Quality Of Shift Research Articles

Current Situation and Optimization Analysis of Examination Management in Private Universities

The examination management of colleges and universities is an important part of the management of education and teaching in colleges and universities, which is crucial to the adjustment of talent training plan of colleges and universities, and is the foundation and guarantee of education management of colleges and universities. The current examination management in private colleges and universities still has many problems that need to be optimized because of its confidentiality, redundancy and seriousness. In this paper, we analyze the problems such as imperfect information management system, inconsistent quality of examination supervision and shift of examination administration in the current examination administration in private colleges and universities, and put forward targeted suggestions for optimization, such as establishing a sound information-based examination administration system, strengthening the training of examination administration personnel and refining the responsibility of examination administration, in order to provide reference for the future examination administration in private colleges and universities.

Implications of the syntheses on definition, theory, and methods conducted by the Response Shift – in Sync Working Group

PurposeOur aim is to advance response shift research by explicating the implications of published syntheses by the Response Shift – in Sync Working Group in an integrative way and suggesting ways for improving the quality of future response shift studies.MethodsMembers of the Working Group further discussed the syntheses of the literature on definitions, theoretical underpinnings, operationalizations, and response shift methods. They outlined areas in need of further explication and refinement, and delineated additional implications for future research.ResultsFirst, the proposed response shift definition was further specified and its implications for the interpretation of results explicated in relation to former, published definitions. Second, the proposed theoretical model was further explained in relation to previous theoretical models and its implications for formulating research objectives highlighted. Third, ways to explore alternative explanations per response shift method and their implications for response shift detection and explanation were delineated. The implications of the diversity of the response shift methods for response shift research were presented. Fourth, the implications of the need to enhance the quality and reporting of the response shift studies for future research were sketched.ConclusionWith our work, we intend to contribute to a common language regarding response shift definitions, theory, and methods. By elucidating some of the major implications of earlier work, we hope to advance response shift research.

Chroma Key untuk Mengubah Warna Pakaian dengan HSV dan Morfologi pada Citra Digital

Currently, Indonesia is still under the influence of the COVID-19 virus. Indonesian people buy necessities of life on the online market. Clothing is a daily necessity that people often buy online. This has an impact on increasing online clothing sales, but not all clothes are according to the tastes of buyers. Therefore we need an application that is used to speed up changing the color of clothes according to the needs of buyers. The chroma key application that is used to change the color of the clothing image uses the HSV and morphology classification methods. Edge detection and median filters are used to improve the quality of color shift results with HSV. This application is built using MatLab 2015a programming. The test results show that the HSV classification method is better at changing the color of the clothing image than the morphological method. The HSV classification method was successful in changing the color of clothes well with a 100% success rate. While the morphological method succeeded in changing the color of the clothes with a success rate of 60%.

Optimization of the Quality of the Automatic Transmission Shift and the Power Transmission Characteristics

We have established a simulation platform for the machine–electro-hydraulic coupling system of the transmission system and the control system to study the root causes of the problems of large shifting impact and slow change of the machine tool transmission system. The dynamic analysis of the gear shift work of the gearbox was carried out, and the main factors affecting its shift instability were studied. With the impact and sliding power as the optimization goals, the shift quality is optimized based on the multi-objective genetic algorithm. Through the shift experiment, it was found that the power interruption phenomenon during the shift process was eliminated after optimization, and the quality of the shift was improved. Simulated planetary row wheel gear meshing force was found in the same gear, and the second planetary row gear meshing force was the largest among the planetary rows. The stress of the node near the top of the tooth is greater than the stress of the node near the node circle and the root of the tooth, and the two sides of the tooth top are relatively larger than the intermediate stress. The dynamic simulation model of the planetary gearbox system with rigid–soft hybrid can obtain the stress distribution of the solar wheel at the maximum impact moment and the stationary stage, as well as the dynamic stress of the key nodes of the solar wheel, which lays the foundation for the fatigue strength and life prediction of the gear system.

