In this research, the effects of irrigation with saline and fresh water through drip irrigation method and using two irrigation management strategies: M1, M2 (M1 is irrigation with fresh water in alternative with saline water, M2 is saline water in first half time of each irrigation event and fresh water in the second half), on the yield, water productivity (WP), soil salinity, plant height...

it is now evident in the literature that the information and communication technology (ict) has a positive and significant impact on the productivity and economic growth. most studies in this area, however, are limited to the developed countries. given different regulations and economic conditions, and also an increasing trend in allocating resources to ict in developing countries, it is import...

this paper presents a data envelopment analysis (dea) model combined with bootstrapping to assess performance of one of the data mining algorithms. we applied a two-step process for performance productivity analysis of insurance branches within a case study. first, using a dea model, the study analyzes the productivity of eighteen decision-making units (dmus). using a malmquist index, dea deter...

f rom the viewpoint of economic theories, total factor productivity (tfp) is the most important component that leads to economic growth and development. the main purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of knowledge-based economy on total factor productivity in the member countries of the middle east and north africa (mena) region. for this purpose, the panel data regression analysis ha...

Software productivity is one of the most important attributes of the software development process. Our current knowledge of software productivity is not sufficient to define it properly, let alone measure it accurately. Indeed, for lack of something better, the industry has used some version or other of lines of code per man-month as the measure of productivity. To my mind, this measures progra...

Productivity improvement has become a key objective for U.S. industry.' Productivity measurement, however, has gone largely unnoticed by accounting professionals, particularly those teaching and doing research in accounting departments and business schools. Accounting textbooks virtually ignore issues of productivity measurement, and accounting journals contain few articles on the subject. Most...

The purpose of the study was to identify and document technical knowledge and information gaps that can inform development of appropriate training programs for cane farmers. The study employed a survey research design; involving 105 small scale farmers in selected from eight Sub-counties of Kakamega County. Data was analyzed using both descriptive and inferential statistics. Pearson’s product m...