‘Working with pain’ beliefs and practices The ‘working with pain’ approach to the care and support of women during labour was developed as part of a masters degree.1 As a result of an extensive literature search on pain, drawing on multi-disciplinary discourses and undertaking semi-structured interviews with midwives, it was found that attitudes to pain in labour could be separated into two par...

In this paper, a newsboy model is developed under uniformly distributed lead-time and demand that is an appropriate assumption in obtaining optimal relief inventory of humanitarian disasters. It is noteworthy that limited historical data are in hand on relief operations. Hence, analytical and approximate solutions for optimal relief order quan­tity were derived. The effect of lead-time uncertai...

microstructural evolutions of twinning induced plasticity (twip) steel during tensile straining wereinvestigated by in situ sem observations. the results indicated that slip lines and mechanical twins aswell as surface relief were increased with increasing strain, resulting in a stepped surface. additionally,these deformation mechanisms could change the shape of each grain via shear and rotatio...

The coordination problem of relief items’ distribution operations is essential in humanitarian relief chains. If the coordination is proper, it will improve the response phase to the crisis. In order to improve the coordination in humanitarian relief chains, distribution and warehousing operations of relief items were outsourced to the third-party logistics. In this paper, the procurement-distr...