Article history: Received 5 January 2014 Received in revised format 8 March 2014 Accepted 11 March 2014 Available online 12 March 2014 Measuring the relative efficiency of banking industry has been a popular subject among both practitioners and academicians. Data envelopment analysis (DEA) has been widely applied for different purposes. This paper presents an empirical investigation to measure ...

The DXAS Calibration computer program provides a quantitative and automated solution to the problem of calibrating spectra from dispersive XAS beamlines. Such spectra, obtained in arbitrary energy units, are calibrated with respect to the absorption features of a supplied reference spectrum, which has been obtained under similar conditions on a calibrated beamline. In addition to basic energy c...

A DOCUMENT was published in the May 1971 issue of CIRCULATION (43: A-171) by the Inter-Society Commission for Heart Disease Resources reappraising the optimal care of patients with acute myocardial infarction. The Commission proposed a stratified system of coronary care, which consists of three levels or categories of medical facilities: (1) life support units or stations, (2) coronary care uni...

This paper describes a method for selecting units from a database of recorded speech, for use in a concatenative speech synthesiser. The simplest approach is to store one example of every possible unit. A more powerful method is to have multiple examples of each unit. The challenge for such a method is to provide an efficient means of selecting units from a practical inventory, to give the best...

This section provides a summary of important units for geomagnetism and geoelectricty. In addition, a summary of conversion factors and fundamental units of relevance to earth and planetary science are presented for reference. Despite the sentiment expressed above by Vigoureux, it still seems that plenty of us slave over SI units in geomagnetism. There is probably no other scientific discipline...

The standard reference frame for a camera C is a right-handed Cartesian frame with its origin at the center of projection of C, its positive Z axis pointing towards the scene along the optical axis of the lens, and itsX axis pointing to the right1 along the rows of the camera sensor. As a consequence, the Y axis points downwards along the columns of the sensor. Coordinates in the standard refer...

The potency of the U.S. Reference Smallpox Vaccine, Lot 2, the International Reference Preparation of Smallpox Vaccine, and commercial smallpox vaccines was determined by the chorioallantoic membrane (CAM) and rabbit scarification (RS) potency assay methods. The mean titer of the U.S. Reference (based on 107 ampoules) was 10(8.1) pock-forming units (PFU) per ml and that of the International Ref...

The latest HEVC video coding standard [1] has improved the coding performance by applying a number of innovative tools compared to its predecessor H.264/AVC [2][3] including a wider range of variable block size motion estimation (ME), motion compensation (MC), prediction, and transformation units. The use of multiple reference frames (MRFs) with variable block sizes typically provides better co...

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is known as a useful tool that produces many efficient decision-making units (DMUs). Traditional DEA provides relative efficient scores and reference sets, but does not influence and rank the efficient DMUs. This paper suggests a method that pro‐ vides influence and ranking information by using Pag‐ eRank as a centrality of Social Network analysis (SNA) based on ...