the hospital, for whatever reason. • Human resources: both the number of people required (capacity) and the skills required (competence). • Quality: measuring and ensuring high quality clinical outcomes and patient satisfaction. • Operating efficiency: ensuring that scarce resources are optimally used. • Financial viability: pricing to ensure affordability, and putting in place revenue and cost...

This paper analyses three quantifiable benefits of Optical Cross Connect (OXC) architectures and how these are affected by network topology and traffic characteristics. The cost-saving benefits of shared protection, the revenue increasing potential of dynamic provisioning, and the efficiency gains of network reconfiguration are analysed. All three of these benefits are available when an OXC-ena...

anytime, anywhere, and the need to rapidly introduce new revenue generating services is driving service providers to carefully scrutinize future network capital expenditures (CapEx). At the same time, network infrastructure energy costs are spiraling higher and driving up operational expenditures (OpEx). Faced with increasing CapEx and OpEx, service providers are looking for telecom and network...

In this paper, the financial efficiency of football clubs in English Premier League during 2016-17 season is determined. From a methodological perspective, we use Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), a deterministic nonparametric frontier method. In particular, variable returns to scale and slack based measure are employed to assess whether teams are spending more resources than they need to achiev...