Purpose This study aims to outlines the findings of first qualitative evidence synthesis empirical research on impact No Recourse Public Funds (NRPF) rule which prevents most temporary migrants from accessing social security benefits in UK. Design/methodology/approach The review used 2020 Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses protocol guidelines. Data were analysed ...

A two-stage stochastic program is formulated for day-ahead commitment of thermal generating units to minimize total expected cost considering uncertainties in the day-ahead load and the availability of variable generation resources. Commitments of thermal units in the stochastic reliability unit commitment (SRUC) are viewed as first-stage decisions, and dispatch is relegated to the second stage...

In this paper, one of the most important criterion in public services quality named availability is evaluated by using artificial neural network (ANN). In addition, the availability values are predicted for future periods by using exponential weighted moving average (EWMA) scheme and some time series models (TSM) including autoregressive (AR), moving average (MA) and autoregressive moving avera...

The relative efficiencies of various experimental designs are compared for the genetical analysis of human behaviour. Particular attention is paid to the ability of the different designs to separate additive genetic variation from dominance variation. The utility of twins is investigated and it is shown that the relative number of twins need not be large for the statistical efficiency of the ex...

Abstract In Canada, consulting with Indigenous communities over recourse projects, the Crown sometimes avoids critical engagement them, holding to same arguments and counterarguments through regulatory hearing stages. Such hollow moves, produced under Crown’s rules, become embedded in dominant argumentative discourse pass unnoticed. To detect I apply Argument Continuities ( ac s) – a new catego...

We consider convex approximations of the expected value function of a two-stage integer recourse problem. The convex approximations are obtained by perturbing the distribution of the random right-hand side vector. It is shown that the approximation is optimal for the class of problems with totally unimodular recourse matrices. For problems not in this class, the result is a convex lower bound t...