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Queuing Theory Applied in Our Day to Day Life

There are many situations in daily life when a queue is formed. Queuing theory is the mathematical study of waiting lines and it is very useful for analyzing the procedure of queuing of daily life of human being. Queuing theory applies not only in day to day life but also in sequence of computer programming, networks, medical field, banking sectors etc. In this paper, we analyze the basic featu...

How Many Lives were Saved by the Evacuation

It is difficult to know how many fatalities and injuries in an earthquake may have been avoided by a mitigating action because the result without the mitigation can usually not be estimated with a useful reliability. The case of the evacuation before the 1975, M 7.3, Haicheng earthquake offers a rare opportunity to quantitatively estimate the number of casualties saved. We show that the compute...

How American Express Saved $1M in CPU charges

There are many advantages of using code generators, for example, reducing the number of programming hours, thus allowing the SAS users to focus on analysis. Another example, in cases like this, is reducing the cost of CPU. This project was designed with interaction on multiple platforms: Unix, Windows, and Mainframe. It is difficult to synchronize the programs running on these different platfor...

Give us this day our daily germs.

Are we sparing the dirt and spoiling our children's immune systems? The theory that some germs are necessary in developing healthy immune systems is gaining credence as more evidence emerges. It is vital that we find out which germs are needed, when and how, before the increase in diseases attributable to faulty regulation of the immune system (allergies, autoimmunity, inflammatory bowel diseas...