Levels Of Performance Quality Research Articles

Construction of Quick Switching Double Sampling System [QSDSS - 1 (n; k; a1, a2)] Indexed Through Quality Regions

The Quick Switching Double Sampling System (QSDSS-1) is indexed through Quality Regions in this study. The quality areas employed in this study play an important role in reducing defects and improving quality in the industrial manufacturing process. To support the selection of system indexed by QDR and PQR, specified values for QSDSS-1 are given. LQL/AQL was compared to QDR/PQR. According to the data, QDR/PQR has an improved performance quality level.

Impact of COVID-19 on the pre and post analytical clinical laboratory testing processes- A performance evaluation study using six sigma

BackgroundThe aim of this study was to determine the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the total testing process using six sigma metrics based on a comparison of pre and during pandemic periods. Material & methodsThe study duration was over 12 months, 6 months before and 6 months after the COVID-19 onset in Pakistan in March 2020 after the recognition of the first case, using quality indicators (QIs). QIs were chosen from a model of QIs recommended by the CAP. Analysis was performed using Six Sigma calculators and QIs were expressed in percentage (%) and Sigma value were computed. Three levels of performance quality i.e. 25th, 50th, and 75th percentile were derived, being best, common and worst performance respectively. Between-group differences were tested using the Mann-Whitney's U test. ResultsThe median defect percentages of these QIs ranged from 0% to 0.27% for the pre-pandemic period and 0% to 0.13% for the during pandemic period. Meanwhile, sigma values of the majority of the QIs were all above 4.0σ during the pre and the pandemic times. For the pre-analytical phase, sigma scores declined for 1 QI, improved for 3 QIs and remained same for 2. In the post analytical phase, no change in sigma metrics was noted for critical values notification. Considerable increase in defect percentage of inappropriate turnaround times was noted. ConclusionThe emergency preparedness proved to be fruitful as depicted by exceptional performance on the sigma metrics for most Qis both prior to and during the pandemic. The pre-analytical and the post analytical phases, being the most error sensitive requires strict vigilance.

Evaluating Performance Quality of Physical Education and Scouting Departments in Baghdad’s Education General Directorates from Physical educators Point of View

The research aimed at constructing a quality performance scale for physical education and scouting activities departments in Baghdad general education directories of education from physical educators’ point of view as well as identifying the level of performance quality of physical education and scouting activities departments in Baghdad general education directories. The problem of the research lies in answering the following questions: what is the current level of physical education and scouting department performance quality in Baghdad general directorates of education from physical educators’ point of view? What is the main reason that helped positive or negative performance? Is quality performance evaluation effective for identifying this performance and its level? The researchers used the descriptive method on (472) secondary school physical educators and the subjects were (317) that were divided into the pilot study, construction, and application subjects. The researchers proposed (22) items for measurement and the data was collected and treated using proper statistical operations to come up with the conclusions and recommendations.

The response of total testing process in clinical laboratory medicine to COVID-19 pandemic.

IntroductionFollowing a pandemic, laboratory medicine is vulnerable to laboratory errors due to the stressful and high workloads. We aimed to examine how laboratory errors may arise from factors, e.g., flexible working order, staff displacement, changes in the number of tests, and samples will reflect on the total test process (TTP) during the pandemic period.Materials and methodsIn 12 months, 6 months before and during the pandemic, laboratory errors were assessed via quality indicators (QIs) related to TTP phases. QIs were grouped as pre-, intra- and postanalytical. The results of QIs were expressed in defect percentages and sigma, evaluated with 3 levels of performance quality: 25th, 50th and 75th percentile values.ResultsWhen the pre- and during pandemic periods were compared, the sigma value of the samples not received was significantly lower in pre-pandemic group than during pandemic group (4.7σ vs. 5.4σ, P = 0.003). The sigma values of samples transported inappropriately and haemolysed samples were significantly higher in pre-pandemic period than during pandemic (5.0σ vs. 4.9σ, 4.3σ vs. 4.1σ; P = 0.046 and P = 0.044, respectively). Sigma value of tests with inappropriate IQC performances was lower during pandemic compared to the pre-pandemic period (3.3σ vs. 3.2σ, P = 0.081). Sigma value of the reports delivered outside the specified time was higher during pandemic than pre-pandemic period (3.0σ vs. 3.1σ, P = 0.030).ConclusionIn all TTP phases, some quality indicators improved while others regressed during the pandemic period. It was observed that preanalytical phase was affected more by the pandemic.

