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No Remedy: Injustice and Constrained Citizenship in Indonesia's Plantation Zone
Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This contribution to the special issue examines a constrained version of citizenship in Indonesia's plantation zone. When corporations take hold of village land, residents experience devastating dispossession and a profound sense of injustice, yet they lack effective channels through which to claim rights as citizens or secure remedy from the ...
Tania Murray Li, Pujo Semedi
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Approximate performance measures for a single station two-stage reneging queue
Operations Research Letters, 2020 We study a single station two-stage reneging queue with Poisson arrivals, exponential services, and two levels of exponential reneging behaviors, extending the popular Erlang A model that assumes a constant reneging rate. We derive approximate analytical
K. Sasanuma, Alan Scheller-Wolf
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Optimal Staffing Policy in Commercial Banks Under Seasonal Demand Variation
IEEE Access, 2019 According to evidence from research and practice, the seasonal demand variation exists in the banking sector and significantly affects the commercial bank's operation.
Yuanqiao Chen +3 more
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Is it OK to renege on an offer letter? [PDF]
C&EN Global Enterprise, 2020 When you come to an intersection with a four-way stop, what are the rules of the road where you live? Some drivers’ manuals do not have clear-cut rules but note that common courtesy requires the initial driver to go first. In Wyoming, the manual states in capital letters, “If in doubt, yield to the driver on your right” and “Remember to never insist on
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Indoctrination and Democratic Legitimacy
Philosophy &Public Affairs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT I argue that indoctrination undermines voter competence, and that widespread indoctrination thereby compromises the legitimacy of otherwise free and fair elections. Drawing on recent work in virtue epistemology, I provide an epistemic account of indoctrination according to which one is indoctrinated only if they hold an epistemically impactful
James H. McIntyre
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Journal of Architecture, Art & Humanistic Science, 2020 After the fall of Granada 1492-879 m year, handing the city by most rulers ABI Abdullah Mohamed XII, better known as Abu Abdullah 1460-1527, little to Catholic Kings, Ferdinand II Fernando 11 1452 – 1516 and Isabella Isabel La Catolica 1 first 1469-1504 ...
Rawya AbdElHamed Shafea
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Forgive, Because You Were Forgiven
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Philosophical orthodoxy has it that forgiveness is always discretionary—a gift we are free to extend to those who wrong us, but one that we are never morally required to offer. I dispute this orthodoxy, arguing that forgiveness is sometimes obligatory, even though wrongdoers can never demand or otherwise extract it from us.
Abraham Mathew
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Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Involvement of corporations in international crimes and conflict atrocities, such as crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide, are neither isolated events nor uncommon. Importantly, corporate involvement in atrocity crimes is shaped by conditions in “zones of legal risk” (International Commission of Jurists), where gross human rights ...
Susanne Karstedt +4 more
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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 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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Announcing Delay Information to Improve Service in a Call Center With Repeat Customers
IEEE Access, 2019 We study the model of predicting and announcing delays, including customer satisfaction and repeat the behavior. In a call center, anticipated delays affect the customer behaviors of balking and reneging; we characterize the level of satisfaction with ...
Miao Yu +3 more
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