II. Quality Control Issues

On "Quality" in Translation Studies: issues and Problems

Quality of Care Issues

The Definition of Quality Care: Much of the quality-of-health-care literature is focused on a narrow definition of quality as the reduction of medical errors. It may also focus on the reduction of variance in treatment or outcomes. This narrow view of quality is sometimes called “patient safety”. This definition is most consistent with the quality efforts in manufacturing (TQM, Baldridge, etc.)...

Food Quality Standards: Quality Issues and Challenges of Food Chain in Burkina Faso

Background: In Burkina Faso, the agricultural sector accounts for 35% of the gross domestic product (GDP) and employs 82% of the active population. The agri-food industries must apply the requirements of the management systems to improve their economic position and ensure sustainable development. The present study aimed to highlight the similarities and particularities of these repositories gro...

Global quality imaging: emerging issues.

Quality imaging may be described as "a timely access to and delivery of integrated and appropriate procedures, in a safe and responsive practice, and a prompt delivery of an accurately interpreted report by capable personnel in an efficient, effective, and sustainable manner." For this article, radiation safety is considered as one of the key quality elements. The stakeholders are the drivers o...

Data Quality Issues in Visualization

Recent eeorts in visualization have concentrated on high volume data sets from numerical simulations and medical imaging. There is another large class of data, characterized by their spatial sparsity with noisy and possibly missing data points, that also need to be visualized. Two places where these type of data sets can be found are in oceanographic and atmospheric science studies. In such cas...