Valuing Environmental Factors in Cost-Benefit Analysis Using Data Envelopment Analysis [PDF]
Environmental cost-benefit analysis (ECBA) refers to social evaluation of investment projects and policies that involve significant environmental impacts.
Timo Kuosmanen
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Data Envelopment Analysis with Uncertain Inputs and Outputs
Journal of Applied Mathematics, 2014 Data envelopment analysis (DEA), as a useful management and decision tool, has been widely used since it was first invented by Charnes et al. in 1978. On the one hand, the DEA models need accurate inputs and outputs data.
Meilin Wen +3 more
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Historical Foundation and Practical Guideline for Ferroelectric Switching Kinetic Studies
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.The P and U pulses in the conventional PUND measurements are not identical because of the interplay between switching current and the measurement circuit components. This circuit effect can lead to a shift in polarization transients and misinterpreted physics in the switching kinetics.
Yi Liang, Pat Kezer, John T. Heron
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Evaluating the Location Efficiency of Arabian and African Seaports Using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) [PDF]
In this paper the efficiency and performance is evaluated for 22 seaports in the region of East Africa and the Middle East. The aim of our study is to compare seaports situated on the maritime trade road between the East and the West.
Ahmed Salem Al-Eraqi +3 more
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Efficiency evaluation and improvement guidelines for community colleges of Connecticut:: a data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach [PDF]
, 2004 Tertiary education at Connecticut's Community Colleges, in the United States, is facing a public outcry for a higher level of accountability for the resources appropriated to higher education.
Mills, Joseph J., Mills, Joseph
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Evaluating hotel advertisements efficiency using data envelopment analysis
Journal of Business Economics and Management, 2005 This paper introduces popular methods for ranking alternatives with multiple inputs and multiple outputs in the DEA context. The ranking methods are based on different criteria.
Yossi Hadad +2 more
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Mesoblends consist of a nanostructured polymer into which a second polymer is imbibed with a selective solvent. In this work, a solvent‐templatable pentablock terpolymer possessing a sulfonated midblock is modified with a hydrophilic polymer that is photocrosslinked in situ, yielding a hierarchical binetwork.
Kacie M. Wells +3 more
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Unraveling MXene Oxidation Mechanisms Under Realistic Gas Environments by In Situ Gas‐Cell TEM
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Real‐time visualization of MXene degradation reveals a fundamental oxidation mechanism under oxygen and moisture environments. Using in situ gas‐cell electron microscopy, this study demonstrates that oxygen degradation drives a thermodynamically controlled high‐temperature transformation into mixed rutile/anatase phases.
Yongfa Cheng +8 more
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Application of Ibuprofen Sodium Dihydrate for Thermochemical Energy Storage
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Ibuprofen sodium dihydrate is introduced as a durable organic salt hydrate for low‐temperature thermochemical energy storage, operating within 60°C–110°C with high energy density. At the material level, it delivers ∼99.9% cycling efficiency over 150 cycles without deliquescence, enabled by a dual energy‐storage mechanism coupling dehydration and phase ...
Kavin Chakravarthy Thangaraj +10 more
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Exploring psychiatric hospital performance using data envelopment analysis and cluster analysis [PDF]
, 2002 In this paper, we apply Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and cluster analysis (CA) to assess psychiatric hospitals operating in the US. DEA is utilized to examine the relative performance of these hospitals in terms of input use.
Ferrier, GD, Valdmanis, VG
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