Genetic counseling has long held promise as a means for controlling Tay-Sachs disease, thalassemia, sickle cell anemia, and a host of other untreatable genetic illnesses. This paper reports a study to investigate the long-term viability of genetic counseling as an alternative to searching for a...

This paper evaluates the cost-effectiveness of a specialized geriatric program in a California mental hospital by analyzing the movement of patients into, through, and out of the program. The procedure for modelling the patients' movements between states with a Markov chain is detailed and the...

Process industries share many characteristics because their transformation systems are designed for nondiscrete materials. Hence, the process industries typically are lumped together in a general group and contrasted from the discrete industries as a whole. The result is a poor understanding of...

The conversion of a functional layout into a cellular manufacturing system involves the partitioning of several multiserver work centers. The loss of pooling synergy in this process can be significant, and this paper investigates the impact of several measures to overcome the adverse effects on...