This paper concerns a dynamic scheduling problem for a queueing system that has two streams of arrivals to innnite capacity buuers and two (non-identical) servers working in parallel. One server can only process jobs from one buuer, whereas the other server can process jobs from either buuer. The service time distribution may depend on the buuer being served and the server providing the service...

This article argues that population policies need to be evaluated from macro and micro perspectives and to consider individual rights. Ecological arguments that are stringent conditions of liberal democracy are assessed against a moral standard. The moral standard is applied to a series of reasons for limiting procreative rights in the cause of sustainability. The focus is directly on legall...

We present a framework for studying the problem of media streaming in technology and cost heterogeneous environments. We first address the problem of efficient streaming in a technologyheterogeneous setting. We employ random linear network coding to simplify the packet selection strategies and alleviate issues such as duplicate packet reception. Then, we study the problem of media streaming fro...

rights reserved. Personal scientiic non-commercial use only for individuals with permission from the authors ([email protected]). Abstract This paper concerns a dynamic scheduling problem for a queueing system that has two streams of arrivals to innnite capacity buuers and two (non-identical) servers working in parallel. One server can only process jobs from one buuer, whereas the other se...

Background: Acupuncture is an indispensable part of traditional Chinese medicine for relief of pain. The purpose of this study was the immediate & latent of low power LASER Ga-Al-As irradiation applied to acupuncture points on experimental pain threshold. Methods: This quasi-experimental study was conducted on seventy adult women ranging from 20 to 40 years old assigned randomly into two groups...