Reports on Selection of 1 st Technology Advancement Award

Designing the Framework of the Premium Information Technology Award of the National Information Technology Conference Managers

Objectives: The National Conference of Information Technology Managers is conceivably the most significant of its nature in the country. Chief competitive advantage to comparable ones is its observant of products in IT as an alternative to papers. The purpose is a comprehensive design for the scientific evaluation of information technology products. Method: For the evaluation plan of the premiu...

Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology.

This award is given to individuals who have made sustained and enduring contributions to international cooperation and the advancement of knowledge in psychology. The 2016 recipient of the APA Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology was selected by the 2015 Committee on International Relations in Psychology (CIRP). The members of the 2015 CIRP were R...

Breakthrough Advancement in Ablation Technology

INTRODUCTION The Estech COBRA FusionTM Ablation System was developed to provide superior epicardial ablation performance on the beating heart. Current ablation devices have significant limitations that prevent effective use in creating full-thickness (transmural) lesions. Bipolar ablation clamps are a widely accepted means to create transmural lesions of the left and right pulmonary veins (PVs)...

EURON/erf Technology Transfer Award

1 A Forgotten Point in Technology Selection

The assumption of classical technology selection models is based on complete homogeneity of technologies. In spite of this assumption in many applications some technologies do not comprehensively consume common inputs to comprehensively supply common outputs. The objective of this paper is to propose a Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) model for selecting slightly non-homogeneous technologies. A ...