this paper proposes a suitable benchmark for inefficient commercial bank branches by using data envelopment analysis (dea). in order to render an inefficient bank branch efficient, it is necessary to decrease inputs and increase outputs. as there are priorities for decreasing some certain inputs and increasing some certain outputs over other inputs and outputs, respectively, it is necessary to ...

computation of the second order delay in rc-tree based circuits is important during the design process of modern vlsi systems with respect to having tree structure circuits. calculation of the second and higher order moments is possible in tree based networks. because of the closed form solution, computation speed and the ease of using the performance optimization in vlsi design methods such as...

in this paper, the dynamic simulation for a high pressure regulator is performed to obtain the regulator behavior. to analyze the regulator performance, the equation of motion for inner parts, the continuity equation for diverse chambers and the equation for mass flow rate were derived. because of nonlinearity and coupling, these equations are solved using numerical methods and the results are ...

Introduction: Radio echo sounding on Europa may provide estimates of the depth to the brittle-ductile transition. This information should be consistent with the topography spectrum. Here we derive an upper bound on the amplitude and shape of the topog-raphic spectrum that can be supported by the strength of the lithosphere. Topographic features that exceed this upper bound must be supported by ...

The exact controllability to the origin for linear evolution control equation is considered.The problem is investigated by its transformation to infinite linear moment problem. Conditions for the existence of solution for infinite linear moment problem has been obtained. The obtained results are applied to the zero controllability for control evolution equations.

For a fixed SL(3,Z) Maass form φ, we consider the family of L-functions L(φ× uj, s) where uj runs over the family of Hecke-Maass cusp forms on SL(2,Z). We obtain an estimate for the second moment of this family of L-functions at the special points 1 2 + itj consistent with the Lindelöf Hypothesis. We also obtain a similar upper bound on the sixth moment of the family of Hecke-Maass cusp forms a...

The complete stress field, including the microstress, the moment-stress, and the line forces are derived for the pure bending of a rigid-plastic beam of rectangular cross-section in the model of strain-gradient plasticity. The workless spherical parts of the microstress and the moment-stress tensors are incorporated in the analysis. Their determination is shown to be of importance for the fulfi...

Consumers have varying levels of trust in agricultural production practices, which can influence attitudes, shift opinions, and change behaviors. The purpose this study was to determine what messages are considered the most trustworthy among consumers differences exist five dimensions trustworthiness. With a pro-agriculture video as stimulus, used continuous response measurement (CRM) collect d...

Traditionally, the Method of (Shannon-Kullback’s) Relative Entropy Maximization (REM) is considered with linear moment constraints. In this work, the method is studied under frequency moment constraints which are non-linear in probabilities. The constraints challenge some justifications of REM since a) axiomatic systems are developed for classical linear moment constraints, b) the feasible set ...

Nonintrusive polynomial chaos expansion (PCE) and stochastic collocation (SC) methods are attractive techniques for uncertainty quantification due to their fast convergence properties and ability to produce functional representations of stochastic variability. PCE estimates coefficients for known orthogonal polynomial basis functions based on a set of response function evaluations, using sampli...