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Monitoring food quality using sensor technology from harvest to home [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
A food quality sensor is a device that responds to some property associated with food quality and transforms the response into a signal (1). This signal may provide direct information about the quality factor to be measured or may have a known ...
Frisby, June
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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

Quality Assurance Indicators of Long-Term Care in European Countries. ENEPRI Research Report No. 110, April 2012 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This study reports on the quality indicators that were collected by the ANCIEN project partners in each country considered in Work Package 5 (Quality in Long-Term Care).
Casanova, Georgia, Dandi, Roberto
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Strengthening provider accountability: A scoping review of accountability/monitoring frameworks for quality of RMNCH care.

open access: yesPLOS Global Public Health, 2023
Increasing health providers' accountability is an important element in improving quality of care (QoC) for reproductive, maternal, neonatal, and child health (RMNCH), so as to improve health outcomes of the population in many low- and middle-income ...
Eva Jarawan, Mara Boiangiu, Wu Zeng
doaj   +1 more source

Prediction Quality of Glucose Trend Indicators in Two Continuous Tissue Glucose Monitoring Systems.

open access: yesDiabetes technology & therapeutics, 2018
Continuous interstitial glucose monitoring (CGM) systems often provide glucose trend indicators (e.g., arrows) in addition to current glucose values. These indicators are recommended to be used in therapeutic decisions, because they are ascribed predictive qualities by CGM system manufacturers and expert committees.
Freckmann, Guido   +5 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Quality monitoring of intellectual and developmental disabilities systems in the US: Assessing the utility and applicability of selected National Core Indicators to national and state priorities

open access: yesFrontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences, 2022
This article provides historical context on the evolution of performance measures for system improvement, examines the perspectives and insights of state public managers on the use and utility of NQF-endorsed outcome measures from the NCI®-IDD In-Person Survey (IPS) for quality improvement, and discusses the necessity of ensuring that outcome measures ...
Valerie Bradley, Dorothy Hiersteiner
openaire   +3 more sources

Heterogeneity in the Global Practice of Central Nervous System Staging in Pediatric Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Central nervous system (CNS) involvement in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is assessed by cell counting and cytomorphology from cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and is used for treatment stratification worldwide. The ratio of “CNS2” patients in clinical trials ranges from 3% to 40%, with unclear prognostic significance ...
Laura Almási   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Approaches to hazard-oriented groundwater management based on multivariate analysis of groundwater quality [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Drinking water extracted near rivers in alluvial aquifers is subject to potential microbial contamination due to rapidly infiltrating river water during high discharge events.
Page, Rebecca Mary
core   +1 more source

Development of a Freshness Indicator for Assessing the Quality of Packaged Pork Products during Refrigerated Storage

open access: yesFoods
A pH-sensitive dye-based freshness indicator has been developed to monitor the quality status of pork neck through distinct color transitions, addressing a crucial need for improved food safety and real-time monitoring within the food industry.
Ga-Young Lee   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Water quality assessment based on Nemerow pollution index method: A case study of Heilongtan reservoir in central Sichuan province, China.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2022
In this paper, three monitoring sections were set up in Heilongtan Reservoir, and water samples were collected in 2019, 2020, and 2021 for the determination of physical and chemical properties such as permanganate index, chemical oxygen demand, and ...
Kai Su   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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