We investigated associations between personality dimensions assessed via the Five-Factor Model and change in negative mood and confirmation of affective expectations, and the mediating role of perceived vacation-related stress in these associations. The sample consisted of 100 employees participating in their annual planned vacation assessed at entrance and checkout after spending one week at a...

As processor power density increases, thermal and power control becomes critical for packet processing. Network applications feature ON/OFF execution pattern, which causes frequent temperature and power consumption changes in the processor. In this paper, we propose a novel power aware thermal management algorithm, which achieves power saving in multicore processors by employing a vacation sche...

In many industrial situations, machines are subjected to random breakdowns. In this paper, we consider the asynchronous vacation policy for the multi-server machine repair problem with server breakdown and two types of spares. According to this policy, when a certain number of servers become idle at a service completion instant, the servers will take an asynchronous vacation of random length to...

Besides dealing with high workload, being a teacher is challenging with respect to the social context. There is increasing evidence that adverse social job characteristics challenge sleep quality. The current study tests whether restraint sleep quality (defined as worse sleep quality before than during vacation) is related to time-related job stressors, job resources, and social job characteris...

PURPOSE To evaluate possible seasonal variations in myopia progression and ocular elongation in school children. METHODS Seventy-one children who were enrolled in a clinical trial of bifocals were examined every 6 months for 30 months. Three 6-month intervals ("winters") included none of the summer vacation from school, and two intervals ("summers") included all of the summer vacation. Myopia...

A multiple optional vacation policy for the unreliable server batch arrival queueing system with essential and multi optional services under N-policy is investigated. According to vacation policy, the server takes an essential phase of vacation after the completion of service of an individual customer when queue becomes empty. On returning from the vacation, if the server finds the queue empty,...

BACKGROUND Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is a common side effect in patients who receive intravenous sedation infusion. In routine care, after starting sedation infusion for patients who receive mechanical ventilation, interruption of sedation starts without protocol. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of daily sedation vacation protocol on the incidence of VAP in mechanically vent...

Consider a single server fixed batch service queueing system under multiple vacation with a possibility of negative arrival in which the arrival rate λ follows a Poisson process, the service time follows an exponential distribution with parameter μ. Further we assume a negative arrival rate occur at the rate of ν which follows a Poisson process and the length of time the server in vacation foll...

In this contribution we investigate discrete-time queueing systems with vacations. A framework is constructed that allows for studying numerous different vacation systems, including a.o. classical vacation systems like the exhaustive and limited vacation systems as well as queueing systems with service interruptions. Using a probability generating functions approach, we obtain steady-state perf...