The problem of insufficient information quality (IQ) is widespread and is often cited as one of the key factors for decision making. While numerous decisions are failed because of the low quality information, many organizations and individuals are still ignoring the importance and necessity of IQ in decision making. Over the last decade many researchers have focused on decision making models an...

Insurance companies are challenging to the implementation of data quality management. This presentation is the result of a project at Cosesp, a large insurance company in Brazil, and covers, as much as can be disclosed, several issues of real world data quality management implementations. Luis Francisco Lima GoDigital Precision Marketing [email protected] Dalvani Lima GoDigital Precisi...

background: quality management is one of the most effective strategies for improving the health systems performance in developed and developing countries. the main goal of this study was identifying the most important aspects of quality management and preparing an appropriate model for health system. method: this research was a comparative study on quality management models in the health system...

abstract   background: a significant relationship between psychiatric disorders principally depression and anxiety and insomnia is well-known in general population. ahigh percent of insomnia sufferers report anxiety symptoms. anxiety is also frequently seen in medical patients whom complaints of sleep problems are often prominent.   method: 250 outpatients with various medical complaints partic...

background: survey of pollution and evaluation of water quality in rivers with oregon water quality index (owqi) and gis are effective tools for management of the impact of environmental water resources. the information in calculating the wqi of moradbeik river allowed us to take our tests results and make a scientific conclusion about the quality of water. gis can be a powerful tool for develo...

background: health assessment in patients  with epilepsy (pwe) should  include  both  clinical outcomes and  health related quality of life (hrqol) measures. the quality of life (qol) in epilepsy-31 inventory  (qolie-31) is widely used for qol studies  in epilepsy. this study  aims to evaluate psychometrics  of the persian version of the inventory (qolie-31-p). methods:  following a  standard  ...

this paper is devoted to the study of determining optimal process mean in system production with the two markets for the sale of goods. in this paper, we developed an absorbing markov chain model in production systems where all items are inspected %100 for conformance with their specification limits. when the value of the quality characteristic of an item falls below a lower limit, the item is ...

Sampling in forests across the world has revealed clear variation in bat use across the height gradient from ground level, up through the canopy, and above the tallest trees (Francis, 1994; Bradshaw, 1996; Kalcounis et al., 1999; Hayes and Gruver, 2000; Bernard, 2001; Henry et al., 2004; Menzel et al., 2005; Pereira et al., 2010). The ways bats distribute their activities along this vertical gr...

I describe an open-source R package, multimark, for estimation of survival and abundance from capture-mark-recapture data consisting of multiple "noninvasive" marks. Noninvasive marks include natural pelt or skin patterns, scars, and genetic markers that enable individual identification in lieu of physical capture. multimark provides a means for combining and jointly analyzing encounter histori...