In many applications, ranking of decision making units (DMUs) is a problematic technical task procedure to decision makers in data envelopment analysis (DEA), especially when there are extremely efficient DMUs. In such cases, many DEA models may usually get the same efficiency score for different DMUs. Hence, there is a growing interest in ranking techniques yet. The main purpose of this paper ...

Drawing on fieldwork among environmental activists and housing advocates in one of South Asia’s fastest-growing cities—and the capital of one of the world’s most politically volatile nation-states— this article explores how and when specific forms of urban housing were problematized and reformed through environmental logics. I ask when and how housing was framed as an environmental problem in K...

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background: governance is one of the main functions of health research system (hrs) that consist of four essential elements such as setting up evaluation system. the goal of this study was to introduce a new web based research evaluation model in iran. methods: based on main elements of governance, research indicators have been clarified and with cooperation of technical team, appropriate softw...

In many applications, ranking of decision making units (DMUs) is a problematic technical task procedure to decision makers in data envelopment analysis (DEA), especially when there are extremely efficient DMUs. In such cases, many DEA models may usually get the same efficiency score for different DMUs. Hence, there is a growing interest in ranking techniques yet. The purpose of this paper is ra...

António Pedro Costa, Maria João Loureiro, Luís Paulo Reis, Patrícia Sá, Cecília Guerra, Rui Vieira 1 UA/CDTFF Universidade de Aveiro, Centro de Investigação em Didáctica e Tecnologia na Formação de Formadores, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal 2 DEI/FEUP/LIACC – Departamento Eng. Informática, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Lab. Inteligência Artificia...

The modern military (ground, air, sea) combat/ transport vehicles, not only depending on increasing information/communication systems and increased mobility in various and quite different environmental conditions over the world, must also be characterised by a high manoeuvrability and a even high reliability: that implies an optimised design, based on the modern analytical tools at disposal of ...

We present a solution to bind a highly specialized, fine tuned software tool for performance evaluation of complex systems (GreatSPN) with a general purpose interactive numerical environment (Scilab). We show how users can benefit from the respective powers of these tools. Our package allows computation of various performance indices not directly available in GreatSPN. RÉSUMÉ. Nous présentons u...

This paper deals with the study of joint clearance on kinematics of mechanism and bearing stiffness along with links flexibility on modal analysis at higher frequency. Literature survey reveals that the studies were carried out for highspeed mechanism considering linkage flexibility without considering bearing stiffness. The method of calculating clearance at joints, checking for orientation of...