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Benchmarking for continuous improvement in food retail environments: a systematic scoping review [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Public Health
Background Benchmarking, closely related to audit and feedback processes, is an implementation strategy that continuously measures performance against defined functions and metrics and implements change accordingly.
Molly Fairweather   +6 more
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REGULATORY BENCHMARKING IN CENTRAL EUROPE: CURRENT PRACTICE AND POSSIBILITIES OF DEVELOPMENT FOR THE ENERGY SECTOR [PDF]

open access: yesAnnals of the University of Oradea: Economic Science, 2011
Benchmarking is a technique of performance evaluation in which comparisons are made to benchmarks that represent external performance standards. In the field of regulation of public utilities, benchmarking can be used as an element of performance-based ...
Machek Ondrej
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Benchmarking and library quality maturity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
It remains unresolved from the literature whether benchmarking is a useful and appropriate tool for the library and information services sector. The aim of this research was to gather evidence to establish whether benchmarking provides a real and lasting
Wilson, F   +3 more
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Sustainability in education: An evaluation of a new teaching and learning strategy in chartered accountancy studies – A student perspective

open access: yesJournal 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   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Exploring a digital technology framework for building rural security transformation [PDF]

open access: yesSHS 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   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

SoK: Benchmarking the Performance of a Quantum Computer

open access: yesEntropy, 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
doaj   +1 more source

Measuring and optimising the efficiency of community hospital inpatient care for older people: the MoCHA mixed-methods study

open access: yesHealth 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   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Personalized Benchmarking with the Ludwig Benchmarking Toolkit

open access: yesCoRR, 2021
The rapid proliferation of machine learning models across domains and deployment settings has given rise to various communities (e.g. industry practitioners) which seek to benchmark models across tasks and objectives of personal value. Unfortunately, these users cannot use standard benchmark results to perform such value-driven comparisons as ...
Avanika Narayan   +4 more
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Benchmarking software tools for trimming adapters and merging next-generation sequencing data for ancient DNA

open access: yesFrontiers in Bioinformatics, 2023
Ancient DNA is highly degraded, resulting in very short sequences. Reads generated with modern high-throughput sequencing machines are generally longer than ancient DNA molecules, therefore the reads often contain some portion of the sequencing adaptors.
Annette Lien   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Benchmarking the Chase [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the 36th ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGAI Symposium on Principles of Database Systems, 2017
The chase is a family of algorithms used in a number of data management tasks, such as data exchange, answering queries under dependencies, query reformulation with constraints, and data cleaning. It is well established as a theoretical tool for understanding these tasks, and in addition a number of prototype systems have been developed.
Michael Benedikt   +6 more
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