VOLUME 3 : 2005

George B. Dantzig (1914–2005), Volume 54, Number 3

S o says George B. Dantzig in the preface to his book, Linear Programming and Extensions, anowclassicworkpublished in 1963, some sixteen years after his formulation of the linear programming problem and discovery of the simplex algorithm for its solution. The three passages quoted above represent essential components of Dantzig’s outlook on linear programming and, indeed, on mathematics general...

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National surveillance data on sexual transmitted infections (STIs) first appeared in Norway in the early 1920s. Aggregated data on STIs were collected by local medical health officers in the municipalities and reported monthly to the Department of Health. National figures were subsequently published by National Statistics in their yearly report of the health situation in the country. Thus, reli...

Australasian Agribusiness Review - Volume 13, 2005

In this paper we use Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to estimate technical efficiency for a sample of 1742 Australian dairy farms. Bearing in mind data limitations we find that average technical efficiency is 59 per cent, but there are significant regional differences. These results reflect differences in State level milk marketing arrangements in place before dairy deregulation in July 2000 pr...