The purposed-the main purpose of this study is to look at the development of efficiency and productivity in the military hospital sector of Tehran province, by applying a nonparametric method. Design/methodology/approach- The study applied the nonparametric method to assess the efficiency of military hospitals service in Iran, Tehran, over the period 2013-2016. Utilizing non-parametric me...

Failure of leading firms to respond to disruptive technological changes has been explained in terms of their ‘choices’. I investigate the disruptive technological changes in the global industrial robotics industry and suggest that ‘ability’ of the firms play an important role in determining their survival chances. This paper suggests that what may be disruptive (or a sustaining) change may also...

This paper presents the research results on process of vibration abrasive processing particularly accurate parts agricultural machinery. Process peculiarities are described. The theoretical studies metal removal calculation, surface roughness and time for solving various technological problems presented. Experimental have been carried out confirming adequacy formulas. design procedure has devel...

this study investigated the status of mechanized power and self-propelled rice cultivation machinery in guilan province in northern iran. the raw data was obtained from 2013 statistics of the agricultural jihad organization of guilan province. power per unit of area, mechanization level, area per unit of self-propelled machinery, and mechanization requirement were calculated for eastern, wester...

The present study used different categories of organized sector manufacturing industries pooled data for the periods of 1981-82 and 2007-08 in Haryana state (India). The present undertaking seeks to analyze the inter-temporal and inter-industry comparison of total factor productivity (TFP) measured by Malmquist productivity index - an application of DEA which calculates the indices of TFP and i...

I propose to consider the question, "Can machines think?" This should begin with definitions of the meaning of the terms "machine" and "think." The definitions might be framed so as to reflect so far as possible the normal use of the words, but this attitude is dangerous, If the meaning of the words "machine" and "think" are to be found by examining how they are commonly used it is difficult to...

This paper presents a model which captures the technological spillovers created by foreign direct investment in Transition Economies. Skill-biased technological change is linked with endogenous labor supply which allows for unemployment. The technological spillover is divided into a neutral technological change and a skill-biased technological change. The first effect makes labor and capital mo...