The automakers needed a good framework for dealing with efficiency, and that's why we think the federal fuel economy standards are very effective — they arrived at a time when the market was ready".
A network DEA approach is also presented by Despotis et al. (2015) in dealing with efficiency assessments in a two-stage process.
Most recently, a growing body of literature deploying a variety of approaches has emerged dealing with efficiency issues in seaports [4, 9, 12, 13, 17, 23, 32, 35, 36].
The management of the ventilation system is crucial to deal with efficiency, health and safety issues in an underground environment.
The chapter deals with efficiency rules, as there are many engineers who spend a lot of their time trying to get the efficiency up to their expectations.
In a particular case, when the ideal point is one of the observed DMUs, we define CE = 1. Figure 1 illustrates the concepts dealing with allocative efficiency, RDM efficiency, and cost efficiency, using the units A, B, D, E, F, H, G, and P in the presence of negative data.
"One of the toughest things about dealing with energy efficiency is that people are always looking for a silver bullet that will make a big difference in their energy bills," said Dale Horton, a program manager at the National Center for Appropriate Technology, a nonprofit energy-efficiency organization based in Butte, Mont.
We evaluated our experiences in dealing with OR efficiency at a time of maximum hospital capacity and occupancy.
Dealing with energy efficiency is necessary, otherwise, in coming few years cost of energy will increase from the cost of hardware.
The evidence to date shows that there are at least 11 advantages to the results-based approach not found in management-based schemes with similar objectives, dealing with environmental efficiency, farmers' participation and development of local biodiversity-based projects.
There has been an extensive body of literature dealing with the efficiency of healthcare, and data envelopment analysis (DEA) is the best known methodology and is widely used.
