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Hao Peng, Qingqing Cao, Jesse Dodge, Matthew E. Peters + 10 more
'Jared Fernandez' 'Tom Sherborne' 'Kyle Lo' 'Sam Skjonsberg' 'Emma Strubell' 'Darrell Plessas' 'Iz Beltagy' 'Evan Pete Walsh' 'Noah A. Smith' 'Hannaneh Hajishirzi'] Rising computational demands of modern natural language processing (NLP) systems have increased the barrier to entry for cutting-edge research while posing…
Angeliki Flokou, Vassilis Aletras, Dimitris Niakas, Giampiero Favato
The main objective of this study was to apply the non-parametric method of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to measure the efficiency of Greek NHS hospitals between 2009-2013. Hospitals were divided into four separate groups with common characteristics which allowed comparisons to be carried out in the context of…
Tian Tian, Hong Yan, Youli Xu, Reza Rostamzadeh
The development of Happy Farmhouse tourism in China faces significant challenges of homogenized competition and low operational efficiency. This study aims to evaluate the operational efficiency of these farmhouses and compare the performance across three distinct business entity models: individual farmer, farmer…
Jih-Shong Wu, Gilbert Ramirez
As human lifespan increases and the need for elderly care grows, the demand for healthcare services and its associated costs have surged, causing a decline in the operational efficiency of universal healthcare. This has created an imbalance in medical services across different regions, posing a long-standing challenge…
Siripattra Juthamanee, Aimutcha Wattanaburanon, Yuvadee Rodjarkpai, Saowanee Thongnopakun + 1 more
DEA was first used to measure efficiency by Charnes et al. (), building on Farrell’s () productive efficiency ideas. The basic model of DEA is fractional programming (FP), which is difficult to compute. Later, the FP model was modified into linear programming (LP), making it easy to calculate efficiency values. DEA LP…
Bei He, Xiaoyun Du, Junkang Li, Dan Chen + 1 more
Finding solutions to the challenges posed by China’s urbanization is an urgent, pressing global concern. An effective approach for evaluating the ecological well-being performance (EWP) is a guideline for improvement. Most previous studies have focused on the evaluation of EWP efficiency without considering the…
Zohreh Shaker, Zainab Shaker, Mohsen Barouni, Asma Sabermahani
Background Medical diagnostic laboratories are an essential work environment that plays an important role in diagnosing, treating, and being sensitive to diseases. One way to evaluate laboratories’ performance is to calculate their efficiency. This study investigates the efficiency of laboratories that are related to…
Jan Kubanek
Understanding how humans and animals can make effective decisions given natural constraints would have a profound impact on economics, psychology, ecology, and related fields. Neoclassical economics provides a formalism for optimal decisions, but the apparatus requires a large number of evaluations of the decision…
Felix Kaspar
The term efficient has gained great popularity in the chemical literature, despite the lack of an applicable and relatable definition. In this perspective, a chemical definition of efficiency is discussed building on the concept of non-wasteful resource usage. It is proposed than an efficient method, synthesis or…
Igor Lutsenko
Currently, there is quite a strange situation in the knowledge "market". A great number of publications consider efficiency as the "old good friend". At the same time, without the validation of the developed criterion, a reader is invited to use one or the other indicator as efficiency indicator. It resembles the…
M. Zulfakhar Zubir, A. Azimatun Noor, A. M. Mohd Rizal, A. Aziz Harith + 4 more
'A. Aziz Harith' 'M. Ihsanuddin Abas' 'Zuriyati Zakaria' 'Anwar Fazal A. Bakar' 'André Ramalho'] The efficiency and productivity evaluation process commonly employs Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) as a performance tool in numerous fields, such as the healthcare industry (hospitals). Therefore, this review examined…
Aníbal Galindro, Micael Santos, Delfim F. M. Torres, Ana Marta‐Costa
During the past sixty years, a lot of effort has been made regarding the productive efficiency. Such endeavours provided an extensive bibliography on this subject, culminating in two main methods, named the Stochastic Frontier Analysis (parametric) and Data Envelopment Analysis (non-parametric). The literature states…
