background: the prevention of work disability is beneficial to employees and employers, and mitigates unnecessary societal costs associated with social welfare. many service providers and employers have initiated workplace interventions designed to reduce unnecessary work disability. objective: to conduct a best-evidence synthesis of systematic reviews on workplace interventions that address ph...

in this article, non radial method of dynamic dea with the parallel network structure is presented and is used for calculation of relative efficiency measures when inputs and outputs do not change equally. in this model, dmu divisions under evaluation have been put together in parallel. but its dynamic structure is assumed in series. since in real applications there are undesirable inputs and o...

the use of solar collectors in combination with heat pipes is rapidly growing in recent years.heat pipes, as heat transfer components, have undeniable advantages in comparison with other alternatives. the most important advantage is their high rate of heat transfer at minor temperature differences. although there have been numerous studies on the heat analysis or first thermodynamic analysis of...

Lie-symmetry based integrators are constructed in order to preserve the local invariance properties of the equations. The geometrical methods leading to discretized equations for numerical computations involve many different concepts. Therefore they give rise to numerical schemes that vary in the accuracy, in the computational cost and in the implementation. In this paper a comparison is made b...

New schemes are developed on triangular grids for solving ideal magnetohydrodynamic equations while preserving globally divergence-free magnetic field. These schemes incorporate the constrained transport (CT) scheme of Evans and Hawley [39] with central schemes and central discontinuous Galerkin methods on overlapping cells which have no need for solving Riemann problems across cell edges where...

In this paper, several seller–buyer supply chain models are proposed which incorporate both cost factors as well as elements of competition and cooperation between seller and buyer. We assume that unit marketing expenditure and unit price charged by the buyer influence the demand of the product being sold. The relationships between seller and buyer will be modeled by non-cooperative and coopera...

The computational cost of numerical simulations of QCD with light dynamical Wilson-quarks is estimated. The qualitative behaviour of the pion mass and coupling at small quark masses is discussed.

We develop a constructive approach to multi-party negotiations over continuous issues. The method is intended to be used as a mediator's tool for step-by-step creation of joint gains in order to reach a Pareto-optimal agreement. During the mediation process, the parties are only required to answer relatively simple questions concerning their preferences; they do not have to reveal their utility...

A semilocal convergence analysis for directional Newton methods in n-variables is provided in this study. Using weaker hypotheses than in the elegant related work by Y. Levin and A. Ben-Israel and introducing the center-Lipschitz condition we provide under the same computational cost as in Levin and Ben-Israel a semilocal convergence analysis with the following advantages: weaker convergence co...

This paper investigates cost, technical and allocative efficiencies for Brazilian banks in the recent period (2000-2007). We use Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to compute efficiency scores. Brazilian banks were found to have low levels of economic (cost) efficiency compared to banks in Europe and in the US. For the period with high macroeconomic volatility (2000-2002) the economic inefficiency...