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Neighborhood Quality and Student Performance [PDF]

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

Acta 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, Michlian Norbert, Dačanin Peter, Rigó Ivan   +3 more
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Bridging the Gap Between Imaging Performance and Image Quality Measures [PDF]

, 2018
Imaging system performance measures and Image Quality Metrics (IQM) are reviewed from a systems engineering perspective, focusing on spatial quality of still image capture systems.
Fry, E., John R. Jarvis, Triantaphillidou, S., Jacobson, R., Sophie Triantaphillidou, Edward W.S. Fry, Ralph E. Jacobson, Fagard-Jenkin, R., Robin B. Jenkin, Jarvis, J.   +9 more
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Appling the Roulette Wheel Selection Approach to Address the Issues of Premature Convergence and Stagnation in the Discrete Differential Evolution Algorithm

Applied Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing, 2023
The discrete differential evolution (DDE) algorithm is an evolutionary algorithm (EA) that has effectively solved challenging optimization problems. However, like many other EAs, it still faces problems such as premature convergence and stagnation during
Asaad Shakir Hameed, Haiffa Muhsan B. Alrikabi, Abeer A. Abdul–Razaq, Zakir Hussain Ahmed, Huda Karem Nasser, Modhi Lafta Mutar   +5 more
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Analysis of Data Quality and Information Quality Problems in Digital Manufacturing [PDF]

, 2008
 This work focuses on the increasing importance of data quality in organizations, especially in digital manufacturing companies. The paper firstly reviews related works in field of data quality, including definition, dimensions, measurement and ...
K. Q. Wang, B. Eynard, EYNARD, Benoit, ROUCOULES, Lionel, Tong, S, R, L. Roucoules, TONG, Shurong, Wang, K, Q, S. R. Tong, WANG, Keqin   +9 more
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The Future of Accreditation: What's next for hospitals

Asia Pacific Journal of Health Management
Accreditation has played a critical role in strengthening safety and quality across Australia’s hospitals since the introduction of the NSQHS Standards in 2013.
Tina Janamian, Bronte Mulherin , Jason Cirone , Shirlee Nichols   +3 more
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Can patient and family education prevent medical errors? A descriptive study

BMC Health Services Research, 2020
Background This study aims to increase understanding of how patient and family education affects the prevention of medical errors, thereby providing basic data for developing educational contents.
Yoon-Sook Kim, Hyuo Sun Kim, Hyun Ah. Kim, Jahae Chun, Mi Jeong Kwak, Moon-Sook Kim, Jee-In Hwang, Hyeran Kim   +7 more
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Daily and weekly external loads in the microcycle: Characterization and comparison between playing positions on amateur soccer

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 2022
Ensuring adequate levels of training and recovery to maximize player performance is critical; however, there are methodological challenges in designing a periodized training program for soccer teams. This study aims to describe and characterize the daily
Mauro Miguel, Mauro Miguel, Mauro Miguel, Alberto Cortez, Felix Romero, Felix Romero, Nuno Loureiro, Nuno Loureiro, Javier García-Rubio, Sergio José Ibáñez   +9 more
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Quality Improvement Implementation and Hospital Performance on Quality Indicators [PDF]

Health Services Research, 2005
Objective. To examine the association between the scope of quality improvement (QI) implementation in hospitals and hospital performance on selected indicators of clinical quality.Data Sources. Secondary data from 1997 mailed survey of hospital QI practices, Medicare Inpatient Database, American Hospital Association's Annual Survey of Hospitals, the ...
Bryan J, Weiner, Jeffrey A, Alexander, Stephen M, Shortell, Laurence C, Baker, Mark, Becker, Jeffrey J, Geppert   +5 more
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Effectiveness of confidential reports to physicians on their prescribing of antipsychotic medications in nursing homes

Implementation Science Communications, 2020
Background Antipsychotic medication use in nursing homes is associated with potential for harms. In Ontario, Canada, an agency of the provincial government offers nursing home physicians quarterly audit and feedback on their antipsychotic prescribing. We
Noah M. Ivers, Monica Taljaard, Vasily Giannakeas, Catherine Reis, Cara L. Mulhall, Jonathan M.C. Lam, Ann N. Burchell, Gerald Lebovic, Susan E. Bronskill   +8 more
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