Balancing Between Efficiency and Equity in Publicly Funded Health Systems by Ljerka Cerović, Nikolina Dukić Samaržija, Marko Brkić

“…Observed at the macro level, Croatia shows relatively good efficiency of its health system, even above the average of the comparable countries by health expenditure per capita, but still significantly below the most developed EU countries. …”
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Technical Efficiency of the Generation of Knowledge in the European Union (2003-2010) by Agüeros Manuel, Casares-Hontañón Pedro, Coto-Millán Pablo, Ángel Pesquera Miguel

“…This paper analyses the determinants of knowledge in the European Union of the 27, through estimates of transcendental logarithmic production functions (translog) in different scenarios. For this, a data panel for the period 2003-2010 has been elaborated, selecting the production stochastic frontier as the most reliable model to estimate technical efficiency for European innovation. …”
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INTERFACE LAYOUT VERSUS EFFICIENCY OF INFORMATION ASSIMILATION IN THE LEARNING PROCESS by Julia Zachwatowicz, Oliwia Zioło, Mariusz Dzieńkowski

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THE INFLUENCE OF STATIC ARCHES ON THE EFFICIENCY OF TECHNOLOGICAL PROCESSES IN A HOPPER by S. Sh. Muradova, L. Vl. Fedoseeva

“…In practice, the process of loose material flowing from hoppers in different technological processes is often disrupted, resulting in reduced processing efficiency of contained loose materials. …”
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Efficient Gabor Phase Based Illumination Invariant for Face Recognition by Chunnian Fan, Shuiping Wang, Hao Zhang

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Evaluation of production line expansion efficiency using computer simulation by Poloczek Roksana, Oleksiak Beata

“…The article presents the theoretical foundations of simulation along with practical examples of its application, focusing on assessing the impact of different production line configurations on the overall system’s efficiency. …”
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Optimizing Large Railway Vision Models for Efficient In-Context Learning by Xuemei Zhan, Xubo Wu, Hua Ma

“…Additionally, we implement a multi-level feature concatenation technique to enhance transferability across different railway-related tasks and reduce the computation cost. …”
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Investigating neural efficiency in the visuo-spatial domain: an FMRI study. by Ilona Lipp, Mathias Benedek, Andreas Fink, Karl Koschutnig, Gernot Reishofer, Sabine Bergner, Anja Ischebeck, Franz Ebner, Aljoscha Neubauer

“…These findings may contribute to a better understanding of the neural efficiency hypothesis, and possibly also of gender differences in the visuo-spatial domain.…”
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Energy-Efficient Coalition Games with Incentives in Machine-to-Machine Communications by Raymond W. Juma, Anish M. Kurien, Thomas O. Olwal

“…The proposed schemes have shown good energy-efficient performance results in the recent past. However, sustaining cooperation amongst coalition games of M2M devices from different network-operating authorities requires appropriate incentives. …”
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An adaptive switched capacitor strategy for efficiency optimization in LLC converters by Xia Peng, Wei Li, Qi Liu, Wai Tung Ng

“…Using this model, the optimal resonant capacitance for different load conditions to maximize efficiency can be calculated on-the-fly. …”
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The Technical Efficiency of Specialised Milk Farms: A Regional View by Jindřich Špička, Luboš Smutka

“…In the next step, the two-sample t-test determines differences of economic and structural indicators between efficient and inefficient regions. …”
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Effect of the Frictional Properties of Sunflower Seeds on the Efficiency of Pressing Equipment by Berezin M., Borisov V.

“…The process of oil extraction from oilseeds is very complicated as it depends on a large number of related factors. The complex porous structure of pulp is a combination of three phases: dry solids, liquid (oil), and air. …”
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Reorganizing outpatient spine services increased efficiency and patient satisfaction by Arkan Sam Sayed-Noor, Thomas Torstensson, Björn Knutsson

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Dynamic evolution of innovation efficiency of China’s new energy enterprises by Tian Zhao, Meilu Sun, Jiangxiang Zhang

“…A threshold regression model identified nonlinear macroeconomic impacts on convergence, using 2,182 firm-year observations across 30 provinces.Results(1) The innovation efficiency of China’s new energy enterprises is relatively low, with significant spatial and temporal differences but a consistent upward trend. …”
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AEMF: An Attention-Based Efficient and Multifeature Fast Text Detector by Wanqi Ma, Chaoyu Yang, Jie Yang, Jian Wu

“…This algorithm is an attention-based efficient and multifeature fast text detector (termed AEMF). …”
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Enhanced Efficiency Liquid Nitrogen Fertilizer Management for Corn Production by Tyler W. Steusloff, Gurbir Singh, Kelly A. Nelson, Peter P. Motavalli

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Repeater Power Conversion Efficiency in Submarine Optical Communication Systems by Xiaojun Liang, John D. Downie, Jason E. Hurley

“…The repeater E/O power conversion efficiency is directly related with cable capacity, as well as capacity per power and cost per capacity analysis. …”
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The efficiency analysis methods of decontamination of Fukushima Prefecture territory (Japan) by Dmitriy V. Aron

“…There was another objective of estimating the expected decontamination expenditure for these territories and the economic efficiency of this measure in accordance with the official international recommendations. …”
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A selection guide for efficient graphene oxide-composite adsorbents by Jafar I. Abdelghani, Fawwaz I. Khalili, Nabil N. AL-Hashimi, Amjad H. El-Sheikh, Moayad A. Khwara

“…To create the guide, 74 graphene oxide-based adsorbents with high retention for 36 dyes of different classes were examined. The collected GO-adsorbents were classed into four groups according to the added substrates. …”
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Comparative analysis of the efficiency and ergonomics of wired and wireless ultrasound systems by A. A. Emel'yantsev, I. S. Zheleznyak, I. V. Kipriyanova, A. Ya. Latysheva, G. G. Romanov, L. V. Voronkov, T. D. Vengerovich

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