scholarly journals Using context-dependent DEA to analyze the efficiency of highly funded scientists in China

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyu Xiang ◽  
Haiming Liang ◽  
Zhaoxia Guo ◽  
Yucheng Dong
Keyword(s):  
Research Funding ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Data Envelopment ◽  
Major Research ◽  
Career Length ◽  
Learning Path ◽  
Other Information ◽  
Research Plan ◽  
Research Efficiency

AbstractFunding inputs and research outputs have always been two central issues in the science of science. In recent decades, research funding plays an increasingly important role in scientific research. Thus, it is progressively significant for management authorities to measure the research efficiency of highly funded scientists, which can be helpful for them to make effective policies. However, few researchers use quantitative analysis to study these issues. To promote the research in this field, we begin with collecting a dataset. This dataset contains research funding and other information from 345 highly funded scientists in Mainland China. Next, we use the dataset to measure the efficiency of highly funded scientists based on the data envelopment analysis. In this way, highly funded scientists are placed into several levels according to their research inputs and outputs. We also give their attractiveness and progress scores compared to other grades. The learning path for less efficient scientists is also provided. We find that highly funded scientists have relatively high efficiency in three kinds of projects, such as the Major Research Plan. Besides, the career length and career start year are demonstrated to have a limited impact on the highly funded scientists. These patterns are beneficial for the development of the scientific community and management authorities to make policies.

scholarly journals Measuring the Efficiency of Football Clubs Using Data Envelopment Analysis: Empirical Evidence From Spanish Professional Football

SAGE Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 215824402198925
Author(s):  
Isidoro Guzmán-Raja ◽  
Manuela Guzmán-Raja
Keyword(s):  
Data Envelopment Analysis ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Sport Performance ◽  
Data Envelopment ◽  
Professional Football ◽  
Efficiency Measure ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Football Clubs ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
Using Data

Professional football clubs have a special characteristic not shared by other types of companies: their sport performance (on the field) is important, in addition to their financial performance (off the field). The aim of this paper is to calculate an efficiency measure using a model that combines performance (sport and economic) based on data envelopment analysis (DEA). The main factors affecting teams’ efficiency levels are investigated using cluster analysis. For a sample of Spanish football clubs, the findings indicate that clubs achieved a relatively high efficiency level for the period studied, and that the oldest teams with the most assets had the highest efficiency scores. These results could help club managers to improve the performance of their teams.

scholarly journals Toward Sustainable Ferry Routes in Korea: Analysis of Operational Efficiency Considering Passenger Mobility Burdens

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (21) ◽  
pp. 8819
Author(s):  
Thi Quynh Mai Pham ◽  
Gunwoo Lee ◽  
Hwayoung Kim
Keyword(s):  
High Efficiency ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Analysis Data ◽  
Operational Efficiency ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Maritime Transportation ◽  
Data Envelopment ◽  
Fuzzy C Means Clustering ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

With its long coastline, and numerous inlets and offshore islands, coastal ferry industries play a vital role in Korean maritime transportation. This study focuses on the southwestern part of Korea, Mokpo (which has the most inhabited islands and the highest proportion of elderly island residents), and aims to evaluate the impact of passengers’ mobility burdens on the efficiency of ferry routes to achieve a better service for passengers. Integrated principal component analysis–data envelopment analysis and a fuzzy C-means clustering method were applied to analyze the efficiency of ferry routes in the Mokpo area. The efficiency results indicate that longer routes do not always achieve high-efficiency scores. The proportion of general passengers appears to influence the efficiency improvements of both general and subsidiary ferry routes. These findings can assist in better comprehending the relationship between passengers’ mobility burdens and ferry route efficiencies; this will enable the authorities and ferry management departments to develop appropriate policies and strategies and to reconstruct certain features of the inefficient routes, thereby increasing operational efficiency, reducing mobility burdens, and improving the convenience of ferry travel and sustainability of Korean passenger routes.

