Depot-holders are women from the community who promote good health practice and use of clinics. They keep a stock of contraceptives and oral rehydration salts to supply other women and are paid some incentives. In 2003, the NGO Service Delivery Program (NSDP) introduced depot-holders in three types of urban area in Bangladesh as a pilot. This evaluation study was carried out to: (a) establish a...

In this paper, we deal with the production and transportation planning of a household appliances manufacturer that has production facilities and central stores for resellers in several sites in Europe. Each store can receive products from all production plants and it is not necessary that all products are produced in all production units. The transport between any two bases is done by trucks. F...

Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) has many applications in real systems, especially distribution and transportation. The optimal determination of vehicle routes impacts increasing economic interests. This research aims to find the solution Pick-up Delivery with Time Windows (VRPPDTW). Targets this problem included reducing distance travel penalties. Three penalties that were considered are a capaci...

The adoption of all-electric vehicles (EVs) has grown rapidly in the transportation industry, particularly for urban parcel deliveries. However, limited driving range EVs and high investment cost establishing charging infrastructures are still holdbacks to routing these EVs. In this paper, we present vehicle problem a mixed fleet conventional (CVs) via intermediate depots as an alternative stra...

We consider the vehicle routing problem with stochastic demands (VRPSD) on tree structured networks with a single depot. The problem we are concerned with in this paper is to find a set of tours for the vehicle with minimum expected length. Every tour begins at the depot, visits a subset of customers and returns to the depot without violating the capacity constraint. Randomized approximation al...

Maritime transportation is one of the most important services in the international trade, especially for international cargo transportation. Literature reviews extract several components of trust and commitment for study. Theoretical foundations are drawn from the commitment-trust theory of relationship marketing to find out the key factor, the relationship result of cooperation. A conceptual m...

BACKGROUND Depot antipsychotic medication is used widely in the treatment and prophylaxis of severe mental illness. AIMS To review the literature on patient and nurse satisfaction with, and attitudes towards, depots. METHOD A systematic search of Medline, Embase, PsycINFO, CINAHL and The Cochrane Library was undertaken, along with citation searches. Studies were selected if satisfaction/att...

AIMS AND METHOD To establish if participants with schizophrenia receiving depot antipsychotics had less insight than similar participants receiving oral atypical antipsychotics.We assessed the difference between these two groups. RESULTS Participants on oral antipsychotics had greater insight than those on depot antipsychotics (ITAQ, P=0.01). In the multiple regression analysis, only receiving ...

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States. Recent studies suggest that pericardial adipose tissue (PCAT) secretes inflammatory factors that contribute to the development of CVD. To better characterize the role of PCAT in the pathogenesis of disease, we performed a large-scale unbiased analysis of the transcriptional differences betwee...