A dynamic version of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is developed in the present paper. Our model introduces investment in traditional DEA and imposes intertemporal cost minimization. Adding an intertemporal adjustment constraint into the cost minimization problem, we derive the relation between...

In this study we examine the impact of entrepreneur personal values on the organizational structure of small business. The leadership imperative theory suggests that entrepreneur's personal traits will have an impact on his or her style of management. We propose that the way a small business is...

The current international society has entered an era of large-scale power transfer. Government interests have gradually transferred from national strength to national influence. As such, how to quantitatively present the fuzzy geopolitical influence (<i>i.e</i>., geo-influence) has attracted greater...

In this paper, we discuss historical and recent land subsidence in the Modern Yellow River Delta. Integrated analysis of leveling and relevant background data, including groundwater level, oil extraction, and geological structure, has revealed that land displacement is driven by natural and...

Community detection is one of the most important problems in complex networks. Many algorithms have been proposed in the last decade, and most of them focus on the non-overlapping community structures in the early days. Overlapping and hierarchical structures are another two important properties...

Current situations of organic tobacco development at both home and abroad, indicating mat organic tobacco is one of the innovation directions for sustainable, healthy, environmental protection and low carbon development of modern tobacco industry. On the basis of foreign cultivation technical...

To determine the main functions of regional forest and focus of forestry construction to form the regional forestry economy with characteristics and ecological service system pattern with obvious advantages, we select some indicators on Ceheng County in Guizhou Province, such as natural...

We investigate the operational decisions and resulting profits for a supply chain facing price-dependent demand under a policy where there is an ex-ante commitment made on the retail price markup. We obtain closed-form solutions for this policy under the assumption of a multiplicative demand...

The rapid and widespread development of innovations in mobile services is changing societies and improving lives around the world. Due to lagging adoption, many of these new innovations have yet failed to generate revenue that was expected by mobile network operators, application and content...