Block scheduling in practice: An optimal decomposition strategy for nonidentical operating rooms
Abstract We develop and implement a Master Surgery Schedule for a real‐life hospital, assigning operating room (OR) time to surgical specialties over a multi‐week horizon. Through action research, we identify a critical operational challenge: the issue of split blocks. Split blocks allow two specialties to share an OR on the same day—one in the morning,
Vincent J. J. van Ham +2 more
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Abstract Aims Little is known about how the alignment between daily behaviours, such as physical activity and eating, and chronotype relates to glucose metabolism. We investigated whether alignment of physical activity and meal timing with chronotype was associated with glycaemic parameters and with prediabetes or type 2 diabetes (T2DM).
Marvin Y. Chong +12 more
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Abstract This article measures the cost of the early modern consumer revolution through a quantitative analysis of product and process innovations in Amsterdam and examines their variegated social impact in two distinct datasets of probate inventories.
Bas Spliet, Anne E. C. McCants
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Felons’ chattels and English living standards in the later fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
Abstract The later fourteenth and fifteenth centuries have long occupied an intriguing and contested place in discussions of England's long‐run economic development. One key issue around which debate has coalesced is the living standards of the population as a whole and of different groups within it. We contribute to this debate by bringing forward new
Chris Briggs +4 more
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TTTday window: Intra-week work stress in financial employees' cardiovascular biomarker trajectories. [PDF]
Zhao Y, Li C, Wei J.
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Spanish stock returns, growth, and inflation, 1900–2020
Abstract This paper studies equity returns in the Madrid Stock Exchange and their connections with the macroeconomy from the emergence of a stock market around 1900 to its ‘big bang’ at the turn of the twenty‐first century. Using high‐quality data from primary sources and the methodology of the modern IBEX35 (published since 1987), we constructed an ...
Stefano Battilossi +2 more
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“The Growth of Interest”. Richard Wollheim on F. H. Bradley's Moral Psychology
Abstract This paper aims to reconstruct two key stages of Richard Wollheim's engagement with the moral psychology of F. H. Bradley—first in his 1959/1969 book on Bradley, and later in his 1993 collection of essays, The Mind and its Depths—and to connect them to Wollheim's own account of a dynamic moral psychology, as detailed in The Thread of Life ...
Paolo Babbiotti
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A Case for Contingent Absurdity
Abstract A popular view on existential absurdity holds that if life is absurd, it must be inescapably so. In opposition to this view, I argue that the concept of existential absurdity allows for life to be contingently absurd. In Nausea (1938) and Being and Nothingness (1943), Jean‐Paul Sartre puts forward two distinct conceptions of an absurd life ...
Thom Hamer
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Monday effect and institutional holdings on tourism stocks: the Taiwan Security Exchange Evidence [PDF]
Chi-Ming Ho, Li-Min Chuang, Chih-Hao Kuo
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Association between weekday of surgery and length of hospital stay among patients undergoing primary total knee arthroplasty in Singapore: a secondary analysis based on a retrospective cohort study. [PDF]
Liu Y, Xu G, He Z, Chen Q.
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