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Serendipity Based Medicine (SBM): To Infinity and Beyond

Connected Directional Slack-Based Measure of Efficiency in DEA

In the history of DEA, there are two fundamental “Radial” and “Non-radial” approaches for the efficiency measurement. Each approach has its own advantageous and shortcomings. Avkiran et al. (2008) provided a unified framework, named Connected-SBM, for linking these approaches. In the present paper, first, based on the directional distance function we develop the Directional Slack-Based Measures...

Raman spectroscopy-based method to examine the oocyte quality

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Explaining the Concept and Models of Serendipity In Information Search Process

Background and Aim: Searching for information is not always a targeted activity; it can also be done involuntarily. The serendipity has the ability to find information randomly and as something happy, something unexpected, or a pleasant surprise. This paper examines and analyzes the concept of serendipity and its models in the process of information searching. Methods: The present study uses a ...

A Piecewise-Diffusion Model of New-Product Demands

The Bass Model (BM) is a widely-used framework in marketing for the study of new-product sales growth. Its usefulness as a demand model has also been recognized in production, inventory, and capacity-planning settings. The BM postulates that the cumulative number of adopters of a new product in a large population approximately follows a deterministic trajectory whose growth rate is governed by ...