A courier company approached NICTA to help develop a decision support tool for managing their daily pickup and delivery problem. They take orders from customers throughout the day and have to allocate one of the vehicles of their fleet to best meet the demand. This decision takes into account a number of hard (e.g. a vehicle must have capacity available for a parcel to be transported, a parcel ...

Today, Pakistan stands as the sixth most populous country in the world with a projected population of around 162 million people [1]. Around one-third of these people live below poverty level. There are four provinces that are further divided into districts that make up the local government. With the current devolution of power plan, the district governments have been given funds to manage commu...

OBJECTIVE This study assessed renters' preferences for official smoking policies in their buildings and their practices concerning restricting tobacco smoking in their apartments. DESIGN Renters (n = 301) living in large apartment complexes in a suburb of Minneapolis, Minnesota, completed a mail survey. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES The survey asked about the official smoking policies in place in t...

background despite high immunization rates, hundreds of thousands of poor and underserved children continue to lack their necessary immunizations and are at risk of acquiring a vaccine-preventable disease. local health departments (lhds) and public health clinicians figure prominently in efforts to address this problem.   methods this exploratory research compared ten (10) north carolina lhds w...

background: the increase in the prevalence of cesarean section (c-section) in recent decades has become a public health problem worldwide. studies of cesarean section in order to identify the causes and form policies and interventions to reduce the incidence of this health problem are necessary. this study was conducted with the aim to investigate the causes of c-sections performed at niknafs a...

Are we making the best use of laboratory computer systems? In this first issue of the 1983 volume of the Journal of Automatic Chemistry we can look back on a very successful first year with our new publisher, Taylor & Francis Ltd. Their experience in scientific publishing has been of considerable value to me and the editorial team. We now have a well-produced, accepted and well-presented produc...

Dr. Jung-Gi Im served for five years as the Editor-inchief. As a member of the Board of Directors of the Korean Radiological Society back in the last decade, Dr. Im devoted himself to giving birth to this English journal. In the editorial of the inaugural issue in 2000, Dr. Im pronounced that his editorial policy was to meet global standards and trends in radiology combined with an EastAsian pe...

Transnational ageing presents fundamental challenges to nationally bounded welfare states, which historically have tended to be organised according to a logic of solidarity among nationals and permanent residents of a given state territory. Nonetheless, the Dutch and French governments have taken steps to break this link between solidarity and territorially bounded consumption of welfare, by pr...