European Journal of Operational Research 154 (2004) 345–362 www.elsevier.com/locate/dsw Returns to scale in different DEA models Rajiv D. Banker a‚ William W. Cooper b‚ Lawrence M. Seiford c‚ Robert M. Thrall d‚ Joe Zhu e‚* c School of Management‚ The University of Texas at Dallas‚ Richardson‚ TX 75083-0658‚ USA Graduate School of Business‚ The University of Texas at Austin‚ Austin‚ TX 78712-1174‚ USA Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering‚ University of Michigan‚ Ann Arbor‚ MI
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Bibliography: 1. Armendáriz de Aghion‚ B. (1999). ’On the design of a credit agreement with peer monitoring ’‚ Journal of Development Economics‚ vol. 60‚ pp. 79-104. 2. Auwal‚ MA(1996). Promoting Microcapitalism in the Service of the Poor: The Grameen Model and Its Cross-Cultural Adaptation Journal of Business Communication‚ Vol. 33‚ No. 1‚ 27-49 3 4. Besley‚ T. and Coate‚ S. (1995). ’Group lending‚ repayment incentives and social collateral‚ ’ Journal of Development Economics‚ vol. 46 (1)‚ (February)
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Flight of the Phoenix Flight of the Phoenix is a movie that displays the dynamics of a group in terms of power‚ decision-making‚ communication‚ group roles‚ group atmosphere and norms‚ and leadership in the group. The movie’s story line follows a diverse group of oil workers‚ military men‚ a doctor‚ a pilot and a navigator among others that sets out on a rickety plane to cross the Arabian Desert. Not long into the flight the plane is caught between two sand storms and is blow off course. The plane
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happened because of your mental illness would be dismissed as a placebo effect. Although over the last 50 years the medical model has slowly began to change‚ the “Biopsychosocial model” has become more widely adopted. This medical model accepts that health and disease are strongly influenced by a combination of biological‚ psychological‚ and social factors. The biopsychosocial model describes health as a state of well-being that we can actively attain and maintain. This shows
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New Criticism vs. Reader-Response A piece of work can be evaluated in plenty of ways. Critique methods such as Reader-Response‚ Deconstructive Criticism‚ New Criticism‚ and many others act as examples of literary evaluations. All of the critique methods share similarities‚ but differ in other ways. Reader-Response and New Criticism‚ for example‚ share characteristics but they are also two very opposing things. Reader-Response focuses on attention towards the text influenced by the reader’s thoughts
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Similarly to the informative model‚ the interpretive model assumes that the physician is responsible for giving the patient with all important information concerning their state and treatment. However‚ the practitioner goes beyond providing the information and accepting the patient’s choices. Unlike the informative practitioner‚ the interpretive practitioner knows that the patient’s values are not completely recognized by the patient‚ in fact their values are often conflicting and underdeveloped
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It is this resistance when aggrieved that the second continental congress apply in their work The Declaration of Independance. However Hume discusses at length the flaws and implausibility of the idea of the original contract. Despite Hume’s criticisms of the original contract‚ he still believes that consent of the governed is the ideal foundation of government‚ regardless that government typically doesn’t occur
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Knowledge Management Models Knowledge management literature is plentiful with different understandings of knowledge‚ information and data‚ as ideas and thoughts. As a result many organizations experience lots of expenses on knowledge management technologies‚ which hardly deliver with the expected outcome (Davenport‚ and Prusak‚ 1998). For further explanation‚ Argote et al.‚ (2003) tried to organize Knowledge Management literature by separating it into two parts: Knowledge Management context and
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Literary Criticism Response David Guterson ’s novel Snow Falling on Cedars undoubtedly holds high acclaim in its reputable attempt to show the prejudice between the Americans and Japanese after World War II and more importantly the prejudice that is unavoidably apart of human nature. The author of the criticism recognizes and brings to light the things done by Guterson throughout the novel. He refers to the animosity between people brought about by differences‚ the unwillingness to accept change
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Plato’s theory of forms‚ also called his theory of ideas‚ states that there is another world‚ separate from the material world that we live in called the "eternal world of forms". This world‚ to Plato‚ is more real than the one we live in. His theory is shown in his Allegory of the Cave (from The Republic‚ Book VII)‚ where the prisoners only live in what they think is a real world‚ but really it is a shadow of reality. According to Plato‚ to the prisoners in the allegory and to humanity in the material
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