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Does Economic Growth Drive Equitable Water and Sanitation Access? Assessing Inequality Reduction Across 64 Nations

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines whether economic growth reduces inequalities in access to water and sanitation across 64 countries over an average period of 13.5 years. Drawing on disaggregated data by income quintiles and rural–urban location, and employing ordinary least squares (OLS), two‐stage least squares (2SLS), and Seemingly Unrelated Regression
Marcos García‐López, Samara López‐Ruiz, Gabriela Cuadrado‐Quesada   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Automobile Workshop Queue System Optimization Using Response Surface [PDF]

International Journal of Industrial Engineering and Production Research
The automobile workshop queue system has been optimized using various approaches, such as queuing theory, simulation, and probability. The utilization of response surface methodology (RSM) for optimizing automobile workshop queue systems is not yet ...
Welly Sugianto, Reazul Haq Abdul Haq, Mohd Nasrull bin Abdol Rahman   +2 more
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Dynamic weight parameter for the Random Early Detection (RED) in TCP networks

, 2012
This paper presents the Weighted Random Early Detection (WTRED) strategy for congestion handling in TCP networks. WTRED provides an adjustable weight parameter to increase the sensitivity of the average queue size in RED gateways to the changes in the ...
Murray, D., Hamadneh, N., Dixon, M., Cole, P.   +3 more
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AI‐Driven Circular Construction Waste Management for Advancing Sustainable Development

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Construction and demolition waste (C&DW) represents up to 40% of global solid waste, posing a significant barrier to achieving circular economy (CE) objectives and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly SDG 11 and SDG 12. However, construction waste management (CWM) systems remain constrained by fragmented data environments ...
Mohamed T. Elnabwy, Pablo Martinez
wiley   +1 more source

Departure processes from MAP/PH/1 queues

, 1999
A MAP/PH/1 queue is a queue having a Markov arrival process (MAP), and a single server with phase-type (PH -type) distributed service time. This thesis considers the departure process from these type of queues.
Green, David Anthony
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Data Schema Evolution for the Self‐Adaptive Software Domain: A Systematic Mapping Study

Software: Practice and Experience, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Context Self‐adaptive Software (SaS) is a special category of software systems that enables adaptation at runtime to address new user requirements or changes in its execution environment. This article focuses on a specific category of SaS named SaS2DB, which encompasses systems that require the storage of data in a database. In short, a SaS2DB
Gabriel Nagassaki Campos, Fernando Rodrigues de Moraes, Nathalia Rodrigues de Almeida, Daniel de Almeida, Frank José Affonso   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Leverage Points for Meaningful Participation: A 5‐Point Framework From a Rural South African Landscape

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Alternative forms of natural resource management are required. Participation of local actors is necessary but not sufficient, for moving away from the conventional top‐down approaches. This paper develops a 5‐point framework for enabling meaningful participation in rural landscape governance.
Anthony S. Fry, Jai K. Clifford‐Holmes, Carolyn G. Palmer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A matrix-geometric solution for the multiserver nonpreemptive priority queueing model with mixed priorities. [PDF]

This paper describes the analysis of multiserver queues with nonpreemptive mixed priorities. Such priority structures occur, for example, in initiator settings within the mainframe operating system MVS: job classes have to be assigned to initiators and ...
Leemans, Herlinde, Dedene, Guido
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Thai Translation and Validation of Chronic Rhinosinusitis‐Patient Reported Outcome (CRS‐PRO)

World Journal of Otorhinolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives The Chronic Rhinosinusitis Patient‐Reported Outcome (CRS‐PRO) questionnaire was recently developed for use in chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) patients. This instrument was developed using current diagnostic criteria. This study aimed to translate and validate CRS‐PRO for Thai CRS patients.
Wirach Chitsuthipakorn, Vorachai Pooldum, Juthaporn Phetpong, Saranath Lawpoolsri, Dichapong Kanjanawasee, Patlada Kowatanamongkon, Kittichai Mongkolkul, Kachorn Seresirikachorn, Kornkiat Snidvongs   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluation of Skip the Queue Intervention Implemented to Reduce Patient Waiting Times at an Outpatient Pharmacy of a Tertiary Hospital in Gauteng Province, South Africa

Proceedings
Background: Long waiting times have a negative impact on patients, including loss of income, reduced medication adherence, the risk of drug resistance, and deterioration of their health [...]
Nkekolo Maifo, Manimbulu Nlooto, Rajesh Vagiri   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source