Software development organizations are focusing on improving the process of software development so that the resultant software is of high quality and the development cost is low from the viewpoint of the competitive advantage. Software process improvement (SPI) is a methodical and continuous improvement approach for the software development processes to develop quality software. SPI establishe...

development of water resources projects are recognized as a basis of the development planning in the water resources sector. in addition to the quality of output results, following the schedule , continuous documentation and evaluation during the project is the one of the major challenges. in order to improve water study framework with high quality and scheduling and reduce the study process, t...

A decentralized variant of continuous integration can be defined in terms of two fundamental rules: (1) Developers’ access to add contributions to the development version at any time, and (2) Developers’ obligation to properly integrate their own contributions. Decentralized, continuous integration may adapt well to organizations where developers work relatively independently, as in many open s...

background a model of quality management called strategic collaborative quality management (scqm) model was developed based on the quality management literature review, the findings of a survey on quality management assessment in healthcare organisations, semi-structured interviews with healthcare stakeholders, and a delphi study on healthcare quality management experts. the purpose of this stu...

Recently, analytical reproducibility in scientific research has been a keenly discussed topic within scientific research organizations and acknowledged as an important and fundamental goal to strive for. Scientific studies published recently have found that irreproducibility is widely prevalent within the research community even after releasing data openly. At Bielefeld University, nine researc...

Quality management represents company-wide activities to improve the quality level of products and works through customer orientation, continuous quality improvement, employees’ involvement, etc. to establish and sustain a competitive advantage. This paper presents result of an empirical analysis on quality management practices and its impact on competitive performance in Japanese manufacturing...

introduction: nowadays students’ opinion is considered as a necessary factor to evaluate quality in universities. this study was performed to evaluate the nursing students’ satisfaction about their field of study. methods: the research population in this study consists of all the students of nursing studying at the second to fourth year of university (72 students). the data were collected from ...

The deployment of high speed, multiservice networks within the local area has meant that it has become possible to deliver continuous media data to a general purpose workstation. This, in conjunction with the increasing speed of modern microprocessors, means that it is now possible to write application programs which manipulate continuous media in real-time. Unfortunately, current operating sys...