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Showing 1 to 20 of 87 for “"Quality of Information"”.
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On quantifying the quality of information in social sensing
… theory and methodology for quantifying the Quality of Information (QoI) in social sensing. We refer social sensing to the sensing applications where humans play a critical role in the sensing or data collection process. Social sensing has emerged as a new paradigm for sensory data …
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The quality of information distributed by clubs and societies to prospective students at a South African university of technology
Thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements of the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Business and Information Management, Durban University of Technology, South, Durban, 2025.
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Information Quality Frames: An Information Product Perspective and A Socio-cognitive Approach to Perceiving Quality of Information in Organisations
There has been much advancement in the field of data and information quality (DIQ) since two decades ago. However, despite a large number of the theoretical and empirical studies in this field, there is a lack of understanding about the mechanisms and dynamics of forming, adjusting and changing …
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Occurrence and quality of information concerning guidance of the pre-adolescent (9-11 years) in guidance columns distributed by newspaper syndicates
Digitized by Kansas State University Libraries
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Resource efficient information integration in cyber-physical systems
The proliferation of increasingly capable and affordable sensing devices that pervade every corner of the world has given rise to the fast development and wide deployment of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). Hosting a whole spectrum of civilian and military applications, cyber-physical systems have …
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Three Essays in Financial Economics
In the last chapter, the quality of information produced by investment analysts is studied. In particular, newly available analyst forecasts of revenue per share are examined to assess accuracy and potential biases. Revenue forecasts are shown to be terminally unbiased, while earnings forecasts …
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A software architecture towards automated data-driven multi-resolution crop scouting with an unmanned aerial system
… monitoring is necessary to track the status of crops planted in the field throughout the season. Developing a sampling plan to determine the path through the field and the number of points to sample helps minimize the amount of time spent scouting while maximizing the quality of information …
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Modeling and Scheduling for Sensor Network Quality-of-Experience Enhancement
… sensor node design has led to the possibility of utilizing them in various monitoring applications such as environment monitoring (including inaccessible terrain), structural health monitoring and healthcare. Many of these safety-critical applications however, depend on the data obtained from …
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Improving Aircraft Refueling Procedures at Naval Air Station Oceana
… aircraft waiting time for fuel as a measure of performance. We develop a computer-assisted discrete-event simulation to model refueling at NAS Oceana using airfield data from October 2011. Our study focuses on six factors: the total number of mobile refueling trucks, the rate of fuel flow …
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Information quality assessment in e-learning systems.
… systems provide a promising solution as an information exchanging channel. Improved technology could mean faster and easier access to information but does not necessarily ensure the quality of this information. Therefore it is essential to develop valid and reliable methods of quality …
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Information quality assessment in e-learning systems.
… systems provide a promising solution as an information exchanging channel. Improved technology could mean faster and easier access to information but does not necessarily ensure the quality of this information. Therefore it is essential to develop valid and reliable methods of quality …
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Ikriya: Simulating Software Quality Enhancement With Selected Replacement Policies
<p>The quality of information systems in any organization helps to determine the<br />efficiency of the organization. Many organizations maintain a custom software portfolio, whose quality is important to the organization. Management would like to optimize the portfolio’s quality. Decisions about …
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Fast algorithms for wavelet-based analysis of hyperspectral signatures
… sensors promise great improvements in the quality of information gathered for remote sensing applications. However, they also present a huge challenge to data storage and computing systems. Thus there is a great need for reliable compression schemes, as well as analysis tools that can …
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Management accounting innovation and organizational learning
… over the last 15 years. Since the publication of Johnson and Kaplan's (1987) Relevance Lost: The Rise and Fall of Management Accounting, innovations such as activity-based costing/management, the balanced scorecard, value-chain analysis and economic value-added systems have been introduced by …
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A Benevolent Community: Information Exchange Among University Staff
Universities face increasing demands for the use of data to inform decision- making; with increasing amounts of data collected, the access and exchange of information continues to become more difficult in organizations. This study examines the roles of social capital and brokerage in the exchange …
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Environmental factors influencing the strategic planning of academic libraries : a comparative case study of the universities of Fort Hare and Port Elizabeth libraries
… However, it does seem that sustainability of these vital information centres is increasingly below their utility value leading to poor information services. Factors such as increase in student numbers, budget cuts, dependency on foreign sources and falling exchange rates affect …
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Gestão de qualidade e excelência no atendimento: Arquivo Geral - UFPB
This work examines the quality of service in public management, especially in the General Files of Universidad Federal da Paraiba (UFPB). It responds to the question: Why should one have a service excellence in the General Files of UFPB? Methodologically, it relies on a field research with users of …
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Referral patterns to the Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital
… 31st December 1987 and entailed the collection of all referral letters presented (9288) to the hospital and the analysis of a sample of these letters (4702). The results indicated: * The patients are similar in terms of age and sex to those attending the Outpatients Department except that …
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Narrative discourse in English speaking coloured persons with aphasia and normal controls in the Western Cape, South Africa
… aimed to characterise the discourse performance of English speaking Coloured persons with mild to moderate aphasia and match controls. It ascertained whether various narrative discourse tasks resulted in differences in discourse performance between the two groups in the amount of information and …
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Incentive mechanism design for mobile crowd sensing systems
The recent proliferation of increasingly capable and affordable mobile devices with a plethora of on-board and portable sensors that pervade every corner of the world has given rise to the fast development and wide deployment of mobile crowd sensing (MCS) systems. Nowadays, applications of MCS …
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