Results of evaluating the smoothness of automatic transmission gear shifting during car operation

Various malfunctions may occur during the car operation. These include automatic gearbox malfunctions which reveal themselves during operation in the form of a rigid (jerky, bumpy) untimely engaging the up or down gear in an automatic gearbox. The quality criteria for automatic gearbox shifting which currently exist do not allow to give a reliable assessment of the required gear selection. In such cases, people operating the car often ask questions about the technical condition of the automatic gearbox and the quality of gear shift. The authors have studied the process of gear shifting, smoothness of it and peculiarities of automatic gearbox functioning of during car operation. The article describes the urgency of the problem of jerks and vibrations when changing gears. When assessing the smoothness of gear shifting, the method of technical state vibroacoustic diagnostics is applied. The method is based on the recorded parameters of vibration velocity, vibration acceleration, vibration movement with their further conversion (fast Fourier transform) into a spectral signal. The procedure of longitudinal vibration acceleration measurements on cars in operation is described. Comparative analysis of automatic gear change smoothness. As a result of the analysis the quantitative characteristics of different smoothness gear changes are obtained and its comparison with the permissible level is given. According to the results of the parameters registration and their comparative analysis, it was suggested that it is possible to assess the quality of the gear shift and determine the quantitative indicators of smoothness. Keywords: iron ore raw materials, quarry transport, process

SNR enhancement for Brillouin distributed optical fiber sensors based on asynchronous control

We propose the asynchronous control of anisotropic diffusion (AD) algorithm, and such asynchronous anisotropic diffusion (AAD) algorithm is demonstrated experimentally to reduce noise from the sensing signals obtained from Brillouin distributed optical fiber sensors. The performance of the proposed AAD algorithm is analyzed in detail for different experimental conditions and compared with that of block-matching and 3D filtering, two-dimensional wavelet denoising, AD, and non-local means algorithms. Some key factors of the proposed algorithm, such as the impact of convolution kernel size on the performance of AD algorithms, the influence of low sampling point number (SPN) on the quality of Brillouin frequency shift and the selection of diffusion thresholds are analyzed and discussed with experimental results. The experimental results validate that the AAD algorithm can provide better root-mean-square error (RMSE) and spatial resolution (SR) than the other four algorithms, especially for higher signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) improvement and higher SPNs. For lower SPNs, the performance of AAD is also not inferior to the RMSE performance of NLM and AD. The runtime of the AAD algorithm is also quite low. Moreover, the proposed algorithm offers the best SR performance as compared to other noise reduction algorithms investigated in this study. Thus, the proposed AAD algorithm can be an effective candidate to improve the measurement accuracy of Brillouin distributed optical fiber sensors.

Commentary: “Vowel Quality and Direction of Stress Shift in a Predictive Model Explaining the Varying Impact of Misplaced Word Stress: Evidence From English” and “Exploring the Complexity of the L2 Intonation System: An Acoustic and Eye-Tracking Study”

Commentary: “Vowel Quality and Direction of Stress Shift in a Predictive Model Explaining the Varying Impact of Misplaced Word Stress: Evidence From English” and “Exploring the Complexity of the L2 Intonation System: An Acoustic and Eye-Tracking Study”

Vowel Quality and Direction of Stress Shift in a Predictive Model Explaining the Varying Impact of Misplaced Word Stress: Evidence From English

The use of suprasegmental cues to word stress occurs across many languages. Nevertheless, L1 English listeners' pay little attention to suprasegmental word stress cues and evidence shows that segmental cues are more important to L1 English listeners in how words are identified in speech. L1 English listeners assume strong syllables with full vowels mark the beginning of a new word, attempting alternative resegmentations only when this heuristic fails to identify a viable word string. English word stress errors have been shown to severely disrupt processing for both L1 and L2 listeners, but not all word stress errors are equally damaging. Vowel quality and direction of stress shift are thought to be predictors of the intelligibility of non-standard stress pronunciations—but most research so far on this topic has been limited to two-syllable words. The current study uses auditory lexical decision and delayed word identification tasks to test a hypothesized English Word Stress Error Gravity Hierarchy for words of two to five syllables. Results indicate that English word stress errors affect intelligibility most when they introduce concomitant vowel errors, an effect that is somewhat mediated by the direction of stress shift. As a consequence, the relative intelligibility impact of any particular lexical stress error can be predicted by the Hierarchy for both L1 and L2 English listeners. These findings have implications for L1 and L2 English pronunciation research and teaching. For research, our results demonstrate that varied findings about loss of intelligibility are connected to vowel quality changes of word stress errors and that these factors must be accounted for in intelligibility research. For teaching, the results indicate that not all word stress errors are equally important, and that only word stress errors that affect vowel quality should be prioritized.

