Quality Of Beings Research Articles

Quality Instrument is Focused Reusability For Academic Information Systems Software

The usability-focused IS quality instrument is a conceptual model of a quality instrument that implements and focuses on standardizing usability behavior in a website software-based academic information system. Quality Structure along with Quality Factors and Quality Model Questionnaire Method which consists of the Basic Quality Questionnaire Method for AISS, Basic Quality Model Questionnaire Method and Usability Questionnaire Method are the research methods used. The purpose of this study is to propose an IS quality instrument that focuses on usability as a quality instrument that determines usability behavior in academic information system software, namely understandability, learnability, operability, attractiveness, and usability compliance. The usability-focused IS quality instrument is one of the quality assurance software quality instruments that has a high level of reliability and is required in every academic information system (AISS) software. So that a quality instrument is needed as a determinant of the quality of academic information system software that implements the quality model as an instrument system.

Methods of Machine Learning-Based Chimeric Antigen Receptor Immunological Synapse Quality Quantification.

Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR)-mediated immunotherapy shows promising results for refractory blood cancers. Currently, six CAR-T drugs have been approved by U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Theoretically, CAR-T cells must form an effective immunological synapse (IS, an interface between effective cells and their target cells) with their susceptible tumor cellsto eliminate tumor cells. Previous studies show that CAR IS quality can be used as a predictive functionalbiomarker for CAR-T immunotherapies. However, quantification of CAR-T IS quality is clinically challenging. Machine learning (ML)-based CAR-T IS quality quantification has been proposed previously.Here, we show an easy-to-use, step-by-step approach to predicting the efficacy of CAR-modified cells using ML-based CAR IS quality quantification. This approach will guide the users on how to use ML-based CAR IS quality quantification in detail, which include: how to image CAR IS on the glass-supported planar lipid bilayer, how to define the CAR IS focal plane, how to segment the CAR IS images, and how to quantify the IS quality using ML-based algorithms.This approach will significantly enhance the accuracy and proficiency of CAR IS prediction in research.

Effects of IS Quality on Firm Performance from the Perspective of a Business Executive: The Role of Business Strategy

Given the lack of knowledge on IS success evaluation at the organizational level, the purpose of this study is to integrate the resource-based view, process-oriented approach, IS success models into an integrated model to examine the relationship between the IS quality and its performance impacts. This study also examines the moderating effect of the firm’s business strategy on this relationship. The model is tested on a sample of 102 Tunisian firms using the structural equation modeling method. The results show that business-process performance and individual performance played a role of partial mediation in the relationship between IS quality and organizational performance. The results also indicate that the mediation process between IS quality and organizational performance via the business-process performance differs depending on the business strategy. This article is one of a few early efforts that address the role of business strategy in explaining the performance impacts of IS quality.

Workers’ Affective Commitment in The Gig Economy: The Role of IS Quality, Organizational Support, and Fairness

Background: The rapidly growing gig economy brings lots of opportunities and challenges, and one of them is workers’ affective commitment. Because of the gig economy’s nature, gig workers depend on the technology-enabled platform to finish their tasks. We investigate how gig workers’ perception of the platform’s quality, or IS quality, will affect how they perceive organizational support and fairness, which further affects their affective commitment. Method: We surveyed 239 Uber drivers in Indonesia to test our model via snow-balling technique. We used PLS with a second-order formative construct model to validate our hypotheses. Results: The results showed that the two dimensions of IS quality, information quality and system quality, were positively associated with organizational support. Only information quality was positively associated with fairness. Both organizational support and fairness were positively associated with affective commitment. Conclusion: For uber drivers, information quality and system quality of the Uber App serve as drivers of perceived organization support. Information quality also contributes to perceived fairness. Drivers who perceive high organization support and fairness are more likely to be affectively committed to the organization.

Development of mathematical model and optimization of GMA welding parameters of IS 2062 grade A steel weldments

In this experimental works, the effect of GMA welding process parameters, such as arc voltage, wire feed speed, and gas flow rate on the mechanical quality of IS 2062 structural steel of grade A has been studied. Process parameters play an important role in determining the weld quality. In this research work response surface methodology (RSM) technique via design expert (DOE) 12 version software was applied to determining the weld quality and also to develop a mathematical model that can predict the main effect of the above said parameters on weld quality i.e. toughness and hardness. A set of experiments has been conducted to collect the data using a central composite design and ANOVA was used to predict the impact of welding parameters on toughness and hardness and Comparison also made between the actual result and predicted value and from the result that is clear that toughness and hardness of weldment is significantly affected by arc voltage, wire feed speed, and follow by gas flow rate.

