OBJECTIVES The aim of this meta-analysis is to investigate to what extent vacation has positive effects on health and well-being, how long such effects endure after work resumption, and how specific vacation activities and experiences affect these relationships. METHODS Based on a systematic literature search (PsycInfo, Medline) and methodological exclusion criteria, in a stepwise approach, 7...

To study whether the chronotype is linked with the sleep characteristics among college going students assessed during college days and vacation days, adult female students at undergraduate level were asked to answer the Hindi/English version of the Munich Chronotype Questionnaire (MCTQ), fill a sleep log, and drinking and feeding logs for three weeks covering college and vacation days. Based on...

This paper deals with the steady state behaviour of an Mx/G/1 queuing system with two different vacation periods under multiple vacation policy, where length of the first vacation is different from the rest of the vacations. We are concerned with the distribution of the queue size at busy period initiation epoch and distribution of the unfinished work. Further, we present a simple transform fre...

This paper studies the N policy M/G/1 queue with server vacations; startup and breakdowns, where arrivals form a compound Poisson process and service times are generally distributed. The server is turned off and takes a vacation whenever the system is empty. If the number of customers waiting in the system at the instant of a vacation completion is less than N, the server will take another vaca...

This paper proposes three wake-up approaches to reduce the battery power consumption for a mobile multimedia handset. These approaches switch the system into the sleep mode when the memory queue for the arriving packets is empty. Depending on the approaches, various wake-up mechanisms are considered. The threshold approach switches on the system when the number of packets in the memory queue is...