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Benchmarking outcomes on multiple contextual levels in lean healthcare: a systematic review, development of a conceptual framework, and a research agenda

BMC Health Services Research, 2021
Background Reliable benchmarking in Lean healthcare requires widely relevant and applicable domains for outcome metrics and careful attention to contextual levels.
Elina Reponen, Thomas G. Rundall, Stephen M. Shortell, Janet C. Blodgett, Angelica Juarez, Ritva Jokela, Markku Mäkijärvi, Paulus Torkki   +7 more
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Who Watches the Watchmen? An Appraisal of Benchmarks for Multiple Sequence Alignment [PDF]

, 2012
Multiple sequence alignment (MSA) is a fundamental and ubiquitous technique in bioinformatics used to infer related residues among biological sequences. Thus alignment accuracy is crucial to a vast range of analyses, often in ways difficult to assess in ...
A Löytynoja, A Löytynoja, B Sipos, BG Hall, BG Hall, BP Blackburne, C Chothia, C Dessimoz, C Kemena, C Kemena, C Notredame, CB Do, CL Strope, DA Dalquen, DA Morrison, DH Mathews, ER Mardis, G Blackshields, G Jordan, G Landan, GP Raghava, I Walle Van, J Kim, J Stoye, JD Thompson, JD Thompson, JD Thompson, JD Thompson, JD Thompson, JD Thompson, JH Havgaard, JP Huelsenbeck, K Mizuguchi, LA Stebbings, M Anisimova, M Pop, MR Aniba, P Gardner, RA Cartwright, RB Russell, RC Edgar, RC Edgar, SA Berger, SF Altschul, T Golubchik, T Koestler, T Lassmann, T Lassmann, T Lassmann, W Fletcher   +49 more
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Sustainability in education: An evaluation of a new teaching and learning strategy in chartered accountancy studies – A student perspective

Journal of Economic and Financial Sciences, 2013
Sustainability has been described as the primary moral and economic imperative of the twenty-first century and one of the most important sources of both opportunities and risks for businesses.
Riëtte de Lange, Ben Marx, Alex van der Watt   +2 more
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Exploring a digital technology framework for building rural security transformation [PDF]

SHS Web of Conferences
The safety of the original old buildings in the upgrading and remodeling of traditional rural landscape has become a key aspect that cannot be ignored.
Dong Xuan, Shi Lang, Zeng Xinyue, Cai Fupeng, Dong Zuorong, Chiu Chenyuan   +5 more
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SoK: Benchmarking the Performance of a Quantum Computer

Entropy, 2022
The quantum computer has been claimed to show more quantum advantage than the classical computer in solving some specific problems. Many companies and research institutes try to develop quantum computers with different physical implementations. Currently,
Junchao Wang, Guoping Guo, Zheng Shan
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Randomized benchmarking in measurement-based quantum computing [PDF]

, 2016
Randomized benchmarking is routinely used as an efficient method for characterizing the performance of sets of elementary logic gates in small quantum devices.
Alexander, Rafael N., Bartlett, Stephen D., Turner, Peter S.   +2 more
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Measuring and optimising the efficiency of community hospital inpatient care for older people: the MoCHA mixed-methods study

Health Services and Delivery Research, 2020
Background: Community hospitals are small hospitals providing local inpatient and outpatient services. National surveys report that inpatient rehabilitation for older people is a core function but there are large differences in key performance measures ...
John Young, Claire Hulme, Andrew Smith, John Buckell, Mary Godfrey, Claire Holditch, Jessica Grantham, Helen Tucker, Pam Enderby, John Gladman, Elizabeth Teale, Jean-Christophe Thiebaud   +11 more
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General Framework for Randomized Benchmarking

PRX Quantum, 2022
Randomized benchmarking refers to a collection of protocols that in the past decade have become central methods for characterizing quantum gates. These protocols aim at efficiently estimating the quality of a set of quantum gates in a way that is ...
J. Helsen, I. Roth, E. Onorati, A.H. Werner, J. Eisert   +4 more
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Hesitant Fuzzy-Stochastic Data Envelopment Analysis (HF-SDEA) Model for Benchmarking

JOIV: International Journal on Informatics Visualization, 2021
The Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method is a method commonly used in benchmarking. The Dynamic Data Envelopment Analysis (DDEA) method was proposed to improve the DEA method in the benchmarking process.
Dahlan Abdullah, - Hartono, Cut Ita Erliana   +2 more
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Benchmark Your IT Benchmark

, 2023
Abstract: The article addresses information technology performance benchmarking with specific emphasis on what could jeopardize the efficiency of the IT benchmarking process. Though the benchmarking process may entail all required components, other factors related to the culture will impact its efficiency.
Abdulmajeed AlAbdulhadi, Mufleh M Alkahtani   +1 more
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