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Discrete and Continuous Models and Applied Computational Science, 2022 In this paper, we analyze a multi-server queue with customers impatience and Bernoulli feedback under a variant of multiple vacations. On arrival, a customer decides whether to join or balk the system, based on the observation of the system size as well ...
Amina Angelika Bouchentouf +3 more
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Analysis of the Energy-Performance Tradeoff for Delayed Mobile Offloading
EAI Endorsed Transactions on Energy Web, 2016 Mobile cloud offloading that migrates heavy computation from mobile devices to powerful cloud servers through communication networks can alleviate the hardware limitations of mobile devices for higher performance and energy saving. Different applications
Huaming Wu, Katinka Wolter
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Newly established international branch campuses (IBCs) commence operations without a student body, and even after several years, many institutions fail to grow beyond 500 students. Despite having unique strategic needs, small IBCs are largely overlooked in the higher education literature.
Stephen Wilkins, Joe Hazzam
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Applied Linguistics and the pressing need of the hour
Calidoscópio, 2019 I argue in this paper that Linguistics can ill afford any more not to address the threat posed by burgeoning populist tendencies all over the world, coupled with the alarming spread of fake news and little regard for truth.
Kanavillil Rajagopalan
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Brexit and Its Impact on EU Financial Markets
International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We investigate the impact of Brexit on volatility spillovers across the EU countries. We introduce a Brexit intensity measure that assigns an intensity score reflective of the financial markets' reaction to the events that occurred as Brexit negotiations began to unfold.
Marwan Izzeldin +3 more
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International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences, 2001 The aim of this paper is to treat the analytical solution of the truncated interarrival hyperexponential machine interference queue: H2/M/1/m+Y/m+Y in case of two branches with the following concepts: balking, reneging, state-dependent, spares, and an ...
Ragab Omarah Al-Seedy +1 more
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Lactation, Childrearing, and Gender Justice
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this article, I discuss the significance of early infant feeding choices for the goal of gender justice. Focusing on human lactation practices, I identify Exclusive Gestational Nursing (EGN) as the norm in advanced industrial societies, which creates the expectation and permission for gestators, and only gestators, to nurse children, and ...
Jenny Brown
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Results in Control and Optimization, 2022 The Erlang A model – an M/M/s queue with exponential abandonment – is often used to represent a service system with impatient customers. For this system, the popular square-root staffing rule determines the necessary staffing level to achieve the ...
Katsunobu Sasanuma +2 more
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Moral Economies of Debt Forgiveness and Enforcement in Postcrisis Iceland
Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Who deserves financial relief in times of crisis, and on what grounds? The 2008 collapse of Iceland's banking system prompted state intervention to mitigate household indebtedness, including forbearance, pension withdrawals, repayment adjustments, and debt reductions.
Timothy Heffernan
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Optimality, Scalability, and Reneging in Bandit Learning [PDF]
, 2021 Bandit learning has been widely applied to handle the exploration-exploitation dilemma in sequential decision problems. To solve the dilemma, a large number of bandit algorithms have been proposed.
Liu, Xi
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