RETROSPECTIVE ASSESSMENT OF CONTROL RESULTS WITH REGARD TO COMPLETENESS AND QUALITY OF IMPLEMENTATION BY VETERINARY SERVICES OF THE SUBJECTS OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION OF POWERS TRANSFERRED TO THEM

A retrospective assessment of control results with regard to completeness and quality of the implementation by state authorities of the Subjects of the Russian Federation of the powers of the Russian Federation in the field of veterinary medicine transferred to them has been carried out. It was shown that in the period from 2014 to 2016 the veterinary services of the RF subjects implemented 21,337 measures on establishment and lifting of restrictive measures/quarantine based on the occurrence of animal diseases. The study revealed that in quite a significant number of cases on establishment and lifting of restrictive measures and quarantine the veterinary services of the subjects of the Russian Federation violated the legislation of the Russian Federation. Based on the criterion “quality indicator of measures implemented by the veterinary service during the establishment/lifting of restrictive measures (quarantine) in the territory of the subject of the Russian Federation” introduced in this study, the estimated levels were determined and the quality levels of the performance of veterinary services of the subjects of the Russian Federation with regard to implementation of powers transferred to them on establishment and lifting of restrictive measures/quarantine were determined. After summarizing the results it was found that only in 37 out of 74 analyzed RF Subjects the implementation of restriction /quarantine measures was carried out at an acceptable level, and the veterinary services in 59 subjects of the country (out of 70 analyzed) showed an incompliant level of performance quality during lifting restrictions/quarantine. The retrospective analysis shows that the situation regarding quality of the implementation by government authorities of the Subjects of the Russian Federationof the powers of the Russian Federation transferred to them in the field of veterinary medicine is quite tense and causes concern. The conducted research led to understanding that the aim of the inspections should not only be assessment of compliance of the veterinary service’s activities with the regulatory acts, but systematization and analysis of violation types, as well as development and implementation of corrective measures.

An Evaluation Model of Tecaching Assistant using Artificial Neural Network

Nowadays, most of the academic institutes facing a low-quality problem in the educational field. One of these factors is an educational student achievement and staff teaching quality. This study presents an efficient framework for assessment and prediction of teachers’ performance in academic institutes using Artificial Neural Network (ANN) algorithm. The proposed framework designed to predict the performance quality level of teachers in order to improve the learning outcomes. The prediction model was tested effectively using the TA UCI dataset. The data consists of academic experiences for teachers as well as their experiences and grades of students in courses they taught among others. The SPSS tool was used to build the suggested prediction system. The TA data was dividing into three groups (70, 80, and 90) for training data, and (30, 20, and 10) for testing data respectively to study the dataset discrimination. The results are showing that the neural network obtained better accuracy results with (90%) in the training and (10%) in testing.

Is Popular More Likeable? Choice Status by Intrinsic Appeal in an Experimental Music Market

There is widespread agreement from many areas of status research that evaluators’ judgments of performances can be distorted by the status of the performer. The question arises as to whether status distorts perceptions differently at different levels of performance quality. Using data from the Columbia Musiclab study, we conduct a large-scale test of whether the effect of popularity on private perceptions of likeability is contingent on songs’ intrinsic appeal. We discover that choice status (i.e., popularity) can boost perceptions of a song’s likeability but only for songs of lower quality. In effect, the likeability halo created by popularity is one mechanism for why it is that “bad” songs can sometimes become more successful than songs that are intrinsically more appealing. But this same mechanism does not explain why “good” songs sometimes turn into superstars. This study suggests that status theories be refined to consider heterogeneous effects.

(Measuring of Intellectual Capital and Its Effect on Performance Quality for Raising Najaf Directorate)

