As part of a major effort to address soil fertility decline in West Africa, an integrated soil fertility management project promoted two technology packages: a combined application of inorganic fertilizer and manure (BNMS-manure) and a soybean/maize rotation practice (BNMS-rotation) in the northern Guinea savanna (NGS) of Nigeria. This study used a tobit regression model to examine factors that...

The effects of the prospective payment system and other factors on the use of post-hospital services were investigated for four groups of diagnostically related Medicare discharges. Effects on specific services and total Medicare payments were analyzed at the beneficiary level using a Tobit regression technique. The utilization data base consisted of more than 30,000 discharge episode records f...

This study was conducted to determine factors influencing the intensity of BRRI cultivar adoption in Aus season on farm households Jamalpur district. The data were collected through structured questionnaires from 200 randomly selected rice farmers three upazilas employed descriptive statistics and Tobit-censored regression adoption. In addition, ten FGDs expert panel interviews verify data. res...

fast food has become a prominent feature of diet and has grown into a dominant dietary pattern among youth worldwide. it is difficult to escape noticing the colourful edifice and bill boards of these food outlets, one is probably just around the corner of your street. mr biggs, tastes fried chicken, sweet sensation, big treat, favourite etc. due to competitive nature of the market many of the f...

this study investigates issues on efficiency and elasticity of broiler production in peninsular malaysia. data from 296 broiler farms were subjected to sfa, dea and bootstrap methods for technical efficiency; translog and tobit regression analyses to estimate elasticity of production and determinants of efficiency respectively in broiler production. we found that farmers produce mean efficiency...

Objective This research draws on the theory of unequal exchange to help explain global inequities in prevalence undernourishment (PoU). Methods I evaluate proposition that vertical flow exports high-income countries exerts harmful effects less-developed using fixed estimation and generalized least squares random tobit panel regression models. Results Insights from advance our understanding PoU....

Using a new dataset for 41 German non-governmental organizations (NGOs), we analyze the allocation of NGO aid across recipient countries in a Tobit regression framework. By identifying for each NGO the degree of public refinancing, we address the largely unresolved issue of whether financial dependence on the government impairs the targeting of NGO aid. It turns out that German NGOs are more ac...

The paper undertakes a comparative efficiency analysis of public bus transport in Spain using Data Envelopment Analysis. A procedure for efficiency evaluation was established with a view to estimating its technical and scale efficiency. Principal components analysis allowed us to reduce a large number of potential measures of supplyand demand-side and quality outputs in three statistical factor...

INTRODUCTION The recent global economic crisis is pushing governments worldwide to obtain a more explicit and urgent rationing of resources. The purpose of this study is to provide, through Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), a methodological framework useful for investigating technical efficiency of hospital care. METHODS To validate such framework, we compared 50 Italian public hospital trusts...

To thrive in the current embedded and electronic competitive environment, organizations must achieve advantageous positions within their networks of competition. We strengthen the understanding of the genesis of network structures by examining the IT-enabled capabilities and internal resource endowment that determine an advantageous position in competition networks, which we term as competitive...