A network DEA quantity and quality-orientated production model: An application to Australian university research services

The motivation for this analysis is the recently developed Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) program developed to assess the quality of research in Australia. The objective is to develop an appropriate empirical model that better represents the underlying production of higher education research. In general, past studies on university research performance have used standard DEA models with some quantifiable research outputs. However, these suffer from the twin maladies of an inappropriate production specification and a lack of consideration of the quality of output. By including the qualitative attributes of peer-reviewed journals, we develop a procedure that captures both quality and quantity, and apply it using a network DEA model. Our main finding is that standard DEA models tend to overstate the research efficiency of most Australian universities.

Environmental Concerns in Water Pricing Policy: an Application of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)

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Nueva ara dedicada a “Mater Dea” procedente de “Veleia” (Iruña de Oca, Álava)

[ES] La realización de algunos trabajos de adecuación del paisaje en la zona sur de la ciudad, en la zona extramuros del llamado "oppidum", han dado como resultado hace pocas semanas la identificación de algunas estructuras de época romana y, sobre todo, de un ara dedicada a la diosa "Mater" cuyo texto conservado abre muchas posibilidades de análisis futuro sobre este asentamiento.

VCSTalk:基于DEA的开源软件开发人员效率评价工具

介绍了VCSTalk的具体设计和实现架构,并展示了它用于评价若干开源软件项目中的开发人员效率的一个具体实例.

基于DEA模型的我国自然灾害区域脆弱性评价

应用数据包络分析(Data Envelopment Analysis,DEA)模型对我国自然灾害的区域脆弱性水平进行研究,在区域灾害系统理论的组织框架下,从区域自然灾害危险性、区域承灾体暴露性和区域自然灾害损失度三个方面构建了区域自然灾害系统的DEA投入产出模型,并利用模型得出的区域自然灾害成灾效率对区域自然灾害的脆弱性进行模拟反映,对我国自然灾害脆弱性的区域分异特征进行分析。研究发现:我国自然灾害脆弱性的整体水平较高,地域格局为西部>中部>东部,且脆弱性水平与地区经济水平具有明显的负相关关系,经济发达地区的脆弱性相对较低。

基于GANN和DEA的我国工业经济与环境协调发展研究

以中国工业经济与环境的协调关系为例,利用相空间重构技术将一维时间序列扩展到多维,从而作为经遗传算法优化的神经网络的输入输出,由此对2005-2010年的中国工业与环境加以预测,使得预测精度大大提高。在此基础上,运用数据包络分析法对1986-2010年的工业经济与环境协调关系的有效性加以评价,指出二者之间大致呈“S”型发展趋势,表明中国工业环境污染状况正逐步得到改善。模型评价结果与实际发展基本相符,这为研究经济与环境协调发展提供了一个新的方向。

Avaliação de uma nova abordagem comercial na banca de retalho com recurso à metodologia DEA

O presente trabalho, além de dar a conhecer o grupo BCP e de caracterizar as minhas atuais funções no seio de uma agência do Millennium bcp, tem como objetivo analisar se a nova abordagem comercial aos clientes, que este banco se encontra a implementar, permite melhorar a eficiência das suas agências. A eficiência é analisada através do estudo da produtividade técnica, com recurso à técnica de programação linear: Data Envelopment Analysis – DEA, na abordagem do modelo BCC, com orientação output. Considerou-se como variáveis input: o número de empregados, os gastos com pessoal e o total dos gastos operacionais, e como variáveis output: o número de contactos telefónicos, o número de transações e o número de vendas. Foram analisadas 109 agências, 9 que já implementaram a nova abordagem comercial e 100 que ainda utilizam a abordagem comercial tradicional. Verificou-se que até ao ano 2011, as agências que implementaram a nova abordagem comercial detinham um nível de eficiência significativamente inferior ao das agências que utilizam a abordagem comercial tradicional. Em 2012, ano em que foi implementada a nova abordagem comercial nas 9 agências, verificou-se que estas conseguiram melhorar significativamente o seu nível de eficiência, enquanto as agências que continuaram a usar a abordagem comercial tradicional diminuíram-no ligeiramente.

Technical and scale efficiency of cassava production system in Delta State, Nigeria: an application of Two-Stage DEA approach

The present study examines the level of pure technical and scale efficiencies of cassava production system including its sub-processes (that is production and processing stages) of 278 cassava farmers/processors from three regions of Delta State, Nigeria by applying Two-Stage Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) approach. Results reveal that pure technical efficiency (PTE) is significantly lower at the production stage 0.41 vs 0.55 for the processing stage, but scale efficiency (SE) is high at both stages (0.84 and 0.87), implying that productivity can be improved substantially by reallocation of resources and adjusting operation size. The socio-economic determinants exert differential impacts on PTE and SE at each stage. Overall, education, experience and main occupation as farmer significantly improve SE while subsistence pressure reduces it. Extension contact significantly improves SE at the processing stage but reduces PTE and SE overall. Inverse size-PTE and size-SE relationships exist in cassava production system. In other words, large/medium farms are technically and scale inefficient. Gender gap exists in performance. Male farmers are technically efficient at processing stage but scale inefficient overall. Farmers in northern region are technically efficient. Investments in education, extension services and infrastructure are suggested as policy options to improve the cassava sector in Nigeria.

Normativización de instrumentos para la detección e identificación de las necesidades educativas del alumnado con trastornos por déficit de atención con o sin hiperactividad (TDAH) o alumnado con dificultades específicas de aprendizaje (DEA) : baremos obtenidos en la población escolar canaria

La Orden de 13 de noviembre de 2010, por la que se regula la atención al alumnado con necesidades específicas de apoyo educativo en la Comunidad Autónoma de Canarias, sistematiza los criterios de identificación de este alumnado mediante pruebas estandarizadas. Esta publicación presenta la creación de nuevas pruebas y su normalización con población escolar canaria, concretamente la prueba de cálculo aritmético (PCA), la prueba de resolución de problemas verbales de aritmética (PVA) y la prueba para la evaluación inicial de la lectura (EGRA) así como los baremos para Canarias del cuestionario para la detección e identificación del alumnado con trastorno por déficit de atención con o sin hiperactividad TDAH (DSM-IV) y de las distintas pruebas y subpruebas que miden las funciones ejecutivas.

An application of the DEA double bootstrap to examine sources of efficiency in Bangladesh rice farming

In this article we examine sources of technical efficiency for rice farming in Bangladesh. The motivation for the analysis is the need to close the rice yield gap to enable food security. We employ the DEA double bootstrap of Simar and Wilson (2007) to estimate and explain technical efficiency. This technique overcomes severe limitations inherent in using the two-stage DEA approach commonly employed in the efficiency literature. From a policy perspective our results show that potential efficiency gains to reduce the yield gap are greater than previously found. Statistically positive influences on technical efficiency are education, extension and credit, with age being a negative influence.