The present study addresses the following question: if among a group of decision making units, the decision maker is required to increase inputs and outputs to a particular unit in which the DMU, with respect to other DMUs, maintains or improves its current efficiencylevel, how much should the inputs and outputs of the DMU increase? This question is considered as a problem of inverse data envel...

Despite the fact that the origins of the MCDM school lie in extensions of linear programming to problems with multiple objectives, multicriteria analysis, in particular methods for choosing between discrete alternatives, tend to be viewed by Operational Research/Management Science (OR/MS) practitioners as distinct from other methods of OR/MS. In this paper we argue that MCDA should be viewed as...

Purpose: We investigated the antitumor effect of murine/human chimeric CD138specific monoclonal antibody nBT062 conjugated with highly cytotoxic maytansinoid derivatives against multiple myeloma (MM) cells in vitro and in vivo. Experimental Design: We examined the growth inhibitory effect of BT062-SPDB-DM4, BT062-SMCC-DM1, and BT062-SPP-DM1 against MM cell lines and primary tumor cells from MM ...

ion of two chlorides from 2 or 4 may provide simple, monocoordinate, low-valent Sn or Pb dications if the strongly Lewis basic nature of the metal center can be harnessed to partly relieve the electron deciency of such a dication. The greater extent of Pt–M (M1⁄4 Sn, Pb) s donation in 7a and 8a over that in 4 and 2might provide enough electronic stabilization to attenuate the reactivity of the...