In this paper, we apply a three-stage-DEA model to the Spanish Professional Football League, which means separating the teams’
economic behaviour into three components: operating efficiency—of the offence and defence—athletic or operating effectiveness,
and social effectiveness. The results showed that the technical inefficiency of the defence is greater than that of the offence,
both being caused by aspects linked to the poor management of players’ abilities and by the football team’s size. Teams showed
a favourable evolution of their offensive and defensive efficiency during the 2004/2005 season and to a lesser extent in the
season before. The point system assigned by the professional football league regulations evaluates the teams’ athletic effectiveness,
but we detected that the teams with the most experience perform athletically in a more effective manner. Their social effectiveness
is strongly related to the level of play in itself and to factors linked to their PFL ranking: participation in international
competitions for important football teams; or the struggle of minor football teams to stay in the first division. 相似文献
Stochastic models with varying degrees of complexity are increasingly widespread in the oceanic and atmospheric sciences. One application is data assimilation, i.e., the combination of model output with observations to form the best picture of the system under study. For any given quantity to be estimated, the relative weights of the model and the data will be adjusted according to estimated model and data error statistics, so implementation of any data assimilation scheme will require some assumption about errors, which are considered to be random. For dynamical models, some assumption about the evolution of errors will be needed. Stochastic models are also applied in studies of predictability.
The formal theory of stochastic processes was well developed in the last half of the twentieth century. One consequence of this theory is that methods of simulation of deterministic processes cannot be applied to random processes without some modification. In some cases the rules of ordinary calculus must be modified.
The formal theory was developed in terms of mathematical formalism that may be unfamiliar to many oceanic and atmospheric scientists. The purpose of this article is to provide an informal introduction to the relevant theory, and to point out those situations in which that theory must be applied in order to model random processes correctly. 相似文献
In this paper, we consider questions related to the structure of inverse matrices of linear bounded operators acting in infinite-dimensional complex Banach spaces. We obtain specific estimates of elements of inverse matrices for bounded operators whose matrices have a special structure. Matrices are introduced as special operator-valued functions on an index set. The matrix structure is described by the behavior of the given function on elements of a special partition of the index set. The method used for deriving the estimates is based on an analysis of Fourier series of strongly continuous periodic functions. 相似文献
One influential parameter which mediates interactions between many types of molecules and biological membranes stems from
the lumped contributions of the transmembrane potential, dipole potential and the difference in the surface potentials on
both sides of a membrane. With relevance to cell physiology, such electrical features of a biomembrane are prone to undergoing
changes as a result of interactions with the aqueous surrounding. Among the most useful tools devoted to exploring changes
of electrical parameters of a lipid membrane induced by certain extracellular ions, lipid composition, and embedded membrane
peptides and proteins, are spectroscopic imaging and the inner field compensation (IFC) method. In this work we layout the
principles of a fully computerized version of the IFC method, which makes it more readily available to users. As a direct
application, we deployed this improved version of the IFC method to time-resolve changes induced by alamethicin monomers upon
membrane dipole potential, following their aggregation within an artificial lipid membrane. Intriguingly, even prior crossing
the membrane core, the membrane-bound alamethicin monomers are shown to significantly increase the dipole potential of the
monolayer they reside in. Such data further emphasize the yet less-explored interplay between membrane-based protein and peptides,
and the membrane dipole potential. 相似文献
Butyltins were analyzed in waters from California river and lake marinas and were detected at the part per trillion (ppt) level in most locations. The tributyltin:dibutyltin (TBT/DBT) ratios in the fresh waters were similar to those in their saline counterparts indicating like rates of degradation in the two salinity regimes. 相似文献
We consider the problem of scheduling orders for multiple different product types in an environment with m dedicated machines in parallel. The objective is to minimize the total weighted completion time. Each product type is produced by one and only one of the m dedicated machines; that is, each machine is dedicated to a specific product type. Each order has a weight and may also have a release date. Each order asks for certain amounts of various different product types. The different products for an order can be produced concurrently. Preemptions are not allowed. Even when all orders are available at time 0, the problem has been shown to be strongly NP-hard for any fixed number (?2) of machines. This paper focuses on the design and analysis of efficient heuristics for the case without release dates. Occasionally, however, we extend our results to the case with release dates. The heuristics considered include some that have already been proposed in the literature as well as several new ones. They include various static and dynamic priority rules as well as two more sophisticated LP-based algorithms. We analyze the performance bounds of the priority rules and of the algorithms and present also an in-depth comparative analysis of the various rules and algorithms. The conclusions from this empirical analysis provide insights into the trade-offs with regard to solution quality, speed, and memory space. 相似文献
The decay process J/ψ→p X X→p P,where p,p and P are the proton,antiproton and pseudoscalar states,respectively,has been studied in terms of the angular distribution and the generalized moment analysis methods.The result shows that we can identify the spin,but cannot determine the parity of the baryon resonance state X produced in the process J/ψ→p X X→p P. 相似文献
An anomalous modulation in the wavelength spectrum has been observed in lasers with spot-size converters. This intensity modulation is shown to be caused by beating between the fundamental lasing mode and radiation modes in the taper. This results in a periodic modulation in the net gain spectrum, which causes wavelength jumps between adjacent net gain maxima, and a drive current dependent spectral width that is expected to affect system performance. The amplitude of this spectral modulation is reduced significantly by either using an angled rear-facet which reflects the beating radiation modes away from the laser axis, or by using a nonlinear, adiabatic taper. 相似文献