Although there is ample support for the causal link between home visit parenting programs and child development outcomes, few studies have explored what it is that drives this relationship – to what extent home visit programs are implemented as designed in terms of the content and strategies...

In this article, an imperfect vendor-buyer inventory system with stochastic demand, process quality control and learning in production is investigated. It is assumed that there are learning in production and investment for process quality improvement at the vendor’s end, and lot-size dependent...

This paper investigates a single-vendor single-buyer integrated production-inventory model with stochastic demand and imperfect production process. It is assumed that there is an inspection activity on the part of the buyer with a fixed screening rate greater than the demand rate. The vendor...

This study identifies some of the critical service encounters that the outpatients undergo in a health care facility and investigates whether the service encounter related process quality as perceived by the patients leads to patient satisfaction, repeat visit, and recommendation intentions....