This paper proposes an efficient approach for optimizing the multiple quality characteristics (QCHs) in manufacturing applications on the Taguchi method using the super efficiency technique in data envelopment analysis (DEA). Each experiment in Taguchi’s orthogonal array (OA) is treated as a decision making unit (DMU) with multiple QCHs set as inputs or outputs. DMU’s efficiency is evaluated th...

For better guiding a system, senior managers should have accurate information. Using Data Envelopment analysis (DEA) help managers in this objective. Thus, many investigations have been made in order to find the most productive scale size (MPSS) for the evaluating decision making units (DMUs). In this paper we consider this case where there exist subsets of input and output variables to be inte...

Amiodarone (AM) is a potent antidysrhythmic agent which can cause potentially lifethreatening pulmonary fibrosis, and N-desethylamiodarone (DEA) is a metabolite of AM that may contribute to the toxicity of AM in vivo. Recent evidence has implicated the involvement of the renin-angiotensin system (RAS) in the initiation and progression of amiodarone-induced pulmonary toxicity. In cultured HPL1A ...

BACKGROUND Dog erythrocyte antigen (DEA) 1.1 is the antigen considered most responsible for severe hemolysis owing to incompatible blood transfusions in previously sensitized dogs. Few reports describe the frequency of DEA 1.1 expression in European dogs, and there are no reports in dogs from Portugal. OBJECTIVE The aims of this study were to identify the frequency of DEA 1.1 expression in Po...

Diethanolamine-Induced Alteration of Hepatic Mitochondrial Function and Structure. BARBEE, S. J., AND HARTUNG, R. (1979). Toxicol. Appl. Pharmacol. 47,431-440. Diethanolamine (DEA) has been shown to interfere with phospholipid metabolism. It was hypothesized that DEA may alter membrane-bound biochemical processes which are dependent upon phospholipids. DEA was investigated for its effect on hep...

Data envelopment analysis (DEA), based on mathematical programming techniques, is a popular method for assessing the relative efficiency of various decision-making units (DMUs). Efficient DEA computations need to circumvent intensive time-consuming calculations. This paper indicates that the “corner points” in single input and single output scatter plot has extreme efficiency with regard to the...

This study examines how budgeting and funding affect service delivery in medical education in Nigeria using College of Medicine of the University of Lagos (CMUL) as the case study. Predicated on the human capital theory and the Resilience and Youth Development Module (RYDM) model, it employed the output-oriented Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) as the main technique of analysis for measuring eff...

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is one of the most used non-parametric techniques for technical efficiency assessment. DEA exclusively concerned about minimization empirical error, satisfying, at same time, some shape constraints (convexity and free disposability). Unfortunately, by construction, a descriptive methodology that not preventing overfitting. In this paper, we introduce new allows e...

The purpose of the present experiments was to test the hypothesis that diethanolamine (DEA), an alkanolamine shown to be hepatocarcinogenic in mice, induces hepatic choline deficiency and to determine whether altered choline homeostasis was causally related to the carcinogenic outcome. To examine this hypothesis, the biochemical and histopathological changes in male B6C3F1 mice made choline def...

Introduction: Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a data-oriented method for measuring and benchmarking the relative efficiency of peer decision making units (DMUs) with multiple inputs and multiple outputs. DEA was initiated in 1978 when Charnes, Cooper and Rhodes (CCR) demonstrated how to change a fractional linear measure of efficiency into a linear programming format. This non-parametric app...