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The Synergy Tool: Making Important Quality Gains within One Healthcare Organization

open access: yesAdministrative Sciences, 2017
Background: Evidence-based clinical care delivery begins with comprehensive assessments of patients’ priority needs. A Canadian health sciences corporation conducted a quality improvement initiative to enhance clinical care delivery, beginning with one ...
Enoch Ho   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Quality management system and construction performance [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This paper discusses the level of effectiveness of quality principles and quality management system implementation and the relationship with performance of ISO9000 certified Indonesian contractors.
Coffey, Vaughan   +2 more
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Grasp quality measures: review and performance [PDF]

open access: yesAutonomous Robots, 2014
The correct grasp of objects is a key aspect for the right fulfillment of a given task. Obtaining a good grasp requires algorithms to automatically determine proper contact points on the object as well as proper hand configurations, especially when dexterous manipulation is desired, and the quantification of a good grasp requires the definition of ...
Roa Garzón, Máximo   +1 more
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Total Quality Management Practices’ Effects on Quality Performance and Innovative Performance

open access: yesProcedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2012
AbstractTQM and performance relationship is a popular discussion in the literature, quality performance and TQM relationship is supported with various studies but the findings about innovative performance is inconsistent. However, most scholars stress on the importance of TQM activities on performance outcomes.
MÜCELDİLİ, BÜŞRA   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Validity and reliability of a thoracic kyphotic assessment tool measuring distance of the seventh cervical vertebra from the wall

open access: yesHong Kong Physiotherapy Journal, 2016
Background: In primary healthcare (PHC) service, community residents, village health volunteers (VHVs), and healthcare professionals need to work in partnership to facilitate universal and equitable healthcare services.
Pipatana Amatachaya, PhD   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

User satisfaction survey in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Library – do we manage to deliver?

open access: yesLibellarium: Journal for the Research of Writing, Books, and Cultural Heritage Institutions, 2016
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Library in Osijek has demonstrated through its activities and emphasized in its strategic documents that it is focused on the continuous improvement of its quality.
Kornelija Petr Balog, Gordana Gašo
doaj   +1 more source

ISO 9000 certification benefits reality or myth? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
Given the rapid recent growth in ISO 9000 applications and the business performance benefits being claimed for it by National Accreditation Registrars, it is timely to review the research in this area to see if any substantial proof exists for these ...
Dick, Gavin P.M.
core   +1 more source

Application and Evaluation of Performance Quality of Hose-Reel Irrigation Machine

open access: yesActa Technologica Agriculturae, 2019
Considering the global tendency in water saving, this research is focused on practical measurements of even distribution of water. The performance quality is determined by values of coefficients of distribution uniformity and non-uniformity given in ...
Jobbágy Ján   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Neighborhood Quality and Student Performance [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2013
Children who grow up in deprived neighborhoods underperform at school and later in life but whether there is a causal link remains contested. This study estimates the effect of very deprived neighborhoods, characterized by a high density of social housing, on the educational attainment of fourteen years old students in England.
openaire   +3 more sources

Fingerprint Quality Assessment: Matching Performance and Image Quality [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This article chiefly focuses on Fingerprint Quality Assessment (FQA) applied to the Automatic Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS). In our research work, different FQA solutions proposed so far are compared by using several quality metrics selected from the existing studies.
Yao, Zhigang   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

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