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...

Objective This study aimed to (i) examine the prevalence and types of gambling, (ii) establish prevalence of 'pathological' gambling, (iii) explore the correlates of gambling, and (iv) establish psychiatric and physical comorbidity in a sample of older adult gamblers (≥ 60 years) in contrast to younger gamblers in a representative population sample in Singapore. Method This paper reports the ...

1389-1286/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier B.V http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2012.10.003 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 404 894 6616. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (C. gatech.edu (J.M. Jornet), [email protected] (E. Fa edu (I.F. Akyildiz). The Internet of Things (IoT) is a novel networking paradigm which allows the communication among all sorts of physical objects over the ...

AIMS The aim of the study was to define predictors of transition from alcohol use to disorders, and their remission, among adults residing in Singapore. METHODS The Singapore Mental Health Study was a cross-sectional survey conducted from December 2009 to December 2010. Information on alcohol use, regular use, DSM-IV criteria for abuse and dependence, and remission among 6616 respondents was ...

Invasive species represent an increasing threat to native ecosystems, harming indigenous taxa through predation, habitat modification, cross-species hybridization and alteration of ecosystem processes. Additionally, high economic costs are associated with environmental damage, restoration and control measures. The Burmese python, Python molurus bivittatus, is one of the most notable invasive sp...

The object of the investigation is to study reducible $M$-ideals in Banach spaces. It is shown that if the number of $M$-ideals in a Banach space $X$ is $n(<infty)$, then the number of reducible $M$-ideals does not exceed of $frac{(n-2)(n-3)}{2}$. Moreover, given a compact metric space $X$, we obtain a general form of a reducible $M$-ideal in the space $C(X)$ of continuous functions on $X$. The...

INTRODUCTION Studies examining mental health treatment dropout have primarily focused on Western populations and less so on Asian samples. The current study explored the prevalence and correlates of mental health treatment dropout across the various healthcare sectors in Singapore. MATERIALS AND METHODS Data was utilised from the Singapore Mental Health Study (SMHS), a cross-sectional epidemi...