OBJECTIVE Assess impact and feasibility of a Tobacco-Free Ambassador Program on campus policy compliance. PARTICIPANTS Trained Ambassadors made 253 visits to campus sites over 15 months to observe and/or approach violators. METHODS Policy violators were observed at 23 locations during Wave 1 (April-June 2012) and/or Wave 2 (April-June 2013). For locations with at least 5 visits, average vio...

this paper deals with an i * corresponding author email address:   nventory system with one central warehouse and a number of identical retailers. we consider perishable-on-the-shelf items; that is, all items have a fixed shelf life and start to age on their arrival at the retailers. each retailer faces poisson demand and employs (1, t) inventory policy. although demand n...

There is little doubt that the elderly population of the world is growing. The greatest growth in this segment of society happens to be in the industrialized nations and is becoming a serious public policy issue, which will have a dramatic economic impact. Many approaches to solving this problem have been presented from various perspectives. In the current work, we examine the challenges associ...

We propose two packet merging policies; T-policy and N-policy, during data collections of small sized packets from a large number of sources in order to mitigate the effect of telemetry data traffic. The T-policy and N-policy are to merge small sized packets after a waiting time T and N packet arrivals, respectively. The effect of two packet merging policies on a given network is analyzed in te...

The Research Aim is to design the implementation model of maternal and child health policy in East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. The Research Method is an Analytic Observational with cross sectional design. The total sample of the research is 235 with the technical research of Multistage random sampling by clusters on the islands of Flores, Sumba, Timor (including Sabu and Rote), and the District o...

Abstract In this paper, a repairable system of a monotone process model for a one-component multistate degenerative system with (k + 1) states(k-failure states and one working state) is studied. Also an alternative model, called the Negligible Or Non-Negligible (NONN) repair times introduced by Thangaraj and Rizwan (2001) is incorporated in this model to develop some new repair models. A replac...

ht = g(It−1) , t = 1, 2, . . . . (1) For simplicity of exposition, only deterministic policy rules are considered in this section, that is, policy rules that map each possible information state I for each period t into a single policy choice vector g(I) for period t. An alternative stochastic form would be for each possible information state I for period t to be mapped into a probability distri...