Information System Quality Judgment for Continued E-Government Use: Theorizing the Role of Positive and Negative Affect

Affect and emotions play an important role in how individuals form judgments. Yet, the literature on technological judgments has primarily relied on the cognitive belief perspective. By segregating emotions into positive and negative affect, we incorporate affect in addition to cognitions to understand what drives perceptions about IS quality and, specifically, e-government website quality. Grounding our discussion in the affect infusion model (AIM) and prospect theory, we examine the mechanisms through which positive and negative affect infuse into IS quality judgments. We also theorize that both positive and negative affect have a moderating role in the relationships between cognitions and IS quality perceptions. We tested the model via surveying e-government website users and found that affect had a significant direct role in how they judged IS quality. While negative affect significantly moderated the relationship between experienced usefulness and how individuals perceived the three IS quality measures (i.e., information quality, system quality, and service quality), positive affect did not moderate this relationship. Finally, we theorize about the differential role that affect has on how individuals perceive the three IS quality measures depending on their affect infusion potential. We conclude by discussing our study’s theoretical and practical implications.

The Determinants of Business Analytics Adoption: Does One-Size Fit All

Purpose – This paper aims to improve the understanding about business analytics (BA) adoption by utilizing a contingency perspective examining the interplay between individual-, system-, and organizational-level determinants through the combined theoretical lenses of technology acceptance model (TAM) and IS quality model. Design/methodology/approach – Data was collected by means of a survey conducted among BA tools users working in a variety of industries in Turkey and 91 responses were obtained. The moderating effect of an organizational level contingency – analytical decision-making culture (ADMC) – on the relationships between individual- and system-level factors was tested via the partial least squares (PLS) method. Findings – The results provide strong support for the moderating effect of an organizational-level contingency – analytical decision-making culture (ADMC). More specifically, we find that in low ADMC environments, information quality improves perceived usefulness whereas performance quality and interaction quality improve perceived ease-of-use. Surprisingly, in high ADMC environments information quality does not have an effect on perceived usefulness or perceived ease-of-use, whereas performance quality improves perceived usefulness and interaction quality improves both perceived usefulness and perceived ease-of-use. Discussion – This study is one of the few to examine the increasingly popular BA adoption issue in a developing country context. The findings illustrate to both managers and BA system providers that under different organizational cultures, users’ needs and perceptions vary; therefore different BA system quality characteristics should be emphasized for successful implementation.

Evaluasi Kinerja Divisi TI PT.PGSN dalam Pengelolaan Data Sesmik

Natural resources promise extraordinary economic development potential, which must be utilized as optimally as possible. To make it happen, one of the factors that influences the success of an organization's business is the well-managed management of information technology (IT) infrastructure. The quality of SI / IT products and services can be measured by internal customer perceptions. Several computer companies have begun to work with Petroleum Industry companies to build HPC Clusters to help process physical exploration data so that it can be processed quickly. HPC (High Performance Computing) is a technology that utilizes computer parallel processes as a step to complete work that requires large computing performance. Large processing of sesmik data requires fast and stable computer capabilities. The goal is to serve internal / user and external / customer requests. On this basis the author conducted a research at PT.PGSN South Jakarta. This study consists of two types, namely correlation research which will examine the relationship between internal customer satisfaction with seven independent variables of product / service quality of IS / IT and the relationship between perceptions of increasing internal customer performance on seven independent variables of product / service quality of IS / IT. The seven variables are: availability, user friendliness, productivity, reliability, durability, responsiveness and timeless of support. As well as comparative research to see whether there is a difference / significant difference between internal customers and IT Human Resources in assessing performance aspects. The six aspects of performance were analyzed: problem response, Software, Hardware and network maintenance, information system development, program & SI maintenance, passwords and online control. Correlation tests were carried out using the Spearman correlation analysis method, while the comparative test was carried out using the Mann-Whitney analysis method.

OPERATIONAL STATUS OF MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS OF STATE UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES IN SAMAR-LEYTE ISLANDS

This paper aims to determine the MIS unit’s operational status and the performance level of information systems of the state universities and colleges in the Samar-Leyte Islands. In order to determine and appreciate the value and importance of MIS unit’s services, the unit requires a review of its profile and ICT resources. The theory of Information System success model of DeLone and McLean was then used for evaluation to measure the performance and effectiveness of IS in terms of system, information, service quality, use (intention to), user satisfaction and net benefits. The profile of MIS units identified each its capacity and characterized the performance and quality of IS.

