The footwear industry’s need for an automatic containment algorithm is becoming increasingly important within the manufacturing process. Irregular containers, such as hides, have many different quality regions and holes that must be taken into account when containment is done because they represent an important cost. Automatic containment processes should be aware of these factors and still per...

Researchers sought to estimate the costs of different types of conflict and containment in the United Kingdom using events from 136 adult acute inpatient psychiatric wards in the United Kingdom and unit costs from a sample of 15 wards. Researchers study sought to obtain and observe actual staff time managing conflict and containment by means of a new method of estimating costs arising from the ...

A vast majority of the EU countries are witnessing a rise in the share of public pharmaceutical spending in the total drugs expenditure. This urges governments to adopt cost containment measures through more stringent norms in their pharmaceutical policies. The aim of this paper is to review the existing pharmaceuticals cost-containment policies in the EU in order to illustrate the complexity o...