the objective of this study is to determine factors affecting the technical efficiency of the inshore fisheries in kuala terengganu. data for the study was collected from a survey conducted between june and august 2007 where 100 fishermen in 14 villages were chosen by stratified sampling. data envelopment analysis (dea) and tobit analysis were employed to determine the technical efficiency leve...

The technical analysis and machine learning have been integrated in stock trading signal forecasting. And it has been proved that there are some weaknesses in technical analysis because of the complex environment in the stock market. In our prediction system, web news media sentiment analysis is regarded as a supplementary way to cover the shortage of technical analysis. It is considered to bri...

Purpose: The aim of this study was to design and validate a high school technological competency curriculum model. Methodology: This study had an integrated strategy. To answer the questions, the research was conducted in four phases. The first phase was conducted with a qualitative approach and the other phases were conducted with a quantitative approach. In the first phase of this research, ...

This paper presents an integrated framework for assessment and ranking of manufacturing systems based on management and organizational performance indicators. The integrated approach of this paper is based on principal component analysis. The validity of the model is verified and validated by numerical taxonomy and clustering analysis approach. Furthermore, the non-parametric correlation method...

For entire functions, the notions of their growth indicators such as Ritt order are classical in complex analysis. But the concepts of relative Ritt order of entire functions and as well as their technical advantages of not comparing with the growths of $exp exp z$ are not at all known to the researchers of this area. Therefore the studies of the growths of entire functions in the light of thei...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to access the performance of 117 Greek National Health System (NHS) hospitals for the year 2011, to compare the findings with the results from similar studies of the previous years (2009 and 2010) and to investigate the changes during the last three years of financial crisis. METHOD An input-oriented Data Envelopment Analysis was used to measure three ind...

in this paper, non parametric data envelopment analysis (dea) was subjected to the energy data of wheat producers in punjab state, india, and technical, pure technical and scale efficiencies were calculated for farms both category wise and zone wise. the main objective was to determine the strength of the correlation between non-parametric efficiencies and indices such as energy ratio and speci...

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The ability to measure population health trends and improvements can be enhanced through collaborative efforts to describe existing knowledge and via shared development opportunities. This paper highlights a project undertaken in Alberta which has created an inventory of health status indicators in use in the province, and provides a framework for strategic progress in the development and use o...

In this volume all worldwide conducted approaches following an on-site factory approach were analysed. Thirty different systems were identified, resulting in an application of automated/robotic on-site factory technology about 60 times.The analysis was for each system split into a more technical part and a part that focuses on indicators related to productivity, efficiency, and economic perform...