Evaluation of the unified model of information systems continuance (UMISC) in two hospital environments

ContextThe deployment and long-term acceptance of clinical information systems (CISs) are faced with multiple difficulties. They include insufficient quality of the systems in place and resistance to the multiple changes they induce in care processes. Permanent evaluation of deployed solutions is a prerequisite to their continuous improvement. ObjectiveThe purpose of this study was twofold: (1) To validate the post-adoption unified model of information systems continuance (UMISC) progressively developed at the Georges Pompidou University Hospital (HEGP) in Paris (internal validation); and (2) To compare, using the same evaluation model, the results observed at HEGP with those of the Saint-Joseph Hospital Group (HPSJ), another Paris acute care institution (external validation). MethodsThe UMISC post-adoption model is built around nine dimensions: end-user characteristics, social norm (SN), IS quality (ISQ), facilitating conditions (FC), perceived usefulness (PU), confirmation of expectations (CE), profession-adjusted use (PAU), satisfaction (SAT), and continuance intention (CI). Two semi-quantitative evaluation surveys were performed at HEGP in 2014 and 2015, and one at HPSJ in 2015. Statistical analysis included multiple regression analysis and structural equation modeling (SEM). ResultsThe analysis concerned 459 responders, 264 at HEGP and 195 at HPSJ. UMISC indicators, with the exception of SN, are superior at HEGP than at HPSJ, which had a shorter CIS anteriority than HEGP. In SEM analysis, the UMISC model explained 25% and 40% of the CIS use, 92% and 93% of health professionals’ satisfaction, and 72% and 71% of continuance intention at HEGP and HPSJ, respectively. Seventeen of the 21 tested UMISC hypotheses were supported in at least one of the two sites. ConclusionThe UMISC evaluation model can be used as a comparison and explanatory model of CIS use, satisfaction and continuance intention in post-CIS adoption situations that become prevalent in current electronic hospitals.

Is quality of life related to illness and acceptance of illness?

Kocjan Janusz. Is quality of life related to illness and acceptance of illness? Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2015;5(7):34-42 . ISSN 2391-8306. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.19080 http://ojs.ukw.edu.pl/index.php/johs/article/view/2015%3B5%287%29%3A26-33 https://pbn.nauka.gov.pl/works/574356 http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19080 Formerly Journal of Health Sciences. ISSN 1429-9623 / 2300-665X. Archives 2011 – 2014 http://journal.rsw.edu.pl/index.php/JHS/issue/archive Deklaracja. Specyfika i zawartośc merytoryczna czasopisma nie ulega zmianie. Zgodnie z informacją MNiSW z dnia 2 czerwca 2014 r., ze w roku 2014 nie bedzie przeprowadzana ocena czasopism naukowych; czasopismo o zmienionym tytule otrzymuje tyle samo punktow co na wykazie czasopism naukowych z dnia 31 grudnia 2014 r. The journal has had 5 points in Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Poland parametric evaluation. Part B item 1089. (31.12.2014). © The Author (s) 2015; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland and Radom University in Radom, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 21.04.2015. Revised 28.05.2015. Accepted: 24.06.2015. IS QUALITY OF LIFE RELATED TO ILLNESS AND ACCEPTANCE OF ILLNESS? JANUSZ KOCJAN Medical University of Silesia, Faculty of Medicine, Katowice, Poland SUMMARY Introduction: Although, that the general well-being is extensively studied in wide range of contexts, still little place is devoting to relationship between acceptance of illness (AIS) and quality of life (QoL), especially among cardiac patients. Aim: The aim of this study was to: (1) determine an association between these two variables; (2) examine relationship between selected variables (age, sex, education level, NYHA class, time since CVDs diagnosis, cardiosurgery intervention and presence of comorbid diseases) and quality of life. Material and methods: The study included 172 patients with diagnose cardiac disease. All participants were examined used standardized questionnaires: Short Form of health survey (SF-36 questionnaire) and Acceptance of Illness Scale (AIS). Results: The patients presented moderate level of illness acceptance and quality of life level. Over than half of participants did not accept their illness. Significant, positive relatioship between AIS and QoL were noted. NYHA class, number of cardiac hospitalization and time since cardiovascular disease diagnosis was negatively correlated with QoL. Conclusions: Findings presented in this study demonstrated, that AIS is strongly related with QoL. Key words: illness acceptance, quality of life, AIS, QoL, cardiac diseases.

Factors affecting online tax filing – An application of the IS Success Model and trust theory

This study examines citizens’ propensity to use e-governmental website services through the lens of the IS Success Model in general, and in the context of the Philippine online tax filing system. Additionally, attributes such as trust in technology, trust in government, trust in e-government websites, and prior experience with government services which act as important antecedents to the model are analyzed in this study. The results show that trust in technology, trust in government, and prior experience directly affected the trust in e-government websites, which in turn directly influenced all three IS quality dimensions. Of these three dimensions, information quality was found to be the most consistently and significantly influence perceptions of usefulness and satisfaction, implying that this dimension is the most critical one beyond the service quality and system quality for taxpayers to use the system. Generally speaking, Philippine taxpayers do value the online system, indicating the fact that the current system does have some potential to elicit favorable perceptions on usefulness, satisfaction, and subsequent net benefits. Other theoretical and managerial implications are further discussed.

