We assessed the implementation of operational programs (OPs) aimed at boosting deployment information and communication technologies (ICTs) in small medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). performed a three-stage slack-based measure (SBM) data envelopment analysis (DEA) model combined with stochastic frontier (SFA), which considered contextual factors reported from European Union (EU) to appraise 51 O...

This study examined differences between healthy children (n = 35) and those with spina bifida myelomeningocele (SBM; n = 42) on the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function (BRIEF), a measure of executive function behaviors. It also examined whether aspects of biological risk associated with SBM and reserve factors within the family could account for variability in BRIEF scores for child...

The problem of lower total-factor energy efficiency (TFEE) has become a bottleneck for economic growth, and how to break this achieve high-quality development is one the urgent issues be solved nowadays. study selects 30 provincial units in mainland China during 13 years, from 2008 2020; then adopts slack-based measure (SBM) method TFEE values each province; on basis, finally explores impact ed...

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...

The Mekong Delta (MKD) produces more than half of the total rice production in Vietnam. In context climate change, Vietnamese government has implemented a development strategy for MKD region to improve quality and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. proportion aromatic high-quality is gradually increasing satisfy export market. However, there still an over-reliance on agrochemicals impact overall ...

We propose a dynamic DEA model involving network structure in each period within the framework of a slacks-based measure approach. We have previously published the network SBM (NSBM) and the dynamic SBM (DSBM) models separately. Hence, this article is a composite of these two models. Vertically, we deal with multiple divisions connected by links of network structure within each period and, hori...

Background and Objectives: The goal of current study is to evaluate the performance of hospitals and their departments. This manuscript aimed at estimation of the most productive scale size (MPSS), returns to scale (RTS), and benchmarking for inefficient hospitals and their departments. Methods: The radial and non-radial data envelopment analysis (DEA) ap...

Clarifying the relationship between cooperative management and cultivated land use eco-efficiency (LUEE) is of great significance to promoting green low-carbon transition agriculture. To explore role in agriculture smallholder farmers western Tarim River Basin, this study, based on field survey data 444 2021, carbon emissions were used measure LUEE with slack-based model (SBM) undesirable outpu...

In data envelopment analysis, there are several methods for measuring efficiency change over time, e.g. the window analysis and the Malmquist index. However, they usually neglect carry-over activities between consecutive two terms. These carry-overs play an important role in measuring the efficiency of decision making units in each term as well as over the whole terms based on the long-term vie...

This paper presents a new concept of potential slack to measure so-called potential performance of digital circuits. Potential means how much improvement could be made in the future in terms of timing, area and power dissipation. Predicting potential performance helps the circuit designers make good design decisions at a specific level of abstraction. We describe two algorithms for potential sl...