in the present study an attempt has been made to use a non-parametric method data envelopment analysis (dea) for assessing source-wise and operation-wise the technical efficiency (te) and return-to-scale (rts) for paddy production in four zones of the state of punjab, india. the results were then compared to corresponding ones already obtained from a parametric method (cobb-douglas production f...

A single-photon detection using a Si-based two-dimensional ͑2D͒ multiple-tunnel-junction field-effect transistor ͑FET͒ is reported. The single photon is detected as a random telegraph signal ͑RTS͒ in the single-hole-tunneling current regime. The frequency of RTS events depends on the light wavelength and intensity, indicating that the RTS occurs due to the single-photon absorption in the Si dots form...

Abstract Children’s effective participation seems to be difficult achieve in practice. Although the United Nations Convention on Rights of Child came into force 1989, recent research reports that rarely occurs. This qualitative study explores a group adolescents’ views participating child welfare ‘responsibility teams’ (RTs) Norway. The two specific foci are experiences regarding influence thei...

The authors examined possible differences in left- and right-handers on bimanual reaction times to centralized visual stimuli. Eighty participants (n = 40 in each group of left- and right-handers) were tested on unimanual and bimanual reaction time (RT) tasks. Consistently across the 2 groups, the dominant-hand RT was faster, on average, than the nondominant-hand RT, and unimanual RTs were fast...

BACKGROUND Knee reinjury after ACL reconstruction is common and increases the risk of osteoarthritis. There is sparse evidence to guide return to sport (RTS) decisions in this population. OBJECTIVES To assess the relationship between knee reinjury after ACL reconstruction and (1) return to level I sports, (2) timing of RTS and (3) knee function prior to return. METHODS 106 patients who part...

Models of endogenous growth have not been able to account for the variety of empirically observed distributional properties of the returns to innovation, in part, because of the limitations necessarily imposed on competition to cope with increasing returns to scale. Exponential growth, fat tails, Pareto–Levy distributed upper tails, and upper value outliers, are associated with increasing retur...

Real-Time Strategy (RTS) games have shown to be very resilient to standard adversarial tree search techniques. Recently, a few approaches to tackle their complexity have emerged that use game state or move abstractions, or both. Unfortunately, the supporting experiments were either limited to simpler RTS environments (μRTS, SparCraft) or lack testing against state-of-the-art game playing agents...

Objectives: Prior studies report lower return to preinjury level of sport in patients who undergo bilateral anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstructions compared unilateral reconstructions, with the most common cited reason being fear reinjury. The purpose our investigation was compare subsequent rates and psychological readiness (RTS) underwent versus ACL reconstructions. Methods: A retros...