We study the departure process of a single server queue with Markovian arrival input and Markov renewal service time. We derive the joint transform of departure time and the number of departures and, based on this transform, we establish several expressions for burstiness (variance) and correlation (covariance sequence) of the departure process. These expressions reveal that burstiness and corr...

Saul: "And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took an harp* and played with his hand; so Saul was refreshed and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him." Music was a treatment for meflt3 diseases in ancient Egypt and Greec. The present interest in therapy dates from 1947. Sir SteUa Wilson, then Music Director of ^ Arts Council, pointed out tP, altho...

We are concerned by mischaracterizations, misrepresentations, and selective uses of evidence in a recent critical opinion of ‘the novel ecosystems concept’ [1]. Murcia et al. contend that the concept is poorly developed, has no evidence base, and has little management application and potential negative policy impacts. However, it is more accurate to observe that conceptual development is ongoin...

A characteristic length scale and a time scale are proposed to describe the dynamic growth and departure process of bubbles. A correlation between bubble departure diameter and bubble growth time is established thereby, and a predication formula for bubble departure diameter is suggested by considering the analogue between nucleate boiling and forced convection. # 1999 Published by Elsevier Sci...