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Showing 1 to 20 of 33747 for “"quality"”.
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Pet food: quality and quality improvement
… growing rapidly, with pet owners demanding high-quality diets for their pets. The primary role of diet is to provide enough nutrients to meet metabolic requirements, while giving the consumer a feeling of well-being. Diet nutrient composition and digestibility are of crucial importance for health …
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Private equity, disclosure quality, and audit quality
I study the influence of disclosure/audit quality on private equity funds’ investment decisions, and the relationship between private equity ownership and disclosure/audit quality. Using Preqin and FAME data, I find that PE funds are more likely to invest in firms with superior financial statement …
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High Quality Induction to Ensure High Quality Teaching
… engage new and beginning teachers in a high-quality induction program that equips them with the necessary skills to be successful and builds their professional capital. The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate the gaps within the district’s current comprehensive teacher …
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Connecting Water Quality With Air Quality Through Microbial Aerosols
… The microbial connection between water and air quality outlined by this dissertation highlights the need for information on the mechanisms that deliver surface water materials to terrestrial systems on a much larger scale. Moving from point measurements to landscape-level analyses will allow for …
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DOES QUALITY MATTER? A LOOK AT QUALITY MATTERS IMPACT ON ONLINE DOCTORAL STUDENTS OF QUALITY ASSURANCE
… to ascertain if student views aligned with the Quality Matters (QM) standards. The surveys and interviews that were conducted for this study were used to extrapolate and analyze the views from these online students of the implementation of the Quality Matters rubric to determine whether there …
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Total quality management and drinking water quality: The Waikato experience
Drinking water quality is a matter of concern in New Zealand. The quality of many New Zealand water supplies has been unsatisfactory as shown by the grading conducted since 1960 by the former Board of Health. In 1991, a quarter of the supplies surveyed failed to meet the Department of Health's …
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Bioproducts and environmental quality: biofuels, greenhouse gases, and water quality
Promoting bio-based products is one oft-proposed solution to reduce GHG emissions because the feedstocks capture carbon, offsetting at least partially the carbon discharges resulting from use of the products. However, several life cycle analyses point out that while biofuels may emit less life …
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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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Measuring Information Quality
The project contributes to the theory of IQ by developing a systematic and operational theory of IQ measurement in the form of the integrated IQ assessment framework. The project also contributes to our understanding of how IQ assurance work can to be organized effectively in open, collaborative …
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Quality control circles
Thesis: M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1981
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Conceptions of Quality and Approaches to Quality Assurance in Ontario’s Universities
… led to increased demands for development of new quality assurance systems for universities. Like many policies and processes that aim to assure quality, Ontario’s Quality Assurance Framework (QAF) did not define quality. This study sought to explore conceptions of quality and approaches to …
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Evaluating North American Tallgrass Prairie Quality Using The Auchenorrhyncha Quality Index
… ideal candidates in the development of a habitat quality index to measure tallgrass prairie integrity. Chapter 1 provides a detailed introduction of ecological integrity, methods used in measuring tallgrass prairie integrity, and the usefulness of insects in assessing prairie integrity. Chapter 2 …
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Quality control operating procedures for multiple quality characteristics and weighting factors
… a manufactured item having more than one quality characteristic and continuous measurements of these characteristics. There are two phases in this procedure. The first phase consists of testing the stability of the manufacturing process with respect to dispersion and central tendency. Once …
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'Quality management or management quality?' : an adaptive model of organization as the basis of organizational learning and quality provision
… development of an approach to the management of quality management. Not the more usual "conformance to specification" version of product quality, but that of service quality. In telling this story two main sources have been used, cybernetic theory, and management practice. In telling the story is …
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A Bayesian stormwater quality model and its application to water quality monitoring
… the pre-development hydrologic and water quality characteristics of the drainage areas. Understanding of the systems' treatment capabilities is required for stormwater management. The goal of this research was to study the application of a decay treatment model as a conceptual tool for …
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