Although vacation from work provides a valuable opportunity for recovery, few studies have met the requirements for assessing its effects. These include taking measurements well ahead of the vacation, during the vacation and at several points in time afterwards. Our study on vacation (after ) effects focused on two related questions: (1) Do health and well being of working individuals improve d...

In this paper we deal with an M/G/1 vacation system with the sojourn time (wait plus service) limit and two typical vacation rules, i.e. multiple and single vacation rules. Using the level crossing approach, explicit expressions for the steady-state distributions of the virtual waiting times are obtained in vacation systems with exponential and constant service times, a general vacation time, a...

On the basis of theoretical assumptions regarding resource gain and loss (S. E. Hobfoll, 1998), the authors used a longitudinal study to examine effects of vacation on well-being and performance-related outcomes. University employees (N = 221) completed measures of well-being (health complaints and burnout) and performance-related outcomes (self-reported task performance and effort expenditure)...

In this paper, we investigate the power management of mobile devices, using a variant of an M/G/1 queue with probabilistic inhomogeneous multiple vacations and generalized service process. Under the vacation scheme, at the end of a vacation the server goes on another vacation, with a different probability distribution, if during the previous vacation there have been no arrivals. The modified va...