Management performance evaluation means assessment of scalability, complexity, accuracy, throughput, delays and resources consumptions. In this paper, we focus on the evaluation of management frameworks delays through a set of specific metrics. We investigate the statistical properties of these metrics when the number of management nodes increases. We show that management delays measured at the...

This article discusses the status of existing English language proficiency (ELP) tests, and compares the content coverage and psychometric characteristics of ELP assessments that existed prior to the implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) with those developed after NCLB Title III guidelines were introduced. The article argues that the newly developed ELP assessments (post-NCLB) e...

Aim: To explore the feasibility to make on-road assessments routinely at 3 months follow-up for all patients with a 3 months verbal prohibition of driving after stroke, to support the physicians decision of fitness to drive. Methods: From September 2007 to December 2009 there were 151 stroke patients from the stroke units at the hospital eligible for inclusion in the study. Fifty agreed to be a...

OBJECTIVE A computer based touchscreen family cancer history questionnaire was developed and implemented to facilitate the provision of cancer risk assessments for the ambulatory and outpatient populations of a free standing cancer hospital. METHODS A questionnaire consisting of a series of branched point decision making screens was developed which enables the participant to enter demographic...

The SGS risk management process is implemented in full compliance with international standards e. g. ISO 31000, as a minimum requirement. The SGS team is committed to improving the delivery of risk management in terms of statistical processes, facilitated workshops for identification and assessment, development of better graphical communications of risk, more calibrated assessments, off-setting...

Development of simple-to-use, cost-effective risk assessments is a current research necessity in Ergonomics. Direct measurements and observational methods are usually considered more reliable and objective than retrospective self-assessment but the more subjective methods are often the only feasible way to evaluate exposure to health risks – particularly in large field studies. This paper discu...

Norovirus infection and illness are increasingly used as end-points in sewage-related health risk assessments, especially as data from clinical trials outbreak studies have recently become available. The authors of a very recent clinical trial have inferred that the human median infectious dose is higher than previous estimates and similar to that of other RNA viruses. This finding has the pote...

Retrospective dose assessments may be carried out for a number of purposes such as demonstrating compliance with dose limits or investigating possible health implications of past events that led to releases of radioactive materials to the environment. The purpose of the assessment has a major impact on what is assessed and how the assessment is carried out. Any dose assessment requires informat...

The Regional Earthquake Likelihood Models (RELM) project aims to produce and evaluate alternate models of earthquake potential (probability per unit volume, magnitude, and time) for California. Based on differing assumptions, these models are produced both to test the validity of their assumptions and explore which models should be incorporated in seismic hazard and risk evaluation. Tests based...

Today green supply chain management (GSCM) has caused increasing emphasis, as a kind of modern management mode which takes environmental impact and resource efficiency into a comprehensive consideration within the entire supply chain. A systematic literature review of green supply chain is presented in this paper, from the perspectives of concept and connotation, operations, performance evaluat...