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Heliyon
November 2023
Department of Mathematics, Amrita School of Physical Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri Campus, 690525, Kerala, India.
This paper analyzes a two-commodity perishable queueing inventory system with random common lifetimes commodity-wise, positive service time, and individual ordering policy. We have considered two types of customers: priority customers and non-priority customers. There is a buffer of finite capacity for the priority customers and a pool with infinite capacity made available for the non-priority customers.
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September 2023
Department of Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
Creating a decision-making environment that promotes sustainable food choices is a priority for both the individual and society. This study aimed at encouraging plant-based menu choices by re-ordering the menu according to the carbon footprint values. The project was conducted in a grab-and-go eatery at a large United States public university, where students could order their meals choosing among different menu options that were customizable with various ingredients.
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April 2023
School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Queen's University, 28 Division Street, Kingston, ON, Canada.
Background: Canada's 24-Hour Movement Guidelines for Adults have shifted the focus from considering movement behaviours (i.e., physical activity, sedentary behaviour, and sleep) separately to a 24-h paradigm, which considers how they are integrated.
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December 2022
Anova Health Institute, Johannesburg.
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic led to a reordering of healthcare priorities. Health resources were turned to the screening and diagnosis of COVID-19, leading to a reduction in tuberculosis (TB) testing and treatment initiation. An innovative model that integrated TB and COVID-19 services was adopted at primary care facilities in Johannesburg Health District, Gauteng.
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March 2023
Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA. Electronic address:
Objectives: Financial risk protection (FRP), or the prevention of medical impoverishment, is a major objective of health systems, particularly in low- and middle-income countries where the extent of out-of-pocket (OOP) health expenditures can be substantial. We sought to develop a method that allows decision makers to explicitly integrate FRP outcomes into their priority-setting activities.
Methods: We used literature review to identify 31 interventions in low- and middle-income countries, each of which provided measures of health outcomes, costs, OOP health expenditures averted, and FRP (proxied by OOP health expenditures averted as a percentage of income), all disaggregated by income quintile.
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