How to Measure Environmental Performance in Ports

How to Care for Implanted Ports

Implantable ports are used for intravenous infusion therapy and play an important role in management of oncology patients. These ports are best suited for patients requiring long-term therapy (>4 weeks). Implanted ports provide reliable venous access protect peripheral access increase patients’ comfort through reducing repeated and difficult vein punctures allow for safe and comfortable admi...

A Russell Measure for Modeling Environmental Performance

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) has been long employed as a popular methodology to evaluate the performance of various production activities with multiple inputs and outputs. However, an important issue is that the production process in the real world inevitably generates undesirable outputs (like wastes and pollutants) along with desirable outputs. Therefore, the undesirable outputs should be ...

Sustainable Performance and Environmental Health in Brazil: How to Understand and Measure!

How to measure transportation system performance

Measuring transportation performance has become at once more urgent and complicated. Pressures of ITS deployment and accountability contribute to the urgency. Demands for comprehensive measures create complexity. This note proposes a simple performance system, named TransAcct. Its virtues are: attention to the most important measures, use of readily available sensor measurements and processing ...

How to measure uncertainties in environmental risk assessment

Environmental risk assessment is an essential element in any decision-making process in order to minimize the effects of human activities on the environment. Unfortunately, often environmental data tends to be vague and imprecise, so uncertainty is associated with any study related with these kind of data. Essentially, uncertainty in risk assessment may have two origins – randomness and incompl...