Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a powerful performance measurement in economic sector and operations research to assess the relative efficiency for each decision making unit (DMU). In general, there are two assumptions in DEA. Firstly, the DEA assumes that all DMUs are homogenous in their environments and secondly, the DEA is a deterministic approach which refers to not allow to noise or err...

Bulk-arrival queues with single servers that provide bulk service are widespread in the real world, e.g., elevators in buildings, people-movers in amusement parks, air-cargo delivery planes, and automated guided vehicles. Much of the literature on this topic focusses on the development of the theory for waiting time and number in such queues. We develop the theory for the number stranded, i.e.,...

We give sufficient conditions for the tautness of a transversely homogenous foliation defined on compact manifold, by computing its base-like cohomology. As an application, we prove that if is non-unimodular then either ambient closure leaves or total space associated principal bundle fiber over S 1 .

We study the class of homogenous ΣΠΣΠ(r) circuits, which are depth 4 homogenous circuits with top fanin bounded by r. We show that any homogenous ΣΠΣΠ(r) circuit computing the permanent of an n× n matrix must have size at least exp ( n ) . In a recent result, Gupta, Kamath, Kayal and Saptharishi [6] showed that any homogenous depth 4 circuit with bottom fanin bounded by t which computes the per...

objective: in order to evaluate the endometrium by ultrasound in patients undergoing controlled ovarian hyperstimulation (coh) with clomiphene citrate (cc) and human menopausal gonadotropin (hmg) with intrauterine insemination (iui) to determine the relationship between endometrial pattern and thickness on pregnancy rate (pr). methods: in this prospective study, 108 infertile couples underwent ...

Seismic sources are currently generated manually by experts, a process which is not efficient as the size of historical earthquake databases is growing. However, large historical earthquake databases provide an opportunity to generate seismic sources through data mining techniques. In this paper, we propose hierarchical clustering of historical earthquakes for generating seismic sources automat...

Homogenous wear resistant carbon coatings with an optical gap of 3 eV but low stress are needed to increase the storage density in optical storage disks in order to reach 100 GB in 12-cm diameter disks. Here, hydrogenated amorphous carbon (aC:H) films are deposited at room temperature using a large area electron cyclotron wave resonance plasma beam source of 14.2inch diameter. Methane is used a...