Data envelopment analysis (DEA) has gained great popularity in environmental performance measurement because it can provide a synthetic standardized environmental performance index when pollutants are suitably incorporated into the traditional DEA framework. Past studies about the application of DEA to environmental performance measurement often follow the concept of radial efficiency measures....

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a non-parametric method for evaluating the relative efficiency of decision making units (DMUs) on the basis of multiple inputs and outputs. The context-dependent DEA is introduced to measure the relative attractiveness of a particular DMU when compared to others. In real-world situation, because of incomplete or non-obtainable information, the data (Input and ...

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is computationally intensive. This work answers conclusively questions about computational performance and scale limits of the standard LP-based procedures currently used. Examples of DEA problems with up to 15K entities are documented and it is not hard to imagine problem size increasing as new more sophisticated applications are found for DEA. This work reports...

The aims of this study were to evaluate the prevalence of Dog Erythrocyte Antigens (DEA) 1, 4, and 7 in Ibizan hounds, to compare the results with the prevalence of DEA in Spanish greyhounds, and to determine the risk of sensitization following the first transfusion of blood not typed for DEA 1 and the probability of an acute hemolytic reaction following a second incompatible transfusion using ...

Amiodarone (AM) is a potent antidysrhythmic agent which can cause potentially lifethreatening pulmonary fibrosis, and N-desethylamiodarone (DEA) is a metabolite of AM that may contribute to the toxicity of AM in vivo. Recent evidence has implicated the involvement of the renin-angiotensin system (RAS) in the initiation and progression of amiodarone-induced pulmonary toxicity. In cultured HPL1A ...

BACKGROUND Dog erythrocyte antigen (DEA) 1.1 is the antigen considered most responsible for severe hemolysis owing to incompatible blood transfusions in previously sensitized dogs. Few reports describe the frequency of DEA 1.1 expression in European dogs, and there are no reports in dogs from Portugal. OBJECTIVE The aims of this study were to identify the frequency of DEA 1.1 expression in Po...

In the history of DEA, there are two fundamental “Radial” and “Non-radial” approaches for the efficiency measurement. Each approach has its own advantageous and shortcomings. Avkiran et al. (2008) provided a unified framework, named Connected-SBM, for linking these approaches. In the present paper, first, based on the directional distance function we develop the Directional Slack-Based Measures...

This paper suggests a method of finding super-efficiency scores and modification of input-oriented models for sensitivity analysis of decision making units. First, by using DEA-R (ratiobased DEA) models in the input orientation, the models of superefficiency and also models of super-efficiency modification are suggested. Second, the worst-case scenarios are considered where the efficiency of th...

The purpose of the present experiments was to test the hypothesis that diethanolamine (DEA), an alkanolamine shown to be hepatocarcinogenic in mice, induces hepatic choline deficiency and to determine whether altered choline homeostasis was causally related to the carcinogenic outcome. To examine this hypothesis, the biochemical and histopathological changes in male B6C3F1 mice made choline def...