 Imperfect production processes lead to imperfect products and decrease the profit of a business. Improvement in the production process by increasing the investment cost will decrease the defective percentage of items. This study develops an EPQ model with investments on imperfect production processes under limited capital. An algorithm is developed to derive the replenishment and investment p...

Abst rac t : A recent position taken by some mental retardation professionals poses a threat to the major gains made during the last two decades on behalf of mentally retarded persons. Their position holds that a substantial number of currently institutionalized persons are sub-trainable and should be assigned to enriched (institutional) living environments. This article refutes their ill-found...

Millions of chronic mentally sick are living in this country without proper care. Human rights of most of these patients both for treatment and for leading a life of dignity have been seriously abrogated. This oration discusses the extent of the problem & reviews the won\ done in this area in India and abroad. Major emphasis is to develop a programme for destigmatization of mental illness and t...

OBJECTIVES To describe the tobacco industry's relationships with and influence on homeless and mentally ill smokers and organisations providing services to them. METHODS Analysis of internal tobacco industry documents and journal articles. RESULTS The tobacco industry has marketed cigarettes to the homeless and seriously mentally ill, part of its "downscale" market, and has developed relati...

One of these is community care for the mentally disordered (i-e., for the mentally ill, the mentally deficient and the psychopathic); the Mackintosh report, the Royal Commission and the new Rental Health Act all accept this as one of their working principles. \et another theory is that of social work in Local Government as distinct from general welfare duties. This is the keystone of the awe-in...

We evaluated the presence or absence of informative morphogenetic variants in cases with mental retardation compared with mentally healthy subjects. Cases diagnosed with mental retardation were matched by age and sex with control subjects and examined for the presence of informative morphogenetic variants. The aim of the study was to investigate their prevalence and mean number in these subject...