sergentomyia (sintonius) clydei (sinton) is for the first time recorded from the endemic localities of cutaneous leishmaniasis in sindh, punjab and n.w.f province (pakistan). in view of the published reports about the detection of encephalitis viruses from the species of the genus sergentomyia franca & theodor from the indian localities and their possible role in kala-azar transmission, the cor...

abstract quantitative analysis of production through evaluating the level of factor usage is a major part in agricultural management, which aims at increasing production by optimum usage of resources. this study has estimated and analyzed stochastic frontier production function and calculated technical efficiency of semi-mechanized broiler farms located in gorgan district. the survey data were ...

In this paper we develop an approach that synthesizes the best features of the two main methods in the estimation of production efficiency. Specically, our approach first allows for statistical noise, similar to Stochastic frontier analysis, and second, it allows modeling multiple-inputs-multiple-outputs technologies without imposing parametric assumptions on production relationship, similar to...

the present meta-analysis was conducted to provide a quantitative measure of the overall effects of task complexity on chinese efl learners’ language production. based on the strict inclusion criteria, 12 primary studies were synthesized according to key features. eleven of them were meta-analyzed to investigate effects of raising the resource-directing task complexity. results revealed that ...

smoking has become more prevalent in turkey than it has in those of western countries during the past decade. this study was conducted to make parameter estimations on gender related smoking habits with the minimum of variance. of the ninety-two researches related to smoking habits conducted from 1981 to 2003 in turkey, 60 were deemed appropriate for the application of meta analysis and meta re...

This paper investigates three disparate design cases where the newly developed s-Pareto frontier based concept selection paradigm is used to compare competing design concepts under a multiobjective optimization framework. The new paradigm, which was recently introduced by the authors, is based on the principle of Pareto optimality – a principle that defines an important class of optimal solutio...

When analyzing the productivity of rms one may want to compare how the rms transform a set of inputs x typically labor energy or capital into an output y typically a quantity of goods produced The economic e ciency of a rm is then de ned in terms of its ability of operating close to or on the production frontier which is the boundary of the production set The frontier function gives the maximal...

The state of the art in the agent field is at the frontier of deploying real intelligent agents, able to build their own understanding of the world and of associated processes. Maybe that goal can be achieved through individual power: a framing concept for the agent’s inner capabilities to achieve dominant goals. The research on individual power started from the BDI model and led to the distinc...