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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"quality practices"”.
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Quality of new wireless network and its possibilities in the Japanese market
… the wireless communication industry to seek quality methods and management it has never or hardly utilized, which means more effort for the quality improvement engineers. It is said that the high-speed wireless technology, specifically 4G, would have faster data communication speeds than …
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Exploring the Relationship between Environmental Operations and Supply Chain Practices, Complementary Assets, and Performance
… management system and environmental supply chain practices can be enhanced for better performance by other internally-driven managerial actions and programs. In particular, it is hypothesized that complementary assets and capabilities, such as quality practices, just-in-time practices and …
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Loggers' perceptions of the costs of best management practices on timber harvesting operations in Virginia
Water quality practices can have a financial impact on the cost of harvesting timber in Virginia. Two hundred seventy-two timber harvesters were surveyed to determine the estimated cost for implementing best management practices (BMPs) on harvested sites. BMPs analyzed in this study are pre-harvest …
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Inside perspectives on early childhood program quality : a case study of teacher beliefs and embedded practices
… early childhood teachers’ perspectives on quality of early childhood programs and how they embed those perspectives in their daily classroom practices. Questions explored teachers’ education levels, years of experience, and the ways in which their individual perspectives are manifested in …
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Pre-professional perceptions of safety and quality concerns in agricultural work environments
… role in the application and implementation of quality and safety policies in agricultural work environments. Yet, no comprehensive study has been completed to understand these pre-professionals' perceptions of quality and safety and how these two factors interact in the agricultural workplace. …
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Towards health management intelligence: a case study from South Africa
… according to four key areas, namely data quality, master data management, data warehousing and analytics. These processes have developed out of an information management culture that has been nurtured by a participatory approach which required an attractor: the improvement of health …
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Auditor Stress: Antecedents and Relationships to Audit Quality
Research on Reduced Audit Quality Practices (RAQP) has consistently shown serious negative consequences in the auditing profession. It has found that under certain pressure levels, auditors tend to engage in RAQP. However, most of the previous studies that had investigated RAQP failed to examine …
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An Investigation into quality assurance of the Open Source Software Development model
… products in rapid succession and with high quality, without following traditional quality practices of accepted software development models (Raymond 1999). Some OSSD projects challenge established quality assurance approaches, claiming to be successful through partial contrary techniques of …
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An investigation of factors affecting internal customer perception of service quality delivery : the case of indigenous small hospitality enterprises in Ghana
… role national culture has on internal service quality practices and its effects, for example, on employee retention and productivity which ultimately affects service delivery levels. In addition, there have been calls to increasingly conduct empirical work in developing countries such as Sub …
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Optimizing thermal spray quality verification in FAA repair station specializing in rotating components
… thermal spray is a special process, current quality practices require destructive testing. Because testing using production parts is expensive, quality management is commonly done through the use of representative test coupons. However, the coupon process is both financially expensive and …
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Total quality management implementation in culturally diverse contexts: an insights from the Nigerian five-star hotel industry.
… investigates the implementation of Total Quality Management within Nigeria's five-star hotel sector, a context characterised by significant cultural diversity. It addresses a notable gap in the quality management literature by examining TQM in an under-researched sub-Saharan African …
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Total quality management and training within North Carolina apparel/textile product manufacturing organizations to determine a model for TQM training
… been a very labor intensive industry. As the quality movement is adopted in the U.S. apparel/textile product manufacturing environment, there is a growing focus on the human side of the enterprise. The purpose of this research was to examine the quality training of three case studies of N.C. …
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Total quality management strategies for small and medium industries in Malaysia : a critical systems approach
… process of widening and deepening industry.As quality and productivity among SMIs develop as a result of the application of quality initiatives and the undertaking of quality programmes, including Total Quality Management (TQM), and their production capacity increases to supply the requirements …
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Aplicación de buenas prácticas de manufactura en la elaboración de harina de ajonjolí y maíz, típicos mamá nina, Santa Rosa de Lima, 2019
… informally and with very low standards of quality. quality; the supply of flours that do comply with good practices is mostly limited to those of the most common consumption, therefore, the need for a study on the preparation of a flour for atole and soft drink based on sesame with corn was …
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A Qualitative Study of Selected Quality Knowledge and Practices in Guangdong Province, China
… focus, leadership and general manufacturing and quality knowledge and practices of small, medium and large sized companies in Guangdong Province, China. Customer focus and leadership are two of the eight fundamental principles of the ISO 9000:2000 family of standards. These two principles, …