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Technical efficiency analysis of banks in major oil exporting Middle East countries
This paper investigates efficiency performance of thirty six banks operating in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries during the period 2006-2008 .
Abdalla, Abdelgadir, Onour, Ibrahim
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Frontiers in Environmental ScienceWith urbanization acceleration, ensuring urban water use security and sustainable water resource management has become a major global challenge. As a populous country, China faces increasingly severe challenges.
Tingyu Tao, Hao Zhang, Zikun Hu
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Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.Composite Ti–6Al–4V–epoxy lattice structures are additively manufactured and epoxy infiltrated for cyclic loading. At low lattice volume fractions, hybridization produces synergistic gains in stiffness and energy dissipation. At higher volume fractions, synergy diminishes, although composites still exceed metallic lattices in specific energy ...
Joey Tallon +3 more
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Scale and Technical Efficiency of Islamic Banks in Sudan: Data Envelopment Analysis
This paper employs several efficiency measures and productivity changes using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to investigate efficiency performance of Islamic banks in Sudan. Our results indicate, among twelve banks included in our sample only two banks,
Abdalla, Abdelgadir, Onour, Ibrahim
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Technical and Scale Efficiencies for Chinese Rural Credit Cooperatives: A Bootstrapping Approach in Data Envelopment Analysis [PDF]
Chinese rural credit cooperatives (RCCs) are a major supplier of credit to the rural sector in the country. However, Chinese RCCs are currently encountering operating problems, and an experimental reform is being carried out to restructure and reform the
Dong, Fengxia, Featherstone, Allen
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Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.This review highlights advances in lightweight, lead‐free polymer nanocomposites for diagnostic X‐ray shielding. By linking filler chemistry, dispersion, architecture, and photon interaction mechanisms, it establishes structure–performance relationships guiding material design.
Aklilu G. Messele +2 more
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, 2019 Comparison of the average pure technical efficiency of industrial water resource use in 31 provinces of China.
Yongxiang Wu (1777900) +5 more
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A Dislocation Perspective on Strength and Toughness in Ceramics
Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.Dislocations in ceramics enjoy a long but yet under‐appreciated history. The three research waves for dislocations in ceramics highlight the topic evolution over the last 90 years. This review focuses on the impact of dislocation on strength and toughness in ceramics.
Xufei Fang
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Efficiency, technology and productivity change in Australian universities, 1998-2003 [PDF]
In this study, productivity growth in thirty-five Australian universities is investigated using nonparametric frontier techniques over the period 1998 to 2003.
Andrew Worthington, Boon L. Lee
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Decomposing technical efficiency and window analysis
, 2004 Data envelopment analysis (DEA) and window analysis are used to follow the changes in Australian trading banks' pure technical efficiency, scale efficiency, and the nature of returns to scale.
Avkiran, N. K.
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