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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"quality enhancement"”.
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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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Superconducting magnetic energy storage for power system stability and quality enhancement
… become the most critical issue affecting their quality and performance. Concerns over climate change are now moving the energy sector into a new era of modern power grids. To sustain the reliable operation of power systems and improve the quality of power generation, several instability issues …
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Optimizing Faculty Recruitment for Quality Enhancement Plan Programs at UT Southwestern
… evaluations of faculty members to evaluate the quality of their previous engagements. Recruiters also emphasized enthusiasm, motivation, and realistic expectations as additional ideal characteristics. Recruiters identified financial incentives, opportunities for career development and …
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Data quality enhancement in oil reservoir operations : an application of IPMAP
This thesis presents a study of data quality enhancement opportunities in upstream oil and gas industry. Information Product MAP (IPMAP) methodology is used in reservoir pressure and reservoir simulation data, to propose data quality recommendations for the company under study. In particular, a new …
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Entrepreneurship as a Catalyzer of Housing Quality Enhancement in Colombia: Tervi
… housing deficit, both in terms of quantity and quality, which requires innovative solutions from both the government and the private sector. The narrative in this thesis unfolds exploring the housing deficit in the region, focusing specifically on Colombia's case and the implications of the …
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Power quality enhancement in electricity networks using grid-connected solar and wind based DGs
… DGs may however pose negative impacts on the quality of power supplied by the utility network. Some of the detrimental impacts of DG include voltage fluctuations, flicker, etc. which are in general categorised as power quality (PQ) problems. The proper planning of DG integration is required to …
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Group Attributes and Group Processes: An Inferential Analysis of Facilitating and Inhibiting Factors For Quality Enhancement Plan Development
… group processes during the development of a Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) at public, two-year colleges as part of the institutional accreditation process managed by the Commission on Colleges for the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS). To date, no published studies have been …
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Surpassing Local Optimality in Geometry Processing
… cross-field based quad meshing, hexahedral mesh quality enhancement, and algebraic collision detection. With these tools, we manage to avoid shallower local minima and sometimes to reach or even surpass globally optimal solutions. We conclude with some principles by which these methods can be …
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Reflections from practice using the UK QAA Quality Code as a framework to assist in managing and subsequently closing an international branch campus
… the delivery at an IBC. The introduction of a Quality Framework, in December 2012, by the Quality Assurance Agency [QAA] is an independent body whose role is safeguard standards and improve the quality of UK higher education wherever it is delivered around the world. The Quality Framework was a …
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INVESTMENTS IN PRODUCT QUALITY WITH HETEROGENEOUS FIRMS: THEORY AND EVIDENCE FROM BANGLADESH
… among heterogeneous firms affects R&D in quality enhancement in a quality-ladder type framework for a Cournot oligopolistic industry. The research also analyzes the welfare implications of various policies that promotes R&D. Some of the theoretical predictions are then tested empirically …
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Advanced Power Sharing Scheme under Unbalanced and Nonlinear Loads in an Islanding Microgrid
… between distributed generators (DGs) and voltage quality problems are critical issues under unbalanced and nonlinear loads in the micro grids. Thus, an advanced power sharing scheme with unbalanced and harmonic loads in islanding micro grid is presented to eradicate power sharing problems and …
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Educational drama in three Hong Kong secondary schools
… Region Government to achieve education quality enhancement. Since then, pedagogic innovations related to educational drama have been initiated in schools and inquiries have been made on these pilot teachings. Mostly educational drama was found effective in achieving the reform objectives …
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Intent to Action: Overcoming Barriers to Universal Basic Education Policy Implementation in Nigeria
… student retention, equity and education quality enhancement, the issue of access remains the biggest challenge. Access to basic education among Nigerian children of school age is still at the low level of 60%. More than eight million children of school age (six to 15 years) are still not …
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Using Ethnography to Capture Learner Experience in Handover Simulation Modules
… incorporated simulation-based learning with the Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) to teach medical and health professions students team based communication. The aim of this study was to characterize learner attitudes toward simulation education during two simulation-based modules and to determine …
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Developing An Assessment Framework For Cultural Responsiveness Through A Japanese Program In A Southeastern University
… through the university’s newly implemented quality enhancement plan (QEP): Degree Plus: Furthering students’ development through intentional extracurricular involvement. After the assessment is pilot-tested by the program faculty, the <em>Degree Plus-Cultural Responsiveness Rubric …
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Study of FACTS/ESS Applications in Bulk Power System
… is fundamental to economy, social security and quality of modern life, the complicated power grid is now facing severe challenges to meet the high-level secure and reliable operation requirements. New technologies will play a major role in helping today's electric power industry to meet the …
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Optimizating and Diffusing a Handover Behavioral Assessment Tool for Simulation
… and clinical scenarios included in the ongoing Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP), a standardized approach to assessing and trending handover quality across class years could quantify the improvements established through the QEP. This study assesses the utility of the Liang Handover Assessment Tool …
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An Examination of the Nurse/Midwife Prescribing Programme in Ireland: Confidence, Accuracy, Seeking Advice and working within the Scope of Practice
… produced efficiencies in patient care as well as quality enhancement in that care. The study revealed frustrations with the governance system particularly the monitoring system that seemed to incentivize prescriptions. Finally, the study highlighted the pedagogical implications of this study for …
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Evaluating Winemaking Applications of Ultrafiltration
… phenolic compounds for enhanced sensory quality is investigated in Chapter 3. Chapter 4 describes blending the UF wine fractions to enhance wine quality post-filtration and after re-blending. Chapter 5 explores the addition of white wine retentate to commercial red and white no or low …
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