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Showing 1 to 20 of 83 for “"quality criteria"”.
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Water Quality Criteria for Selected Recreational Uses--Site Comparisons
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Information Quality Criteria Analysis in Query Reformulation in Dynamic Distributed Environments
… richer results can be delivered. Information Quality criteria has been used in some works to evaluate the level of quality of the distributed dynamic environment’s elements such as, peers, data and query answer. These criteria are dynamic measures provided by the system and serve as scores …
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Modelling targeted procurement strategies and relationship quality criteria influencing the development of small contractors in South Africa
… The research further examines whether the quality of relationships in the project supply chain mediates the relationship between targeted procurement strategies used and contractor development. An embedded mixed methods research approach was adopted, that primarily employed quantitative …
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Evaluation of the Development and Effectiveness of Copper Total Maximum Daily Loads (Tmdls) to Achieve Marine Water Quality Criteria
… [TBT], copper) federal and state water quality standards exist to protect aquatic organisms. As a means to comply with water quality standards, regulatory agencies establish Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) to reduce concentrations of toxic chemicals from entering waterways. A TMDL …
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The Effects of Multitasking on Quality Inspection in Advanced Manufacturing Systems
… planning, machine set-up, problem solving, and quality inspection. The quality inspection task in AMS consists of a search component, frequently conducted by a machine, and a decision making component conducted by the operator. This quality inspection system is often referred to as a hybrid …
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Model of PAH and PCB bioaccumulation in Mya arenaria and application for site assessment in conjunction with sediment quality screening criteria
A review of six methods for deriving sediment quality criteria SQC was conducted. Each approach was analyzed according to cost, difficulty, applicability and reliability. Results of this analysis led to the recommendation that the state of Massachusetts should use a combination of the Equilibrium …
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Assessing Industrial Contamination of Brockport Creek After Removal of Contaminated Sediment
… they ranged from 288 to 432 µg/kg, below water quality criteria for aquatic organisms and human health. The number of heavy metals detected in sediments after the cleanup decreased from 22 to eight, and their concentrations also decreased. After the cleanup, concentrations of metals ranged from …
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Untersuchung der medizinischen Infrastruktur für Touristen und Geschäftsreisende in Tunesien
… other. Those clinics have to satisfy the TEMOS quality criteria and obtain ratings in several evaluated fields such as hygiene, knowledge of foreign languages, infrastructure and medical departments that range from "bad" to "very good". The tunisian health system has been analysed and it was …
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A Multimetric Benthic Index for Georgia's Wadeable Streams
… water management decisions, and describe water quality criteria.</p>
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Understanding 'what works': Evidence based regional policy making in England.
… of evidence. This is in contrast to imposing a quality criteria specific to one type of study design (e.g. experimental methods) or allowing for cherry-picked and unsystematic evidence use within policy making processes. It is also argued that the development of a knowledge translation tool, …
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Improving statistical machine translation using morpho-syntactic information
… The overall goal is to improve translation quality and to reduce the amount of parallel text necessary to train the model parameters. Large differences in word order between corresponding sentences are difficult to capture for automatic alignment algorithms. In this work, sentence level …
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A literature review into Parents' experiences of raising a child with a disability, and research exploring mothers' experiences of receiving a diagnosis of Monosomy 1P36 deletion syndrome for their child
… of six papers meeting inclusion and quality criteria is presented within this review. Overarching themes derived from the papers included two risk factors: Experiences and Challenges; and two protective factors: Strategies for Coping and Support. These are presented in a visual …
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Comparing Alternative Methods of Simulating Bacteria Concentrations with HSPF Under Low-Flow Conditions
… source-load reductions required to meet water quality criteria. Due to limitations in the application of existing watershed-scale water quality models, under low-flow conditions the models can predict unrealistically high in-stream fecal bacteria concentrations. These unrealistically high …
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Multi-perspective modeling and analysis of cooperation processes
… analysis of the formal models with respect to quality criteria and integrity constraints for cooperation processes that are also presented in this thesis. CO-MAP has been validated in five industrial case studies at four different small and medium-sized enterprises, and its transferability to …
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Acute Toxicity of Ammonia and Copper to Mussel (Bivalvia: Unionidae) Glochidia Inside and Outside of Conglutinates
… and therefore have potential to drive water quality standards. However, data must be based on the normal routes and duration of exposure of each life stage to pollutants. Larval mussels (glochidia) are parasites on the gills or skin of fish. Glochidia of many species are released from the …
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An Ecotoxicological Recovery Assessment of the Clinch River Following Coal Industry-related Disturbances in Carbo, Virginia (USA): 1967-2002
… that were reported to have exceeded water quality criteria from 1985-1989. These impacts have provided impetus for many research projects addressing the absence of bivalves, including federally protected species of native mussels (Unionoidea), from sites influenced by CRP effluent. …
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A continuing medical education program based in high quality evidence to transfer knowledge and to improve practice for health care professionals
… information service. It further explored the quality of the contents used in ECCE as compared to its market competitors (i.e. other evidence-based practice point-ofcare services). Our randomised controlled trial of nearly 200 physicians revealed little evidence for a difference in the health …
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The status and seasonal dynamics of fish and benthic invertebrate populations in relation to organic and inorganic material inputs and surface mining impacts in three Virginia headwater streams
… reclamation and recovery. The inclusion of water quality criteria in the administration of mined-land reclamation would promote terrestrial management practices conducive to aquatic systems recovery.
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Characterisation, Treatment and Utilisation of the Effluent from an Intensive Fish Farm
… and management information on aspects of water quality in fish farming. The metabolic products produced by intensively farmed rainbow trout have been assessed and the production rates can be used to predict water quality. The water quality requirements of trout have been reviewed and experiments …
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