Work described in the doctoral thesis entitled “Development of practical methodology and indicators for on-farm animal welfare assessment” was conducted within the frame of Work Package 1 of the AWIN project by Joanna Marchewka. The research project aimed to optimize strategies for welfare assessment including pain in turkeys and sheep. Due to scarce knowledge on turkeys’ welfare and lack of me...

Soil quality (SQ) assessment is a proactive process for evaluating soil and crop management effects on biological, chemical, and physical indicators of soil health. Our objectives were to evaluate several SQ indicators within five Agricultural Research Service (ARS) experimental watersheds (WS) and determine if those indicators were affected by manure, tillage, or crop rotation histories. Ten s...

OBJECTIVE To assess compliance with basic and actionable indicators in relation to prevention of venous thromboembolism (VTE) and safe use of heparin. DESIGN We built, pilot tested and measured a set of evidence-based structure (existence of guidelines) and process (risk assessment for VTE, and dose adjustment to patient weight and renal function when prescribing heparin) indicators in a nati...

In this paper, we will present an approach for assessment and ranking of maintenance process performance indicators using the fuzzy set approach and genetic algorithms. Weight values of maintenance process indicators are defined using the experience of decision makers from analysed SMEs and calculated using the fuzzy set approach. In the second step, a model for ranking and optimization of main...

Indicators are increasingly being used to monitor and evaluate health system performance. However, although indicators can provide valuable information, they also have limitations. The benefits of indicators are vitiated when they are seriously flawed (unreliable, invalid or easily "gamed"), selected before the right question has been posed or used to the exclusion of other sources of informati...

Vulnerability assessment is a significant component of effective disaster management. Following the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015, countries need to identify appropriate vulnerability indicators and to assess the impact of disasters. Vulnerability assessment is a prerequisite for disaster risk reduction and capacity building of communities. It can play an important role especially for de...

In this paper, we assess the gender sensitivity of some conventional indicators of wellbeing in developing countries as also the relationship between poverty and the gender differential. The assessment is restricted to the indicators of the basic ‘functionings’ of ‘being healthy’, ‘being educated’, ‘being nourished’ and some composite indices which combine the indicators of individual functioni...