During the June 2015 European Workshop on Efficiency and Productivity Analysis in Helsinki, we sat together and tried to map a broad view of performance analysis. The prevailing approach is frontier analysis. The production ...

We consider a sequence of successively more restrictive defi- nitions of abstraction for causal models, starting with a notion introduced by Rubenstein et al. (2017) called exact transformation that applies to probabilistic ...

This paper is about learning word representations using grammatical type information. We use the syntactic types of Combinatory Categorial Grammar to develop multilinear representations, i.e. maps with n arguments, for ...

This paper examines the differences in sustainability communication of the two Twitter profiles, Nestlé Germany and Nestlé France. The world's largest food company Nestlé is faced with the challenge of maintaining legitimacy ...

Despite its proven research applications, it remains unknown whether surface electromyography (sEMG) can be used clinically to discriminate non-lame from lame conditions in horses. This study compared the classification ...

Microbial communities, acting as key drivers of ecosystem processes, harbour immense potential for sustainable agriculture practices. Phosphate-solubilising microorganisms, for example, can partially replace conventional ...

Infectious disease agents can influence each other's dynamics in shared host populations. We consider such influence for two mosquito-borne infections where one pathogen is endemic at the time that a second pathogen invades. ...

Background: Holistic housing renovations combine physical housing improvements with social and socioeconomic interventions (e.g. referral to social services, debt counselling, involvement in decision-making, promoting ...

Landslides are mass movements of rock or soil down a slope, which may cause economic loss, damage to natural resources and frequent fatalities. To support risk management, landslide dating methods can provide useful knowledge ...