Innovative Priority Mechanisms in Service Operations
Theory and Applications
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Open AccessFabrication-induced even-odd discrepancy of magnetotransport in few-layer MnBi2Te4
The van der Waals antiferromagnetic topological insulator MnBi2Te4 represents a promising platform for exploring the layer-dependent magnetism and topological states of matter. Recently observed discrepancies bet...
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Open AccessRevealing the aging process of solid electrolyte interphase on SiOx anode
As one of the most promising alternatives to graphite negative electrodes, silicon oxide (SiOx) has been hindered by its fast capacity fading. Solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) aging on silicon SiOx has been rec...
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A Brief Review of Research on Priority Queues with Self-Interested Customers
Priority queues are seen in a variety of real-world service applications such as theme parks, call centers, order deliveries, and government and healthcare services. Priority queues are often believed to impro...
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Line-Sitting Services
Waiting in line is a common yet disagreeable experience for customers seeking service, and the desire to bypass a long line has spawned the innovative practice of line-sitting—instead of joining the queue them...
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Referral Priority Programs
This chapter presents a model of the referral priority program, an emerging business practice adopted by a growing number of technology companies that manage a wait list of customers. It enables existing custo...
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In-Queue Priority Purchase
The extant priority-purchasing literature has restricted attention to the case where the only epoch for customers to purchase priority is upon arrival, and if customers choose not to upgrade when they arrive, the...
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A Reinforcement Learning Method to Trajectory Design for Manned Lunar Mission via Resha** Rewards
This paper applies the reinforcement learning (RL) to multi-stage impulsive trajectory design of the manned lunar mission. The manned spacecraft is modeled as the agent and the nonlinear dynamics in the cislun...
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Auctions for Trading Queueing Positions
The first-in, first-out (FIFO) queue discipline respects the order of arrivals but is not efficient when customers have heterogeneous waiting costs. Priority queues, in which customers with higher waiting cost...
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Queue Scal**
In addition to line-sitting, queue-scal** is also widely witnessed in congestion-prone service systems. Unlike true customers, queue-scalpers have no interest in the service being offered and enter the queue...
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Distance-Based Service Priority
Obtaining a service usually comes with both rewards and costs. For example, dining at a popular restaurant provides customers with a pleasant dining experience, but also incurs costs to them. The costs include...
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Waves break the symmetry
Optical experiments reveal nematicity and broken time-reversal symmetry in the charge density waves in kagome metals.
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Open AccessInsights Into the Interfacial Degradation of High-Voltage All-Solid-State Lithium Batteries
The cycle performance of poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO)-based all-solid-state lithium batteries with LiCoO2 cathode was greatly improved via coating LiCoO2 wit...
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Open AccessUltrafast coherent interlayer phonon dynamics in atomically thin layers of MnBi2Te4
The atomically thin MnBi2Te4 crystal is a novel magnetic topological insulator, exhibiting exotic quantum physics. Here we report a systematic investigation of ultrafast carrier dynamics and coherent interlayer p...
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Polyrotaxane-based electrolyte with excellent thermal stability for quasi-solid lithium metal batteries
Despite the high-energy densities, the safety problem of thermal runaway in lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) severely hinders their further application. Therefore, as an essential part of LIBs, the separator shoul...
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Glacier area changes in the Nujiang-Salween River Basin over the past 45 years
Automated image classification and visual interpretation of Landsat imagery were used to extract the glacier boundary in the Nujiang-Salween River Basin (NSRB) around the years 1975, 2000, and 2020. The spatio...
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Open AccessIn-queue priority purchase: a dynamic game approach
Pay-for-priority is a common practice in congestion-prone service systems. The extant literature on this topic restricts attention to the case where the only epoch for customers to purchase priority is upon arriv...
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Polymer matrix mediated solvation of LiNO3 in carbonate electrolytes for quasi-solid high-voltage lithium metal batteries
Lithium (Li) metal is one of the most promising anodes for next-generation energy storage systems. However, the Li dendrite formation and unstable solid-electrolyte interface (SEI) have hindered its further ap...
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Revealing the anion intercalation behavior and surface evolution of graphite in dual-ion batteries via in situ AFM
Graphite as a positive electrode material of dual ion batteries (DIBs) has attracted tremendous attentions for its advantages including low lost, high working voltage and high energy density. However, very few...
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Open AccessReversible manipulation of the magnetic state in SrRuO3 through electric-field controlled proton evolution
Ionic substitution forms an essential pathway to manipulate the structural phase, carrier density and crystalline symmetry of materials via ion-electron-lattice coupling, leading to a rich spectrum of electron...
