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Automobile Workshop Queue System Optimization Using Response Surface [PDF]

open access: yesInternational 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   +2 more
doaj  

Queueing with neighbours

open access: yes, 2010
In this paper we study asymptotic behaviour of a growth process generated by a semi-deterministic variant of cooperative sequential adsorption model (CSA). This model can also be viewed as a particular queueing system with local interactions. We show that quite limited randomness of the model still generates a rich collection of possible limiting ...
Scherbakov, V, Volkov, S
openaire   +3 more sources

The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
wiley   +1 more source

South Asian Bodies at British Borders in the 1970s: From the Ugandan Asian ‘Stateless Husbands’ to ‘Virginity Testing’

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article looks at two critical moments in British immigration – the case of the ‘stateless’ Ugandan Asian husbands, whose wives successfully argued for their entry in Britain in 1973 and the ‘virginity test’ performed on Mrs K at Heathrow Airport in 1979.
Antara Datta, Jinal Parekh
wiley   +1 more source

BEYOND ‘BAD DENSITY’ AND TERRITORIAL STIGMA: An Infrastructure Access Lens on Suburban Exclusion

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Segregation and social exclusion in postwar suburban housing estates are typically addressed as problems of residential location. For decades, postwar suburbs in all corners of the world have been targeted as designated sites of punitive urban intervention, grounded in territorial stigma and normative notions of density.
André Klaassen, Greet De Block
wiley   +1 more source

A Qualitative Exploration of Food Insecurity and Institutional Support Among International Students at a Regional Australian University. [PDF]

open access: yesHealth Promot J Austr
ABSTRACT Introduction Food insecurity among international students studying in Australian universities is a growing concern, but limited research has explored their experiences in regional contexts. This study explores food insecurity experiences among international students studying at a regional Australian university, focusing on challenges with food
Leung KM   +5 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

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