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the country being in uproar about the cost of fuel and expecting to continue as normal while our leadership acts like a global crisis isn't about to absolutely wallop us has such a sense of 2008 déjà vu I almost feel sick

A Study on Customer Support Team Configuration and Service Quality in Financial Services Enterprises A Study on Dispatcher Scheduling and Service On-Time Rate in Urban Public Transportation Systems A Study on the Impact of Member Mobility on Research Output in University Research Teams Authors Matthew R. Collins1, Daniel T. Harris2, James A. Wilson3* Affiliations Melbourne School of Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia Corresponding author: james.wilson@unimelb-placeholder.edu Abstract Customer support teams play a crucial role in ensuring service quality in financial services enterprises, and the rationality of their staffing directly affects customer experience. This study analyzes the relationship between staff size and service quality indicators, focusing on the configuration characteristics of customer support teams. Based on 18 consecutive months of operational data from the customer support center of a financial services enterprise, the sample includes 96 service teams, 2,430 customer service personnel, and over 3.2 million customer service records. Service quality is measured by average response time, first-time resolution rate, and customer satisfaction score. A generalized 1 configuration variables on service quality customer service team is controlled withi A Study on the Relationship between Labor Structure and Production Efficiency in Overseas Factories of Multinational Manufacturing Enterprises Authors Sebastian Weber1, Lukas Schneider2, Johannes Müller3* Affiliations Department of Civil, Geo and Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Munich (TUM), 80333 Munich, Germany *Corresponding author: johannes.mueller@tum-placeholder.edu Abstract Public transportation systems have high requirements for service on-time rate, and the rationality of dispatcher scheduling directly affects operational stability. This study analyzes the relationship between dispatcher scheduling and service on-time rate. The stud…

Someone went to the trouble of creating 5 fake OSF accounts today, linking to 5 fake ORCID accounts, and generating 5 fake papers to submit to SocArXiv, with fake author and emails. Dude, if you are reading this, I hope you get the help you need (or a better job).

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Dozens of AI disease-prediction models were trained on dubious data The models are designed to predict someone’s risk of diabetes or stroke. A few might already have been used on patients.

I wonder when we're going to start sitting up and take this seriously.

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remember when celebrities seemingly randomly started coming out talking about how much they loved NFTs and thought it was super valuable and the future?

Screenshot of X post Every lifelong Catholic I've ever met is like "I think we're supposed to give this food to poor people" and every adult convert is like "the Archon of Constantinople's epistle on the Pentacostine rites of the eucharist clearly states women shouldn't have driver's licenses."

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91-year-old Lelia Doolan has completed her 220km protest walk from Shannon Airport to Leinster House to protest against the use of Shannon Airport as a stopover for US military flights.

Poster of the 2000 movie Memento

Ironically, I've just remebered which movie character I am

Many Popes Have Been Entangled in Politics. Here Are 5 of Them.

exhausted historian of christianity screaming into the void, once again: christianity has never been apolitical. to wit: jesus was executed by the roman state.

Threads screenshot: You know, Robert Francis Prevost, being an American citizen over the age of 35, who has resided in the US for at least 14 years and has not served as President of the United States, has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever in 2028. And no, the First Amendment to the Constitution does not prohibit the sitting Bishop of Rome from running for President of the US. Besides, all of that "separation of church and state" is woke liberal DEI stuff, right?

📣 It's part 2 of our 'methods to improve trial efficiency through incorporating external data' webinar on Thursday.

Really looking forward to hearing from Pavel Mozgunov, Louise Stanton, & Sean Ewings.

There's still time to register. Please contact your CTU's stats rep for details.

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“In the end, we’ll either see more laws against AI companies — or exemptions protecting them.”

Simon McGarr tells #F24Debate the tough decision facing policymakers as AI disrupts creative industries.

It turns out that the desire to bike without risking death proves to be radicalizing when it comes to a range of issues. Because when you understand how car supremacy is intertwined with other harmful power structures you want to start dismantling all of them.

Since replacing the car and opting to use an ebike to cycle to work, I'm approaching 10k kilometers in 3.5 years.

Tax, insurance and fuel to one side, it's a guaranteed 20 minute journey regardless of the weather, school runs, rush hour etc.

Is there a single major Ring Road or Bypass project in the country that has led to modal switch from cars to public transport and active travel?

I'm sure Jared was somewhere in the background too, lurking

PSA

Back in the days of Brexit there was this joke reply to the boast that we held all the cards:

"EU lays down a royal flush. UK looks at own cards: Mr Bun the Baker, Pikachu, a Shadowmage, a fireball spell, and the Fool"

Often (mis)attributed to me, it was by @johnnypixels.bsky.social

Sometimes.

Deir Seryan village of South Lebanon, wiped out entirely by Israel

Israel to destroy 'all houses' near Lebanon border Israel will destroy all homes in Lebanese villages near the border and 600,000 people who fled the south will not be allowed home until northern Israel is secure, the country's defence minister has sa...

Israel will destroy all homes in Lebanese villages near the border and 600,000 people who fled the south will not be allowed home until northern Israel is secure, the country's defence minister has said

“The scale of the nightmare in Gaza and the West Bank is vast. It is her job to somehow absorb and relay it to the rest of the world. That costs her profoundly — more than any American sanctions.”

Evergreen (sadly)

SECRETARY RUBIO: Imagine if instead of spending billions of dollars supporting terrorists or weapons, Irans had spent that money helping the people of Iran. They would have had a much different country.

objectively the funniest critique an american could level at another country

Gilead refuses to sell groundbreaking HIV prevention drug to MSF Blocking humanitarian organizations from accessing a medical breakthrough puts vulnerable people across the world in danger.

Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir.

The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell.

Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/

www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...

“On my bike I’m a child, teenager and adult all at the same time. Sometimes I ask my friends, when did you stop cycling?”

Very pleased to be launching my debut poetry chapbook on April 25th as part of @corkworldbookfest.bsky.social

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LAPD officers arrest a protester dressed as the Statue of Liberty outside a federal building during a ‘Kings Day’ protest. (Connor Sheets/Los Angeles Times)

A remarkable photo from #NoKings in DTLA from Connor Sheets of @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/l...

Such good memories of cycling to Pairc Uí Chaoimh in match days

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Only just spotted that