Science is alive and dynamic and the universal unknown is the frontier to which scientists set sail as explorers.
After five years of support to the SAP Project, the Netherlands decided to have an evaluation looking into this question in Balochistan and the North West Frontier Province, provinces to which the Dutch support was primarily directed.
This paper contributes to this research frontier, by exploring the extent to which local commuting patterns can be estimated from data drawn from Twitter.
Finally, given the atypical population dynamic in Hokkaido, a frontier region in the early 20th century to which a large and prolonged wave of migration was in progress, we estimated models without data for Hokkaido.
The technical efficiency change measures the ability of decision making unit to catch up on the shift of production frontiers (catch-up effect) by comparing the efficiency of that unit over the two years when the efficiency is calculated using the production frontier in the same year to which data refer.
One of the frontiers at which major achievements are being made is graphene conception.
The North overran the South until America mustered a United Nations mandate to repel the aggression and drove the People's Army back, overrunning the North all the way to the Chinese frontier, at which point Mao sent a million "volunteers" into the fight, and Stalin dispatched his air force and told Kim, who was ready to give up and sue for peace, to keep fighting.
Narrating a train journey he had taken from the Bangladesh frontier to Calcutta, during which he saw an old man die, it became a meditation on borders and in-between spaces, life and death.
Implicit was that getting onto the global stage and especially at the dawn of the satellite television and digital eras was the means of opening new marketing frontiers in which to sell the N.B.A.'s stars, shirts and shoes.
DEA is a non-parametric mathematical programming approach to frontier estimation, which was first developed by Charnes et al. (35) to measure efficiency of production units with multiple inputs and outputs and it was extended by Banker et al. (36).
