one of the biggest problems of using data envelopment analysis for the evaluation of performance is the weakness of the separability for the decision maker units. this problem is generalizable because of the lower quantity of units in comparison with the ¬input and output quantities of the model [1]. this matter considerably reveals itself in the evaluation process of 23 provincial gas companie...

This document describes a convention for compressing FITS binary tables that is modeled after the FITS tiled-image compression method (White et al. 2009) that has been in use for about a decade. The input table is first optionally subdivided into tiles, each containing an equal number of rows, then every column of data within each tile is compressed and stored as a variable-length array of byte...

This article addresses the differentiated impacts of various sectors and branches in a multi-layer regional system. As a case-study the Cairngorms National Park (CNP) in Scotland is used. In this area, policy makers —at different administrative levels— strongly emphasize the need for new sustainable economic development. We use a novel combination of stakeholder analysis with household question...

The authors describe the principal results obtained from a new method applied to the estimation of potential U.S. GDP. This method derives from the work of Rennison (2002), which suggests that the joint use of extended multivariate filters and structural vector autoregression models is optimal for estimating potential output. The authors use this approach to estimate the two components of poten...

This research proposes a methodology for patent-citation-based technology input-output analysis by applying the patent information to input-output analysis developed for the dependencies among different industries. For this analysis, a technology relationship matrix and its components, as well as input and technology inducement coefficients, are constructed using patent information. Then, a tec...