Benchmarking cleaner production performance is an effective way of pollution control and emission reduction in coal-fired power industry. A benchmarking method using two-stage super-efficiency data envelopment analysis for coal-fired power plants is proposed – firstly, to improve the cleaner production performance of DEA-inefficient or weakly DEA-efficient plants, then to select the benchmark f...

PURPOSE By analyzing and comparing industry and business best practice, processes can be optimized and become more successful mainly because efficiency and competitiveness increase. This paper aims to focus on some examples. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH Case studies are used to show knowledge exchange in the pharmaceutical industry. Best practice solutions were identified in two companies usin...

Healthcare is an industry composed of numerous and complex processes. Benchmarking is the continual and collaborative discipline of measuring and comparing the results of key work processes with those of the best performers. Benchmarking ushers in a new direction to the way activities are performed in hospitals, as there is no other tool by which supply chain performance is measured in a reliab...

BACKGROUND Experimental research on the automatic extraction of information about mutations from texts is greatly hindered by the lack of consensus evaluation infrastructure for the testing and benchmarking of mutation text mining systems. RESULTS We propose a community-oriented annotation and benchmarking infrastructure to support development, testing, benchmarking, and comparison of mutatio...

abstract the objective of the present study is to assess the performance of 18 irrigation districts from ten countries in the world using the benchmarking method and data mining analysis (cluster analysis). irrigation networks of dez, sefidrood, tajan and voshmgir from iran have been compared with 14 irrigation districts from nine other countries. the k- means algorithm was used to analyze the ...

background: exposure to blood-borne pathogens from needle-stick and sharp injuries continues to pose a significant risk to health care workers. these events are of concern because of the risk to transmit blood-borne diseases such as hepatitis b virus, hepatitis c virus, and the human immunodeficiency virus. objective: to benchmark different risk factors associated with needle-stick incidents am...

The Knowledge Web European Network of Excellence, in order to assess and improve the interoperability of ontology development tools, has organised a benchmarking of the interoperability of ontology development tools using RDF(S) as interchange language. This paper presents the participation of Protégé in this benchmarking.

In this paper, we present a benchmarking suite that allows a systematic comparison of pairwise static collision detection algorithms for rigid objects. The benchmark generates a number of positions and orientations for a predefined distance. We implemented the benchmarking procedure and compared a wide number of freely available collision detection algorithms.

Perioperative pain reduction, particularly during the first two days, is highly important for patients after total knee arthroplasty (TKA). Problems are not only caused by medical issues but by organization and hospital structure. The present study shows how the quality of pain management can be increased by implementing a standardized pain concept and simple, consistent benchmarking. All patie...

We claim that local e-services benchmarking studies summarized in indexes do little to enhance city managers’ and academics’ understanding of actual e-government performance, or to improve the e-services offered by cities. We undertook a different benchmarking approach, focused on learning best practices among cities, in late 2008 and early 2009. A benchlearning methodology (BLM) was developed,...