Efficient use of assets in agriculture is a goal for policy-makers and farmers. Agricultural input resources are scarce therefore optimum use of inputs in different agricultural operations is important. Mathematical programming technique such as data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a well-known approach for estimation efficiency of agricultural DMUs. In this study, efficiency of kidney bean produ...

Since the original publication on Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) by Charnes et al. (1978), a considerable amount of research publications have appeared in decision science literature, a significant portion of which focusing on efficiency and productivity in the banking sector. A comprehensive survey of bank efficiency studies could be found in Fethi and Pasiouras (2010). They have examined ban...

Public transit systems in the United States often face multiple policy objectives. Typically, stakeholders desire frequent service on an extensive network, but funding and other resources are constrained, creating complicated relationships between service effectiveness goals and business efficiency goals. Using data from the National Transit Map (NTM), this study evaluated the general performan...

Banking system plays an important role in the economic development of any country. Domestic banks, which are the main components of the banking system, have to be efficient; otherwise, they may create obstacle in the process of development in any economy. This study examines the technical efficiency of the Malaysian domestic banks listed in the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE) market over the...

conclusions reduction of surplus production factors through comprehensive planning based on the results of the data envelopment analysis can play a major role in cost reduction of hospitals and health sectors. in hospitals with a technical efficiency score of less than one, the original and projected values of inputs were different; resulting in a surplus. hence, these hospitals should reduce t...

statement of the problem the aim of this study was to compare the treatment outcome of cl i malocclusion patients treated by two methods, including standard edgewise and mbt. materials and methods thirty subjects (23 boys and 7 girls) with an age range between 14‒19 years were included in each group. the patients had cl i malocclusion and were treated through non-ext strategy. pre- and post-tre...

We investigate the estimation efficiency of the central mean subspace in the framework of sufficient dimension reduction. We derive the semiparametric efficient score and study its practical applicability. Despite the difficulty caused by the potential high dimension issue in the variance component, we show that locally efficient estimators can be constructed in practice. We conduct simulation ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the accuracy of antepartum Amniotic Fluid Index (AFI) of < or = 5 cm as a predictor of adverse outcome at birth in high-risk pregnancies. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Obstetrics and Gynaecology Unit I, Holy Family Hospital and Railway Teaching Hospital Complex, Rawalpindi, from February 2003 to January 2004. METHODOLOGY One hundred...

In outlying aspects mining, given a query object, we aim to answer the question as to what features make the query most outlying. The most recent works tackle this problem using two different strategies. (i) Feature selection approaches select the features that best distinguish the two classes: the query point vs. the rest of the data. (ii) Score-and-search approaches define an outlyingness sco...