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Favoritism in the Public Provision of Goods in Developing Countries [PDF]
Goods are often allocated publically by means of queuing processes in developing countries. In such situations, which group of citizens should a corrupt government official favor? In addition, what should be the basis for this favoritism?
Amitrajeet Batabyal, Peter Nijkamp
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines whether economic growth reduces inequalities in access to water and sanitation across 64 countries over an average period of 13.5 years. Drawing on disaggregated data by income quintiles and rural–urban location, and employing ordinary least squares (OLS), two‐stage least squares (2SLS), and Seemingly Unrelated Regression
Marcos García‐López +2 more
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, 2019 Queuing in a line is a normal phenomenon in today's society. Everyone need to experience on queuing to wait for services from same organization. This had leads to the issue of people losing patient while waiting for too long. There are two types of Queue
Low Ying, Yao
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AI‐Driven Circular Construction Waste Management for Advancing Sustainable Development
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Construction and demolition waste (C&DW) represents up to 40% of global solid waste, posing a significant barrier to achieving circular economy (CE) objectives and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly SDG 11 and SDG 12. However, construction waste management (CWM) systems remain constrained by fragmented data environments ...
Mohamed T. Elnabwy, Pablo Martinez
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Competitive concurrent distributed queuing
, 2001 Distributed queuing is a fundamental problem in distributed computing, arising in a variety of applications. The challenge in designing a distributed queuing algorithm is to minimize message traffic and delay.
Srikanta Tirthapura +2 more
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Data Schema Evolution for the Self‐Adaptive Software Domain: A Systematic Mapping Study
Software: Practice and Experience, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Context Self‐adaptive Software (SaS) is a special category of software systems that enables adaptation at runtime to address new user requirements or changes in its execution environment. This article focuses on a specific category of SaS named SaS2DB, which encompasses systems that require the storage of data in a database. In short, a SaS2DB
Gabriel Nagassaki Campos +4 more
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Modelling and Simulation of Queuing Models through the concept of Petri Nets
Advances in Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence Journal, 2020 In recent years Petri Nets has been in demand due to its visual depiction. Petri Nets are used as an effective method for portraying synchronization, a concurrency between different system activities.
Shadab Siddiqui +2 more
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Concurrent counting is harder than queuing
, 2010 We compare the complexities of two fundamental distributed coordination problems, distributed counting and distributed queuing, in a concurrent setting.
Tirthapura, Srikanta +3 more
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Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Alternative forms of natural resource management are required. Participation of local actors is necessary but not sufficient, for moving away from the conventional top‐down approaches. This paper develops a 5‐point framework for enabling meaningful participation in rural landscape governance.
Anthony S. Fry +2 more
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, 2015 The article collects and organizes literary representations of queuing as experienced in the 80s of the 20th century, analysing – in the context of similar Russian works – “queuing” motives in the prose of Tadeusz Konwicki, Janusz Anderman, Jaroslaw ...
Jakowska, Krystyna
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