Nanocomposites based on poly (phenylene sulfide) (PPS) and expanded graphite (EG) or ultrasonicated EG (S-EG) were prepared by melt blending. Morphologies of the nanocomposites were examined using both SEM and TEM. Electrical conductivity and thermal stability of PPS were notably enhanced by the introduction of EG. The percolation threshold values are 1 wt% (S-EG) and 2 wt% (EG) for PPS/S-EG an...

information about chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (copd)-related health resources allocation in china is very limited. the aim of the study was to explore the distribution of copd-related health resources allocation among different levels public hospitals (phs) in hunan province of central south china.we randomly collected data from 57 public hospitals (phs) at 3 different levels in huna...

This paper discusses the behaviour of German particle verbs formed by two-way prepositions in combination with pleonastic PPs including the verb particle as a preposition. These particle verbs have a characteristic feature: some of them license directional prepositional phrases in the accusative, some only allow for locative PPs in the dative, and some particle verbs can occur with PPs in the a...

Anchor DMUs are a new class in the general classification of Decision Making Units (DMUs) in Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). An anchor DMU in DEA is an extreme-efficient DMU that defines the transition from the efficient frontier to the free-disposability part of the boundary of the Production Possibility Set (PPS). In this paper, the anchor points of the PPS of the CCR model are investigated....

One of the main important issues in Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is to recognize set anchor points which subset extreme efficient production possibility (PPS). An point an located on intersection strong frontier and weak frontier. In other word, each delineate from So, if a decision making unit (DMU) point, then there at least one supporting hyperplane whose gradient vector has some zero com...

The Production Possibility Set (PPS) is defined as the set of all inputs and outputs of a system in which inputs can produce outputs‎. ‎In Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)‎, ‎it is highly important to identify the defining hyperplanes and especially the strong defining hyperplanes of the empirical PPS‎. ‎Although DEA models can determine the efficiency of a Decision Making Unit (DMU)‎, ‎but they...