The Time Projection Chamber (TPC) has been recognized as a potentially powerful detector for the search of WIMPs by measuring the directions of nuclear recoils, in which the most convincing signature of WIMPs, caused by the Earth’s motion around the Galaxy, appears. We report on the first results of a performance study of the neutron exposure of our prototype micro-TPC with Ar-C2H6 (90:10) and ...

supply chain management is one of modern approach in the field of operation and production management. nowadays success and survival of manufacturing organizations depend on effectiveness and productivity of supply chains. this research tries to investigate contributing factor to enhance supply chain productivity. then by using fuzzy promethe-a multiple attribute decision making (madm) - tous a...

the malmquist productivity index evaluates the productivity change of a decision making unit (dmu) between two time periods. in this current study, a method is proposed to compute the malmquist productivity index in several time periods (from the first to the last periods) in data envelopment analysis (dea) and then, the obtained malmquist productivity index is compared with malmquist productiv...

abstract governments in regional and national level try to improve economic and productivity growth by different polices. the being aware of effective factors in national and regional economic and productivity growth is essential for government success. in this paper, to being of aware determinant factors in productivity inequality, we use decomposition approach and econometric estimation for 2...

This study addresses the productivity of Dutch hospitals since the start of the health systems reform in 2005. We consider DEA based measures, which include efficiency and quality for the complete set of Dutch hospitals and present cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis. In particular, we consider how hospital efficiency has developed. As the reform created an environment of regulated compet...

This paper evaluates the scale of productivity change of the Bank of Serbia over the period 20072010. In this research the emphasis is put on measuring the productivity based on information from the financial statements using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method and Malmquist index to estimate the individual bank efficiency and productivity changes within this period. The Malmquist productivi...

OBJECTIVES Public hospitals in Nepal account for a major share of the total health budget. Therefore, questions are often asked about the performance of these hospitals. Existing measures of performance are limited to historical ratio analyses without any benchmarks. The objective of this study is to explore the trends in inputs, outputs and productivity changes in Nepalese public hospitals fro...

This is a personal account of how the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) came into being and how it created TPC Benchmark(tm) A and B (commonly abbreviated TPCA, TPC-B). I also describe how these tests differ from each other, and from the DebitCredit and TP1 tests, their popular but non-standardized predecessors. Finally, I offer an assessment of the value of the standards develop...

Changes in the frequency, duration, and severity of climate extremes are forecast to occur under global climate change. The impacts of climate extremes on forest productivity and health remain difficult to predict due to potential interactions with disturbance events and forest dynamics-changes in forest stand composition, density, size and age structure over time. Such interactions may lead to...

There are many tradeoffs involved in choosing between a new, more powerful software tool and an older, more established one. The best way to handle this problem may be to make the old tool more powerful through the use of meta-tools. Compiler tools suffer from this exact problem – we present YETI, a meta-tool that provides a framework for transforming and enhancing Yacc specifications. YETI can...