Book review: Sustainable Materials – with Both Eyes Open AllwoodJulian M. CullenJonathan M. CambridgeUIT, 2012, 978-1-906-86005-9, £24.95, also available as a free PDF (http://withbotheyesopen.com/read.php)

M@n@gement Book Review

Jean-Luc Arrègle, Université du Luxembourg (editor) Stewart Clegg, University of Technology, Sydney (editor) Olivier Germain, U. du Québec à Montréal (editor, book reviews) Karim Mignonac, Université de Toulouse 1 (editor) Philippe Monin, EM Lyon Business School (editor) Jose Pla-Barber, Universidad de València (editor) Linda Rouleau, HEC Montréal (editor) Michael Tushman, Harvard Business Scho...

Living Language: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology, Laura M. Ahearn (2012) Wiley-Blackwell, ISBN 978-1-4051-2441-6

M m m Queue with Balking, Reneging and Additional Servers

In this paper, we consider a multi-server queuing system in which additional servers are allowed for a longer queue to reduce the customer’s balking and reneging behavior. The customers are assumed to arrive in Poisson fashion and their service- times follow exponential distribution. The number of servers in long run depends on the queue-length. We obtain equilibrium queue size distribution. Th...

Review of : Pinson , Thomas M . 2012

Until 2012, there existed no full-fledged dictionary of Naxi. This major gap in the field of Sino-Tibetan linguistics was filled by two remarkable publications in quick succession: A Naxi-Chinese-English Dictionary by Thomas Pinson, and A Dictionary of Colloquial Naxi (《纳西语常用词汇》) by He Jiren, edited by Zhao Qinglian et al. (2013). Both dictionaries were published by Yunnan Minorities Publishing...

living language: an introduction to linguistic anthropology, laura m. ahearn (2012) wiley-blackwell, isbn 978-1-4051-2441-6