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Migrant Integration Policy Index

open access: yes, 2015
Huddleston, Thomas   +3 more
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Index Policies for the Admission Control and Routing of Impatient Customers to Heterogeneous Service Stations [PDF]

open access: yesOperations Research, 2009
We propose a general Markovian model for the optimal control of admissions and subsequent routing of customers for service provided by a collection of heterogeneous stations. Queue-length information is available to inform all decisions.
C Kirkbride
exaly   +2 more sources

The balance point: Indexing policies

Serials Review, 1992
In this column, indexing and abstracting company representatives discuss several aspects of indexing policy and database selection. Authors were asked to describe the selection of titles and the content of the database and how the database is revised and updated. They also discuss how the subject is defined, how balance, quality, and appropriateness of
Mary Elizabeth Clack   +5 more
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Index Policies for Shooting Problems

Operations Research, 2007
We consider a scenario in which a single Red wishes to shoot at a collection of Blue targets, one at a time, to maximise some measure of return obtained from Blues killed before Red’s own (possible) demise. Such a situation arises in various military contexts, such as the conduct of air defence by Red in the face of Blue SEAD (suppression of enemy air ...
Kevin D. Glazebrook   +4 more
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A Note on the “Economic Policy Uncertainty Index”

Social Indicators Research, 2017
This paper builds upon the renowned media reports-based "Economic policy uncertainty" (EPU) index and analyzes its Granger-causal interrelationships with consumer confidence and aggregate economic activity. Employing a heterogeneous panel Granger causality test on data from 13 world countries, the authors find that: i) the analyzed countries are quite ...
Škrabić Perić, Blanka, Sorić, Petar
openaire   +1 more source

Index policies for the routing of background jobs

Naval Research Logistics (NRL), 2004
AbstractArriving (generic) jobs may be processed at one of several service stations, but only when no other (dedicated) jobs are waiting there. We consider the problem of how to route these incoming background jobs to make best use of the spare service capacity available at the stations.
Glazebrook, K D, Kirkbride, C
openaire   +2 more sources

A pilot index for environmental policy in The Netherlands

Energy Policy, 1998
A pilot environmental index for the Netherlands shows a downward trend of environmental pressure in the last decade. The index measures environmental pressure from the policy perspective and the observed downward trend does not imply that environmental quality has increased.
den Butter, F.A.G.   +1 more
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Optimal myopic policies and index policies for stochastic scheduling problems

ZOR - Methods and Models of Operations Research, 1993
Summary: Stochastic scheduling problems are considered by using discounted dynamic programming. Both, maximizing pure rewards and minimizing linear holding costs are treated in one common Markov decision problem. A sufficient condition for the optimality of the myopic policy for finite and infinite horizon is given.
openaire   +1 more source

Policy Communication Index

2019
Organizational life is subject to both public policies, such as the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act and the Family and Medical Leave Act and private policies. The enactment of various policies in organizational settings can often be challenging for organizational members to understand because of the complex nature of such policies.
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Economic Policy Uncertainty: An Index for Malta

SSRN Electronic Journal
We construct an Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) index for Malta based on the methodology of Baker, Bloom and Davis (2015) using articles published between 2004 and 2022 from four Maltese news portals. The index spikes during general elections and other significant local or international events.
Sant, Kurt, Spiteri, Sarah
openaire   +2 more sources

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