Quality assurance (QA) tasks, such as testing, profiling, and performance evaluation, have historically been done in-house on developergenerated workloads and regression suites. Since this approach is inadequate for many systems, tools and processes are being developed to improve software quality by increasing user participation in the QA process. A limitation of these approaches is that they f...

Results of subjective evaluations of perceived sound quality preferences for mobile telephone handsets with different acoustic design strategies are presented and compared to predictions from two objective speech quality metrics.

student evaluation of the quality of instruction is considered as one of the most widely used methods for assessing faculty in universities. this study aimed to identify and compare faculty and students' views about the evaluation system of the quality of faculty teaching in 2011-2012 in ilam university of medical sciences. in this descriptive – analytical study, statistical population was incl...

A research project was conducted to study the quality of life (QoL) of elderly diabetic and hypertensive people in Bangalore city. The objective of the study was to evaluate an educational module developed to help the elderly to cope with prevailing conditions and improve their quality of life. The sample consisted of 80 elderly of which 40 were men and 40 were women between the age group 65 to...

For many years, electricity distribution companies have used sustained interruption indices as indicators of the reliability of service provided on their systems. Today, however, many electricity consumers are adversely affected by more subtle voltage disturbances such as sags and swells. Many utilities are well aware of such service quality concerns and are implementing extensive monitoring sy...

Background: The increased concern for accountability and quality improvement is inducing universities throughout the world to evaluate and control performance. Hence, this study was conducted to assess basic science department of Sabzevar medical school to improve the quality of the department. Methods: This study is a descriptive cross sectional study. We asked faculty members, managers, inte...