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Optimal Vacation Policy for a Manufacturing Facility Using Retrial System

, 2010
We consider a manufacturing system which takes vacation and subjects to breakdown. Items arrive to the production facility according to a compound Poisson process.
Wee Meng Yeo, Xue Ming Yuan
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Owning Home, Finding Belonging: Relational Meanings of Homeownership for Migrant Healthcare Workers in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Migrant healthcare workers in Australia find themselves at the centre of three intersecting concerns, often presented as ‘crises’ in contemporary discourse: the ‘care crisis’, the ‘housing crisis’ and the ‘migration crisis.’ Yet their own perspectives on these issues are rarely foregrounded. This paper explores the role of homeownership in the
Leah Williams Veazey
wiley   +1 more source

Child-Friendly Hospitality as a Service Ecosystem: Insights from Online Family Vacation Narratives

SAGE Open
The aim of this research is to reveal the components of child-friendly hotel experience by analyzing the holiday experiences of families staying in child-friendly hotels through online reviews. Adopting a qualitative case study design, the research draws
Kartal Doğukan Çiki
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Customer impatience in the GI/M(k)/1/N queue with working vacation: Economic and performance analysis

Croatian Operational Research Review
This study investigates a GI/M(k)/1/N queueing system with Bernoulli feedback and multiple working vacation policy. The model incorporates customer impatience and accounts for the retention of reneged customers.
Abdelhak Guendouzi, Allal Saadaoui
doaj   +1 more source

The Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Workforce in Early Childhood Education: Findings From a National Survey of Australian Centre‐Based Services

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Culturally responsive early childhood education (ECE) environments can increase child and family participation, enhance service quality, and improve developmental outcomes for children. Educators from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds contribute to inclusive ECE and are crucial for addressing workforce shortages.
Sene Gide, Linda Harrison, Sandie Wong, Frances Press, Belinda Davis   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Australia's Migration Strategy: An Effective Response to Migrant Worker Exploitation?

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A series of publicised migrant worker injuries and deaths has drawn attention to the issue of migrant worker exploitation (MWE) in Australia. In response, the Australian Government has included ‘Tackling Worker Exploitation’ as a key area of its Migration Strategy which it introduced in 2023. However, it is unclear how effective the Strategy’s
Evelyn Dowling, Alexandra Ridgway
wiley   +1 more source

Intensified Manufactured Non‐Belonging: Working Holiday Makers in Australia During the COVID‐19 Pandemic

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Nations manufacture non‐belonging of temporary migrants through policy frameworks that produce exclusion. This precarity maximises the economic benefit of temporary migrant labour by minimising their political, social and legal rights. In this paper, we examine how non‐belonging targeting Working Holiday Makers (WHMs) is manufactured in ...
Donna James, Alanna Kamp
wiley   +1 more source

Comparison of COVID-19 Sentinel Surveillance and COVID-19 School Absentee Surveillance in Japan

Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology
Background: In Japan, notifiable infectious disease surveillance ended and was replaced by sentinel surveillance following the COVID-19 reclassification in May 2023. Since COVID-19 sentinel surveillance is integrated into seasonal influenza surveillance,
Masaki Tanabe, Shiho Ito, Yasuyuki Hara, Takahiro Ogura, Makoto Ichikawa, Miwa Fukuta, Yoshito Iwade   +6 more
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A working vacation queue with priority customers and vacation interruptions

, 2013
In this paper, we analyse a working vacation queueing model with priority customers where the customer service times follow phase-type distributions. The server serves the customers at a lower rate during a working vacation period than in a non-vacation ...
Goswami, Cosmika, Selvaraju, N.
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Evaluation of therapeutic effects of D‐limonene following orchiopexy in the rat model of cryptorchidism

Animal Models and Experimental Medicine, EarlyView.
D‐limonene supplementation enhances testicular recovery following orchiopexy in a rat model of bilateral cryptorchidism. Treatment with D‐limonene reduces oxidative stress (↓MDA, ↑SOD, ↑GPx, ↑TAC), downregulates pro‐apoptotic proteins (↓TNF‐α, ↓BAX, ↓Caspase‐3), and upregulates anti‐apoptotic Bcl‐2 expression.
Arman Norouzi‐Ghalehbala, Mohammadjavad Rezaei‐Varmaziar, Majid Taati, Ali Soleimanzadeh, Abbas Raisi, Farshid Davoodi, Amir Ali Shahbazfar   +6 more
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