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Assessing the Overall Technical Efficiency, Pure Technical Efficiency, and Scale Efficiency of United States Department of Defense Hospitals [PDF]

open access: yesRisk Management and Healthcare Policy
Dongjin Oh,1 Keon-Hyung Lee,2 Donwe Choi3 1Graduate School of Defense Management, Korea National Defense University, Nonsan, South Korea; 2Askew School of Public Administration and Policy, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA; 3Department of ...
Oh D, Lee KH, Choi D
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Innovation, competition and technical efficiency

open access: yesCogent Business & Management, 2016
Contradictory empirical and theoretical evidence on the relationship between innovation and competition has been reconciled in a model that yields an inverted U-shaped curve.
Elina Berghäll
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Innovation Strategies and Technical Efficiency

open access: yesEuropean Research on Management and Business Economics
In the innovation literature, little attention has been paid to technical efficiency as a measure of performance, despite the fact that technical efficiency is key to explaining firm productivity.
Jennifer González-Blanco   +2 more
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Technical Efficiency of Rural Water Utilities

open access: yesJournal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 1995
Technical efficiency of rural water utilities is determined using frontier production functions. An indirect production function is developed to model the two-step production process of a local government-controlled firm.
Arunava Bhattacharyya   +3 more
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Experience in the Implementation of Risk Management in Occupational Safety and Health and Environmental Issues in Extractive Companies

open access: yesMaterials Proceedings, 2023
Risk management (RM) as a management technique has developed significantly over the past 20 years globally to address risks. RM is often linked to financial, reputational, and quality risks.
Petros Maraboutis   +2 more
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How the Proper Management of Extractive Waste Can Support the Circular Economy

open access: yesMaterials Proceedings, 2022
The Circular Economy begins at the start of a product’s life cycle. Throughout the life of a product, both the design phase and the manufacturing processes have an influence on sourcing, resource consumption, and waste creation.
Petros Maraboutis   +2 more
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Risk Management: An Essential “Tool” for the Extractive Sector

open access: yesMaterials Proceedings, 2022
Risk management is a methodology through which industry can proactively manage risks (inclusive of potential opportunities and threats), which is a common practice for operators all over the world.
Petros Maraboutis   +2 more
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Impact of ICT Latency, Data Loss and Data Corruption on Active Distribution Network Control

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2023
The ongoing changes in modern power systems towards increasingly decentralized systems render the coordination of generation assets and the corresponding dependency on Information and Communication Technology highly relevant.
Marcel Klaes   +4 more
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Is One Village able to Produce as Many Dioxins as a Big Waste Incineration Plant? [PDF]

open access: yesTransactions of the VŠB-Technical University of Ostrava, Mechanical Series, 2011
Three large waste incineration plants incinerated c. 360 thousand tons of waste in 2009, during which time they emitted c. 40 mg of PCDD/F expressed as TEQ in flue gasses into the air. If heated by solid fuels only (c.
Jiří HORÁK   +3 more
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Review models of sorption isotherms [PDF]

open access: yesJournal on Processing and Energy in Agriculture, 2022
Numerous mathematical models for approximation of sorption data of food and agriculture materials are available in the referent scientific and engineering literature.
Mitrevski Vangelče   +3 more
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