Conventional data envelopment analysis (DEA) models normally assume all inputs and outputs are real valued and continuous. However in problems some inputs and outputs can only take integer values, also, both desirable and undesirable outputs can be generated . In this paper the effect of undesirable outputs in integer DEA model is discussed. The proposed model distinguishes weak disposability o...

isi web of science (wos) is the world's most prestigious database that is used in order to evaluate and rank the countries, researchers, institutions, and universities. therefore, determining the status of iranian articles in this database in the field of poisonous and venomous animals is important. quantitative and qualitative assessments of scientific outputs are the main goals of this stu...

data envelopment analysis (dea) has been long employed as a popular methodology to evaluate the performance of various production activities with multiple inputs and outputs. however, an important issue is that the production process in the real world inevitably generates undesirable outputs (like wastes and pollutants) along with desirable outputs. therefore, the undesirable outputs should be ...

while the conventional dea based production plans aim to minimize all the inputs consumption and maximize all the outputs production, there are many real world production systems may also generate undesirable by-products. one methodological difficulty associated with the previous dea-based production planning models is how to incorporate undesirable factors in the planning models, while the sim...

Publishing data is more and more considered as part of the research process. While funder mandates and journal policies demand the disclosure of research data at the time of article publication there is still a lack of guidelines and workflows to reference data from grey literature. Based on multidisciplinary examples found in our repository ’PUB’ we present a user friendly generalized framewor...

Genetics and insurance is an area unusually exposed to rapid scientific advance, close public and political scrutiny, and popular myth. It may be leading the way towards evidence-based underwriting. This survey paper describes some of the experience gained since actuarial involvement began in the mid-1990s, particularly the vital link with genetic epidemiology. We survey the relevant aims and o...

In this study, the presence and distribution of both Mendeley readerships (usage) and Web of Science (WoS) citations for the publications published in the 43 Iranian international journals indexed in JCR have been investigated. The aim was to determine the impact, visibility and use of the publications published by the Iranian international journals in Mendeley compared to their citation impact...