There is limited experimental information about the genetic basis of micro-environmental variance (V(E)) (developmental stability) and environmental correlations. This study, by using a population of maize recombinant inbred lines (RIL) and simple sequence repeat (SSR) polymorphic markers, aims at the following: firstly, to quantify the genetic component of the V(E) or developmental stability f...

Many socio-economically important pathogens persist and grow in the outside host environment and opportunistically invade host individuals. The environmental growth and opportunistic nature of these pathogens has received only little attention in epidemiology. Environmental reservoirs are, however, an important source of novel diseases. Thus, attempts to control these diseases require different...

One of the difficulties of Data Envelopment Analysis(DEA) is the problem of deciency discriminationamong efficient Decision Making Units(DMUs) and hence, yielding large number of DMUs as efficientones. The main purpose of this paper is to overcome this inability. One of the methods for rankingefficient DMUs is minimizing the Coefficient of Variation (CV) for inputs-outputs weights. In this pape...

In this paper we develop and implement a methodology for analysing the sources of variation in environmental efficiency across producers. We formulate a two-stage model. In the first stage we use stochastic frontier analysis to estimate both technical and environmental efficiency. In the second stage we again use stochastic frontier analysis to regress estimated environmental efficiency scores ...