The present paper deals with an optimal stopping problem with several possible search areas in which travel costs are assumed among the areas. In terms of the future availability of an offer once obtained and passed up, the following two cases are considered: (1) it becomes instant.ly and forever unavailable and (2) it remains forever available, called a no recall model and a recall model. resp...

Our paper reports on the use of data envelopment analysis (DEA) for the assessment of performance of secondary schools in Malaysia during the implementation of the policy of teaching and learning mathematics and science subjects in the English language (PPSMI). The novelty of our application is that it makes use of the hybrid returns-to-scale (HRS) DEA model. This combines the assumption of con...

Traditional studies in two-stage data envelopment analysis (DEA) assumed that the outputs of the first stage completely input into the second stage. But we think that assumption is not realistic becauses of efficiency loss. This paper modifies the traditional relational two-stage DEA with Variable Returns to Scale (VRS) by abandon this assumption. By introduction of efficiency loss to measure t...

This study shows that the growth of television contributed to the rise in the incumbency advantage in U.S. House elections during the 1960s. Incumbents received positive coverage throughout their term and were generally more newsworthy and better funded than their challengers during the campaign. Less-educated voters, for whom television presented a new, less demanding source of news, were most...

In this paper, we propose a new spectrum sharing method using relay station with intelligent reception at the receiver. The relay station retransmits primary signal to destination which receives combined primary and secondary signals simultaneously. Then, the receiver detects the secondary signal by cancelling the primary signal out with the aid of the relayed signal. Simulation results demonst...

Super-efficiency data envelopment analysis (DEA) model is obtained when a decision making unit (DMU) under evaluation is excluded from the reference set. Because of the possible infeasibility of super-efficiency DEA model, the use of super-efficiency DEA model has been restricted to the situations where constant returns to scale (CRS) are assumed. It is shown that one of the input-oriented and ...

The paper proposes a solution for the Grid scheduling problem, addressing in particular the requirement of high performance an efficient algorithm must fulfill. Advance Reservation engages a distributed, dynamic, fault-tolerant and efficient strategy which reserves resources for future task execution. The paper presents the main features of the strategy, the functioning mechanism the strategy i...

Let Θ be a smooth compact oriented manifold without boundary, imbedded in a euclidean space E, and let γ be a smooth map of Θ into a Riemannian manifold Λ. An unknown state θ ∈ Θ is observed via X = θ + ǫξ where ǫ > 0 is a small parameter and ξ is a white Gaussian noise. For a given smooth prior λ on Θ and smooth estimators g(X) of the map γ we derive a second-order asymptotic expansion for the...

The detailed evaluation of regional diastolic filling at multiple ventricular levels in the normal human left ventricle has not previously been reported. Ultrafast computed tomography was used to characterize global and regional early diastolic filling in the left ventricle of 11 normal male volunteers. Regional early diastolic filling data from six distinct ventricular levels (apex to base) we...

Due to the rapid compression of hydrogen and Joule-Thompson effect specific during fast filling process, internal temperature cylinder rises sharply which may lead hidden safety hazards. In this study, a high-pressure process is considered, simple mathematical model cascade storage system refilling station developed analyze rise in cylinders under different working conditions. The results show ...