In this paper a two-state Markovian maintenance process where the true state is unknown will be considered. The operating cost per period is a continuous random variable which depends on the state of the process. If investigation cost is incurred at the beginning of any period, the system wit I be returned to the "in-control" state instantaneously. This problem is solved using the average crite...

Our research explored the social representations of “vegetative state” across different cultural (India, Italy, and UK) milieus (left-leaning, right-leaning, religious/tabloid newspapers). The aim was to discover how public discourse engages liminality between life death. Qualitative quantitative text analyses were conducted on news headlines full-texts from British (n = 300), Indian Italian 30...