Evaluating Diet and Sleep Quality of Shift and Non-Shift Nurses Using Three-Factor Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index and Healthy Eating Index-2015

Evaluating Diet and Sleep Quality of Shift and Non-Shift Nurses Using Three-Factor Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index and Healthy Eating Index-2015

Effect analysis of handover record applying in supply room

Objective To explore the effects of handover record applying in supply room. Methods From July to December 2017, 9 staff in Supply Department of Children's Hospital Affiliated to Capital Institude of Pediatrics were selected as the research subjects by purposive sampling method. The handover policy was established and a handover record sheet was designed with Excel software. The occurrence of nursing events and the nursing managers' satisfaction towards supply room were compared before and after the application of handover record. Results There were 11 nursing events before the application of handover record, and none after. The service satisfaction rate after the intervention was (52.50±5.25) , which was higher than that before (49.09±8.15) , the difference was statistically significant (t=-2.301, P=0.032) . Conclusions The application of handover record sheet can make the communication smoothly, and improve the quality of shift and the satisfaction of nurse managers. Key words: Nurses; Central supply, hospital; Handover record sheet

Child nutritional status among births exceeding ideal family size in a high fertility population.

Ideal family size (IFS) is measured in social surveys to indicate unmet need for contraception and impending shifts in fertility behaviour. Whether exceeding IFS affects parental behaviour in ways that result in lower investments in child nutrition, well-being, and educational attainment is not known. This study examines parental IFS and the association between exceeding stated ideals and child nutritional status in a high-fertility, high-mortality population in the Bolivian Amazon. Height-for-age z-scores, weight-for-age z-scores, weight-for-height z-scores, stunting, haemoglobin, and anaemia status in 638 children aged 0-5years are predicted as a function of birth order in relation to parental IFS, adjusting for household characteristics and mother and child random effects. Children of birth orders above paternal IFS experience higher weight-for-age z-scores when living further away from the market town of San Borja, consistent with underlying motivations for higher IFS and lower human capital investment in children in more remote areas (β=.009, p=.027). Overall, we find no statistical evidence that birth orders in excess of parental ideals are associated with compromised child nutrition below age 2, a period of intensive breastfeeding in this population. Despite a vulnerability to nutritional deficiencies postweaning for children age 2-5, there was no association between birth order in excess of parental ideals and lower nutritional status. Further studies examining this association at various stages of the fertility transition will elucidate whether reported ideal or optimal family sizes are flexible as trade-offs between quality and quantity of children shift during the transition to lower fertility.

The clinical application of nursing informationization management and digital multimedia shift in pain department

Objective To explore the application value of nursing informationization management and digital multimedia shift in pain department, and to provide a basis for medical staff to improve working mode and improve the level of office digitalization. Methods The multimedia slide projector was applied to morning shift of pain department.According to Hospital Nursing Management Standard and Quality Assessment Standard, shift satisfaction questionnaire was designed, and the satisfaction of medical workers from pain department with digital multimedia shift was investigated by issuing satisfaction questionnaire form. Results By popularizing the information management and applying the multimedia slide to the early shift, it can be known that the satisfaction of medical staff to the digital multimedia shift was higher than the traditional shift.And the difference in satisfaction scores was statistically significant(P<0.05). Conclusions The application of digital multimedia shift in the nursing work of pain department is conducive to standardized treatment, collection, processing and feedback of nursing information, and improving the quality of shift. Key words: Nursing information management; Department of pain; Shift satisfaction questionnaire

A Study on Personal Financial Planning Profession in Andhra Pradesh

This paper decides to investigate the overall Quality of work life (QWL) and Job satisfaction of textile workers in Madhya Pradesh. The target group for this study is the textile mills in Indore district are categorizes into three groups namely Ginning Mills, Spinning Mills and Weaving Mills. Out of total 332 textile mills, 85 (25.60 per cent), 176 (53.01 per cent) and 71 (21.39 per cent) are under Ginning, Spinning and Weaving categories respectively. Quantitative data was gathered through questionnaires, totally 330 questionnaires were distributed to the respondent 300 questionnaires were returned and analyzed using SPSS version 16. For the purpose of analysis, a total of 300 sample workers were randomly selected from three categories by adopting stratified random sampling method. The Analyze of variance test (ANOVA) revealed that the perception about QWL differs according to different levels of quality of work life and time shift and also the perception of Job satisfaction and significantly higher than the workers on high-level of QWL than Middle and Lower level workers.

