In data envelopment analysis, there are several methods for measuring efficiency change over time, e.g. the window analysis and the Malmquist index. However, they usually neglect carry-over activities between consecutive two terms. These carry-overs play an important role in measuring the efficiency of decision making units in each term as well as over the whole terms based on the long-term vie...

In the model-based clustering of networks, blockmodelling may be used to identify roles in the network. We identify a special case of the Stochastic Block Model (SBM) where we constrain the cluster-cluster interactions such that the density inside the clusters of nodes is expected to be greater than the density between clusters. This corresponds to the intuition behind community-finding methods...

Before an enteropathogen binds to the small bowel, it must interact with the small-bowel mucus (SBM) layer. To determine whether this interaction involves specific binding of diarrheagenic Escherichia coli, we used a quantitative assay with labeled, purified rabbit SBM. Binding of SBM from an adult rabbit was significantly greater to strain 162, an agglutinating E. coli strain, than it was to R...

This paper presents Smart Box Management (SBM) – an end-toend remote management framework for Internet enabled devices. In SBM, client devices securely communicate over the public Internet for device management specific services such as remote registration, remote configuration, dynamic updates (downloads) and device diagnostic uploads with the SBM server. The SBM client device is a smart box a...

It is now widely accepted that knowledge can be acquired from networks by clustering their vertices according to connection profiles. Many methods have been proposed and in this paper we concentrate on the Stochastic Block Model (SBM). The clustering of vertices and the estimation of SBM model parameters have been subject to previous work and numerous inference strategies such as variational Ex...

Two experiments were conducted to determine the concentration of DE and ME and the standardized ileal digestibility (SID) of AA in chicken meal, poultry byproduct meal, hydrolyzed porcine intestines, a spent hen–soybean meal (SBM) mixture, and conventional SBM fed to weanling pigs. In Exp. 1, 48 barrows (initial BW: 14.6 ± 2.2 kg) were placed in metabolism cages and allotted to 6 diets with 8 r...

Our objective was to determine the effects of frequency of soybean meal (SBM) supplementation on forage intake and net portal-drained viscera (PDV) and hepatic flux of nutrients in ewes that consume low-quality forage. Six Polled Dorset ewes (BW+/-SD = 82+/-9 kg) fitted with hepatic venous, hepatic portal, abdominal aortic, and mesenteric venous catheters were used in a replicated 3 x 3 Latin s...

Social Bookmarking (SBM) is one of the most widely used Web services. An SBM website displays and shares each user’s bookmarks. The SBM service aggregates the number of users who bookmark a given Web page and provides useful information as a result of these aggregations. However, an increase in the popularity of the SBM service and in the number of the users of the SBM service results in an inc...

Two experiments were conducted to evaluate the nutritional quality of 2 varieties of Purdue high-digestible sorghum (PHD1 and PHD2) and a normal sorghum, compared with corn, in diets of pigs and broiler chicks. In Exp. 1, 12 pigs (average BW, 55 kg) fitted with ileal T-cannula were fed 4 diets containing 946 g of corn or sorghum (PHD1, PHD2, and normal) per kg in a 2-period crossover design (i....

We consider an electronic model for realizing the spin Bose-metal SBM phase on a two-leg triangular strip—a spin liquid phase found by Sheng et al. Phys. Rev. B 79, 205112 2009 in a spin-1/2 model with ring exchanges. The SBM can be viewed as a “C1S2” Mott insulator of electrons where the overall charge transporting mode is gapped out. We start from a two-band “C2S2” metal and consider extended...