucks with different capacity to serve the requests of different customers that arise randomly over time. Customers make a request by demanding the transportation of a given quantity of goods from an origin to a destination, at a given time. It is well known that these problems arise in the dynamic resource allocation context, where...