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A Fuzzy Three-Dimensional House of Quality to Integrate and Coordinate Departments’ Activities in Organizations

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2023
This study aims to introduce a method to integrate and coordinate departments’ activities to enhance the service quality of organizations using Quality Function Deployment (QFD). To this purpose, the classical two-dimensional House Of Quality (HOQ)
Mohammad Ali Beheshtinia   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Practical Application For Designing Quality House (Case Study) [PDF]

open access: yesEngineering and Technology Journal, 2010
Quality Function Deployment (QFD), as came in definition ,is asystematic thinking process for product planning that enables businesses to consider the characteristics of product to ensure that products satisfy customer requirements for it is a customer ...
Khalil I. Mahmoud   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

HOUSING QUALITY ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

open access: yesElectronic Journal of the Faculty of Civil Engineering Osijek-e-GFOS, 2017
An apartment is a basic need and a primary unit of human habitation, and in most cases, it represents the largest investment of someone’s life. For that reason, and because of constant changes in housing needs, it is necessary to continuously evaluate the housing quality of apartments.
openaire   +2 more sources

Comparing tools for Service Quality Evaluation [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
Service quality evaluation is one of the main issues that have recently drawn managers' and researchers' attention. The definition of an evaluation standard not dependent on any particular service context has determined the popularity of many different ...
Franceschini, Fiorenzo   +7 more
core   +1 more source

Replacing target setting by value models in the ‘house of quality’ for value-based requirements specifications

open access: yes, 2014
Setting targets for engineering characteristics (ECs) is common practice in the ‘house of quality’ for establishing requirements specifications. However, if deployed arbitrarily, this practice is prone to errors and can often yield irrational results ...
Eres, Hakki   +4 more
core   +1 more source

An Extended Quality Function Deployment Incorporating Fuzzy Logic and GDM Under Different Preference Structures [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems, 2015
The paper proposes a fuzzy logic-based group decision making (GDM) approach, which can be used for quality function deployment (QFD) in the development of product improvement strategies.
Gülçin Büyüközkan, Gizem Cifci
doaj   +1 more source

The impact of redeployment during COVID-19 on nurse well-being, performance and retention: a mixed-methods study (REDEPLOY)

open access: yesHealth and Social Care Delivery Research
Background Mass redeployment of nurses was critical to the National Health Service response to COVID-19. There remains little understanding of how redeployment was enacted during the pandemic and its impact on nurse managers’ and nurses’ mental health ...
Hannah Hartley   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

Time Toxicity in Wilms Tumor: Quantifying the Burden of Healthcare Interaction in the First Year After Diagnosis

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Wilms tumor (WT) treatment imposes a significant time burden on patients and their families. Time toxicity is a patient‐centered metric that quantifies the burden of healthcare interaction. We sought to define time toxicity in the first year after diagnosis of WT and hypothesized that it would increase as tumor stage and treatment ...
Caleb Q. Ashbrook   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Housing quality differentials in urban areas [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Urban Economics, 1991
Abstract This paper applies an equilibrium quality theory for differentiated products to estimate the willingness to pay for improvements in the air quality of Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, Houston, and Indianapolis. The empirical results show (i) that the structural approach and the standard nonstructural approach give very different benefit figures ...
openaire   +2 more sources

The Role of Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation in Ataxia‐Telangiectasia

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Ataxia‐telangiectasia (A‐T) is a DNA repair disorder characterized by neurodegeneration, immunodeficiency, and cancer predisposition. Hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) is an established therapy in related disorders such as Fanconi anemia (FA) and Nijmegen breakage syndrome (NBS), but its role in A‐T is unclear.
Laila Alkhouli   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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