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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"Quality Measurement"”.
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Quality Measurement in the Wood Products Supply Chain
The purpose of this research is to learn about quality measurement practices in a wood products supply chain. According to the Supply Chain Management paradigm, companies no longer compete as individual entities, but as part of complex networks of suppliers and customers, linked together by flows …
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Automatic data for applied railway management : passenger demand, service quality measurement, and tactical planning on the London Overground Network
… to (i) estimate on-train loads from automatic measurements of train payload weight, (ii) estimate origin-destination matrices by combining multiple types of automatic data, (iii) study passenger incidence (station arrival) behavior relative to the published timetable, (iv) characterize service …
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Analysis of the Family of Generalized Cumulative Sum Type Control Charts
As an aid to the practitioners, various Phase II quality control charts have been developed to monitor for a change in the parameters of the distribution of a quality measurement. In this project, the family of generalized cumulative sum type charts was studied. An equivalent chart version that …
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Accommodating change? An investigation of the impacts of government contracting processes on third sector providers of homelessness services in South East England
… It focuses particularly on tendering and quality measurement. 24 interviews were conducted with representatives of 21 third sector organisations (TSOs) and a further two with local government representatives. Quantitative data were used to describe the characteristics of the TSOs. …
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Deriving new measurements for real-time reactive systems
… way for dealing with the complexity, and for quality assurance. One of the goals is to assess the quality of such systems starting from the earlier phases of their life cycle. The integration of the quality measurement into the development framework provides feedback to the system developers …
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Information quality assessment in e-learning systems.
… information but does not necessarily ensure the quality of this information. Therefore it is essential to develop valid and reliable methods of quality measurement and carry out careful information quality evaluations. Information quality frameworks are developed to measure the quality of …
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Information quality assessment in e-learning systems.
… information but does not necessarily ensure the quality of this information. Therefore it is essential to develop valid and reliable methods of quality measurement and carry out careful information quality evaluations. Information quality frameworks are developed to measure the quality of …
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Monitoring the Process Mean of Autocorrelated Data
… stochastic behavior of a sequence { } t X of the quality measurement X on the output of a production process, it is usually assumed the measurements taken over time are independent and identically distributed. Multiple authors have pointed out that significant autocorrelation can affect the …
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Development and Validation of the Quality of Trauma Care Patient-Reported Experience Measure
… patient perspectives must be incorporated into quality measurement and improvement. Therefore, the purpose of this thesis was to develop and validate a measure of patient experience for use as a quality improvement tool in injury care. A draft survey measure of patient injury care experience was …
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Towards perceptual metrics for audio quality assessment
… insights with respect to the generated audio quality. This dissertation work focuses on: 1. Investigating how effective contemporary metrics are at capturing the audio quality of sounds generated from NAS systems, 2. Assessing the behavior of popularly used embedding distance measures and the …
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Improving Provider Compliance With Adult Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patient Care Guidelines In The Ambulatory Setting Through The Use Of Electronic Health Records
… (EHR) systems have the ability to improve the quality of patient care, patient safety and provide benefits to providers and clinic practices. These systems can transform quality measurement and quality improvement methods, facilitate workflow, and track patients over time to ensure that they …
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Avaliação da usabilidade e manutenibilidade de modelos de processo de software em BPMN
… to define a body of knowledge for assessing the quality of process models based on international standards. In this work, we present a systematic approach to assess the quality of process models with respect to the usability and maintainability characteristics. The proposed solution defines …
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Smart-phone-based electrochemical sensor for environmental applications
… ionic sensor that performs electrochemical measurement by using audio jack of a smart phone. This platform was used to measure nitrate concentration using a few microliter liquid samples on field along with providing geospatial map locations through a wireless network. This compact MoboSens …
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A Study on Road Users' Overall Perceptions of Highway Maintenance Service Quality and the Variables that Define the Highway Maintenance Service Quality Domain
… opinion can also be collected for measuring the quality of the service delivered by maintenance units. Assessing product and service delivery performance is important for determining the overall performance of highway maintenance programs. The present study examines the relationship between road …
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Data Trustworthiness in Synchronized Power System Measurements: Algorithms and Methodologies
… of providing reliable, synchronized, and high-quality measurement data. In this context, measurement science plays a pivotal role in ensuring stability, resilience, and efficiency of power system applications. This thesis proposes a set of methodologies, algorithms, and analysis tools aimed at …
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A study of hormones and reproduction in male and female turkeys under natural mating or artificial insemination conditions
… an incomplete or completed mating. Neither semen quality nor egg production was affected by degree of sexual activity. In males used for artificial insemination, the presence or absence of females did not affect any semen quality measurement. Egg production of artificially inseminated females was …
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AN INVESTIGATION OF SHORT RANGE ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE COMMUNICATION FOR UNDERWATER ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING UTILISING A SENSOR NETWORK PLATFORM
… applications, including applications in water quality measurement, using radio communication.
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Fuzzy Logic Based Software Product Quality Model for Execution Tracing
… carried out in the area of software product quality modelling. Its main endeavour is to consider software product quality with regard to maintainability. Supporting this aim, execution tracing quality, which is a neglected property of the software product quality at present in the quality …
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Quality modelling and metrics of Web-based information systems
… processes usually follow ad-hoc approaches, the quality of web-based systems has become a major concern. Existing quality models and metrics do not fully satisfy the needs of quality management of Web-based systems. This study has applied and adapted software quality engineering methods and …
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