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Assessing charities using data envelopment analysis.
(Cranfield, Centre for Business Performance, 2000)
Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a technique that takes account of multiple inputs and outputs to assess the relative efficiency of organisational units. Unlike regression its assessments are not based on any average but ...
Removal of heavy metals on a carbon sorbent prepared from flax shive
(University of Hertfordshire, 2000)
Workplace industrial relations in the context of a failing school
(University of Hertfordshire, 2000)
Over the last two decades the UK public sector has seen the introduction of 'new
managerialism' - the devolvement to the local level of management initiatives and
techniques more traditionally associated with the private ...
An Emotional Business Ventures out Into the Big Wide World- What Chance Government Ever Getting to Grips with the Small Firm Market
(University of Hertfordshire, 2000)
In this paper the authors argue that the way in which the UK Government, through its various departments and quangos approaches interventions designed to approve the effectiveness of the small business sector, is based on ...
Multiple Neutral Regression
(University of Hertfordshire, 2000)
We present a multiple regression fitting method which, unlike least-squares regression, treats each variable in the same way. It can be used when seeking an empirical relationship between a number of variables for which ...
Automatic Differentiation of Algorithms
(2000)
We introduce the basic notions of Automatic Differentiation, describe some extensions which are of interest in the context of nonlinear optimization and give some illustrative examples.
Pictures Can’t Lie under Oath
(2000)
Because image manipulation by computer is so easy, it is hard to be sure that an image was indeed created at the date, time and place claimed, and that it has not been altered since. To gain this confidence requires a ...
Primary teachers careers in England and Wales: the relationship between gender, role, position and promotion aspirations
(2000)
This study explores gender differences in UK primary teachers’ perceptions of their careers, through a national questionnaire survey and follow-up interviews. It is framed by reference to Weiner’s three main components of ...