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Technical Efficiency of Cooperative and Non-Cooperative Dairies in Poland: Toward the First Link of the Supply Chain

Agriculture, 2022
Several studies conducted in various countries have addressed the technical efficiency of dairies. However, there is a paucity of research on the technical efficiency of dairies in Poland, particularly in relation to their legal form (i.e., cooperatives ...
Katarzyna Ziętek-Kwaśniewska, Maria Zuba-Ciszewska, Joanna Nucińska   +2 more
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Stability and the Economy: Cooperative Game Theoretic Implications for Economic Policy in a Dual-Sector Economy

Stability : International Journal of Security and Development, 2013
How does the structure of the economy affect the possibility for societal stability? This paper employs a cooperative game theory lens to explore possibilities for cooperation and chaos under various growth scenarios and assumptions of distributional ...
Topher L McDougal
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Efficiency and scale effect of county public hospitals in Shandong Province, China: a cross-sectional study

BMJ Open, 2020
Objective To evaluate the efficiency of county public hospitals in Shandong Province following China’s new medical reform and compare the efficiency of hospitals with different bed sizes for improving efficiency.Design and setting This was a cross ...
Qian Li, Liqi Tian, Xiaolin Jing, Xianghua Chen, Jiangfeng Li, Huixin Chen   +5 more
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Managing the increasing returns of a high-tech business model in industry: Classic and ecosystem effects

Управленец, 2020
Business model management is possible on the basis of detailing and clarifying methods for calculating forms of increasing returns. High-tech companies, in contrast to traditional ones, have additional rents associated with the dual use of technologies ...
Svetlana V. Orekhova, Andrey V. Misyura, Evgeny V. Kislitsyn   +2 more
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Analysis of technical efficiency among youth involved in crop production in Njombe Region, Tanzania

Cogent Economics & Finance, 2022
This study aimed to estimate the Technical Efficiency (TE) of youth crop farmers in Njombe Region of Tanzania, and analyze the determinants of technical inefficiency for crops produced.
Adella A. Ng’Atigwa, Aloyce Hepelwa, Victor Manyong, Shiferaw Feleke   +3 more
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Tracking Health Related Quality of Life From Diagnosis to Follow‐Up Among Australian Children With Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) is one of the most treatable forms of paediatric cancer; however, there is a substantial burden of treatment‐related toxicities (TRTs). In addition, the long‐term changes in children's health‐related quality of life (HRQoL) due to toxic treatments are not well understood.
Clare Ghows, Clarissa E. Schilstra, Karen McCleary, Nancy E. Briggs, Rishi S. Kotecha, Richard De Abreu Lourenco, Shanti Ramachandran, Ruelleyn Cockcroft, Rachel Conyers, Siobhan Cross, Luciano Dalla‐Pozza, Peter Downie, Tamas Revesz, Michael Osborn, Frank Alvaro, Claire E. Wakefield, Glenn M. Marshall, Toby Trahair, Marion K. Mateos, Joanna E. Fardell   +19 more
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Research on resource allocation efficiency of nursing homes in Shanxi province based on DEA model

Huli yanjiu, 2022
ObjectiveTo study the allocative efficiency of 13 provincial⁃level nursing homes in Shanxi province，so as to provide references for their sound and efficient development.MethodCCR model，BCC model and super⁃efficiency DEA model of data envelopment ...
ZHAO Yuecong, GUO Jinli
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Establishing an Apheresis Medicine Program in a Resource‐Constrained Setting: A 5‐Year Experience From Lagos, Nigeria

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Establishing a comprehensive apheresis medicine program in a resource‐constrained setting presents significant structural, financial, and logistical challenges. Despite the growing clinical importance of apheresis services globally, published experience from sub‐Saharan Africa remains sparse.
Folasade Adelekan‐Popoola, Shakirat Gold‐Olufadi, Olufunto Olufela Kalejaiye, Abdullateef Ogala, Rasheed A. Balogun   +4 more
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Forecasting the Dialysis Burden in Japan: Validation‐Based Projections of Prevalence and Incidence Through 2050

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Japan has one of the highest dialysis prevalence rates worldwide and a shrinking, aging population. Whether dialysis burden has entered a sustained post‐peak phase or whether recent declines partly reflect pandemic‐related disruptions remains uncertain.
Hatice Şahin, Berrak Itır Aylı, Nüket Paksoy   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

On the closed-form solution of the monopolist long-run profit maximization problem with linear demand and Cobb-Douglas technology

Croatian Operational Research Review
This paper provides an economic and mathematical analysis of the long-run profit maximization problem of a monopolist with linear demand and a two-input Cobb-Douglas technology to derive the conditions that guarantee the solution to this problem.
Zrinka Lukač, Mira Krpan, Vedran Kojić
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