conclusions retirement is an essential part of the work life cycle. awareness of the factors that influence adjustment to retirement is vital to facilitate this process and to improve the health of retired health care providers. results during data analysis, five themes emerged: “identity threat”, “negative interaction”, “identity reconstruction”, “supporting factors” and “normal life”. in addi...

Consider a machine that can start production off-target where the initial offset is unknown and unobservable. The goal is to determine the optimal series of machine adjustments that minimize the expected value of the sum of quadratic off-target costs and fixed adjustment costs. Apart of the unknown initial offset, the process is supposed to be in a state of statistical control, so the process m...

When a process demonstrates complex cause-and-effect relationships, adjustments are often used, such as automatic control (APC). On the other hand, statistical (SPC) is used to identify causes of abnormality. For example, we use charts for monitoring. However, in with adjustments, careful consideration should be taken toward choosing characteristics abnormalities may go undetected through sole ...

Process adjustment, also known as process targeting, is one of the classical problems in the field of quality control and production economics. In the process adjustment problem, it is assumed that process parameters are variables and the aim is to determine these parameters such that certain economic criteria are optimally satisfied. The aim of this paper is to determine the optimal process ad...