While psychiatrists in the West are reaping the benefits of the surge in drug development during the past 10 years, psychiatrists in Japan are currently treating mental illness with a psychopharmacologic armamentarium that was considered state of the art in the United States in the early 1980s. None of the new generation antidepressants, antianxiety agents, or antipsychotics that have made grea...

The great divide separating industries and companies within an industry is between those who are up shifting to real time supply chains and those who are not. Until today, very few organizations have succeeded in seamlessly integrating all levels of supply chain activities to achieve a quantum leap in business process. The ones that have succeeded are reaping big competitive rewards and offer u...

In this paper, we study N-policy for a finite population Bernoulli feedback queueing model for machine repair problem with degraded failure. The running times of the machines between breakdowns have an exponential distribution. The repair times of the machines are independent and identically distributed random variables. If at any time a machine fails, it is sent to the repairman for repairing,...

Prediction of the production rate of the cutting dimensional stone process is crucial, especially when chain saw machines are used. The cutting dimensional rock process is generally a complex issue with numerous effective factors including variable and unreliable conditions of the rocks and cutting machines. The Group Method of Data Handling (GMDH) type of neural network and Radial Basis Functi...