Dispersion inefficiencies and active aggregation of particles often result in polydisperse and multimodal particle size distributions.
As operational energy consumption in buildings falls, due to continued tightening of regulations and improvements in the efficiency of energy generation and distribution, present inefficiencies in embodied energy use become increasingly significant in the calculation of whole life energy use.
This in turn will enable us to investigate the effect of time and the number of disaster occurrences on the distribution of inefficiencies.
Across low-income countries the treatment gap is estimated to be as high as 90% due to a lack of mental health resources and facilities, inequities in their distribution and inefficiencies in their use [ 1, 4, 5].
Because only a few studies used SFA, it was not possible to control for the model choices in SFA, such as functional form used for technology structure, distribution of inefficiency components, etc.
Like many countries, Australian health care reform is driven by increased demand for health services, inequities in health care access and outcomes, issues of quality and safety, workforce mal-distribution and inefficiency and system fragmentation [ 13].
This is, after all, a classic Silicon Valley problem: find a market with distribution or process inefficiencies and design a technology to make existing products more scalable or cheaper to produce.
We assumed a half-normal distribution of the inefficiency term, which is a common yet narrow assumption.
The choice in the distribution of the inefficiency term has been found to have a negligible influence on empirical results [ 12].
This, in turn, reinforces our belief that the spatial stochastic frontier models add something important to specifying the inefficiency distribution of institutional delivery, beyond what we would expect from a heterogeneity corrected frontier model.
