... 9000 factors for an evaluationand a strategic university planning Forthe implementation, a Web-based DSS is based on ISO 9000 factors fortheevaluationand strategic planning for a case study ... as national standards for quality assurance The representative of ISO forthe USA is the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) andthe ISO 9000 series is administered by the American Society ... organizations in Vietnam and Asia [3] However, there are no DSS applications to apply a real case in the domain of an evaluationand a strategic planning For solving the problem, the first study step...
... detect that the summary is useless The issue is, therefore, how to find informative metrics, and then how to combine them into an optimal single quality estimation for automatic summaries The most ... from M , and pretend it is the output of an automatic summariser, we can evaluate the peers set A andthe new peer m using M = M \{m} as the new model set If theevaluation metric is good, the quality ... the QARLA framework Even if the test is very limited by the number of topics, it confirms the potential of the framework, with the highest KING metric combination doubling the performance of the...
... of the points (those laying in the B region), while the distance is between and h forthe other half of the points (those in A) Therefore, if m is large enough, the average distance between C and ... of the points drawn from C will lie in the A square, while the other half will lie in the B square The distance of the points drawn from C from the points drawn from B will be between and g, for ... AltaVista forthe 10 top frequency words from the BNC He then conducted a qualitative analysis of frequent n-grams in the Web corpus and in the BNC, highlighting the differences between the two...
... other raters forthe LE group andthe three other raters forthe OC group Forthe comparison between the automatic speech recognition system andthe expert ratings, the mean rating of all human ... investigate the dependency between the recognition performance andthe correlation to the experts’ perceptual evaluation With the ASR system, we calculated the word recognition rate (WR) of the recordings ... in the control group (P < 001) Inter-rater correlations were computed for each of the raters using the respective other raters as reference, that is, the mean of the four other raters for the...
... 4.5 kHz and a Doppler gate width of mm were selected The gain setting was grade 78(62~100) andthe depth was fixed at level 4, andthe other variables were not changed during the scan The time ... B-mode was used for locating the optimal bowel loop, and then the mode was switched to the pulsed Doppler mode The sample volume cursor was located in the small intestinal lumen through the acoustic ... composition of the food determines the length of time before the IDMC pattern returns Dogs fed milk develop the fed pattern for 2.5 to hours The type of nutrient is important in that the isocaloric...
... supine on the couch with the shoulders supported by a pillow andthe neck hyper extended Scans were obtained with the transducer placed transversely and longitudinally and measurements made in the ... data analysis and writing of manuscript MK did the FNAC RCS did the ultrasonography All authors read and approved thefinal manuscript Competing interests The authors declare that they have no ... extra nodal spread and should be considered as a prognostic sign and also the need for post surgery adjuvant radiotherapy Kim HC et al report the usefulness of D ultrasonography for measuring volume...
... for data analysis and interpretation, and wrote the manuscript MV and TJMS were responsible for both the set-up and performance of the experiments DMG was responsible for including patients and ... the two measurements for each marker, but the variation was rather large An analysis of the between patient variances and within patient variances is provided in Table The SDC, averaged forthe ... in the prednisolone group responded versus one of the nine patients in the placebo group; andfor CD68+ Interrater reliability The mean number of T cells, plasma cells and macrophages before and...
... tasks, andthe mean score on the difficulty scale The answers to the open question about the appropriateness of DCE were classified The questionnaire was pilot-tested beforehand The aim of the pilot ... implementation processes and hence users of the results and responsible for getting the research findings into practice Therefore, we asked respondents for their opinions about the feasibility of DCE ... experiment The DCE presented in this paper is described in detail elsewhere [8] Therefore, we will now present the DCE method to the extent that the information is relevant for understanding of the...
... potential role for these bodies notwithstanding Leatherman and Sutherland's reservations about the role they have played in the past and about whether they all possess the skills and capacities ... selection of the projects in Table The immediate inspiration forthe EwQI came from Leatherman and Sutherland's book 'The Quest for Quality in the NHS: A Mid term Evaluation of the Ten Year Qual- ... commissioned The ITT outlined the scope, scale, and ambition of the EwQI, andthe corresponding complexity of the proposed two-level evaluation It stressed the need for interaction between the external...
