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Predicting product return volume using machine learning methods by Cui, Hailong, Rajagopalan, Sampath, Ward, Amy R.

“…•We develop data-driven models for predicting return volume at a granular level.•Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator achieves a consistent…”
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Pricing and Capacity Sizing of a Service Facility: Customer Abandonment Effects by Lee, Chihoon, Ward, Amy R.

“…This paper studies the effect of customer abandonment in the economic optimization of a service facility. Specifically, we consider how to jointly set the…”
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Stepping Into the Future of Behavioral Health: Opportunities, Challenges, and Possibilities by Manderscheid, Ronald W., Ward, Amy A.

“…To improve our practices of today and to overcome the problems that confront us at present, the behavioral health field must anticipate what the future is…”
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Routing and Staffing When Servers Are Strategic by Gopalakrishnan, Ragavendran, Doroudi, Sherwin, Ward, Amy R., Wierman, Adam

“…Traditionally, research focusing on the design of routing and staffing policies for service systems has modeled servers as having fixed (possibly…”
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Blind Fair Routing in Large-Scale Service Systems with Heterogeneous Customers and Servers by Ward, Amy R., Armony, Mor

“…In a call center, arriving customers must be routed to available servers, and servers that have just become available must be scheduled to help waiting…”
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Fair Dynamic Routing in Large-Scale Heterogeneous-Server Systems by Armony, Mor, Ward, Amy R.

“…In a call center, there is a natural trade-off between minimizing customer wait time and fairly dividing the workload among agents of different skill levels…”
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A fluid approximation for a matching model with general reneging distributions by Aveklouris, Angelos, Puha, Amber L., Ward, Amy R.

“…Motivated by a service platform, we study a two-sided network where heterogeneous demand (customers) and heterogeneous supply (workers) arrive randomly over…”
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Self-regulated learning in a competency-based and flipped learning environment: learning strategies across achievement levels and years by Zheng, Binbin, Ward, Amy, Stanulis, Randi

“…Background: The transition from a traditional lecture-based curriculum to a competency-based curriculum poses significant challenges to both students and…”
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A queueing model with independent arrivals, and its fluid and diffusion limits by Honnappa, Harsha, Jain, Rahul, Ward, Amy R.

“…We study a queueing model with ordered arrivals, which can be called the Δ ( i ) / G I / 1 queue. Here, customers from a fixed, finite, population…”
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Scoping review on Physical Health Conditions in Irish Travellers (Mincéiri) by Kennedy, Fiona, Ward, Amy, Mockler, David, Villani, Jacopo, Broderick, Julie

“…The objective of this scoping review was to collate physical health conditions in Mincéiri-Irish Travellers. Scoping review. MEDLINE/PubMed, EMBASE, PEDro,…”
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Gypsy, Roma and Traveller populations and mental health in the UK: a need for real working together and co-production of services by Kothari, Radha, Ward, Amy, Tracy, Derek

“…Gypsy, Roma and Traveller (GRT) communities have considerably worse mental health outcomes than the general population and many other ethnic minority groups…”
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Staffing Call Centers with Uncertain Arrival Rates and Co-sourcing by Koçağa, Yaşar Levent, Armony, Mor, Ward, Amy R.

“…In a call center, staffing decisions must be made before the call arrival rate is known with certainty. Once the arrival rate becomes known, the call center…”
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Clinical, microbiologic, and immunologic determinants of mortality in hospitalized patients with HIV-associated tuberculosis: A prospective cohort study by Schutz, Charlotte, Barr, David, Andrade, Bruno B, Shey, Muki, Ward, Amy, Janssen, Saskia, Burton, Rosie, Wilkinson, Katalin A, Sossen, Bianca, Fukutani, Kiyoshi F, Nicol, Mark, Maartens, Gary, Wilkinson, Robert J, Meintjes, Graeme

