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Showing 1 to 20 of 50 for “"Performance quality"”.
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Dependency of human operator performance quality upon task complexity
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1996.
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Evaluation of the performance, quality, and effectiveness of environmental impact assessment in Namibia
… study aims to assess and evaluate the status, performance, quality, and effectiveness of Namibia's EIA system and the extent to which it is achieving the set goals of environmental protection and sustainable development. Data was collected through literature review and document analysis, …
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Home Health Agencies & Home Health Care: An Examination of Financial Performance, Quality, and Micro-Costing
… HHAs are mainly for-profit entities. Financial performance has traditionally been a source of study for other types of long-term care organizations with regards to organizational characteristics and quality of care outcomes. As a major provider of healthcare, it is worthwhile to evaluate the …
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The Relationship of Financial Performance, Quality Indicators, and the Role of Nurse Executives in Virginia Nursing Homes
… cost effective services while maintaining good quality outcomes for the residents. The new responsibility requires a different set of knowledge and competencies that is usually achieved through advanced education. It is not known whether nurse executives in long term care in Virginia possess the …
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Performance Anxiety Coping Skills Seminar: Is It Effective in Reducing Musical Performance Anxiety and Enhancing Musical Performance Quality?
… using questionnaires to measure musical performance anxiety and musical performance quality. The study compared the effectiveness of two different treatments: 1) informal practice performance and 2) a coping skills seminar. Though the students attending the seminar averaged less anxiety …
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High performance quality management systems and work-related outcomes: Exploring the role of audit readiness and documented procedures effectiveness
<p>This study investigates a comprehensive quality management system (QMS) and its influence on multiple work-related outcomes. It examines certified quality systems used in the automotive industry to test whether QMS audit readiness mediates the relationship between quality factors and outcomes. A …
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An investigation of the critical judgments of undergraduate music students in response to recorded music performances
… recognized inferior and superior recorded performances of Classical and Romantic compositions of instrumental, keyboard, or choral/vocal music from which 100 excerpts were selected. Faculty validation of 52 of these excerpts provided 30 excerpts for a pilot study to explore testing formats …
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The exploration of leadership styles on employees’ performance: a study of Premier Specialist Hospital, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
… chemistry, which significantly affects employee performance, as observed through the study results. This suggests that the inability to meet performance targets due to the lack of the strategic interventions of a specific leadership style to specific situations is the problem at hand. The primary …
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Engine Control Unit for a 4 cylinder motorcycle engine
… built for universal purposes but maintaining the performance quality of a competition ECUs. These types of ECUs are usually expensive. The project of this thesis is designing and building an ECU for a 4 cylinder motorcycle engine. The ECU will be used by the Formula Student team of Reykjavík …
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Readiness for digital learning: examining self-reported and observed mobile competencies as steps toward more effective learner readiness assessment
… between self-reported competencies and performance quality. Qualitative case-study analyses highlight four sets of situational factors influencing performance: (a) task/scenario difficulty; (b) comfort with device; (c) engagement, frustration and fatigue; and (d) persistence and …
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A government nutrition education course taught by personalized system of instruction
… method. Four factors correlated with final exam performance: quality cumulative average (QCA), the number of unit test retakes, total unit test errors and working rate. High ability students out-performed low ability students on the final exam. Students with fewer test retakes and errors …
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Influence of Outcome Expectancy on Optimisim, Pessimism, Anxiety and Self-Confidence in Collegiate Football Players
Expectations are instrumental in predicting performance quality (Solomon, 2002). According to the expectancy theory, what is expected to happen often does (Chase & Lirgg, 1997). Often, the underdog, or unexpected winner, will defeat the more likely winner creating questions as to the validity of …
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A Framework for policy-based Quality of Service for fixed broadband wireless networks
… describes an architecture for policy-based quality of service (QoS) for fixed broadband wireless systems. An implementation of the proposed architecture for the Local Multipoint Distribution Service (LMDS) wireless network in Blacksburg, Virginia is described in detail. The focus of the …
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A ranking model for two women's team sports
… to indicate national rankings in terms of quality of performance. These polls generally are referred to as "Top Twenty Polls." Questionnaires were designed and mailed to the coaches and selection committee members associated with the two study sports: basketball and field hockey. …
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Bendrojo ugdymo mokyklų veiklos kokybės vertinimo modelis: besimokančios organizacijos kontekstas /
In today's education system, the quality of performance is getting increasingly more important role. Improving the quality of school performance and successful management of the changes are possible just for school that operates in a learning organization model. Such a school should have continuous …
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Exploring the effectiveness of loop perforation for quality of service profiling
… exhibit a trade off between execution time and quality of service. A video encoder, for example, can often encode frames more quickly if it is given the freedom to produce slightly lower quality video. A developer attempting to optimize such computations must navigate a complex trade-off space …
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Attitude and the junior high ensemble : partial fullfillment of requirements for Master of Arts in teaching
<p>Attitude is a very subjective quality, but has a great deal of influence on a classroom teaching and learning situation. This is especially true of a performance oriented class even when the main objective is not performance for performance sake. Attitudes can be affected by many variables but …
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Approaches to council housing management: a study of 'best value' implementation in two London boroughs
… full range of their activities with regard to performance, quality, accountability and cost. The aim of the research is to evaluate the extent to which local variables impact upon policy outcomes: the implementation of policy. The central research question is: 'In what ways were local …
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Dynamic risk adjustment of prediction models using statistical process control methods
… on several large populations. However, the performance profile of such models in the midst of changing predictor-outcome relationships or newly appearing outcome predictors have not been well studied. We address this problem using statistical process control (SPC) techniques in a novel way. …
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The Use of Albuterol, a Beta-Adrenergic Compound to Alter Fat and Muscle Deposition in Lambs
… determine the effect of albuterol on growth and performance, quality and yield grade, and carcass composition in treated market wether lambs. Ten randomly selected half-sibling crossbred wether lambs with similar weights were divided into a control and treatment group. The lambs were individually …
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