Background Corruption is widespread in Nigeria’s health sector but the reasons why it exists and persists are poorly understood and it is often seen as intractable. We describe a consensus building exercise in which we asked health workers and policy-makers to identify and prioritise feasible responses to corruption in the Nigerian ...

a generalization of the known results in fusion frames and $g$-frames theory to continuous fusion frames which defined by m. h. faroughi and r. ahmadi, is presented in this study. continuous resolution of the identity (cri) is introduced, a new family of cri is constructed, and a number of reconstruction formulas are obtained. also, new results are given on the duality of continuous fusion fram...

There are many evidences that people tend to overweight low-probability events and underweight highprobability events. This risk attitude is generally expressed as an inverse-S shaped weighting function. This paper considers a risk-averse inventory manager who operates a continuous-review inventory system subject to supply disruption risk. Both Zero-Inventory-Order (ZIO) and Non-ZIO policies ar...

Many kinds of reorder point reorder quantity policies with an emergency order, in which we can decide when the expedited order point is reached and then we place an expedited replenishment order, have been presented in earlier contributions. Very few studies on cyclic inventory control with an emergency order, however, have been reported. The purpose of this paper is to establish some analytica...

AIM This project aimed to develop a Diversity Conceptual Model to support the aged care sector to identify diversity characteristics and associated benefits and disadvantages in order to consider greater equity in policy and practice. METHODS A multi-method approach was used to develop the Diversity Conceptual Model using a literature review, organisation-wide consultation using a questionnai...

We consider a continuous-review inventory model for a firm that faces deterministic demand but whose supplier experiences random disruptions. The supplier experiences “wet” and “dry” (operational and disrupted) periods whose durations are exponentially distributed. The firm follows an EOQ-like policy during wet periods but may not place orders during dry periods; any demands occurring during dr...

We consider a variant of the periodic review system with a virtual warehouse that is due to Eppen and Schrage (1981). Depending on the realized pattern of demand during the delivery leadtime, this inventory is dynamically allocated or rationed to each of the retailers. While Eppen and Schrage (1981) assume that all unfilled demand is backordered, we allow some demand to be rejected to keep inve...

Since the enactment of the Antiquities and Monuments Ordinance in 1971 and the establishment of Antiquities and Monuments Office in 1976, the Hong Kong Government has set up several institutions with particular ordinances and schemes for Heritage Conservation. With the set-up of government initiatives, yet the protection of physical and cultural heritage is still limited due to the ambiguity of...

This paper deals with a two-echelon inventory system for a non-repairable item where the system consists of one warehouse and m identical retailers and uses continuous-review (R,Q) ordering policy. To find an effective stocking policy for this system, a mathematical model with the objective of minimizing the total annual inventory investment subject to constraints on the average annual order fr...