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AbstractAccurate signals are essential to ensure the integrity of the feedback mechanism in systems. But in a multi‐step service process such as a restaurant business, where the flow capacities of the service steps are not identical, visible signals may not indicate the true magnitude to which the system should respond. Specifically, the visible standing queue may not reflect the full length of the waiting line. And if potential customers cannot accurately judge the actual length of the waiting line, varying meal prices to regulate queue length would not be an effective feedback mechanism. Instead, queue length can be more effectively controlled by correctly identifying and widening the most binding bottleneck. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Twenty Asian American writers comment on their own work and speak frankly about aesthetics, politics, and the challenges they have encountered in pursuing a writing career.

The religious movement initiated by Caitanya differs from others by its strong emotionalism. It has been criticized for its lack of rational analysis and its neglect of ethical theory. Its strength, however, lies in its systematics of an education of emotions, which, far from being atavistic residues, are increasingly recognized as central to a truly human life. The essay argues that Gaudiya Vaisnavism can make an important contribution to contemporary life through its systematic efforts at educating human emotions.