The economic order quantity (EOQ) and the economic production quantity (EPQ) are well-known and commonly used inventory control techniques. The standard results are easy to apply but are based on a number of unrealistic assumptions. One of the assumption is that the demand is normally distributed in any interval. In several practical cases the assumption about independence of successive demands...

Psychiatric rehabilitation contains value-laden concepts that may be unacceptable to certain cultures and many individuals. The concepts of independence and work are examined in a clash between mental health professionals in charge of national policies in psychiatric rehabilitation in Israel and a rehabilitation center for the severely mentally ill within the ultra-orthodox Jewish community. Th...

BACKGROUND Data on the economic burden of head and neck cancers (HNCs) in Germany is scarce. About 16%-28% of these cancers are associated with human papillomavirus (HPV) infection. Therefore, the study reported here aimed to assess the annual costs of HPV-related HNCs incurred by hospitalization, inpatient rehabilitation, and sick leave in Germany in 2008. METHODS A cross-sectional retrospec...

OBJECTIVE To identify risk factors that may predispose California sea lions (Zalophus californianus) to development of cutaneous poxvirus nodules during hospitalization in a rehabilitation center. DESIGN Retrospective case-control study. ANIMALS 90 California sea lions admitted to a rehabilitation center. PROCEDURE Hospital records of 275 stranded California sea lions admitted to the reha...

BACKGROUND Although there have been a number of economic evaluations of cardiac rehabilitation after acute myocardial infarction (AMI), none has considered only low-risk patients or control groups with no rehabilitation at all. METHODS An economic evaluation was included in a randomised controlled trial of patients following uncomplicated AMI. Eligible patients were randomised to return to no...

Seismic rehabilitation provides existing buildings with more resistance to seismic activity, ground motion, or geotechnical failure due to earthquakes. Performance-based rehabilitation is a general concept through which the retrofitting criteria are defined regarding to performance objectives when the structural and nonstructural members are subject to different levels of earthquake hazards. In...

The Winter 2011 special issue of the Journal of Physical Therapy Education reminds us how assistive technologies have helped patients with disabilities gain more independence and improve quality of life. Assistive technology (AT) is defined as “devices and product systems that assist persons with disabilities with the performance of therapy, daily tasks, and activities”1(p59) (see Appendix for ...