This is partly due to a focus on economics, survival, and neo-liberal assumptions of "efficiency" in early modern human behavior.
It raises questions on the assumptions of efficiency in agriculture, traces the history of the logic of scale replacing logic of scope, analyses its impact on sustainability and offers a framework to discern technical contradictions of efficiency across different sectors and find a balance for sustainability.
"For me, as a linguist looking at this, I have to say, 'O.K., this isn't going to be used.' It has an assumption of efficiency that really isn't efficient, given how the brain works.
Key components of monitoring and accountability in multisector cash-based response are a functioning grievance and complaints system and a monitoring and evaluation framework that tests the assumptions of cost-efficiency and cost-effectiveness (Levine and Bailey 2015).
We observed both beneficial and detrimental, or at least unexpected, changes so assumptions of substantial efficiency gains from healthcare IT systems might be unrealistic.
From theoretical assumptions of the collection efficiency and theoretical droplet spectra it is possible to estimate the liquid water content of the sampled fog or cloud.
The major assumptions are that total electricity demand remains constant in each 2030 scenario (given assumptions of increased energy efficiency efforts in MA by 2030), that there is no coal in 2030, and that nuclear generation decreases in New England.
Under assumptions of lower resource efficiency, these estimates increased to I$0.42 0.83 and I$0.54 1.06.
The power consumption model in [20] only has the fixed power and the transmit power with the assumption of identical efficiency values of PA at different terminals.
The lignocellulosic-biorefinery model is based on the assumption of greater efficiency from economies of scale which in turn requires large commercial enterprises that are able to manage globally distributed operations.