Investigating the effects of IS strategic leadership on organizational benefits from the perspective of CIO strategic roles

In this study, the effects of IS strategic leadership on organizational outcomes are examined from the perspective of CIO strategic roles. A field survey is conducted that collects data from 110 matched pairs of CIOs and business executives within organizations. Our findings suggest that strategic leadership significantly affects both organizational benefits and information system quality. Further, we found that IS quality significantly mediates the relationship between IS strategic leadership and organizational benefits. We also note that IS vision significantly moderates the relationship between IS strategic leadership and IS quality, although it does not moderate the relationship between IS strategic leadership and organizational benefits or the relationship between IS quality and organizational benefits.

The Net Benefits of Online Social Network Sites: An Investigation of IS Quality Perspective

The Net Benefits of Online Social Network Sites: An Investigation of IS Quality Perspective

Asymmetric Impact of IS Quality on User Satisfaction: Development of Resource Allocation Strategy of e-Government in Agriculture

Asymmetric Impact of IS Quality on User Satisfaction: Development of Resource Allocation Strategy of e-Government in Agriculture

Asymmetric Impact of IS Quality on User Satisfaction: Development of Resource Allocation Strategy of e-Government in Agriculture

Asymmetric Impact of IS Quality on User Satisfaction: Development of Resource Allocation Strategy of e-Government in Agriculture

호텔정보시스템 품질이 정보시스템 수용 및 성과에 미치는 영향

As the role that information system and technique plays in hotel firms is critical, the quality of IS and IT is considered as one of most important factors that determine success of hotel firms. This study aims to examine the influences of the quality of IS/IT exerted on the user`s level of acceptance of the HIS and the operational performance on both personal and organizational levels. Based on the data collected from 256 employees in reservation departments of 3 Seoul and 3 Busan deluxe hotels, the study tested the applied TAM model. The results indicated that the quality of IS/IT affects the user`s acceptance level (eg., satisfaction and perceived usefulness), and such acceptance behavior affects reservation employees` performance on both personal and organizational levels. Managerial implications are also presented for researchers and practitioners of hotel firms.

Impact of quality antecedents on taxpayer satisfaction with online tax-filing systems—An empirical study

This paper discusses taxpayer satisfaction with an online system for filing individual income tax returns. Online tax-filing system quality encompasses information, system, and service qualities, which are the antecedents of user satisfaction with any system. To measure online tax-filing system quality, a second-order measurement model was tested using higher-order confirmatory factor analysis. Hierarchical factor analysis supported the measurement model of IS quality in the research setting. Path analysis using structural equation modeling confirmed that the quality antecedents strongly influenced taxpayer satisfaction with the online tax-filing system. Furthermore, the factors of information and system quality were more important than service quality in measuring taxpayer satisfaction, demonstrating the importance to taxpayers of system outputs and processing ability. Based on the findings, implications for online tax-filing systems are discussed. Finally, limitations are presented.

An investigation into the effects of IS quality and top management support on ERP system usage

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are developed to manage and integrate business processes across organisational functions and locations. Given the growing importance of ERP deployment, a better understanding of influences on successful ERP system implementation is essential for knowledge advancement. Based on previous IS success literature, this study develops an empirical model to examine the effects of IS quality (information and system quality) and top management support on ERP system usage. The proposed model was tested using survey data from large Taiwanese corporations. The results show that information and system quality directly or indirectly affect ERP system usage through user perceptions of usefulness and satisfaction with the ERP system. Additionally, top management support influences both perceived usefulness and ERP system usage. Results of this study contribute to efforts to identify the factors that measure ERP system success. The implications for theory and practice and future research directions are discussed.

Analysis of User Involvement and Participation on the Quality of IS Planning Projects

The process of information systems planning is critically dependent on the users of the system. The involvement and participation of these users and its impact on the effectiveness of IS planning has not been studied in the literature. In this article we address the effect of user involvement and participation on the quality of IS planning projects. This was done through an exploratory quasi-experiment study conducted in an academic setting. We studied the effects of user involvement using two sets of teams doing IS planning exercises, one in which the user was involved as part of the project team and the other where the user was outside the project team, but was involved in interviews and reviews of project artifacts. We also measured the extent of user participation through a survey of participants engaged in the IS planning projects. Results indicate that user involvement has significant positive effect on user participation, as well as on the quality of IS planning projects. However the effect of user participation on the quality of projects is mixed and needs further research.