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Robustness in queueing systems
, 2014 We study the robustness of performance predictions of discrete- time finite-capacity queues by applying the framework of imprecise probabilities. More precisely, we consider the Geo/Geo/1/L model with probabilities of arrival and departure that are no longer fixed, but are allowed to vary within given intervals.
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RIGHT TO THE CAMPSITE: How Dutch Caravan Dwellers Continue their Struggle for Inclusion
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Over the past decade, a growing housing and urban studies literature has engaged with the Lefebvrian concept of the ‘right to the city’. Central to this are rights, laws and grassroots demands. Emerging literature has also focused on the practical side of the right to the city as a set of actions to undo exclusion and dispossession.
Dominic Teodorescu
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STREETS AS STAGES: Traffic Enforcement and the Competition for Cultural Growth in China
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In keeping with China’s desire to build soft power to parallel its economic growth, the policing of city streets has moved to the forefront as a mechanism for moral regulation and improving urban prestige. Under pressure to civilize their citizenry, many Chinese cities have become entrepreneurial cities within a type of cultural growth ...
Gregory Fayard
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HEAVY TRAFFIC ANALYSIS IN QUEUEING SYSTEMS
Studia Universitatis Moldaviae: Stiinte Umanistice, 2008 The traffic intensity is defined in the classical theory of queueing systems as the ratio of the expected service time and the expected interarrival time and is an important measure of the system performance.
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Optimal Booking Policy for Ultrasound Examinations From Antenatal Care With Strategic Idleness
IEEE AccessUltrasound examination is an important medical means to observe the health status and development of the fetus during pregnancy. Due to the unexpected developing risk encountered during pregnancy, the chance of requiring an extra ultrasound examination ...
Yanting Chen +4 more
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract While many African cities, such as Nairobi, fared comparatively well during the pandemic years, urban residents still faced compounded uncertainties and an unequal distribution of burdens that were infrastructurally co‐mediated, for example, within and through place‐specific waterscapes and their socio‐technical infrastructures.
Moritz Kasper +2 more
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Cost Analysis of Queuing System of Postal Office
, 2019 Silvia Ďutková +4 more
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AUGURAL TERRITORIES: On the Prophetic Organizing of the Mid‐range
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In this article I introduce the concept of augural territories to theorize the urbanism that emerged during pandemic lockdowns. I draw on ethnographic research in Madrid to examine how community‐based responses—including mutual aid networks, food pantries and neighbourhood associations—disrupted the spatial and temporal logics of territorial ...
Alberto Corsín Jiménez
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Factors That Motivate Provider Switching: The Patients' Perspective
Health Services Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective To generate evidence regarding the specific critical incidents that prompt patients to switch care providers. Study Setting and Design Building on existing work on customer switching behavior, we applied the critical incident technique (CIT) to the health services research context and analyzed primary data obtained from 555 US‐based ...
Onyi Dillibe +2 more
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