This article reports the findings of an experiment designed to evaluate the effect of four questionnaire formats on the willingness of drivers convicted of drunken driving to admit to this socially undesirable behaviour. Four samples of convicted drunk drivers each received a different version of a mail questionnaire about driving behaviour and attitudes. Two versions of the questionnaire inclu...

Causality violations are typically seen as unrealistic and undesirable features of a physical model. The following points out three reasons why causal-ity violations, which Bonnor and Steadman identified even in solutions to the Ein-stein equation referring to ordinary laboratory situations, are not necessarily undesirable. First, a space-time in which every causal curve can be extended into a ...

Power transformers are still among the most costly and critical components in an electrical power network. Thus, the importance of a reliable condition assessment of these assets increases due to the aging of transformer fleets. The Sweep Frequency Response Analysis (SFRA) has become an important standard test and provides comprehensive information about the mechanical and electrical integrity ...

Banks are one of the most important financial sectors in order to the economic development of each country. Certainly, efficiency scores and ranks of banks are significant and effective aspects towards future planning. Sometimes the performance of banks must be measured in the presence of undesirable and vague factors. For these reasons in the current paper a procedure based on data envelopment...

Very often children with learning difficulties show undesirable forms of behavior, which means any of the forms of behavior considered by the society to be striking and unacceptable, or in other words, those which disturb or hinder the process of education and rehabilitation. The objective of this research was to examine the possibilities of applying integrative therapy in the treatment of ment...

this paper presents a deterministic approach for performance assessment of different province’s road safety level at iran. a data envelopment analysis (dea) model considering undesirable input and output indices and a multivariate statistical method, principle component analysis (pca) are used in this paper, while previous studies do not use composite pca-dea method and undesirable input and ou...

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Abstract DEA (data envelopment analysis) models can be divided into two groups: Radial and non-radial DEA, the latter has higher discriminatory power than former. The range adjusted measure (RAM) is an effective widely used approach. However, to best of our knowledge, there no literature on integer-valued super-efficiency RAM-DEA model, especially when undesirable outputs are included. We first...