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Multiculturalism, Majority Rights and the Established Culture

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent critiques of multiculturalism contend that it is the ethnic or cultural majority in Western democracies that is now most vulnerable to cultural and identity dissolution, thus entitling it to majority rights on much the same grounds that multiculturalists defend minority rights. These critiques follow and perpetuate the binary opposition
Geoffrey Brahm Levey
wiley   +1 more source

Bypassing the Limitations of Algorithmic Management via Out‐of‐App Activities and the Emergence of Opportunistic Agency in the Swedish Gig economy

open access: yesNew Technology, Work and Employment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the limitations of using algorithmic management on gig platforms in the Swedish basic service sector. We critically examine how the behaviour of all three actors in the triangular relationship between worker, platform and client deviated from the logic of app‐based competitive bidding over the allocation of work; each being
David Regin Öborn   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Using Queueing Theory to Increase the Effectiveness of Emergency Department Provider Staffing [PDF]

open access: green, 2006
Linda V. Green   +3 more
openalex   +1 more source

How to talk about crises? Leaders' narrative strategies during the COVID‐19 vaccination campaign in Italy and France

open access: yesPolicy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Defined by threat, urgency, and uncertainty, crises produce opportunities for government leaders to exploit and create meaning around their policy decisions in such unstable circumstances. In narrating their preferred policy solutions, one of the tools governments can use is relying on evidence‐based information.
Laura Mastroianni, Stefania Profeti
wiley   +1 more source

Retrial queuing system MMPP|GI|1 researching by means of the second-order asymptotic analysis method under a heavy load condition

open access: yesИзвестия Томского политехнического университета: Инжиниринг георесурсов, 2019
Retrial queuing systems which are mathematical models of real processes in telecommunication systems are a new developing direction of the queuing theory. However the analytical formulas are obtained only for systems with Poisson arrival process. Most of
Anatoly Nazarov, Ekaterina Fedorova
doaj   +2 more sources

Underload Instabilities in Packet Networkswith Flow Schedulers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
Ajmone Marsan, Marco Giuseppe   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Geometric Distributions in the Theory of Queues

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B: Statistical Methodology, 1959
SUMMARY First a new explanation in probability terms is given for the occurrence of geometric or conditional geometric distributions in some queueing problems. The methods used allow some simple but useful generalizations to be obtained.
openaire   +3 more sources

The Downward Spiral of Legitimacy Erosion: Lessons on Network Governance Failure During the German “Refugee Crisis”

open access: yesPublic Administration Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Organizational legitimacy is essential for effective crisis governance. This study analyzes the rapid erosion of legitimacy faced by the German State Office for Health and Social Affairs (LAGeSo) during the 2015 refugee crisis, triggering cascading failures in public service delivery.
Iris Seidemann   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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