This paper uses data envelopment analysis (DEA) to examine the technical, pure technical, and scale efficiencies of 12 branches of the agricultural bank in Guilan province, Iran over the period of 2012-2016. The first results indicated that scale inefficiency contributed more to overall technical inefficiency than pure technical inefficiency over the studied period. Results of return to scale r...

in suspension polymerization, particle size distribution of polymer is the outcome of dynamic equilibrium between the break up and coalescence phenomena. the rates of break up and coalescence and consequently polymerization stability depend on several parameters, the most important of which are type and concentration of stabilizer. in this study, the effects of type and concentration of stabili...

In this paper, we propose a novel adaptive step-size approach for policy gradient reinforcement learning. A new metric is defined for policy gradients that measures the effect of changes on average reward with respect to the policy parameters. Since the metric directly measures the effects on the average reward, the resulting policy gradient learning employs an adaptive step-size strategy that ...

We study the asymptotic average minimum manipulating coalition size as a characteristic of quality of a voting rule and show its serious drawback. We suggest using the asymptotic average threshold coalition size instead. We prove that, in large electorates, the asymptotic average threshold coalition size is maximised among all scoring rules by the Borda rule when the number m of alternatives is...

In this paper, we consider the average order of the 2-Selmer groups of elliptic curves over Q given by the equation E : y2 = x(x + a)(x + b), where a and b are integers. We show that, with a being fixed, the average order of the 2-Selmer groups of such curves closely depends on a. More exactly, we show that the average order is bounded if |a| is not a square and unbounded if |a| is the square o...

People often estimate the average duration of several events (e.g., on average, how long does it take to drive from one's home to his or her office). While there is a great deal of research investigating estimates of duration for a single event, few studies have examined estimates when people must average across numerous stimuli or events. The current studies were designed to fill this gap by e...

In this paper, we study a class of elliptic curves over Q with Qtorsion group Z2×Z2, and prove that the average order of the 2-Selmer groups is bounded.

We show that the average size of subsets of [n] forming an intersecting Sperner family of cardinality not less than ( n−1 k−1 ) is at least k provided that k 6 n=2− √ n=2 + 1. The statement is not true if n=2¿ k ¿n=2−√8n+ 1=8+9=8. c © 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

Five image processing algorithms are proposed to measure the average orientation, eccentricity and size of cells in images of biological tissue. These properties, which can be embodied by an elliptical ‘composite cell’, are crucial for biomechanical tissue models. To automatically determine these properties is challenging due to the diverse nature of the image data, with tremendous and unpredic...

We first recall some basic facts from the theory of discrete-time Markov chains arising from two types neutral and non-neutral evolution models of population genetics with constant size. We then define and analyse a version of such models whose fluctuating total population size is conserved on average only. In our model, the population of interest is seen as being embedded in a frame process wh...