Acknowledgement I would like to thank my supervisor Vincent Moulton for many interesting discussions and ideas, for giving me the opportunity to travel and meet interesting people and collaborators, and for introducing me to the field of RNA. I would also like to thank all my coworkers; David Ardell for helpful advice and discussions and for taking over the load of being my supervisor; Sverker ...

To my beloved family, relatives and friends. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS My dissertation would not have been possible without the support of so many people in my life. It was a long and winding road to my dissertation defense, and now it is time to express my gratitude to those who helped me so much along the way. First and foremost, I would like to acknowledge the support of Prof. Calton Pu, who was a pa...

technical terminology has a significant role in translation of technical or scientific texts. unfortunately, most of research in this area has not perceived the urgent need for a model to analyze or shown how translate technical or scientific terminology. in this paper, the researcher attempts to designs a workable model for translation of technical or scientific terminology. the major aim of t...

efficiency in agricultural production is indicative of the efficiency level of farm households in their farming activities. farmers in developing countries do not make use of all the potential technological resources, thus making inefficient decisions in their agricultural activities. herein, technical efficiency in relation with the production of three types of rice crop (boro, aus and aman) w...

the objective of this study is to determine factors affecting the technical efficiency of the inshore fisheries in kuala terengganu. data for the study was collected from a survey conducted between june and august 2007 where 100 fishermen in 14 villages were chosen by stratified sampling. data envelopment analysis (dea) and tobit analysis were employed to determine the technical efficiency leve...

This paper uses data envelopment analysis (DEA) to examine the technical, pure technical, and scale efficiencies of 12 branches of the agricultural bank in Guilan province, Iran over the period of 2012-2016. The first results indicated that scale inefficiency contributed more to overall technical inefficiency than pure technical inefficiency over the studied period. Results of return to scale r...

this study attempted to investigate the process and barriers of flow of technical information in kwpa [1] . a survey method was used to collect the data. interviews with some key persons were also conducted. the target population included both experts and technical managers, and the information output of technical departments. descriptive statistics and spearman's rank correlation coefficient w...

Staff attrition is a problem often faced by software development organizations. How can a manager plan for the risk of losses due to attrition? Can policies for this purpose be formulated to address his/her specific organization and project? Proposed was to use a software development process simulator tuned to the specific organization, for running "what-if" scenarios for assessing the effects ...