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‘I'm Dead!’: Action, Homicide and Denied Catharsis in Early Modern Spanish Drama

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract In early modern Spanish drama, the expression ‘¡Muerto soy!’ (‘I'm dead!’) is commonly used to indicate a literal death or to figuratively express a character's extreme fear or passion. Recent studies, even one collection published under the title of ‘¡Muerto soy!’, have paid scant attention to the phrase in context, a serious omission when ...
Ted Bergman
wiley   +1 more source

Political Naturalisation: Conscripting Transit Citizens in the United Arab Emirates

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Since its formation, the United Arab Emirates has sought to construct a cohesive sense of national identity among its citizens, centred on a system of material and legal privileges granted exclusively to Emirati nationals. A pillar of its nation‐building project was the strict exclusion of foreigners from citizenship and the upholding of a ...
Mira Al Hussein
wiley   +1 more source

Reversal of economic integration: evidence from European Union enlargement

The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Empirical models of trade agreements implicitly assume that withdrawal from a trade agreement has an equal and opposite trade effect as accession (i.e., symmetry). With increasing opposition to international economic cooperation, it becomes urgent to test this assumption.
Hinnerk Gnutzmann, Arevik Gnutzmann‐Mkrtchyan, Tobias Korn   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Performance Analysis of Machine Repair System with Balking, Reneging, Multiple Working Vacations and Two Removable Servers Operating under the Triadic (0,Q,N,M) Policy

, 2020
The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the performance analysis of  machine repair problem with impatient customers. A population size of  operating machines is considered and the failed machines are assumed to be repaired under the multiple ...
Teketel Ketema
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Balking and reneging in a vacation queueing model

Revista Colombiana de Estadística, 1993
We study a single server queueing system in which arrivals follow a compound Poisson process and the service times of customers have exponential distribution. The system is subject to server vacations occuiring randomly in time and in addition the ...
Madan K. C.
doaj  

Medusa: A Novel Stream-Scheduling Scheme for Parallel Video Servers

EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, 2004
Parallel video servers provide highly scalable video-on-demand service for a huge number of clients. The conventional stream-scheduling scheme does not use I/O and network bandwidth efficiently.
Jin Hai, Deng Dafu, Pang Liping
doaj   +1 more source

Promise‐Keeping Reputations in an Investment Game: An Experimental Investigation

International Studies of Economics, Volume 21, Issue 2, Page 92-110, June 2026.
ABSTRACT We design a controlled laboratory experiment to mitigate moral hazard problems in livestream shopping when sellers make promises to buyers. In our experiment, the promise‐keeping reputation mechanism allows sellers to send promises to buyers while buyers can observe the sellers' historical promise‐keeping records. Results demonstrate that bare
Ninghua Du, Qun Zhao
wiley   +1 more source

Reliance as Promise

American Business Law Journal, Volume 63, Issue 2, Page 105-127, Summer 2026.
Abstract In the face of powerful criticism, the “reliance interest” continues to hold an impactful position in judicial and academic treatment of contract damages. And yet, the theoretical foundation of reliance damages for breach of contract remains unsettled.
Yehuda Adar, Efi Zemach
wiley   +1 more source

Hierarchical Citizenship and Racialised Discretion: Police and Consular Officers’ Handling of Capital Cases in Malaysia

The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 226-236, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines the death penalty in Malaysia, where foreign nationals have historically been sentenced to death at a disproportionately high rate. The international community has recognised that foreign defendants are disadvantaged in alien criminal justice systems and made efforts to address this through the United Nation's Vienna ...
Carolyn Hoyle, Lucy Harry
wiley   +1 more source

Positive Technology for Consumer Well‐Being: The Role of Blockchain‐Based Digital Product Passports in Mitigating Consumer Stress

Journal of Consumer Affairs, Volume 60, Issue 2, Summer 2026.
ABSTRACT Consumer stress induced by online luxury market has become a threat to consumer well‐being. This research identifies key stress dimensions on online new and second‐hand luxury platforms by applying natural language processing (NLP) to consumer‐generated texts (Study 1).
Jisu Jang, Jiyun Kang
wiley   +1 more source