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Cost-effectiveness evaluations concerning devices for total knee arthroplasty (TKA) have little impact on real-life management of these devices. This study explored how pharmacoeconomic models can inform the procurement of TKA devices to improve their value for money. Our study included three phases: i) literature search for data of outcome, cost, and device type in TKA; ii) development of a Ma...

In this paper, we analyze access traces to a Web proxy, looking at statistical parameters to be used in the design of a replacement policy for documents held in the cache. In the first part of this paper, we present a number of properties of the lifetime and statistics of access to documents, derived from two large trace sets coming from very different proxies and spanning over time intervals o...

This paper presents the effects of salvage value on the optimal age-replacement policy for non-repairable products sold with a renewing free-replacement warranty (RFRW). Cost models from the customer’s perspective are developed for both warranted, and non-warranted products. The corresponding optimal replacement ages are derived such that the long-run expected cost rate is minimized. Under the ...

The use of filter media to adsorb phosphorus (P) from nutrient-rich waters is an effective, simple and low-cost method recover reuse P as inorganic fertiliser replacement. Although it assumed that the saturated can be applied cropland a safe replacement, there presently lack information on replacement value (FRV) such products their negative effects plants soil. Therefore, aims this paper were ...

Due to differences in server capacity, external bandwidth, and client demand, some Web servers value cache hits more than others. Assuming that a shared cache knows the extent to which different servers value hits, it may employ a value-sensitive replacement policy in order to generate maximum aggregate value for servers. We consider both the prediction and value aspects of this problem and int...