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The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.Policy Points The original purpose of the 340B program was to exempt Public Health Service Act funded clinics and state and local public hospitals from the inflationary best‐price component of the recently enacted Medicaid drug rebate program. The secondary purpose was to reduce drug prices for these clinics and hospitals in order to preserve and ...
SAYEH NIKPAY +2 more
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A Balking Queue Approach for Modeling Human-Multi-Robot Interaction for Water Monitoring
, 2017 We consider multi-robot scenarios where robots ask for operator interventions when facing difficulties. As the number of robots increases, the operator quickly becomes a bottleneck for the system.
Masoume M. Raeissi +5 more
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Risk Scenarios for European Rearmament
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the European Union has launched a flurry of initiatives to ramp up European defence spending. Efforts to bolster European defence have further intensified in response to the United States' increasingly hostile stance towards its erstwhile European allies.
Mette Eilstrup‐Sangiovanni
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ComputationThis paper investigates an M/M/1 queueing system with differentiated vacations, threshold-based interruptions, and customer impatience in the form of balking and reneging.
Abdelhak Guendouzi, Fatimah A. Almulhim
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Analysis of a Single Server Queue in a Multi-phase Random Environment with Working Vacations and Customers' Impatience [PDF]
Operations Research and Decisions, 2022 In this paper, we analyze an M / M / 1 queueing system under both single and multiple working vacation policies, multiphase random environment, waiting server, balking and reneging. When the system is in operative phase j = 1, 2, . .
Amina Angelika Bouchentouf +3 more
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Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT At its core, transhumanism is utopic and apocalyptic: it tells us we will be saved through an imminent radical change of our being wrought by radical human enhancement (RHE) technologies. We are rushing, its supporters claim, towards a technological utopia so long as assorted techno‐phobes do not stand in the way.
Benjamin N. Parks
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Equilibrium Customer Strategies in the Geo/Geo/1 Queue with Single Working Vacation
Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, 2014 This paper is concerned with the equilibrium balking strategies of customers in a Geo/Geo/1 queue with single working vacation. Instead of completely stopping service, the server works with a small probability during the working vacation period.
Fang Wang, Jinting Wang, Feng Zhang
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How Bioethicists Can Contribute to Democratic Deliberation
Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT It is sometimes suggested that policymaking on bioethical questions should be more democratic, either through direct popular participation (as in a referendum) or through improved forms of representation (such as random mini‐publics or elected officials). Such proposals seem to leave no special place for input from bioethicists.
Ben Saunders
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Queue Model Simulation of M/M/1 with Retention of Reneged Customers and Balking [PDF]
, 2019 An impatience on customers towards a line can be solved with a queue theory. By this matter, this article gives the queue model simulation of M/M/1 with the retention of reneged customers and balking.
Yanuar, Ferra +2 more
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SIMULASI MODEL ANTREAN M/M/1 DENGAN RETENTION OF RENEGED CUSTOMERS DAN BALKING [PDF]
, 2019 Masalah ketidaksabaran customer dalam antrean dapat dipecahkan de- ngan teori antrean. Oleh karena itu, pada tesis ini dibahas tentang model simulasi antrean M/M/1 dengan retention of reneged customers dan balking.
MICHELIN, WARA.J
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