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A bargaining approach to determine common weights in DEA
In this paper Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is used to assess the relative efficiency of a set of decision-making units (DMUs). Each DMU is evaluated on the basis of the ratio of its weighted output (i.e. vi...
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Analysis and vulnerability of the international wheat trade network
Wheat is one of the three basic cereals providing the necessary calorific intake for most of the world’s population. For this reason, its trade is critical to many countries in order to fulfil their internal d...
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Chapter
Dominance Network Analysis: Hybridizing Dea and Complex Networks for Data Analytics
Although originated in the efficiency analysis realm, Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a data-driven non-parametric methodology that can be effectively used for data analytics of multidimensional datasets. T...
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Complex network analysis of keywords co-occurrence in the recent efficiency analysis literature
A network analysis (NA) of keyword co-occurrences for a broad collection of Data envelopment analysis (DEA) papers in the period 2008–2017 is carried out. The raw keywords have been cleaned up and standardized...
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Data envelopment analysis of systems with multiple modes of functioning
Many systems can operate in different modes of functioning. Conventional data envelopment analysis (DEA) would ignore that fact and consider instead that the system is a black box, paying attention just to the...
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DEA production games with fuzzy output prices
In DEA production models the technology is assumed to be implicit in the input-output data given by a set of recorded observations. DEA production games assess the benefits to different firms of pooling their ...
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Drug prescription including interactions with anticancer treatments in the elderly: A global approach
Consequences of inappropriate prescriptions and polymedication in patients suffering from cancer are beginning to be well documented. However, the methods used to evaluate these consequences are often discusse...
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Efficiency Analysis of the European Food Banks: Some Managerial Results
Hundreds of thousands of people in Europe are daily receiving food, thanks to local food banks, run basically by volunteers who collect donations and distribute them to organizations. In this paper, data from...
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Body composition and anti-neoplastic treatment in adult and older subjects - A systematic review
The estimation of the risk of poor tolerance and overdose of antineoplastic agents protocols represents a major challenge in oncology, particularly in older patients. We hypot...
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Chapter
Measuring the Performance of Nations at The Summer Olympics Using Data Envelopment Analysis
The Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, held from 15 September through 1 October, were a complete success and confirmed the Summer Olympic games as the most important and popular sport event in the world. More than 100...
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Company-wide production planning using a multiple technology DEA approach
In this paper, Data Envelopment Analysis is used to determine the target output levels (and corresponding required inputs) for the multiple facilities under the responsibility of a Top Decision Maker. The prop...
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Role of network topology in the synchronization of power systems
We study synchronization dynamics in networks of coupled oscillators with bimodal distribution of natural frequencies. This setup can be interpreted as a simple model of frequency synchronization dynamics amon...
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Open AccessA rule for predicting the new equilibrated carbon dioxide partial pressure after changes in the ventilation frequency
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Chapter
Le cancer du poumon du sujet âgé
Le cancer bronchique est désormais la première cause de mortalité par cancer en France. L’incidence des cancers bronchiques augmente chez les sujets âgés en raison du vieillissement de la population. Toutefois...
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DEA-based pre-merger planning tool
Data envelopment analysis (DEA) can be used as a pre-merger planning tool to estimate expected cost and profit efficiency gains. Specifically, in this paper, two alternative DEA models are presented, one to mi...
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Eco-Efficiency of Electric and Electronic Appliances: A Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)
Several papers have studied the eco-efficiency of manufacturing systems to address strategic socioeconomic issues in the context of sustainability analysis. Their goal has been to take into account not only en...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Evaluation of an automated PEEP controller in mechanical ventilation support
Mechanical ventilation implies the risk of ventilator induced lung injury (VILI). One of the goals of mechanical ventilation is to sustain alveolar recruitment while avoiding excessive lung inflation. To achie...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An evaluation of end-tidal CO2 change following alterations in ventilation frequency
In the context of develo** an automated system to control mechanical ventilation (AUTOPILOT-BT), the knowledge of the time course of end-tidal CO2 change after an alteration of the ventilation frequency is mand...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Assessing the educational status of clinicians concerning mechanical ventilation
The complexity of mechanical ventilation in critical care requires highly sophisticated expert knowledge of the clinicians. However, bedside praxis reveals a variety in treatment concepts of intensivists with ...
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TSD-consistent performance assessment of mutual funds
This paper presents three new data envelopment analysis-based approaches to assess the relative efficiency of mutual funds (MFs). Each model considers an appropriate risk measure as input and an appropriate re...
