using metrics to improve quality

... organization Quality improvement [28,40] seeks to improve and/or reduce variation in work processes to improve the organization's ability to meet its goals Action research, as applied to organizations, ... inadequate attention to the subtleties of implementation, thereby slowing their translation into practice and widespread uptake Quality improvement and action research approaches Quality improvement and ... organizations that have previously attained top performance, which is not integrated into the quality improvement or action research efforts Finally, neither quality improvement nor action research has...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21

... organization Quality improvement [28,40] seeks to improve and/or reduce variation in work processes to improve the organization's ability to meet its goals Action research, as applied to organizations, ... inadequate attention to the subtleties of implementation, thereby slowing their translation into practice and widespread uptake Quality improvement and action research approaches Quality improvement and ... organizations that have previously attained top performance, which is not integrated into the quality improvement or action research efforts Finally, neither quality improvement nor action research has...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:20

... is selected to convert the MLL into a maximum one The coefficient a1 to a3 are optimized by trial and error to 0.237 , 0.315 and 0.448 respectively 3.5 Problem constraints 3.5.1 Equality constraints ... paper, this algorithm is extended in order to include the UPFC devices into the power system Load flow equations represent the equality constraints The inequality constraints are the operating limits ... The term vi is limited to its bounds If the velocity violates this limit, it is set to its proper limit w is the inertia weight factor and in general, it is set according to the following equation:...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 15:28

... time, work together to exceed those expectations Students will live up, or down, to your expectations Encourage your students to set high expectations of themselves, then challenge them to exceed ... your administration expects a certain percentage on a test or has a goal to reduce absenteeism, work together with the class to exceed those expectations Whatever expectations your students or their ... our expectations Some expectations will be easy to exceed if students not expect to learn anything, for example Work as a team with your class to exceed expectations If your administration expects...

Ngày tải lên: 06/09/2013, 10:10

... their ability to express themselves and their ability to listen to others, especially to native speakers Speakers with wrong pronunciation find it difficult to make themselves understood by the ... prominence, intonation and syllable structure) Dalton & Seidhofer in their book Pronunciation identify two approaches to pronunciation teaching including bottom-up and top-down In bottom-up approach, ... beneficial to both teachers who are considering whether to exploit software programs in their English pronunciation lessons and students who are interested in using software programs to improve...

Ngày tải lên: 06/02/2014, 14:45

... marketing is using marketing principles to influence human behavior to improve health or benefit society You don’t have to be a marketing expert to integrate social marketing into your public ... belt Eat more fruit Pull over to talk on your cell phone Don’t litter Get a mammogram All these actions require individuals or groups to change behavior to improve the quality of life for themselves, ... follows is a basic guide to the phases in the social marketing Using a strategic process, including questions to ask and items to consider or pay social marketing attention to during the process...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 02:20

... Using Spectrophotometry to Improve your Brewing Process Rick Blankemeier Quality Assurance Analyst Stone Brewing Co Goals • Introduce the UV-Vis Spectrophotometer • Provide ... Describe ways to use this device to help breweries expand and improve their brewing and fermentation operations • Quick and easy access to vital info on different assays and procedures using the ... temperatures to form chill haze Polyphenols • Ferric iron binds to polyphenols • Good way to monitor post-dryhop tannin levels • Absorbance at 600nm • Waste/Hazard Issues – None, able to dispose...

Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 00:20

... corresponds to generating one more token of the word type all customers at a table instantiate The latter happens with probability proportional to α and corresponds to generating a token by sampling ... particle’s history, thus leading to particles with different histories in each generation, even if they all have the same parent (e.g., Canini et al (2009)) This makes it necessary to store previously ... each particle using the observation at time t+1 as follows: sample a segmentation for this observation, given the particle’s history, then add the words in this segmentation to that history After...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 17:20

... incorrectly using a preposition where none is licensed In the sentence “They came to outside”, the preposition to is an extraneous error whereas in the sentence “They arrived to the town” the preposition ... presented to expert annotators who are native English speakers They were asked to annotate the preposition usage instance as one of the following: extraneous (Error), not extraneous (OK) or too hard to ... compressing multiple judgments down to the majority, it is better to use agreement proportions to weight precision and recall to 512 yield fairer and more stable indicators of performance For system...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 21:20

... formal quality improvement program exists[12] Responding to these challenges, the Ministry of Health and Long-term Care sought proposals for development and evaluation of strategies to improve ... conducted a baseline survey of the directors and nurse managers of participating ICUs to understand their organizational structure, quality improvement culture, and to obtain estimates of patient characteristics ... best practices: potential to improve clinical outcomes (based on existing evidence); applicable to most patients; feasible to implement and measure process of care indicators or patient outcomes;...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:21

