Mourning Serial / Service Charges

Single Node Service Provision with Fixed Charges

The service provision problem described in this paper comes from an application of distributed processing in telecommunication networks. The objective is to maximize a service provider's proot from ooering computational based services to customers. The services are built from software applications called subservices. The service provider has limited capacity of some resources and therefore must...

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

"A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" shows many features associated with seventeenth-century metaphysical poetry in general, and with Donne's work in particular. Donne's contemporary, the English writer Izaak Walton, tells us the poem dates from 1611, when Donne, about to travel to France and Germany, wrote for his wife this valediction, or farewell speech. Like most poetry of Donne's time, it ...

[Loss and mourning].

The human being needs ties to grow and develop. When some of these ties are broken a period of great intensity arises that we call mourning. If the loss is radical and definitive, as in the case of death, all of the person's dimensions are affected (the physical, emotional, cognitive, behavioural, social and spiritual dimensions), to such an extent that the person can feel unable to overcome th...

Mourning Dr Welby.

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