“…In high-burden settings, case fatality rates are reported to be between 11% and 32% in hospitalized patients with HIV-associated tuberculosis, yet the…”
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis bloodstream infection prevalence, diagnosis, and mortality risk in seriously ill adults with HIV: a systematic review and meta-analysis of individual patient data by Barr, David A, Lewis, Joseph M, Feasey, Nicholas, Schutz, Charlotte, Kerkhoff, Andrew D, Jacob, Shevin T, Andrews, Ben, Kelly, Paul, Lakhi, Shabir, Muchemwa, Levy, Bacha, Helio A, Hadad, David J, Bedell, Richard, van Lettow, Monique, Zachariah, Rony, Crump, John A, Alland, David, Corbett, Elizabeth L, Gopinath, Krishnamoorthy, Singh, Sarman, Griesel, Rulan, Maartens, Gary, Mendelson, Marc, Ward, Amy M, Parry, Christopher M, Talbot, Elizabeth A, Munseri, Patricia, Dorman, Susan E, Martinson, Neil, Shah, Maunank, Cain, Kevin, Heilig, Charles M, Varma, Jay K, von Gottberg, Anne, Sacks, Leonard, Wilson, Douglas, Squire, S Bertel, Lalloo, David G, Davies, Gerry, Meintjes, Graeme

“…The clinical and epidemiological significance of HIV-associated Mycobacterium tuberculosis bloodstream infection (BSI) is incompletely understood. We…”
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Restoration of a paraventricular thalamo-accumbal behavioral suppression circuit prevents reinstatement of heroin seeking by Paniccia, Jacqueline E, Vollmer, Kelsey M, Green, Lisa M, Grant, Roger I, Winston, Kion T, Buchmaier, Sophie, Westphal, Annaka M, Clarke, Rachel E, Doncheck, Elizabeth M, Bordieanu, Bogdan, Manusky, Logan M, Martino, Michael R, Ward, Amy L, Rinker, Jennifer A, McGinty, Jacqueline F, Scofield, Michael D, Otis, James M

“…Lack of behavioral suppression typifies substance use disorders, yet the neural circuit underpinnings of drug-induced behavioral disinhibition remain unclear…”
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Twice-Yearly Lenacapavir or Daily F/TAF for HIV Prevention in Cisgender Women by Bekker, Linda-Gail, Das, Moupali, Abdool Karim, Quarraisha, Ahmed, Khatija, Batting, Joanne, Brumskine, William, Gill, Katherine, Harkoo, Ishana, Jaggernath, Manjeetha, Kigozi, Godfrey, Kiwanuka, Noah, Kotze, Philip, Lebina, Limakatso, Louw, Cheryl E., Malahleha, Moelo, Manentsa, Mmatsie, Mansoor, Leila E., Moodley, Dhayendre, Naicker, Vimla, Naidoo, Logashvari, Naidoo, Megeshinee, Nair, Gonasagrie, Ndlovu, Nkosiphile, Palanee-Phillips, Thesla, Panchia, Ravindre, Pillay, Saresha, Potloane, Disebo, Selepe, Pearl, Singh, Nishanta, Singh, Yashna, Spooner, Elizabeth, Ward, Amy M., Zwane, Zwelethu, Ebrahimi, Ramin, Zhao, Yang, Kintu, Alexander, Deaton, Chris, Carter, Christoph C., Baeten, Jared M., Matovu Kiweewa, Flavia

“…In this randomized, controlled trial involving women in South Africa and Uganda, twice-yearly subcutaneous lenacapavir was superior to daily oral…”
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Stationary distribution convergence of the offered waiting processes in heavy traffic under general patience time scaling by Lee, Chihoon, Ward, Amy R., Ye, Heng-Qing

“…We study a sequence of single server queues with customer abandonment ( G I / G I / 1 + G I ) under heavy traffic. The patience time distributions vary with…”
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Dynamic Scheduling of a Two-Server Parallel Server System with Complete Resource Pooling and Reneging in Heavy Traffic: Asymptotic Optimality of a Two-Threshold Policy by Ghamami, Samim, Ward, Amy R.

“…We consider a dynamic control problem for a parallel server system commonly known as the N -system. An N -system is a two-server parallel server system with…”
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Special issue: In honour of Ward Whitt reaching 75 by Ward, Amy R., Pang, Guodong

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Dynamic scheduling of a GI/GI/1+GI queue with multiple customer classes by Kim, Jeunghyun, Ward, Amy R.

“…We consider a dynamic control problem for a GI / GI /1+ GI queue with multiclass customers. The customer classes are distinguished by their interarrival time,…”
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