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Process Development of CO₂-Assisted Polymer Compression for High Productivity: Improving Equipment and the Challenge of Numbering-Up

Technologies, 2019
The CO2-assisted polymer compression method is used herein to prepare porous polymer materials by bonding laminated polymer fiber sheets using a piston in the presence of CO2.
Takafumi Aizawa
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Development of the Illinois Surgical Quality Improvement Collaborative (ISQIC)

Annals of Surgery Open, 2023
Introduction:. In 2014, 56 Illinois hospitals came together to form a unique learning collaborative, the Illinois Surgical Quality Improvement Collaborative (ISQIC).
Karl Y. Bilimoria, MD, MS, Michael F. McGee, MD, Mark V. Williams, MD, Julie K. Johnson, MSPH, PhD, Amy L. Halverson, MD, Kevin J. O’Leary, MD, Paula Farrell, BSN, Juliana Thomas, MPH, Remi Love, MA, Lindsey Kreutzer, MPH, Allison R. Dahlke, MPH, Brianna D’Orazio, MPH, Steven Reinhart, MBA, Katelyn Dienes, MS, Mark Schumacher, MS, Ying Shan, MS, Christopher Quinn, MS, Vivek N. Prachand, MD, Susan Sullivan, BS, Kimberly A. Cradock, MD, Kelsi Boyd, RN, BSN, William Hopkinson, MD, Colleen Fairman, RN,, David Odell, MD, MS, Jonah J. Stulberg, MD, PhD, MPH, Cindy Barnard, MBA, Jane Holl, MD, MPH, Ryan P. Merkow, MD, MS, Anthony D. Yang, MD, on behalf of the Illinois Surgical Quality Improvement Collaborative   +29 more
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Quality as an organizational strategy: building a system of improvement

Frontiers in Health Services
Improvement science offers proven theories and methods that can be applied to specific projects, but they have rarely been applied to the leadership systems of healthcare organizations.
David M. Williams, Clifford L. Norman, Lloyd P. Provost   +2 more
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IRB Process Improvements: A Machine Learning Analysis

Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, 2017
Objective Clinical research involving humans is critically important, but it is a lengthy and expensive process. Most studies require institutional review board (IRB) approval.
Kimberly Shoenbill, Yiqiang Song, Nichelle L. Cobb, Marc K. Drezner, Eneida A. Mendonca   +4 more
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Product focused software process improvement

, 2022
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement, PROFES 2004, held in Kansai Science City, Japan in April 2004.

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154 Leveraging Implementation Science Competencies to Establish a D&I Science Core

Journal of Clinical and Translational Science
OBJECTIVES/GOALS: Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) hubs are launching D&I Science cores to provide resources and services to promote the translation of clinical evidence into practice.
Alyssa Cabrera, Anna L. Thompson, Sarah K. Brewer, Denise H. Daudelin   +3 more
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Improving Service Processes and The Library Quality Service with Data Mining Methods

Online Academic Journal of Information Technology, 2018
In this digital age, businesses that collect consumer information provide better service to its customers or new market areas in the name of consumer information from the open mining, artificial intelligence techniques, methods and algorithms in ...
Özgür Çiftçi, Eyüp Akçetin, Yüksel Yurtay   +2 more
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SPICE 3: Facilitating organisational process improvement through good practice sharing [PDF]

This paper describes the latest iteration of the SPICE research. SPICE 3 explains the process maturity framework to address the level III of the SPICE model.
Amaratunga, Dilanthi, Jeong, K. S., Haigh, Richard, Siriwardena, Mohan, Kagioglou, Mike   +4 more
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Applying the Action-Research Method to Develop a Methodology to Reduce the Installation and Maintenance Times of Information Security Management Systems

Future Internet, 2016
Society is increasingly dependent on Information Security Management Systems (ISMS), and having these kind of systems has become vital for the development of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs).
Antonio Santos-Olmo, Luis Enrique Sánchez, David G. Rosado, Eduardo Fernández-Medina, Mario Piattini   +4 more
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The effect of team dynamics on software development process improvement [PDF]

, 2012
This article identifies the effect of team dynamics in the context of software development teams and its impact on software process improvement (SPI) activities in very small companies, in order to understand the relation- ship between these two ...
O'Connor, Rory, Shuib Basri (12588835), Basri, Shuib, Rory V. O'Connor (12588769)   +3 more
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