Norm Circles and Critical Realism
Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 56, Issue 2, June 2026.ABSTRACT An increasing number of scholars have employed the critical realist concept of norm circles in empirical research. Norm circles are social structures, composed of human agents, that tend to encourage people to conform with norms. As such, they provide a (partly) structural explanation for social normativity, which in turn plays an important ...
Dave Elder‐Vass, Manuel Heckel
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Simulation of queueing systems with many stations and of queueing networks using copulas
In this paper we will generate queueing systems with c stations where the inter-arrival time and the c service times depend through a c+1 copula C. We will consider two models: first when the customer does not know the order of service times for the free
Ciuiu, Daniel
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Exploration and optimization of a respiratory outpatient triage model during the X disease epidemic: A retrospective observational study. [PDF]
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Redundant packets removal queue-aware congestion avoidance scheme for IoT based healthcare applications. [PDF]
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The influence of demand variability on the performance of a make-to-stock queue [PDF]
Variability, in general, has a deteriorating effect on the performance of stochastic inventory systems. In particular, previous results indicate that demand variability causes a performance degradation in terms of inventory related costs when production ...
F. Karaesmen, Z. Jemai
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A scalable HPC framework for bioinformatics in resource-limited settings: design principles, implementation, and sustainability from the UVRI experience. [PDF]
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The power-series algorithm applied to cyclic polling systems
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Blanc, J.P.C.
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Optimization of tray inventory levels in hospitals from an integral perspective. [PDF]
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