DEA has been extensively used to measure the efficiency of financial institutions. Its advantages are clearly understood. But there are many unresolved problems. There are various views based on different modelling philosophies of what constitutes inputs and outputs in a financial institution. The paper explores up to what point the various combinations of inputs and outputs are equivalent, and...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the efficiency of inpatient rehabilitation for patients after stroke in Thailand. DESIGN Multi-centre, prospective study. SUBJECTS Patients after stroke, aged >or= 18 years, with stable medical signs, able to follow 1-step commands and to sit for at least 30 min. METHODS Main outcomes included Barthel Index (BI) scores, BI effectiveness, BI efficiency, length of stay...

Analysis was made of the relationship between conformation traits and lifetime production efficiency of the cows that first calved in 2000 and represented the active population in the Pomorze and Kujawy regions of Poland. The CORR Pearson procedures of SAS package were used in the statistical calculations. It was found that there is a statistically significant relationship, weak or low on the G...

Word level confidence measures are of use in many areas of speech recognition. Comparing the hypothesized word score to the score of a ‘filler’ model has been the most popular confidence measure because it is highly efficient, and does not require a large amount of training data. This paper explores an extension of this technique which also compares the hypothesized word score to the scores of ...

The SYNTAX score is an angiographic scoring system that is currently used for evaluating the complexity of coronary lesions. Its efficiency in both long-term prognosis and the selection of treatment modalities has been shown in many studies. However, there is little evidence for the use of this scoring system in CT angiography, which has become a part of coronary artery disease practice. Here, ...

This paper addresses issue of sensitivity of efficiency classification of variable returns to scale (VRS) technology for enhancing the credibility of data envelopment analysis (DEA) results in practical applications when an additional decision making unit (DMU) needs to be added to the set being considered. It also develops a structured approach to assisting practitioners in making an appropria...

Modeling consistency of style in isogenous fields of patterns (such as character patterns in a word from the same font or writer) can improve classification accuracy. Since such patterns are interdependent, the Bayes classifier requires maximization of a probability score over all fieldlabels, which are exponentially more numerous with increasing field length. The iterative field classification...

• Compute particle weights from linear SVM score of extended HOG features [2] • Baseline: Features computed for each particle • Enhancement: Sliding window detector on feature pyramid for fast re-detection after occlusions, failure detection, and to find the best negative training examples in each frame • Particles get SVM score from detector response • Sliding-window-based measurement model is...

BACKGROUND Increasing emphasis is placed on patient-reported outcomes (PROs) after common orthopaedic procedures as a measure of quality. When considering PRO utilization in patients with rotator cuff tears, several different PROs exist with varying levels of accuracy and utilization. HYPOTHESIS/PURPOSE Understanding which disease-specific PRO may be most efficiently administered in patients ...