Airline companies today face formidable competitive pressure. To confront these problems and sustain competitive advantages, many companies have resorted to downsizing; this method, however, often results in the overworking of a small number of workers, especially in the case of aircraft maintenance staff, who are largely responsible for aviation safety. At the same time, during the staff annua...

one of the most important issues in supply chain management in different companies, including automotive part manufacturing companies, is evaluation and selection of suppliers. this action is depended on quality management system requirements that must be based on performance and actual ability of suppliers. the analytic hierarchy process (ahp) is one of the most widely used method in the field...

This report is concerned with the determination of relationship between asphaltic concrete surface course specifications and the level of performance of pavements constructed under these specifications. The relationship was investigated through comparative evaluation of deficient (in specification) and nondeficient sections using a combination of pavement condition rating and ride rating as the...

Monitoring network performance and status is a fundamental task for network operators as it directly impacts the quality of the offered services and hence user satisfaction. For this purpose a consolidated approach, which is largely adopted by network operators, is based on the so-called KPIs (key performance indicators). In this paper, we propose and discuss a set of KPIs to monitor network pe...

lack of scientific and confirmed researches and expert knowledge about evaluation systems for clinical governance development in iran have made studies on different evaluation systems for clinical governance development a necessity. these studies must provide applied strategies to design criteria of implementing clinical governance for hospital's accreditation. this is a descriptive and compara...

INTRODUCTION Public health agencies have been participating in emergency preparedness exercises for many years. A poorly designed or executed exercise, or an unevaluated or inadequately evaluated plan, may do more harm than good if it leads to a false sense of security, and results in poor performance during an actual emergency. At the time this project began, there were no specific standards f...

In a time where more business is conducted over the Internet, the security of such systems, for instance electronic money transfer, becomes critical. A firewall serves as a frontline of the security measures that can be taken by an organisation in order to secure the integrity of a private network. This report describes methods of evaluating the security of a firewall. The existing methods on t...