Articles in which nonparametric data envelopment analysis (DEA) is applied to estimate the efficiency based on a network structure usually consider desirable intermediary parts that are first stage’s outputs be used as second inputs. In many real-life situations, parameters include and undesirable outputs. This issue has drawn much attention from DEA researchers recent years. The main motivatio...

OBJECTIVE Amygdala kindling is a widely used animal model for studying mesial temporal lobe epileptogenesis. In the macaque monkey, electrical amygdala kindling develops slowly and provides an opportunity for investigating ictal perfusion changes during epileptogenesis. METHODS Two rhesus monkeys were electrically kindled through chronically implanted electrodes in the right amygdala over a p...

Two-stage network data envelopment analysis (DEA) is widely used to evaluate efficiency of different organizations with multiple operations processes or hierarchical structures. Although existing two-stage DEA assumes systems resolve the inherent conflicts between two stages, coordination effect stages usually ignored. Recently, relation traditional “black box” has been studied from perspective...