Lighting is one of the major uses of electricity. State-of-the-art lighting systems can increase efficiency and reduce energy demand, but substantial market barriers hamper market penetration. In recognition of these market realities, electric utilities and government agencies in several...

Data envelopment analysis (DEA), a popular linear programming technique is useful to rate comparatively operational efficiency of decision making units (DMU) based on their deterministic (not necessarily stochastic) input-output data. Only when the input-output data are stochastic (preferably...

Giving Alms no Charity and Employing the Poor A Grievance to the Nation, Being an Essay Upon this Great Question, Whether Work-houses, Corporations, and Houses of Correction for Employing the Poor, as now practis'd in England; or Parish-Stocks, as propos'd in a late Pamphlet, Entituled, A Bill...