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Technical and environmental performance assessment of the Iranian power plants: a semi-disposal DEA approach

open access: yesJournal of Environmental Engineering and Landscape Management, 2022
One of the most important issues is to achieve maximum production of energy from a particular energy source, which ensures the complete protection of the environment. The current paper as the first application of flexible and powerful semi-disposability
Masod Mokari   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Efficiency evaluation of unattended convenience store based on bi-level DEA with multi-followers [PDF]

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences, 2021
As an application of digital concepts, unattended convenience stores are widely disseminated and considered one of the trends of future business development.
Yang Zhuang, Hui Li, Chen Xudong
doaj   +1 more source

A nonparametric distance function approach with endogenous direction for estimating marginal abatement costs of CO2 emissions

open access: yesJournal of Management Science and Engineering, 2022
The directional distance function (DDF) framework has been widely used to estimate the marginal abatement cost (MAC) of CO2 emissions to support decision-making in environmental sustainability and climate change issues.
Fei Wu   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Dynamic Data Envelopment Analysis Model Involving Undesirable Outputs in the Electricity Power Generation Sector: The Case of Latin America and the Caribbean Countries

open access: yesEnergies, 2020
Studying the evolution of the efficiency of the electricity generation sector is a relevant task for policy makers, and requires the undesirable outputs derived from the activity to be considered in the evaluation.
Sebastian Cuadros   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Detection of Bovine Mastitis in Raw Milk, Using a Low-Cost NIR Spectrometer and k-NN Algorithm

open access: yesApplied Sciences, 2021
Among the bovine diseases, mastitis causes high economic losses in the dairy production system. Nowadays, detection under field conditions is mainly performed by the California Mastitis Test, which is considered the de facto standard.
Ivan Ramirez-Morales   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Service performance in public healthcare system: data envelopment analysis

open access: yesAD-minister, 2017
As well as companies that compete in market, in public health system organizations compete to satisfy customer’s need, and therefore identifying those needs and delivering the value is critical in success.
Zahra Zare
doaj   +1 more source

The application of the data envelopment analysis method in investigating the performance of irrigated wheat producers with an environmental approach [PDF]

open access: yesمدیریت نوآوری و راهبردهای عملیاتی
Purpose: In this study, the technical efficiency and environmental efficiency of irrigated wheat producers in 31 provinces of the country were investigated by considering the emission of CO2 as an undesirable output during the years 1385-1397.Methodology:
Fatemeh Zargaran   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Efficiency of China’s Listed Securities Companies: Estimation through a DEA-Based Method

open access: yesMathematics, 2020
Accurate assessment of the efficiency of securities companies is of great significance to improve the competitiveness of companies, due to their increasingly important role in supporting economic development. As the main contribution, this paper proposes
Tao Xu, Jianxin You, Yilei Shao
doaj   +1 more source

Direct and Indirect Shadow Price and Cost Estimates of Nitrogen Pollution Abatement

open access: yesJournal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2002
The implications of treating environmental pollution as an undesirable output (weak disposability) as well as a normal input (strong disposability) on the direct and indirect shadow price and cost estimates of nitrogen pollution abatement is analyzed ...
Saleem Shaik   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Monitoring bank performance in the presence of risk [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This paper proposes a managerial control tool that integrates risk in efficiency measures. Building on existing efficiency specifications, our proposal reflects the real banking technology and accurately models the relationship between desirable and ...
Epure, Mircea   +1 more
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