18 papers · ranked by Valyu relevance
Aleksandra Jonkisz, Piotr Karniej, Dorota Krasowska
The second half of the 20th century saw the development of a new trend in the management of medical services across Europe. Those shifts were associated with the transformation of various spheres of human life, both on professional and private levels. The service market then turned back to “quality”, already known in…
Maoqing Duan, Shilu Zhang, Mingxia Xu, Junyu He + 2 more
Following the implementation of the strictest water resource management system in China, it has become increasingly important to understand and improve the surface water quality and the rate at which water function zones reach the water quality standard. Based on the monthly monitoring data from 450 monitoring sites at…
Christopher K. Allsup, Irene S. Gabashvili
This paper introduces a strategic planning tool for master-planned communities designed specifically to quantify residents' subjective preferences about large investments in amenities and infrastructure projects. Drawing on data obtained from brief on-line surveys, the tool ranks alternative plans by considering the…
Mustafa Rawshdeh, Heather Keathley, Shahed Obeidat, Raed Athamenh + 3 more
'Moayad Tanash' 'Dania Bani Hani' 'Susan B Rifkin'] This paper investigates the views of healthcare researchers and professionals on the implementation of the Quality Management System (QMS) approach using a 5-point Likert scale survey. Researchers and healthcare professionals who observed or participated in QMS…
Dana A Abdullah, Hewir A. Khidir, Ismail Y. Maolood, Aso K. Ameen + 5 more
Metrics Authors: ['Dana A Abdullah' 'Hewir A. Khidir' 'Ismail Y. Maolood' 'Aso K. Ameen' 'Dana Rasul Hamad' 'Hakem Saed Beitolahi' 'Abdulhady Abas Abdullah' 'Tarik A. Rashid' 'Mohammed Y. Shakor'] In today's digital age, information systems (IS) are indispensable tools for organizations of all sizes. The quality of…
Huaxu Yu, Tao Huan
Sample normalization is a critical step in metabolomics to remove differences in total sample amount or concentration of metabolites between biological samples. Here, we present MAFFIN, an accurate and robust post-acquisition sample normalization workflow that works universally for metabolomics data collected by mass…
Saleh Ghobbe, Mahdi Nohekhan
The environmental conservation issue has led consumers to rethink the products they purchase. Nowadays, many consumers are willing to pay more for products that genuinely adhere to environmental standards to support the environment. Consequently, concepts like green marketing have gradually infiltrated marketing…
Iain Hunter, Raz Leib
Natural movement is clearly related to health, however, it is also highly complex and difficult to measure. Most attempts to measure it focus on functional movements in humans, and while this a valid and popular approach, assays focussed on particular movements cannot capture the range of natural movement that occurs…
Alex James, Franca Buelow, Liam Gibson, Ann Brower
We use data from 30 countries and find that the more women in a discipline, the lower quality the research in that discipline is evaluated to be and the lower the funding success rate is. This affects men and women, and is robust to age, number of research outputs, and bibliometric measures where such data are…
Hee-Kyung Kim, Hye-Suk Oh, Joana Vieira-dos Santos, Luís Felipe Dias Lopes + 2 more
Background: The purpose of this study was to analyze the effects of general characteristics, fatigue, depression, self-efficacy, job stress and interpersonal relationships on the quality of life (QoL) of caregivers in nursing hospitals and use them as basic data for intervention programs to improve the quality of life…
Whitney Nesser, Scott Snyder, Kimberly A. Driscoll, Avani C. Modi
Cystic Fibrosis (CF) is a genetic and chronic disease affecting 32,100 people in the United States as of 2021, with a life expectancy of 56 years for people with CF (PwCF) born between 2018 and 2022. While there is extensive literature about cystic fibrosis, there are few studies examining the complexity and challenges…
Margarida Goes, Henrique Oliveira, Manuel Lopes, César Fonseca + 2 more
'Lara Pinho' 'Maria Marques'] As a novelty, this article proposes the empirical operationalization of an indicator sensitive to nursing care called patient satisfaction based on functional capacity and quality of life assessments. This was a descriptive cross-sectional study with a sample of 351 individuals aged 65 and…
Mubarak Reme Ibrahim, Dikko Muhammad, Bala Yauri Muhammad, John Okwe Alaezi + 1 more
'John Okwe Alaezi' 'Jummai Agidani'] The construction industry has shifted towards adopting Total Quality Management (TQM) techniques in order to maintain a competitive advantage. Despite prior research exploring the relationship between TQM and organisational performance, the need for a tailored approach to…
Qian Feng, Pierce Rafter, Iain Wilson, Zitong Li + 1 more
Understanding how and when environmental conditions influence overall crop performance is crucial for optimising the development of genotypes to a specific breeding target environment. We focused on economically important traits of Australian rain-grown cotton including fibre yield and quality traits, which have not…
Katarzyna Dubas-Jakóbczyk, Ewa Kocot, Marzena Tambor, Przemysław Szetela + 3 more
'Przemysław Szetela' 'Olga Kostrzewska' 'Richard B. Siegrist Jr' 'Wilm Quentin'] Background: Improving the quality of hospital care is an important policy objective. Hospitals operate under pressure to contain costs and might face challenges related to financial deficits. The objective of this paper was to identify and…
Yalin Li, John Trimmer, Steven Hand, Xinyi Zhang + 6 more
The pursuit of sustainability has catalyzed broad investment in the research, development, and deployment (RD&D) of innovative water, sanitation, and resource recovery technologies, yet the lack of transparent and agile methodologies to navigate the expansive landscape of technology development pathways remains a…
Jia Ge, Wenchang Zhang, Ming Luo, Giuseppe Catalanotti + 5 more
Carbon-fibre-reinforced-polyetherketonketone (CF/PEKK) has attracted increasing interest in the aviation industry due to its self-healing/recycling properties. However, its machining performance is not well understood and there is a lack of optimization study for minimizing its hole damage and improving the production…
Xu, Ruofan, Fan, Qingliang
We propose a characteristics-augmented quantile factor (QCF) model, where unknown factor loading functions are linked to a large set of observed individuallevel (e.g., bond- or stock-specific) covariates via a single-index projection. The single-index specification offers a parsimonious, interpretable, and…