the study examined gender analysis of energy use for rice production in north central nigeria using a sample of 60 rice farmers. an analysis of gender relations provides the information on the different conditions men and women face, and the different effects that policies and programs may have on them. simple descriptive statistics were used to analyze the data. energy efficiency and energy pr...

one of the most important measures, in order to increase animal products and reduce imports, is the industrialization of animal husbandry units, specially the dairy cattle. the condition of milk production would be improved by this industrialization, which is in the direction of increasing the efficiency of milk production units. the purpose of this study is calculate , the efficiency of the tr...

fluorescent monitoring of dna amplification is the basis of real-time pcr. absolute quantification can be achieved using a standard curve method. the standard curve is constructed by amplifying known amounts of standards under identical conditions to that of the samples.the objective of the current study is to propose a mathematical model to assess the acceptability of pcr resulys.four commerci...

in this paper, the effect of penicillin g drug as a green corrosion inhibitor on mild steel in 1.0 mhydrochloric acid solution has been investigated using potentiodynamic polarization, electrochemicalimpedance spectroscopy (eis) and electrochemical noise (en) techniques. the inhibition efficiencywas found to increase with increasing inhibitor concentration. potentiodynamic polarizationmeasureme...

performance evaluation of universities is an important issue between researchers. classic data envelopment analysis (dea) models with deterministic data have been used by many authors to measure efficiency of universities in different countries. however, dea with stochastic data are, rarely used to measure efficiency of universities. in this paper, input oriented model in stochastic data envelo...

performance   evaluation in regular periods is one of the ways in which organizations can   evaluate their performance as well as weak and strong points unifiedly and   precisely. these days, mathematical models are also used to evaluate the   efficiency and productivity of various units. these units are a collection of   education, research and service activities as input and output factors an...

in the use of peer group data to assess individual, typical or best practice performance, the effective detection of outliers is critical for achieving useful results. in these ‘‘deterministic’’ frontier models, statistical theory is now mostly available. this paper deals with the statistical pared sample method and its capability of detecting outliers in data envelopment analysis. in the prese...

cross efficiency is a method with the idea of peer evaluation instead of self-evaluation, and is used for evaluation and ranking decision making units (dmus) in data envelopment analysis (dea). unlike most existing dea ranking models which can only rank a subset of dmus, for example non-efficient or extreme efficient dmus, cross efficiency can rank all dmus, even non-extreme ones. however, sinc...

vanillin is an interesting corrosion inhibitor because of its safe use and high solubility inwater. the effect of vanillin on the corrosion inhibition of carbon steel in 1.0 mhydrochloric acid solution has been studied using potentiodynamic polarization,electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (eis) and electrochemical noise (en) techniques.the effect of temperature on the rate of corrosion in th...

one of the major problems in data envelopment analysis (dea) is to determine the projection of inefficient decision making units (dmus) into the efficient frontier. in conventional dea models, inputs and outputs of inefficient dmus alter arbitrarily for reaching to the efficient frontier. nevertheless, sometimes the ability of dmus is defined and restricted. moreover, there are situations in th...