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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"quality assurance - QA"”.
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Augmenting large language models with static code analysis for accelerated software development and quality improvements
This thesis presents the Next-Generation Quality Accelerator (NGQA), an automated end-to-end pipeline driven by large language models (LLMs) to accelerate the quality assurance (QA) phase of the software development lifecycle using static analysis tools. NGQA integrates detection, grounding, …
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GlitchAgent: Detecting Video Game Glitches from Gameplay Videos
… complexity of modern video games has made Quality Assurance (QA) a critical yet challenging bottleneck in the video game development and maintenance lifecycle, which relies heavily on expensive, labor-intensive, and inefficient manual testing. Automated glitch detection from gameplay videos …
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Automated Quality Assurance for Magnetic Resonance Imaging with Extensions to Diffusion Tensor Imaging
… sites often use the ACR procedure for daily quality assurance (QA) testing. The ACR accreditation program uses information obtained from clinical and phantom images to assess overall image quality of a scanner. For the phantom assessment, a human observer performs manual tests on T1 and …
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Robust and efficient process for acceptance testing of radiation therapy machines
… testing (AT), commissioning, and ongoing quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC) of linac and treatment planning systems (TPS) is extremely inefficient requiring substantial labor efforts and significant expense for the testing equipment and software. Despite these efforts and …
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Preserving the Health & Well-being of Elderly Adults: Encouraging Standards of Care within Residential Care Facilities
… CCSP program conducted motivational surveys and quality assurance (QA) assessments at three care homes to ensure that they were meeting standards of care for IOA clients that would be most preventative for hospitalizations. The CCSP committee found that all three care homes passed the …
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2d dose measurement using a flat panel EPID
… the search for a faster and more cost effective quality assurance (QA) system. The standard technique relies on the use of film for two-dimensional dose distribution verification. Although film is considered the gold standard and is widely used for this purpose, the procedures involved are …
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Applications of machine learning in nuclear imaging and radiation detection
… registration (DIR) errors from lung CT scans for quality assurance (QA) purposes. The method includes the process of preparing a CT scan dataset for machine learning model training and testing, design of a 3D convolutional neural network architecture that classifies registrations into good or poor …
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Quality assurance in high schools through regression analysis
… Research (SER), School Improvement (SI) and Quality Assurance (QA). Three divisions are identified within each field on the basis of various criteria. SER has methodological generations, Sl is classified by decade, and three themes of QA are described, including performance indicators (Pis). …
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Development of a quality assurance plan for a microbrewery
Quality assurance (QA) has become a key factor to business success in the marketplace. Within Australia, companies normally approach QA by implementing formal systems which maintain the consistency of manufacturing processes, and hence, the quality of subsequent output. These systems have …
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Application and Development of Algebraic Reconstruction Algorithms for High Dose Rate Brachytherapy Gel Dosimetry with Optical Computed Tomography Readout
… optimal tumour control while preserving patient quality of life by avoiding damage to healthy tissue. This increased complexity requires more thorough quality assurance (QA). External beam radiation therapy has seen an increase of QA of individual patients’ treatments for complex deliveries. This …
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An Evaluation of The Consistency of Imrt Patient-Specific Qa Techniques
… must be validated through a measurement-based quality assurance (QA) procedure, known as patient specific IMRT QA. Many methods of measurement and analysis have evolved for this QA. There is not a standard among clinical institutions, and many devices and action levels are used. Since the …
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Quality assurance in Saudi Arabian higher education
Quality assurance (QA) in higher education is one of the most prominent fields of higher education research at present. In the Saudi Arabian higher education sector, however, quality assurance is a relatively new concept. The National Commission for Academic Accreditation and Assessment (NCAAA) in …
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Developing quality assurance processes in a private higher education institution in Australia
… statement explores my professional practice as a quality assurance practitioner and how I developed my three chosen Public Works which have a common theme of quality assurance. The first Public Work analyses the development process of a new quality assurance (QA) model for Australian Institute of …
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Wind Scatterometry with Improved Ambiguity Selection and Rain Modeling
Although generally accurate, the quality of SeaWinds on QuikSCAT scatterometer ocean vector winds is compromised by certain natural phenomena and retrieval algorithm limitations. This dissertation addresses three main contributers to scatterometer estimate error: poor ambiguity selection, estimate …
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Measurement of The Electron Return Effect Using Presage Dosimeter
… will provide a more rigorous means for the quality assurance (QA) of MRgRT than two-dimensional dosimetry. The 3D dosimeters can also be used to estimate the volumetric dose distribution in MRgRT treatment of heterogeneous treatment sites (e.g., lung), around simple structures such as the …
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Re-Visioning Quality Assurance in Higher Education.
… between regulation and HE. This study focused on Quality Assurance [QA] as a key policy concern and regulatory mechanism of HE at national, European and global levels (L. Harvey, 2005). Drawing on poststructuralist and critical theories I located QA as a mechanism of governing HE and neoliberalism …
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Rheological characterisation of solder pastes and isotropic conductive adhesives (ICAs) for microsystems assembly technology
… rheological measurements can also be used as a quality control tool in the paste production process for identifying batch to batch variation; and to reduce the associated printing defects in the paste printing process. The work reported here on the rheological characterisation of novel pastes …
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Commissioning of Micro-Cube Thermoluminescent Dosimeters For Small Field Dosimetry Quality Assurance In Radiotherapy
… stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) remote auditing quality assurance (QA) for treatment centers participating in clinical trials. This study tested the hypothesis that TLD micro-cubes could be commissioned to evaluate small field dosimetry, and provide reproducibility within 3%, as well as assure …
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DOSIMETRIC STUDY OF BETA-MINUS EMITTER PRASEODYMIUM-142 : APPLICATIONS IN MICROSPHERE BRACHYTHERAPY FOR HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA AND BRACHYTHERAPY FOR OCULAR SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA
… could be effective in performing pre-treatment quality assurance (QA) and dosimetry, as well as post-treatment biodistribution imaging and dose distributions of permanently implanted ¹⁴²Pr brachytherapy sources. Two main novel applications of ¹⁴²Pr beta emitters are studied in this work: (i) …
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Understanding the problems of managing quality in the handling chain for horticultural products
… of the conditions affecting the development of a quality management program. As will be seen in the following literature review, well controlled and operated handling chains are difficult to establish in Australia. Therefore, it is important that this aspect of horticulture be thoroughly …
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