BACKGROUND Due to shortage of local donor tissue and unreliable blood supply, free flaps were the mainstay of treatment for tissue defects in the lower leg and foot region, but it requires a qualified microvascular surgeon. Recently, attention has been paid to reverse superficial sural artery flap (RSSAF) and its modifications as a good alternative to pave the way to simple and friendly techni...

In recent years there have been massive inundations of pelagic Sargassum, known as golden tides, on the beaches of the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, and West Africa, causing considerable damage to the local economy and environment. Commercial exploration of this biomass for food, fuel, and pharmaceutical products could fund clean-up and offset the economic impact of these golden tides. This paper ...

This paper considers a newsvendor model for single product to focus on the importance of coordination under demand and supply uncertainties where raw materials are procured from two unreliable suppliers without any emergency resource; main supplier (which is cheaper but more unreliable) prone random disruption and, therefore, it can satisfy all or nothing buyer’s order, while backup expensive l...

This article develops a supply chain coordination model with a single-vendor and a single-buyer. The vendor manufactures the product in lots and delivers to the buyer in equal shipments. However, the vendor’s production process is not perfectly reliable. During a production run, the process may shift from an in-control state to an out-ofcontrol state at any random time and produces some defecti...

Corresponding Author: Yi Lin Graduate Institute of Industrial and Business Management, National Taipei University of Technology, No. 1, Sec. 3, Zhongxiao E. Rd., Taipei City 106, Taiwan E-mail: [email protected] Abstract: This paper mainly focuses on the discussion of the best economic production quantity of process unreliable and defective items reproduce of the production system. In today'...