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On closed queueing networks with mixed preemptive resume priority servers. [PDF]

This paper discusses a typical closed queueing network model in which multiple preemptive resume servers are present with different priority structures at each priority node. An algorithm is developed that is applicable for the three-node two-class model
Leemans, Herlinde, Dedene, Guido
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From Tap Water Access to Income‐Generating Work Time: Evidence From Rural China

Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines whether household tap water access affects income‐generating work time among employed rural adults in China. While existing studies have mainly examined the effects of improved water access on employment participation, off‐farm transition and household income, this paper focuses on the intensive margin of labour supply ...
Yiyi Zhao
wiley   +1 more source

Queueing theory and operations management. [PDF]

Management; Theory;
Lambrecht, Marc, Vandaele, Nico
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Optimal Task Allocation Algorithm Based on Queueing Theory for Future Internet Application in Mobile Edge Computing Platform. [PDF]

Sensors (Basel), 2022
Katayama Y, Tachibana T.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Inverted Circuit: Attribution, Answerability, and Accountability in Canadian Health Governance

The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.
Policy Points Canada and the United States have not failed for want of accountability mechanisms in health governance. They have failed because accountability is repeatedly invoked where attribution and answerability are not already standing, so the result is the punishment of visible individuals rather than structural correction.
ALAN H. MENKIS
wiley   +1 more source

Physician-Customized Strategies for Reducing Outpatient Waiting Time in South Korea Using Queueing Theory and Probabilistic Metamodels. [PDF]

Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2022
Lee H, Choi EK, Min KA, Bae E, Lee H, Lee J.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

On the Theory of Queues With Many Servers [PDF]

Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 1955
Kiefer, J., Wolfowitz, Jacob
openaire   +2 more sources

Masculinity, Prostitution, and the Imaginary Northwest in Chinese Travel Writings About Shanxi and Western Inner Mongolia, 1920–1949

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article considers travel writings by metropolitan men in Republican China about Shanxi and western Inner Mongolia as a case study to further explore the transformations and continuities of Chinese masculinities. Drawing upon a range of popular travel narratives, it shows that so‐called “Worn‐Out Shoes (poxie)” – women perceived as ...
Amanda Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

The power-series algorithm applied to cyclic polling systems [PDF]

Polling Systems;Queueing Theory;operations ...
Blanc, J.P.C.
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‘A Fairly Average “White Middle‐Class” Species of Lesbian’: Lorna Gulston, Ireland and the Early Anglophone Lesbian Press, 1965–1980

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the published writings of Lorna Gulston (c. 1932–2023), a hitherto unknown Northern Irish civil servant who wrote many articles for the earliest British lesbian magazines such as Arena Three, Sappho and Sequel. In doing so, the article asks: How did Gulston find her way onto the pages of these pioneering magazines?
Maurice J. Casey
wiley   +1 more source