This study examines one of the modern topics in accounting and management disciplines; this topic is the intellectual capital. The intellectual capital received more attention and based on the innovative skills of personnel, in addition to the policies and systems that accommodate all technological developments within the infrastructure of economic unit. Furthermore, it depends on the results of its application inside work methodology in order to arrive to excellent level of performance quality in directorate of education in Najaf as one of the important foundations that requires both cognitive and skills aspects to provide its services. Using financial and non financial data for years (2010 to 2013), the results of our study supported the hypotheses of the study, which state that there is a correlation between measure of intellectual capital and increasing of performance quality. The most important conclusions of this study are as the following:1.The directorate of education – financial department doesn’t use the financial and non financial measures to identify the intellectual capital when evaluating the performance to identify disadvantages and avoid them and identify the advantages and support them. Evidently, the human resources constitute a high proportion of the total expenses of directorate of education in Najaf (96%-98%). 2.The directorate of education in Najaf doesn’t benefit from the intellectual assets in manner by which the unit increase his performance quality. The strong correlation coefficient 94%, in addition to the effect of infrastructure assets that reached 88% reveals the impact of intellectual capital on performance.Base on above conclusions the researchers provide the following recommendations:1.It is necessary to continue selecting the qualified staff scientifically and professionally to achieve a high quality of performance.2.It is necessary to provide opportunities for learning, training, and developing the cognitive and skills abilities. Because it is not consumed by directorate of education in Najaf in manner that would contributes to increase the quality of performance, where, the impact of intellectual property assets on the quality of performance reached to 88%, which is means that is very important.

A flexible bibliometric approach for the assessment of professorial appointments

Recruitment and professorial appointment procedures are crucial for the administration and management of universities and higher education institutions in order to guarantee a certain level of performance quality and reputation. The complementary use of quantitative and objective bibliometric analyses is meant to be an enhancement for the assessment of candidates and a possible antidote for subjective, discriminatory and corrupt practices. In this paper, we present the Vienna University bibliometric approach, offering a method which relies on a variety of basicindicators and further control parameters in order to address the multidimensionality of the problem and to foster comprehensibility. Our "top counts approach" allows an appointment committee to pick and choose from a portfolio of indicators according to the actual strategic alignment. Furthermore, control and additional data help to understand disciplinary publication habits, to unveil concealed aspects and to identify individual publication strategies of the candidates. Our approach has already been applied to 14 professorial appointment procedures (PAP) in the life sciences, earth and environmental sciences and social sciences, comprising 221 candidates in all. The usefulness of the bibliometric approach was confirmed by all heads of appointment committees in the life sciences. For the earth and environmental sciences as well as the social sciences, the usefulness was less obvious and sometimes questioned due to the low coverage of the candidates' publication output in the traditional citation data sources. A retrospective assessment of all hitherto performed PAP also showed an overlap between the committees' designated top candidates and the bibliometric top candidates to a certain degree.

Traffic Performance Quality Level Classification and Evaluation of Road Network Planning Based on Improved TOPSIS Method

Traffic Performance Quality Level Classification and Evaluation of Road Network Planning Based on Improved TOPSIS Method

Evaluación del desempeño ocupacional en la vida cotidiana en adictos. Creación de un instrumento de medida: el ADO

Addiction is a complex disorder of brain function, which involves primarily the frontal cortex as a structure responsible for the organization of intentional behavior. The performance of everyday life activity is one of the key factors in assessing the impact of cognitive impairment. There are no validated instruments in Spanish applicable to addicts for assessing self-perceived efficacy in the performance of everyday activities. Based on the Occupational Self-Assessment, a questionnaire was developed for the exploration of: perceived level of performance quality, evaluation of competences and the influence of environment on performance. For the study, a sample of 425 non-clinical participants and 300 patients treated for substance addiction was used. The Occupational Performance Self- Report (ADO) has 37 items and showed adequate internal consistency (Alpha = 0.93, 0.75 and 0.87 for the subscales) and a stable structure in confirmatory factor analysis. The self-assessment of performance showed consistent correlation with dysexecutive symptoms in daily life (-0.54 < r < -0.66). The ADO emerges as a reliable and valid instrument for the exploration of self-perceived level of performance in the everyday lives of individuals with substance addiction, and may be useful for establishing treatment goals in conditions of high ecological validity.

Quality of performance in-use of building systems

This paper presents a systematic approach to the field investigation of the quality of performance in-use of building systems. The methodology is based on the application of the performance concept to all stages of the evaluation process, which is composed of field investigation, data analysis and evaluation. During the field investigation, two main information samples are obtained: an objective physical check of the buildings and a detailed user's satisfaction profile. These are used in order to establish Performance Pathology Profiles of the building system (or systems), and to evaluate their Actual Performance Quality Level. The paper presents the methodology and results of its application in two projects of public consequence: an evaluation of the performance of modular industrial buildings (sample of 42 users) and an evaluation of the performance of lightweight building systems for housing (sample of 72 dwellings).