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Showing 1 to 20 of 155 for “"quality index"”.
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Development of a Mangrove Quality Index in Tampa Bay, Florida
… from erosion and improve coastal water quality. Historically, mangroves were undervalued, leading to a loss of 35% of mangroves worldwide and 44% in Tampa Bay due to anthropogenic stressors. Efforts to protect and restore mangroves have led to a variety of management programs. In Tampa …
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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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Health risk effect of indoor air quality index at adaptive reused museum in Malaysia
… on the risk assessment of the indoor air quality (IAQ) which affect towards the people in the public building, especially in the museum. As one of the environmental risk assessment tool, the environmental quality index was utilised to determine whether the current location provides a …
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Groundwater quality assessment in the Ngaka Modiri Molema District using the Water Quality Index
In the conducted research, the groundwater quality of different boreholes located in the Ngaka Modiri Molema District (NMMD), more specifically Ratlou, Ditsobotla, and Tswaing local municipalities (LM), for drinking, livestock, and irrigation purposes were assessed. The obtained water quality …
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Development of a quality index method (QIM) scheme and its implementation in a shelf-life study of kingklip (Genypterus capensis)
In this study Quality Index Method (QIM) schemes for raw headed and gutted (H&G) fish and skinless fillets as well as cooked fillets of kingklip (Genypterus capensis) were developed in a shelf life study. The QIM schemes for raw H&G and skinless fillets are based on six and seven quality attributes …
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Can the environmental protection agency's air quality index (AQI) be used to predict pediatric emergency room admissions for asthma?
… general public to be forewarned of unhealthy air quality days. This study reviewed daily ER admissions at an urban pediatric hospital in Dallas, Texas for the months of May through September 2000, in an effort to predict increased admissions for asthma during high ozone episodes. If the …
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Real-Time Air quality index application for the City of Cape Town: An event-Driven system with Kafka, CQRS and Clojure
… the development of an event-driven real-time air quality index application for the City of Cape Town. Event streams are being more commonly adopted in data centric applications that aim to produce trend analyses and prediction models. Event-driven systems store immutable raw event data, providing …
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The relationship of the Diet Quality Index to prevalence of overweight in black and white adolescent girls: an examination of data from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Growth and Health Study
… an opportunity to test differences in diet quality and its relationship to weight classification for black (n=270) and white (n=243) adolescent females. Three-day food records from adolescents enrolled in the Washington, D.C. center of the NGHS were scored according to the Diet Quality Index …
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Autonomous Vehicle Perception Quality Assessment
… (AVs) has necessitated the need for high-quality perception systems. Perception is a fundamental requirement for AVs, with cameras and LiDARs being commonly used sensors for environmental understanding and localization. However, there is a research gap in assessing the quality of AVs …
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Soil and plant water stress in an Appalachian oak forest: its relationship to topography and forest site quality
A forest site quality index (FSQI) based on topographic parameters of aspect, slope inclination and slope position was used to investigate soil moisture and plant water stress relationships on the southeast face of Potts mountain in Craig County, Virginia. Topographical effects on available water …
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Pagyvenusių ir senyvo amžiaus žmonių, sergančių širdies ir kraujagyslių ligomis, miego kokybės įvertinimas /
Sleeping Quality Assessment of Elder and Old People with Cardiovascular Diseases Thesis author: Giedrė Cvirkaitė, the IVth course student of VU nursing bachelor programme. Thesis supervisor: asist. Viktorija Kielaitė, Vilnius university, faculty of medicine, department of Nursing and basics of …
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Sono e vida acadêmica: implicações no cotidiano dos discentes
… aimed to evaluate the influence of sleep quality in college students daily life and their perception about the impact on their work performance. The research population were students from different periods of Occupational Therapy course at the Federal University of Paraíba. Data collection …
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Experimental analysis of natural gas transport: using nanoporous ceramic cores as mimetic model for low permeability reservoirs.
… Flux, Permeability, Mobility and Reservoir Quality Index as objective functions to evaluate the use of nanoporous ceramic cores in describing the micro-geological characteristics of low permeability reservoirs. The research involved rigorous data mining and experimental methodologies, …
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Comparison of coping, quality of life and psychosocial well-being in children and adult patients with vitiligo before and after treatment with pseudocatalase PC-KUS. A questionnaire-based investigation into social anxiety, helplessness, anxious-depressive mood, quality of life and depression before and after treatment with pseudocatalase PC-KUS depending on demographic characteristics and experiences.
… sexual problems and an impaired quality of life. To further substantiate earlier investigations and to introduce new aspects, we utilised the Dermatology Life Quality Index (DLQI), the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and the Adjustment to Chronic Skin Disorders Questionnaire (ACS) …
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Sąsajos tarp slaugytojų miego ir mitybos įpročių /
… Work size: 46 pages. Keywords: nurses, sleep quality, eating habits, shift work. The aim of the research work: To investigate and evaluate nurses sleep quality and its effects on nutritional habits. Tasks of work: 1. To investigate quality of sleep of nurses who work day or night shifts. 2. To …
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A qualidade do café da manhã em adultos brasileiros segundo características socioeconômicas e demográficas a partir da pesquisa de orçamentos familiares 2017-2018
… como um comportamento saudável. O Breakfast Meal Quality Index (BMQI) é utilizado para avaliar, monitorar e comparar a qualidade do café da manhã por meio de recomendações nutricionais e se mostra um método promissor por considerar os componentes mais presentes nessa refeição. Objetivo: Descrever …
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Tillage Effects on Soil Properties and Crop Production in Southern Illinois
The Harris et al. (1996) soil quality index (SQI) model was tested and modified according to local and regional conditions by changing the threshold limits and standardized scoring functions (SSF) for soil quality indicators. Soils that had been in 8 years of the NT system had SQI of 0.64 as …
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Development of Source and Treated Water Quality Indicators for drinking water in Canada from conceptual design to methodological development
… Canada took on the development of a Source Water Quality Indicator for Canada. The main objective was to develop a methodology by which source water quality could be linked to public health, the environment, society, and economy; and measured, tracked, and reported in the form of an indicator for …
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The Impact Of Time Of Day, Sleep, And Nutrition On Age-Related Changes In Cognitive Performance
… 71.4) completed the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, the Block 2005 Brief Food Questionnaire, the Repeatable Battery for Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS), and prose passage recall. Synchrony effects were supported for RBANS List Recognition, Figure Copy, and Figure …
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The quality of deliberation in Northern Ireland's district policing partnerships
… dimensions to measure the deliberative quality of Northern Ireland’s District Policing Partnership (DPP) meetings in public. The study combines Habermasian, and Young’s deliberative concepts to create an Augmented Discourse Quality Index. This Augmented DQI is employed by this research …
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