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Zouwen, Johannes; Smit, Johannes - In: Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology 40 (2006) 2, pp. 245-258

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A note on a bulk arrivals quorum queuing system with an unreliable server

Tadj, Lotfi; Choudhury, Gautam; Rekab, Kamel - In: International Journal of Applied Management Science 3 (2011) 3, pp. 316-325

This paper considers a service system with bulk service and an unreliable server, generalising the work of Tadj and Choudhury [Applied Mathematics Letters, 22 (2009) 1710-1714]. While Tadj and Choudhury assume single arrivals, we allow arrivals to occur in bulk, which increases the analytical...

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Promoting the growth of high quality goods and the phasing out of shoddy products

Lang, Peter - In: International Journal of Green Economics 5 (2011) 2, pp. 126-132

Conventional economic growth actually measures throughput, not accumulated wealth, as conventional growth measurements do not take account of the short life of goods and the loss to the economy when they are discarded. This article argues that society should be seeking growth in the quality of...

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Fit for the task: the future of the small scale domestic repair and maintenance industry in the UK

Leather, Philip; Rolfe, Susan - In: Construction Management and Economics 15 (1997) 2, pp. 201-212

organizing it. However, the poor reputation of that sector of the building industry dealing with small scale domestic repair and … this phenomenon. It describes the results of a survey of firms operating in the domestic repair and maintenance sector of …

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Technical evaluation of rural biogas installations in Tunisia

Mlaouhi, A.; Thayer, B. Ben; Kesraoui, R.; Depeyre, D. - In: Renewable Energy 9 (1996) 1, pp. 980-983

The aim of this study is a contribution on research-development on renewable energies in agriculture. It is based on enquiry of 28 installations amony fourty. We study the development of biogas installations in rural aeras in north ouest of Tunisia, the technical control, the rate of its success...

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Repair und Do-it-yourself Urbanism in Wien aus Bezirksperspektive

Jonas, Michael; Segert, Astrid - 2019

Wien ein Anwachsen von Do-it-Yourself-Aktivitäten, Repair-Initiativen und -Workshops beobachten, die unter den Begriff … Repair und Do-it-yourself Urbanism gefasst werden können. Auf der Basis umfangreicher empirischer Forschung werden für die … unterschiedlicher Phänomene und Akteure des Repair und Do-it-yourself Urbanism vorgestellt, die einen gesättigten Einblick in die …

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Rescheduling of unrelated parallel machines under machine breakdowns

Arnaout, Jean-Paul; Rabadi, Ghaith - In: International Journal of Applied Management Science 1 (2008) 1, pp. 75-89

In this paper, new repair and rescheduling algorithms are developed for the unrelated parallel machine environment. The … decision maker to easily determine the most appropriate repair/rescheduling rule depending on the performance measure …

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Whole life appraisal of the repair and improvement work costs of Post Office buildings in Japan

Minami, Kazunobu - In: Construction Management and Economics 22 (2004) 3, pp. 311-318

A complete enumerative study was made of the repair and improvement work costs of the 1255 general sorting post offices … annual repair work cost is 665 yen per square metre, and the average annual improvement work cost is 4231 yen per square … metre, which total an average annual cost of 4896 yen per square metre. The repair and improvement work cost reaches an …

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Rescheduling of unrelated parallel machines under machine breakdowns

Arnaout, Jean-Paul; Rabadi, Ghaith - In: International Journal of Applied Management Science 1 (2008) 1, pp. 75-89

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TRANSIENT ANALYSIS OF A MULTI-COMPONENT SYSTEM MODELED BY A GENERAL MARKOV PROCESS

PÉREZ-OCÓN, RAFAEL; MONTORO-CAZORLA, DELIA; … - In: Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research (APJOR) 23 (2006) 03, pp. 311-327

An M-unit system in dynamic environment with operational and repair times following phase-type distributions and …

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