since insuring agricultural products is one of the effective instruments for risk management in agricultural sector, it can reduce risk avoidance among farmers and increase their competence in using production factors and, consequently, increases their inclination towards investment in agricultural sectors. the purpose of the current study was to investigate the factors influencing policyholder...

Data Mining tools and methods can be used to facilitate auditors to issue their opinions. Numerous of these methods have not yet been tested for the purpose of discriminating cases of qualified opinions. In this study we employ three Data Mining classification techniques to develop models capable to predict qualified auditors’ reports. The input vector is composed of quantitative and qualitativ...

data envelopment analysis (dea) has been long employed as a popular methodology to evaluate the performance of various production activities with multiple inputs and outputs. however, an important issue is that the production process in the real world inevitably generates undesirable outputs (like wastes and pollutants) along with desirable outputs. therefore, the undesirable outputs should be ...

introduction: due to increased costs of health sector, much effort has been done to compare the performance of hospitals and measure their efficiency in recent years. the purpose of this study was to evaluate the relative efficiency of public and private hospitals in qom during 2007 using data envelopment analysis (dea) approach. methods: this was an applied and analytic study. the study popula...

A new performance estimation technique for FPGA implementation based designs is presented. The interest and originality of the method is to rapidly test a great number of implementation solutions while staying independent as far as possible of the technology used, and to include power consumption estimation. Thanks to this method, the designer can quickly have realistic information about the pe...

terracing is an operator that is applied to potential field data to produce regions of constant field amplitude that are separated by sharp boundaries. magnetic data are usually transformed into pseudo-gravity data (baranov, 1957) prior to the application of terracing. the objective of terracing is ‘to recast potential field maps into a geologic map like format’ (cordell and mccafferty 1989). t...