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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"quality measure"”.
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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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A framework for computer-based knowledge management systems
… tools. It also incorporates notions of knowledge quality measure and a simple inference mechanism in order to probe, learn and adapt the KMS with the changing needs of its users.
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A medicaid resident assessment-based statewide analysis of intermediate care nursing homes
… development of a conceptual model and an index measure based on actual performance, this dissertation focused on clarifying what is "very good" (and "very bad") in nursing home quality. The model expanded on the traditional narrow image of nursing home quality of care, and specified four major …
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Color image quality measures and retrieval
… color image retrieval and color image quality evaluation are addressed. A no-reference color image quality index is proposed. A novel color correction method applied to low bit-rate JPEG image is developed. A novel method for content-based image retrieval based upon combined feature …
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Optimal control with Kane Mechanics applied to a hybrid power split transmission
… under different conditions. As a shifting quality measure, the Vibration Dose Value (VDV) is used.
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Level of Service: Design Standards, Imposed Car Dependence, and the Production of Urban Space in the Capitalist State
… how the widely accepted use of LOS as a quality measure for urban streets acts as mechanism of the capitalist state's spatial logic of managing urbanization around production and consumption to reproduce its own dominance.
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Synthesis and evaluation of fault-tolerant quantum computer architectures
… computation becomes possible, is one standard quality measure of fault-tolerant designs based on recursive simulation. However, there is a gulf between theoretical achievements and the physical reality and complexity of envisioned quantum computing systems. This thesis takes a step toward …
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Two Studies on Childhood Obesity: Effect of Obesity on Academic Achievement and Effect of Food Store Access on Diet Quality
… specifically food retailer access on diet quality of young children. Binary and index diet quality measures are developed and proximity and density of food store access measures are computed at the census block level. In general, both proximity and density measures do not have any …
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Home Visitors' Conceptions of Effective Practice in Home Visiting
… the results of scoring each video using two measures, a home visitor quality measure and a parent-child interaction measure and asked open-ended questions regarding how they conceptualized effective home visiting after being presented with the data related to the video of the home visit. The …
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Objective Test Methods for Waveguide Audio Synthesis
… top of the line models. In the area of audio quality testing, the most common tests have traditionally been group listening tests. While these tests are subjective and can be expensive and time-consuming, the results are validated by the groups' proper quality standards. Research has been …
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A Framework for Data Quality for Synthetic Information
Data quality has been an area of increasing interest for researchers in recent years due to the rapid emergence of 'big data' processes and applications. In this work, the data quality problem is viewed from the standpoint of synthetic information. Based on the structure and complexity of synthetic …
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Concept Identification for Complex Data Sets
… for any type of data set. A novel concept quality metric is proposed, which assigns an objective numeric value to a given definition of concepts. It incorporates several important aspects, such as the overlap between concepts and the consistency of the associated samples across multiple …
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Multi-objective particle swarm optimisation: methods and applications.
… techniques to developing new methods and quality measures. Smart Multi-objective Particle Swarm Optimisation based on Decomposition (SDMOPSO) is rst proposed to incorporate multi-objective problem decomposition techniques with PSO. A novel archiving technique is developed using a …
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Shoeprint image noise reduction and retrieval
… In this thesis, some novel techniques for image quality measure, Gussian noise and Germ-grain noise reduction pattern segmentation and. screening have been developed. In addition, a few of low-level image feature descriptors, pattern & topological spectra and local image feature, have been …
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Defining relationships between school administrators’ work in school improvement and the teacher evaluation process within an Illinois school district
… responses to an externally imposed teacher quality measure (teacher-evaluation) and the extent that this measure influenced the school administrators’ leadership work in school improvement. This mixed-method study was conducted in two phases in a large, unit district in Illinois. The first …
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From Relatedness to Complexity in Regional Industrial Evolution
… a macro aggregate level. ‘Complexity’ provides a quality measure of regional industrial structure, while ‘evolution’ stands for a dynamic dimension to view ups and downs. The goal is to understand the role of complexity in economic performance within an evolutionary framework. An underlying …
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Investigation of the effects of image compression on the geometric quality of digital protogrammetric imagery
… on photogrammetric imagery at various levels of quality factors. The effects and the suitability of JPEG lossy image compression on industrial photogrammetric imagery are investigated. Examples are drawn from the extraction of targets in close-range photogrammetric imagery. In the experiments, …
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Steganography-based secret and reliable communications: Improving steganographic capacity and imperceptibility
… both steganographic capacity and stego image quality. Therefore, increasing steganographic capacity and enhancing stego image quality are still challenges, and this is exactly our research main aim. Related to this, we also investigate hiding secret information in communication protocols, …
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Data-Driven Pipeline for Learning Discrete behavioural Models of Cyber-Physical Systems
… swarm optimization framework guided by a quality measure from the automata learning algorithm of choice. This enables automatic tuning of discretization and learning hyperparameters through non-convex optimization, eliminating the need for manual intervention. The method is evaluated on …
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Improving Physician Behavior with an Obstetric Dashboard
… perineal laceration, and it is now an obstetric quality measure (AHRQ and The Joint Commission). One major risk factor of anal sphincter lacerations is episiotomy. National quality benchmarks recommend restricted use of episiotomy (in the absence of an indication like shoulder dystocia), with a …
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