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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
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Efficiency evaluation of unattended convenience store based on bi-level DEA with multi-followers [PDF]
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
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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
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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
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Detection of Bovine Mastitis in Raw Milk, Using a Low-Cost NIR Spectrometer and k-NN Algorithm
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
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Service performance in public healthcare system: data envelopment analysis
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
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The application of the data envelopment analysis method in investigating the performance of irrigated wheat producers with an environmental approach [PDF]
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
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Efficiency of China’s Listed Securities Companies: Estimation through a DEA-Based Method
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
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Direct and Indirect Shadow Price and Cost Estimates of Nitrogen Pollution Abatement
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
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Monitoring bank performance in the presence of risk [PDF]
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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