Re-Examining the Technical Efficiency of Australian Banks: A Bootstrap DEA Approach حسب Moradi-Motlagh, Amir

"…This study re-examines both pure technical and scale efficiency of Australian banks using bootstrap data envelopment analysis (DEA). The aim is to improve the choice of variables of the core profit efficiency model which is commonly used in earlier Australian banking efficiency studies. …"
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A LASSO-BASED DEA FOR ECO-EFFICIENCY PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT FOR THE GLOBAL FOOD AND BEVERAGES INDUSTRY حسب SALAMEH, DOA'A MOHAMMAD FUAD

"…First, the LASSO regression is applied to reduce the dimension-space of the eco- and find the relative weights estimates for each indicator in the new dimension. Second, the DEA is used to estimate the eco-efficiency ratio for all the food industries. …"
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Portfolio Selection Problem Using CVaR Risk Measures Equipped with DEA, PSO, and ICA Algorithms حسب Hamdi, Abdelouahed

"…It was found that when solving the Mean-CVaR model with evolutionary algorithms, the risk decreased. …"
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Hyperhydration-induced decrease in urinary luteinizing hormone concentrations of Male athletes in doping control analysis حسب Athanasiadou, Ioanna

"…However, an adjustment of urinary LH concentrations by specific gravity based on a reference value of 1.020 seems to adequately correct the hyperhydration-induced decrease on the LH levels. - 2019 Human Kinetics, Inc.…"
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Credit bureaus and financial constraints do corruption matter? حسب Ben Ali, Mohamed Sami

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Adaptive thermal comfort in the different buildings of Darjeeling Hills in eastern India – Effect of difference in elevation حسب Thapa, Samar

"…Thermal comfort standards are required to provide comfortable indoor condition which has a positive effect on the occupant. However, the Predicted Mean Vote – Percentage People Dissatisfied (PMV-PPD) model which is used to determine the indoor comfort in most of the international standards fails often, especially in naturally ventilated buildings. …"
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Maximum Likelihood Estimation in the Inverse Weibull Distribution with Type II Censored Data حسب Alshaikh, Fatima A.

"…We found that the parameter estimators are almost unbiased, while the MRL and TVaR estimators are asymptotically unbiased. Moreover, the mean squared error of all estimators decreased for larger sample sizes and it increased when the censoring proportion is increased for a fixed sample size. …"
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Influence of temperature on tire-pavement noise in hot climates: Qatar case حسب Okan, Sirin

"…There is an apparent trend of decreasing temperature coefficient with increasing mean texture depth of dense graded asphalt pavements. …"
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Influence of temperature on tire-pavement noise in hot climates: Qatar case حسب Okan, Sirin

"…There is an apparent trend of decreasing temperature coefficient with increasing mean texture depth of dense graded asphalt pavements. …"
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Effect of hyperlipidemia on ketoconazole-midazolam drug-drug interaction in rat حسب Hamdy, D. A.

"…Plasma was jointly assayed for MDZ and KTZ concentrations using a validated assay. MDZ mean clearance (CL) was unchanged by KTZ coadministration. …"
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Limiting the Rise in Core Temperature During a Rugby Sevens Warm-up With an Ice Vest. حسب Taylor, Lee

"…Athletes in VEST demonstrated a decrease in ΔTS (-1.59; ±0.72) and ΔTC (-1.63; ±0.73) pre- to post-warm-up, with a lower RPE post warm-up (-1.01; ±0.46), compared to CONTROL. …"
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Socket Shield Technique to Improve the Outcomes of Immediate Implant: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis حسب Scarano, Antonio

"…Meta-analyses revealed that the immediate implants placed with SST had a statistically significant decrease in horizontal (MD = −0.28, 95% CI [−0.37, −0.19], p < 0.0001), vertical (MD = −0.85, 95% CI [−1.12, −0.58], p < 0.0001), and crestal (MD = −0.35, 95% CI [−0.56, −0.13], p = 0.002) bone loss, as well as probing depth (MD = −0.64, 95% CI [−0.99, −0.29], p = 0.0003). …"
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Genotoxic impact of long-term cigarette and waterpipe smoking on DNA damage and oxidative stress in healthy subjects حسب Alsaad A.M.

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Changing Trends in the Referral and Timing of Treatment for Congenital Cryptorchidism: A Single-Center Experience from Bosnia and Herzegovina. حسب Zvizdic, Zlatan

"…The analysis of the observed two periods (2008-2010 and 2015-2017) showed a statistically significant decrease in the mean referral age and the mean age at surgery over the last 5 years (2015-2017) (p = 0.007 and p = 0.003, respectively). …"
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Association Between Serum Bicarbonate Levels and Prediabetes and Subclinical Inflammation in Young Healthy Adults: A Cross-sectional Study حسب Omar, Abeer A.

"…Associations between bicarbonate levels and the outcomes were analyzed using multivariable linear and logistic regression and then stratified by gender. Results: A total of 825 participants with mean age 29.2 years (5.9) of which 365 (44.2%) were males. …"
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Environment Degradation and Economic Growth in the Qatar Economy: Evidence from a Markov Switching Equilibrium Correction Model حسب Charfeddine, Lanouar

"…From the economic perspective, this means that initially economic growth increases environment degradation and then declines it after a threshold point of income per capita. …"
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Coral reef resilience differs among islands within the Gulf of Mannar, southeast India, following successive coral bleaching events حسب Raj, K. Diraviya

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A robust experimental-based artificial neural network approach for photovoltaic maximum power point identification considering electrical, thermal and meteorological impact حسب Gowid, Samer

"…Nonetheless, the consideration of irradiance, electrical, thermal, and weather parameters (scenario IV) yielded higher identification accuracy. The results showed a decrease in the MSE of Vmp by 74.3% (from 1.6 V to 0.411 V), and in the MSE of Imp by 95% (from 4.4e−6 A to 2.16e−7 A), respectively. …"
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The Models of a General Component of a Distributed Computing Systems Based On Stochastic Petri Nets حسب Serhan, Sami [سامي سرحان]

"…We also propose the means to decrease the number of states. We indicate that the complexity of DCS doesn't affect the models structure (a number of tokens is changed only). …"
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Green handover with a hybrid satisfaction mechanism حسب Zorba, Nizar

"…On the other hand, a decrease in the energy consumption should not mean lower performance for the operator and customers. …"
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