Jan Kubanek
How humans and animals distribute their behavior across choice options has been of key interest to economics, psychology, ecology, and related fields. Neoclassical and behavioral economics have provided prescriptions for how decision-makers can maximize their reward or utility, but these formalisms are used by…
Mutian Yu, Rob Egan, Fengchen Liu, Zhong Wang + 1 more
Genomic Foundation Models (GFMs) are increasingly used for large-scale sequence analysis and generation. Compared with frontier language models, GFMs are typically smaller and frequently operate on long genomic sequences, with evaluation often requiring preservation of biologically meaningful structure and…
Mercedes Landete, Juan F. Monge, José L. Ruiz
In this paper we propose robust efficiency scores for the scenario in which the specification of the inputs/outputs to be included in the DEA model is modelled with a probability distribution. This probabilistic approach allows us to obtain three different robust efficiency scores: the Conditional Expected Score, the…
E. Ewaoluwagbemiga, G. Bee, C. Kasper
The improvement of efficiency traits, such as protein efficiency (PE), digestible energy efficiency (EnE) and lipid gain (LipG), are relevant given their associations with environmental pollution, cost of productions, and the quality of meat. However, these traits are difficult traits to measure and usually require…
Erniel B. Barrios, Nur Syazwani Mazlan, Lim Foo Weng, Paolo Victor T. Redondo + 2 more
A strategy for incorporating higher-frequency determinants of inefficiency into the stochastic frontier models with production function indicators compiled at lower frequencies is proposed. Furthermore, the problem with positive skewness in stochastic frontier models is resolved by postulating a logistic function for…
Mahmood Mehdiloozad, Mohammad Bagher Ahmadi, Biresh K. Sahoo
In data envelopment analysis (DEA), the concept of efficiency is examined in either Farrell (DEA) or Pareto senses. In either of these senses, the efficiency status of a decision making unit (DMU) is classified as either weak or strong. It is well established that the strong DEA efficiency is both necessary and…
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Biological processes underpin centralized wastewater treatment but are difficult to deploy at small scale. Thermomechanical and thermochemical approaches could enable household-level sanitation, yet their economic and environmental potential remains unclear. We assessed two prototype household reinvented toilets…
Sterling Baird, Jason R. Hall, Taylor D. Sparks
Would you rather search for a line inside a cube or a point inside a square? Physics-based simulations and wet-lab experiments often have symmetries (degeneracies) that allow reducing problem dimensionality or search space, but constraining these degeneracies is often unsupported or difficult to implement in many…
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Continuous manufacturing processes offer significant advantages over batch processes, including easier scalability, reduced costs, lower raw material and solvent consumption, and improved energy efficiency. A robust techno-economic assessment is therefore essential to evaluate and facilitate the adoption of such…
Siyuan Luo, Pierre-Luc Germain, Ferdinand von Meyenn, Mark D. Robinson
Benchmarks are crucial to understanding the strengths and weaknesses of the growing number of tools for single-cell and spatial omics analysis. A key task is to distinguish subpopulations within complex tissues, where evaluation typically relies on external clustering validation metrics. Different metrics often lead to…
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Selection of efficient multi-step synthesis routes is a fundamental challenge in organic synthesis. Comparing different routes involves numerous parameters, economic considerations, and integration of nuanced chemical knowledge. While computer-aided synthesis planning (CASP) tools can generate synthetic routes…
Yalin Li, John Trimmer, Steven Hand, Xinyi Zhang + 6 more
The pursuit of sustainability has catalyzed broad investment in the research, development, and deployment (RD&D) of innovative water, sanitation, and resource recovery technologies, yet the lack of transparent and agile methodologies to navigate the expansive landscape of technology development pathways remains a…