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Showing 1 to 20 of 93 for “"Quality measures"”.
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Color image quality measures and retrieval
… color image retrieval and color image quality evaluation are addressed. A no-reference color image quality index is proposed. A novel color correction method applied to low bit-rate JPEG image is developed. A novel method for content-based image retrieval based upon combined feature …
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Data quality measures for identity resolution
… profile attributes. The work then defines data quality measures which are important for identity resolution, and measures the availability, consistency and uniqueness of the schema’s contents. The developed measurements are then applied in a feature selection scheme to reduce the impact of …
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Statistical quality control techniques using multilevel discrete product quality measures
Statistical quality control is the application of statistical methods to problems for which it is of interest to evaluate, establish, or verify the quality of a product. The two basic areas of statistical quality control that have received both the greatest attention in the literature and the …
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An Evaluation of Medicaid Programs Using Medication Use-Related Quality Measures
Objective: To assess quality of care provided to Medicaid beneficiaries using medication use-related quality indicators. Methods: This study is a retrospective analysis of 2006 & 2007 Medicaid administrative claims data from 45 states and DC. Eleven medication use-related measures …
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Thematic analysis of patient derived quality measures following upper limb surgery
… how upper limb post-operative patients defined quality care. We specifically assessed the following three aims: (1) determining patient expectations following upper limb surgery, (2) identifying patient recognized barriers to receiving quality care, and (3) analyzing patient identified areas of …
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Noise reduction schemes for digital hearing aids and their use for the hearing impaired
… subjects show that besides better 'sound quality', most obvious benefits are reductions in the mental effort needed to listen to speech in noise. To assess this feature, a listening effort test is developed. For further subjective quality assessment of the algorithms, the method of paired …
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A Framework for Data Quality for Synthetic Information
Data quality has been an area of increasing interest for researchers in recent years due to the rapid emergence of 'big data' processes and applications. In this work, the data quality problem is viewed from the standpoint of synthetic information. Based on the structure and complexity of synthetic …
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Evaluation of a Nurse-led Intervention to Improve Palliative Care for Select Medical Intensive Care Patients
… to increase documentation of three of the nine quality measures in the medical intensive care unit (MICU) and surgical intensive care unit (SICU) for adult medical intensive care patients at high risk of death. Further inquiry is needed to fully examine why all quality measures did not …
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Three essays on economic growth and the environment: A comparative analysis of developed and developing countries
… otherwise of poor local and global environmental quality influences their happiness. As measures of local environmental quality, poor water, poor air, and poor sewage and sanitation in the respondent's own community are considered. The global environmental quality measures include global warming …
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The Genetic Architecture of Grain Quality and its Temporal Relationship with Growth and Development in Winter Malting Barley (Hordeum vulgare)
… explores the genetic architecture of malting quality within the Virginia Tech barley breeding program, and discusses implications for imposing selection on complex traits that are difficult to phenotype. Malting quality measures are destructive, and can not be performed before selection must …
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Improving quality on a nonwovens line
… develops and tests a methodology for improving quality on a continuous process line. A nonwovens line was chosen as the experimental environment to test this methodology. First the process variables were analyzed and classified and a screening experiment was run to determine which variables had …
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Multiple voltage scheme with frequency variation for power minimization of pipelined circuits at high-level synthesis
… on the design flow. There are three important quality measures used to support design decision, namely size, performance and power consumption. Recently, with the increase in portability, the power consumption has become a very dominant factor in the design of circuits. The aim of low-power …
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Measuring information-oriented productivity and performance
… performance. The operational measures are applied to a set of information documents. The documents are evaluated by four different groups of subjects. The evaluations are compared to the calculations from the operational measures to address the validity of the measures. 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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A Modern Statistical Approach to Quality Improvement in Health Care using Quantile Regression
Quality is difficult to measure and compare among medical providers. First, an appropriate metric must be chosen among many potential process-based and patient outcome measures. Further, when comparing providers, one must take into account the fact that patients are not homogeneous across …
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Evaluation of optimal control-based deformable registration model
… with success under various similarity measures. One such model is based on the grid deformation method (GDM) and is the method of interest in this thesis. This work focuses on the evaluation of an optimal control-based model for solving the deformable image registration problem which is …
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Impact assessment using geographic information system (Gis): Transportation engineering applications
… property values, land uses, and other impact measures along potential waste transportation routes leading to Yucca Mountain; In this study, GIS is also used to investigate non-radiological transportation impacts due to the construction and operation of the proposed repository. One important …
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The Primary Dilemma: Determining And Overcoming Barriers To A Focus On Prekindergarten Through Grade 3
… school campus. I suggest the addition of quality measures for public prekindergarten and primary grade classrooms in order to improve professional development efforts and increase administrative focus.</p>
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