abstract this paper proposes an approach to find an optimum structure for educational levels of human forces. to this end, a linear programming (lp) model integrated with a social accounting matrix (sam) was employed. the integrated model was employed using the sam of golestan province of iran. it was demonstrated that when unemployment is the result of inconsistency between supply and demand f...

The aims of this study were to evaluate the energy consumption and its modeling in industrial milk production units using data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach and sensitivity analysis. Data were collected from 44 industrial milk production units in Guilan province of Iran with face to face questionnaire method during 2012-2013. Inputs included animal feed, fossil fuels, electricity, machine...

In this paper we derive empirical influence functions for features in kernel principal component analysis. Based on the derived influence functions, a sensitivity analysis procedure is proposed for detecting influential objects with respect to each feature, subspace spanned by specified eigenvectors, and configuration of the features of interest. We show the usefulness of the proposed procedure...