Interactions with sea turtles have occurred at an alarming rate in swordfish longlining in Hawaii in recent years and various regulations have been put forward to protect sea turtles. In order to understand the cost of reducing sea turtle interactions, methods have been developed to derive the shadow price of sea turtle bycatch based on fisher's welfare loss from a specific regulation. This pap...

We target the problem of accuracy and robustness in causal inference from finite data sets. Some state-of-the-art algorithms produce clear output complete with solid theoretical guarantees but are susceptible to propagating erroneous decisions, while others are very adept at handling and representing uncertainty, but need to rely on undesirable assumptions. Our aim is to combine the inherent ro...

In this brief, types of frequency compensation for operation transconductance amplifier are explained in detail. Compensation which is used to enhance frequency stability of the OTA, and to make gain and phase linear for required frequency range. As we know capacitor inside the OTA causes output to lag behind by 90° with each pole they create, If the addition of these phase lags add-up to 360°,...

This study examines the effects of interacting with voice interfaces in an ingroup or an outgroup accent, for both native and non-native but competent English speakers. In a balanced, between-subjects experiment, (N = 96), ingroup and outgroup participants were randomly paired with one of two types of computer speech outputs: 1) computer speech output accent which matched the participants’ acce...

Excitation control of synchronous machine is done in order to keep the terminal voltage constant. This paper describes the advantage of using a nonlinear technique called Dynamic Inversion (DI) in order maintain the voltage at the terminals constant. An excitation model which includes the excitation system stabilizer (ESS) and the transient gain reduction (TGR) blocks is considered. The referen...

Energy efficiency is crucial to the 2030 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), but its widely measured indicator, energy intensity, still insufficient. For this reason, in 2006, total factor (TFEE) was proposed with capital, labor, and as inputs GDP desirable output. The later TFEE approach further incorporated pollution undesirable However, it problematic regard (the value of final products...

Directional distance function (DDF) is a recognized technique for measuring efficiency while incorporating undesirable outputs. This approach allows for desirable outputs to be expanded while undesirable outputs are contracted simultaneously. A drawback of the DDF approach is that the direction vector to the production boundary is fixed arbitrarily, which may not provide the best efficiency mea...

Today’s agricultural management decisions impact food security and sustainable ecosystems, even when operating with back-to-basic operations. In such endeavors, policymakers usually need a quantitative tool, as trade-offs margins, to effectively adjust resource consumption or production. This paper applies the weighted slack-based measurement (SBM-DEA) program 136 developing countries’ performa...

This study introduces a revised data envelopment analysis (DEA) model to explore a new use of DEA for the environmental assessment in which outputs are classified into desirable (good) and undesirable (bad). Such an output separation is important in the DEA-based environmental assessment. We used a Range-Adjusted Measure (RAM) DEA model that is a kind of non-radial DEA model for combining the t...