Taxation and Innovation in the 20th Century

This paper studies the effect of corporate and personal taxes on innovation in the United States over the twentieth century. We use three new datasets: a panel of the universe of inventors who patent since 1920; a dataset of the employment, location and patents of firms active in RD and a historical state-level corporate tax database since 1900, which we link to an existing database on state-level personal income taxes. Our analysis focuses on the impact of taxes on individual inventors and firms (the micro level) and on states over time (the macro level). We propose several identification strategies, all of which yield consistent results: i) OLS with fixed effects, including inventor and state-times-year fixed effects, which make use of differences between tax brackets within a state-year cell and which absorb heterogeneity and contemporaneous changes in economic conditions; ii) an instrumental variable approach, which predicts changes in an individual or firm's total tax rate with changes in the federal tax rate only; iii) event studies, synthetic cohort case studies, and a border county strategy, which exploits tax variation across neighboring counties in different states. We find that taxes matter for innovation: higher personal and corporate income taxes negatively affect the quantity and quality of inventive activity and shift its location at the macro and micro levels. At the macro level, cross-state spillovers or business-stealing from one state to another are important, but do not account for all of the effect. Agglomeration effects from local innovation clusters tend to weaken responsiveness to taxation. Corporate inventors respond more strongly to taxes than their non-corporate counterparts.

Structural Equation Model for Sleep Quality of Female Shift Work Nurses

This study aimed to develop and test a structural model for sleep quality in female shift work nurses. The hypothetical model was constructed on the basis of Spielman's 3P model of insomnia and previous research related to the sleep quality of shift nurses. This cross-sectional study used structural equation modeling and recruited 285 female shift work nurses from four general and university hospitals with over 300 beds located in C and J cities in Gyeongsangnamdo. Data were collected from September 27 to October 20, 2016, and then analyzed using descriptive statistics, Pearson's correlation, and structural equation modeling. The study used SPSS/Win 18.0 and AMOS 18.0 in processing the data. The final model showed good fit to the empirical data: χ²/df=2.19, SRMR=.07, RMSEA=.07, AGFI=.85, TLI=.91, GFI=.93, GFI=.89, NFI=.87. The factors that influenced sleep quality were sleep hygiene (β=.32), perceived shift work status (β=-.16), stress response (β=.16), shift work experience (β=.15), perceived health status (β=-.14), and circadian rhythm (β=-.13) explaining 36.0% of the variance. The model of sleep quality of the shift work nurses constructed in this study is recommended as a model to understand and predict the sleep quality of shift work nurses. The results suggest that strategies for improving the sleep quality of shift work nurses should focus on sleep hygiene, perceived health status, stress response, circadian rhythm, perceived shift work status, and shift work experience.

Research and Implementation of Tractor Power Shift Clutch Control System

Applying power shift control technology on tractor can improve the power, economy and driving comfort of tractor. The separation and engagement control of clutch in tractor power shift transmission system is the key factor to optimize the quality of shift. Through many experiments and tests, an electronic control unit based on MC9S12 was developed, and an effective clutch control strategy was put forward, which improved the jerk of power shift and shortened the gear shift time.