The Middle East Survey Course: Challenges and Opportunities

2017 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-30
Author(s):  
Ziad Abu-Rish
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Research Funding ◽  
Public University ◽  
Major Research ◽  
Mena Region ◽  
Course Enrollment ◽  
Course Scheduling ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
History Of

The production and dissemination of knowledge on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) has always had a particularly complex relationship vis-à-vis research funding, faculty hiring priorities, course scheduling schemas, and course enrollment numbers. In this essay, I hope to share some observations—that I have experienced firsthand and discussed with a number of colleagues—on teaching an introductory survey course on the history of the modern MENA region. Such reflections are rooted in my own experience of teaching at a public university with no current major research or teaching commitments to the MENA region. While these observations are not unique to the context within which I teach, they might be otherwise inflected in different contexts.

scholarly journals The Analysis of Tuberculosis Funds Efficiency on High Burden Countries

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Estro Dariatno Sihaloho ◽  
Adiatma Y.M Siregar
Keyword(s):  
Technical Efficiency ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Data Envelopment ◽  
High Burden ◽  
Marginal Effects ◽  
Dea Method ◽  
Low Efficiency ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Global Health Problem

Tuberculosis remains a major global health problem and ranks as the second leading cause of death from infectious disease worldwide. Countries devote their budgets to overcome the tuberculosis problem. An efficient use of these budgets will arguably reduce the number of tuberculosis cases and eventually give a positive impact to the economy. This paper aims it aims to estimate the technical efficiency scores of tuberculosis funds on high-burden countries by using Data Envelopment Analysis(DEA) method. Further, this study analyzes other environmental factors that are crucial to increase the efficiency scores by using Tobit method. DEA shows that some countries exhibit high efficiency scores while others exhibit low efficiency scores. It also informs how countries use funds to maximize their results. Meanwhile, the Tobit estimation shows that taxing cigarettes and committing budgets to control tobaccos have positive marginal effects on technical efficiency scores.

scholarly journals Distance training of geography teachers in the context of educational reform

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Basic Knowledge ◽  
Gifted Children ◽  
Geographical Education ◽  
Online Study ◽  
Information Accessibility ◽  
Other Information ◽  
National University ◽  
Training Courses

In the system of continuous geographical education, upgrading teachers’ professional skills plays an important role. Acquaintance with modern tendencies of educational technology and constant normative-legislative and methodical changes form a permanent basis for training and self-improvement of teachers. Since 2016 V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, in addition to specialists training, has been offering teachers’ qualifications improvement in the form of part-time classes, at the courses for teachers of general educational establishments of different types and forms of ownership in Kharkiv region in the study field «Geography. Geography of Ukraine». The purpose of the article is to analyze the organization of distance learning of geography teachers within the framework of teacher training courses. The main material. The program of training courses for geography teachers involves consideration of educational problems, features of teaching geography on various programs and courses, specialized training, courses for gifted children. High efficiency of the training is assured by the implementation of both invariant and variant components. The thematic plan is designed for 210 hours (7 credits). According to the curriculum, distance learning relates to the professional unit. During the on-site classes, teachers obtain basic knowledge, which is furthered with the distance course «Geography for Teachers», designed for 120 academic hours. The course «Geography for Teachers» is based on the Moodle platform designed to support distance learning. It contains such structural elements as glossary, tasks, resources, tests, a forum, a chat and consists of 12 information packs. Digital online classes take place within 4 weeks, which includes independent online study. This stage for teachers finishes with preparing and presenting the paper (implementation of the practical task) and taking the test. During this period, course participants can get a personal tutorial in the chat or the forum. It is important to maintain feedback from teachers because they work during the learning process due to the lack of time. Each of them has the opportunity to work with the distance course and get a tutorial in their free time. The distance course «Geography for Teachers» has been repeatedly tested by groups of teachers who were upgrading their qualification and has been improved with every comment or suggestion. The course has got the certificate of recognition as an educational and methodical work. Conclusions. To sum up, the usage of the distance course «Geography for Teachers» as a form of continuous geographical education certainly has a number of benefits: mobility, modernity of information, accessibility and informality. This improves the perception and work of geography teachers in self-education and upgrading their professional competencies. It also provides the opportunity to use new, up-to-date information in the form of lectures, presentations, manuals, statistical yearbooks and other information resources that are necessary for a teacher in his or her work.

scholarly journals Trinity Review: Integrating registered reports with ethics and research funding reviews

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuki Mori ◽  
Kaito Takashima ◽  
Kohei Ueda ◽  
Kyoshiro Sasaki ◽  
Yuki Yamada
Keyword(s):  
Research Funding ◽  
Review System ◽  
Full Paper ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Scientific Review ◽  
Detailed Explanation ◽  
Scientific Ethics ◽  
Research Plan ◽  
High Exhaustion ◽  
The Trinity

