This paper uses Data Envelopment Analysis and econometric methods to evaluate the efficiency of Turkish secondary education. It identifies scale diseconomies and relates them to the underlying structural characteristics of the system. Some ideas on improving performance are offered. The role of heterogeneity and centralization is highlighted. Heterogeneity is modeled as an undesirable measure. ...

The state-of-the-art OpenFlow technology only partially realized SDN vision of abstraction and centralization for packet forwarding in switches. OpenFlow/P4 falls short in implementing middlebox functionalities due to the fundamental limitation in its match-action abstraction. In this paper, we advocate the vision of Software-Defined Middleboxes (SDM) to realize abstraction and centralization f...

We model two aspects of executives in parliamentary democracies: Decision-making authority is assigned to individuals, and private information is aggregated through communication. When information is relevant to all policies and communication is private, all decisions should be centralized to a single politician. A government that holds cabinet meetings, where information is made available to a...

This thesis takes the position that decentralization is a dynamic process in constant transition in Third World countries between centralization and decentralization. The author uses an historic approach to explore the process of decentralization as it affects local governments, particularly historic-cultural influences which have had a negative impact on the development of local government ins...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the best available evidence on volume-outcome effect of pancreatic surgery by a systematic review of the existing data and to determine the impact of the ongoing plea for centralization in The Netherlands. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA Centralization of pancreatic resection (PR) is still under debate. The reported impact of hospital volume on the mortality rate after PR varie...

The development of the institution self-government in Russia previous decades faced numerous systemic problems resource, organizational and social nature, which led to dependence it on state power. Further integration into unified system power Russian Federation was secured by constitutional amendments 2020. However, at regional level, particularly regions Southwestern Siberia, process centrali...