Cross-border residential mobility, quality of life and modal shift: A Luxembourg case study

It is argued in the life-oriented approach that travel behavior affects life choice and vice versa with resulting impacts on quality of life (QOL). By deepening the analysis of interdependences between daily mobility and life event (relocation) and their relationships with QOL, this article focuses on two challenges. It aims at analyzing how these life events first, encourage travel behavior changes, especially mode choice, and second, improve or decrease people’s QOL. By radically changing living context and built environment, relocation also affects routine and satisfaction. These relationships are investigated in the Luxembourg cross-border area, where great differences related to real estate price encourage residential moves from Luxembourg to neighboring countries, while the general decline in public transport efficiency at the border may support car use. We use both mixed and ordered logit models. The first one investigates whether individuals’ life-stage changes and residential relocation are significant regarding their mode choice decision. The second estimates individuals’ global QOL and the roles of complementary factors (changing housing conditions, built environment, subjective satisfaction, travel time and socio-economic characteristics). The analysis reveals several results. The effect of the different factors is consistent with travel mode choice literature despite the specific cross-border context. Nevertheless, relocation, mainly oriented towards a cross-border suburbanization, significantly increases the probability of using the car for daily activities. These trips and especially the journeys to work are the least satisfactory aspects of daily life after relocation but does not affect the general level of QOL. At the opposite, the better housing conditions after relocation have positive effect on the QOL. From a policy perspective, this life-oriented approach in cross-border context confirms the influence of life events on QOL while it demonstrates a higher importance of housing conditions than spatial constraints on relocation and satisfaction.

Nurses' sleep quality, work environment and quality of care in the Spanish National Health System: observational study among different shifts

ObjectiveThe main objective of this study was to determine the relationship between the characteristics of nurses' work environments in hospitals in the Spanish National Health System (SNHS) with nurse reported...

Evaluating quality of life and response shift from a couple-based perspective: a study among patients with colorectal cancer and their partners.

To examine (1) measurement invariance of quality of life (QoL) domains over time for patients with colorectal cancer and partners (i.e., response shift--recalibration, reprioritization, and reconceptualization), (2) between dyad-member measurement invariance and (3) QoL trajectories. Participants completed the WHOQOL-Bref preoperative (Time-0) and 3 (Time-1) and 6 months (Time-2) postoperative. A stepwise procedure, using nested factor models, examined the viability of restricting specific model parameters to be equal across measurements and between dyad members. No reconceptualization and reprioritization was detected, but indications for recalibration were present. Therefore, comparisons were restricted to group-level statistics at factor level. For patients, a decrease in the Physical Health domain occurred at Time-1 (p < 0.001), with partial recovery to baseline at Time-2 (p = 0.055). For partners, factor means in this domain remained constant (p's > 0.05) and were at each time point higher than patients' factor means (p's < 0.05). Patients' and partners' Psychological Health decreased at Time-1 (p's < 0.05), with stabilization at Time-2 (p's > 0.05). Patients and partners' factor means were comparable (p's > 0.05). Patients and partners' Social Relationship factor means decreased at Time-1 (p's < 0.05), which decreased further for patients (p = 0.011) but stabilized for partners (p = 0.214). Partners' factor means were only lower than patients' factor means at Time-1. A similar decrease in the Environmental domain factor means occurred for both patients and partners at Time-1 (p's < 0.05), with stabilization at Time-2 (p's > 0.05). Since both patients and partners are affected by the patients' disease and treatment, we recommend that attention is paid to the couple instead of solely the patient.

Application of the table format shift sheet in the shift handover among the intra-aortic balloon pump implantation patients

Objective To explore the application effect of the table format shift sheet on the shift handover among the intra-aortic balloon pump （ IABP） implantation patients .Methods The important contents of shift handover in IABP implantation patients were listed in the table format shift sheet , and the shift sheet was used in the process of shift in cardiac care unit （ CCU） for the patients with IABP implantation .Results The integrity rate of the shift content and the nurses ’ assurance rate of understanding the patients ’ conditions were respectively 100%and 95.0%after the application of the table format shift sheet , and were 71.6%and 70.0%before the application , and the differences were statistically significant （χ2 =35.80,17.32, respectively;P〈0.01 ） .The time of shift after the application was shorter than that before the application , and the difference was statistically significant （P 〈0.01）.Conclusions Application of the table format shift sheet including the important data and details of shift content in patients with IABP implantation can make the nurses grasp the key points of shift during the shift handover , and shorten the time of shift , and improve the integrity of the shift content, and enhance the nurses ’ assurance of understanding the patients ’ conditions, and increase the quality of shift in CCU . Key words: Intra-aortic balloon pump; Shift sheet; Nursing quality