Abstract Forests produce several types of benefits to both forest landowners and society. The social benefit private forestry is equal plus positive externalities minus negative externalities. This study developed alternative metrics for the evaluation management. Forest management was assessed in terms five criteria: economic, socio-cultural, environmental ecological performance resilience eco...

Measuring the universities' knowledge transfer performance is important for both policymakers and universities due to recognized social economic impact of process. The aim this paper investigate discuss contemporary metrics used measuring activities at universities. research results show that need consider several aspects when selecting reporting on their activities, such as purpose continuity ...

The issue of evaluating the performance supply chain innovations in an organization current economic environment is studied paper. proposed technique used to compare several projected and based on a comprehensive evaluation using integral coefficient taking into account both financial non-financial indicators, depending purpose focus suggested innovations. presented approach was tested as part ...

The development teams who are geographically spread, culturally mixed and mainly depend on information and communication technology (ICT) for communication is defined as a global virtual teams (GVTs). Despite the advancement of technologies, achieving the efficient performance of GVTs remains a challenge. The reviewed literature has highlighted the importance of training and development, organi...

Our results compared with those in previous experiments [11] indicate that Flowmenu offers as much of an advantage over tool palette selection as does Toolglass [2], a twohanded technique. At the same time, it is not significantly slower than marking menus. Additional results show that selection performance depends on distance around the menu, but not on initial position or direction. These res...

AIM To compare an ultrasonic height measuring device (Gulliver) with mechanical stadiometry and the classical "book and tape measure" method. METHODS Blinded duplicate measurements of height were made on each of 14 children by a pair of observers using a stadiometer (H) and Gulliver (G). Height was measured on a further 18 children by parents and an auxologist using Gulliver and the book and ...

The aim of this study was to assess the relative efficiency of the Iranian forest management plans using the non-parametric method – Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) as a well-known and robust technique for measuring the relative efficiency of organizations. The relative efficiency of forest management plans was calculated using the most frequency DEA models such as global technical efficiency (...