Level of Dental Anxiety and Its Role Among Barriers to Habitual Use of Oral Health Care in Adult Finns [PDF]
Dentistry JournalObjectives: The aims were to compare prevalence of high dental anxiety (DA) in 2000, 2011 and 2023, to compare the age- and sex-specific levels of DA, and to study if total, anticipatory, and treatment-related DA have an independent association with the ...
Vesa Pohjola +5 more
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A theoretical epidemiological investigation into the transmission of respiratory infectious diseases during group meals among military personnel based on an individual-based model [PDF]
Frontiers in Public HealthIntroductionWithin military settings, soldiers are arranged to eat together in a self-service manner for every meal. The process of food selection and consumption often leads to close contact amongst individuals, heightening the risk of respiratory ...
Zuiyuan Guo +10 more
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Hate the wait? How social inferences can cause customers who wait longer to buy more
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Waiting is a mundane yet inevitable customer experience. Surprisingly, little research has analyzed the effects of waiting on subsequent customer behavior.
Nira Munichor, Alan D. J. Cooke
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Global Health Action, 2022 Background Long wait times for family planning services are a barrier to high quality care and client satisfaction. Existing literature examining family planning wait times has methodological limitations, as most studies use data collected during exit ...
Caitlin R. Williams +5 more
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Assessing risk in the retail environment during the COVID-19 pandemic
Royal Society Open Science, 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic has caused unprecedented disruption, particularly in retail. Where essential demand cannot be fulfilled online, or where more stringent measures have been relaxed, customers must visit shop premises in person.
C. Budd +3 more
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Analytic and Computational Analysis of GI/Ma,b/c Queueing System
Mathematics, 2022 Bulk-service queueing systems have been widely applied in many areas in real life. While single-server queueing systems work in some cases, multi-servers can efficiently handle most complex applications.
Mohan Chaudhry, Jing Gai
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Interval traffic analysis of multichannel queuing systems
Вестник Самарского государственного технического университета. Серия: Технические науки, 2023 The passage of streaming video traffic through the backbone switch of the communication node is considered. The features of video traffic, which has a pronounced burst character, are analyzed.
Likhttsinder Ya. Likhttsinder +1 more
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Non-existence of bi-infinite geodesics in the exponential corner growth model
Forum of Mathematics, Sigma, 2020 This paper gives a self-contained proof of the non-existence of nontrivial bi-infinite geodesics in directed planar last-passage percolation with exponential weights.
Márton Balázs +2 more
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A survey on queues in machining system: Progress from 2010 to 2017 [PDF]
Yugoslav Journal of Operations Research, 2017 The aim of the present article is to give a historical survey of some important research works related to queues in machining system since 2010. Queues of failed machines in machine repairing problem occur due to the failure of machines at random in the ...
Shekhar C. +3 more
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Computationally Efficient Simulation of Queues: The R Package queuecomputer
Journal of Statistical Software, 2020 Large networks of queueing systems model important real-world systems such as MapReduce clusters, web-servers, hospitals, call centers and airport passenger terminals.
Anthony Ebert +3 more
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