... tasks, andthe mean score on the difficulty scale The answers to the open question about the appropriateness of DCE were classified The questionnaire was pilot-tested beforehand The aim of the pilot ... implementation processes and hence users of the results and responsible for getting the research findings into practice Therefore, we asked respondents for their opinions about the feasibility of DCE ... experiment The DCE presented in this paper is described in detail elsewhere [8] Therefore, we will now present the DCE method to the extent that the information is relevant for understanding of the...
... syndromes and heart failure However, the role of biomarkers in theevaluation of patients in the ICU setting remains largely unexplored Because hemodynamic monitoring is a frequent theme in theevaluation ... analysis, and drafted the manuscript RT conceived the study, collected data, and drafted the manuscript RP, MAF, and BTT assisted in patient recruitment, and contributed to the drafting of the manuscript ... NT-proBNP andthe associated increased risk for mortality in this setting could not entirely be accounted for by reduced clearance of the marker Estimating prognosis in the ICU may be challenging, and...
... antenna is scanned across the surface, the dashes result in a series of horizontal bands on the paper, andthe position of the bands is related to the depth of the reflector If the antenna is scanned ... accomplished by transforming the digitally recorded, time-domain waveform from the receiver into the frequency domain using a technique called the fast Fourier transform The result of the transformation ... underreaming tool, and an expandable insert is installed in the hole The insert is then pulled out in the same manner as in the pull-out test andthe data are analyzed similarly This method has the advantage...
... all the reading process based methods Therefore, they are suitable to characterize the flying height variation during the dynamic operations of the slider, such as the load/unload process andthe ... of channel density The testing process will be based on the amplitude ratio of the any of the harmonics, the preferred combination is the first andthe third harmonics 30 The harmonic amplitude ... are the coercive current in track following status andthe coercive current on the transient process, d0 and d are the head-disk spacing at track following status andthe head-disk spacing in the...
... the background and significance of the project is covered in the first section The second section presents the objectives of the project andthe outline of the report 1.1 Project background and ... a decrease in the total free energy of the solution The more solute molecules present in a solution andthe larger they are, the less randomly they can be distributed Thus, as the total concentration ... fibroblasts Therefore, the assessment of anti-fibrotic drugs usually employs fibroblast culture to determine the effect of the drug on the cell proliferation and collagen deposition Unfortunately, the...
... businesses over the next three to four years Standards are better for investors One of the drivers for reform has been the inancial crisis andthe need for investors to better understand the information ... complete the work within the expected three-year time line proposed by the IASB Cost is the key Since the adoption of the new standards rewrites the rules for inancial reporting forthe industry, the ... Reporting Standards (IFRS) and their level of preparation for implementation Respondents were drawn from the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Canada and the...
... price If the IASB and FASB cannot agree on a way forward, they would rather the former struck out on its own The lack of certainty about what form the inal accounting rules will take, when they will ... CFO at Aegon, says the insurer has to use one set of insurance accounting rules in the U.S., a different one in the UK, and different ones again in the Netherlands andthe other countries where ... international and independent analysis of insurers’ attitudes towards, andpreparations for, the new accounting rules With the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) andthe Financial...
... integral]), andthe peak Ar velocity in late diastole Other measurements are the duration of the Ar velocity, the time difference between it and mitral A-wave duration (Ar Ϫ A); and D velocity DT There ... need not be performed routinely On the other hand, the time interval between the QRS complex and e= onset is prolonged with impaired LV relaxation and can provide incremental information in special ... into the pulmonary vein for optimal recording of the spectral waveforms Wall filter settings must be low enough to display the onset and cessation of the atrial reversal (Ar) velocity waveform...
... postharvest handling, washing, and cooling and storage PREVENTIVE MEASURES IN THE ORCHARD Contamination of fruits with feces of animals such as deer,8 seagulls,9 and cattle and other ruminants10 in the ... followed by holding the cider at 25ûC for h before 24 h of refrigeration at 4ûC The Þnal pH after the addition of fumaric acid and sodium benzoate was between 3.2 and 3.4 The authors suggested ... rapid and therefore requires less time to come up to the desired process temperature Other advantages of microwave heating systems are that they can be turned on or off instantly and that the product...
... companies and crisis management We communicate state of the art of management know-how in presentations, seminars, programs and events We are a platform forthe exchange of information andthe further ... outlining the scope of the project, that is, identifying the departments, companies, functions and staff involved and their approximate degree of their involvement c) describing the end results of the ... focal point and mechanism forthe development and promotion of Project Management in Ireland on a professional basis The Institute is the only Irish organisation devoted solely to these and is recognised...