One major source of high exhaustion for researchers is the redundant paperwork of three different documents (research papers, applications for ethics review, and applications for research grants) for the same research plan. These similar documents are submitted to three different organizations, each with its own format, and independently peer-reviewed three times. This is a wasteful and redundant process for researchers. Here, we propose a trinity review that integrates scientific, ethics, and research funding reviews. In our proposed trinity review system, scientific and ethics reviews are undertaken concurrently for a pre-experimental research protocol. When the protocol is accepted in principle through these review processes, a funding review will occur, and researchers will conduct their studies. After experiments or surveys, the scientific review will be conducted for a completed version of the paper including results and discussions (i.e., the full paper) again, and the full paper will be published after it has passed the second review. This paper provides a detailed explanation of the operation of the trinity review system and discusses the positive impacts and solutions to difficulties in its implementation.

scholarly journals Efficiency of Higher Education in the Presence of Shared Inputs using Data Envelopment Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 50 (11) ◽  
pp. 3421-3438
Author(s):  
Michael Gidey Gebru ◽  
Saqlain Raza ◽  
Mansoor Shaukat Khan
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Data Envelopment Analysis ◽  
Data Envelopment ◽  
Shared Resources ◽  
Research Activity ◽  
Teaching Efficiency ◽  
Overall Efficiency ◽  
Internal Operations ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Research Efficiency

This study measures the efficiency of higher education institutions with respect to teaching activity, research activity, and overall activities and also provides a direction for low-performing institutions to improve their performance. In many instances, the efficiency of the institution is a sum up of the efficiency of its activities. However, when the activities consume some resources in common, it requires the allocation of shared resources among the activities. Since sums up the efficiency of each activity does not give the institution's overall efficiency, we use a joint data envelopment analysis that takes into account the institution's internal operations to measure the teaching efficiency, research efficiency, and overall efficiency of the institutions. The empirical results indicate that the institutions that execute both activities simultaneously become more productive rather than adopt a single activity. Hence, this study suggests a useful and measurable action to improve the institution’s performance.

scholarly journals Efficiency and Profitability of Tanzanian saving and Credit Cooperatives: Who is a Star?

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (8) ◽  
pp. 658-669 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nyankomo Marwa
Keyword(s):  
Business Processes ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Data Envelopment ◽  
Return On Assets ◽  
Multiple Dimensions ◽  
Credit Cooperatives ◽  
Low Efficiency ◽  
And Control

The objective of this paper is to evaluate and benchmark the performance of Tanzanian Saving and Credit Cooperatives (SACCOs). Measuring the performance of these organizations is useful in helping them to monitor and control their performance and business processes and improve productivity and profitability. The study used secondary data from audited financial statements from 103 SACCOs. Technical efficiency was estimated using the data envelopment analysis approach and profitability was measured using return on assets. Then an efficiency-profitability matrix was employed to distinguish best performers from struggling SACCOs. This particular approach has been selected to account for multiple dimensions of performance measures. Using the top 25% as a cut-off for profitability and efficiency we found that only 12% of the firms were diagnosed as best performers (stars). The majority of the firms (61%) were classified under the low efficiency low profitability category. Fourteen SACCOs were highly profitable but had low efficiency scores, which demonstrate a potential for performance improvement by increasing their efficiency. Another group of 14 SACCOs were classified as potential candidates for divestiture because they had high efficiency scores but low profitability. Conclusively the performance of the industry in Tanzania needs a well-thought turnaround strategy to make it commercially viable. For the majority of the SACCO both profit-increasing and efficiencyincreasing strategies are required.

Trust and inter-organizational networking

2000 ◽  
Vol 53 (10) ◽  
pp. 1287-1328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Newell ◽  
Jacky Swan
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Research Funding ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Research Network ◽  
General Question ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
Major Research ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Effective Operation ◽  
Different Types

Inter-organizational and multi-functional networking are increasingly portrayed as new and potentially more effective forms of organization, especially where innovation is important. This is as true for academic work undertaken within universities as it is for business organizations; multi-disciplinary and inter-institutional collaboration being specified as highly desirable by the major research funding bodies. Integrating mechanisms are essential if such networks are to be effective in co-ordinating the work of a diverse range of partners. Importantly, they are required for the development of trust. Thus, the literature stresses that trust between the parties is central to the effective operation of such networks. This paper explores the evolution of trust within a particular inter-university, multi-disciplinary research team, and develops a model depicting the development and interrelation of different types of trust within this network. The difficulties this research network experienced in developing trust raise a more general question about the effectiveness of interdisciplinary research.

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