... be irresponsible not to examine physician factors related to patient outcome Clearly more studies are needed to refute or confirm our results But imagine if simple changes to the way we are training ... article as: Braun J-P, Spies C: Dividing intensive care specialists according to their backgrounds is not useful to improve quality in intensive care Critical Care 2010, 14:409 ... changes to the way we are training future intensivists could positively impact quality of care Would we not want to know? Abbreviations ICU, intensive care unit Page of Competing interests The...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21

... happen automatically If the students learn to listen effectively, they are able to understand, to interpret, to evaluate and to respond to what they hear Thus, it is important for students to develop ... you want to tonight? Tom: Well, there‟s a good film that I want to see Lily: (1) is it called? Tom: “Les Enfants Terribles.” Lily: A French film? (2) you want to see a French film? Tom: Because ... on Using dictation to improve grade-10 students’ listening skill at Tan Yen High School N02.” Aims of the study The purposes of this study are to find out an effective teaching technique to improve...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2015, 14:31

... family income increases, or as a match to family contributions Use of the public funds could be restricted to high -quality programs as an incentive to improve the quality of early childhood education ... be layered on top of existing funding to providers to raise program quality Payments would go directly from the endowment to the provider.* * The endowment, scholarships, parent mentors, and the ... and the nation make access to publicly funded, offering high -quality preschool programs to all high -quality preschool programs an economic children Expanding access to quality preschool and educational...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 20:20

... Co., Ltd; TOTO Dalian Co., Ltd; Nanjing TOTO Co., Ltd In USA: TOTO U.S.A., Inc; TOTO Kiki U.S.A., Inc In Hong Kong: TOTO Kiki (H.K.) Ltd In Viet Nam: TOTO Vietnam Co., Ltd In Germany: TOTO Europe ... Europe GmbH, TOTO Germany GmbH In Singapore: TOTO Asia Ocenia Pte Ltd 1.2 Introduction to TOTO Vietnam Co., Ltd 1.2.1 The establishment and development of TOTO Vietnam Co., Ltd TOTO Vietnam Co., ... the quality of recruitment of TOTO Vietnam Co., Ltd Nguyen Thi Thu B - FBE - C47 CHAPTER I: OVERVIEW OF TOTO CO., LTD AND TOTO VIETNAM CO., LTD 1.1 Introduction to TOTO Co., Ltd 1.1.1 The establishment...

Ngày tải lên: 27/10/2012, 16:51

... way to improve one’s knowledge of foreign language is to go and live among its speakers The next best way is to read extensively in it.” To summarize, extensive reading is one of good ways to improve ... Chart 5: Students’ purposes in reading A To entertain themselves B To reinforce vocabulary and grammatical structures C To improve language skills D To improve background knowledge E All of the ... writes: “What the pre- reading phrase tries to is: To introduce and arouse interest in the topic To motivate learners by giving a reason for reading 14 To provide some language preparation for...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 15:01

... way to improve one’s knowledge of foreign language is to go and live among its speakers The next best way is to read extensively in it.” To summarize, extensive reading is one of good ways to improve ... Chart 5: Students’ purposes in reading A To entertain themselves B To reinforce vocabulary and grammatical structures C To improve language skills D To improve background knowledge E All of the ... writes: “What the pre- reading phrase tries to is: To introduce and arouse interest in the topic To motivate learners by giving a reason for reading To provide some language preparation for the...

Ngày tải lên: 17/04/2013, 16:09

... chấp nhận (Poor) 20-40 MPQM Kém (Bad) 0-20 video đƣợc trình Quality Metrics) bày cho ngƣời thực giá QoE khách (Moving Picture V-factor mô hình để đánh giá QoE dịch vụ IPTV MPQM không cần đến ... Các tham số QoS đƣợc đƣa vào để tính to n QoE tƣơng ứng Việc tính to n đƣợc thực qua việc so sánh tham số QoS với tham số QoS QoE chuẩn (có đƣợc từ tính to n nhƣ phần phƣơng pháp đánh giá QoE) ... ngƣời sử dụng Sơ đồ bố trí hệ thống quản lý đƣợc mô tả nhƣ hình Thuật to n tiến trình QoE biểu diễn hình dƣới: Hình 3.12: Thuật to n tiến trình QoE Đầu tiên, hệ thống đo tham số QoS từ phần tử cấu...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 20:44