Decision-making in teams can be accomplished by including varying levels of team member opinion. This study considers two styles of group decision-making, consensus building and single leader decision-making with input from the team, in structured design selection tasks. The role of decision-making style in the speed of decision-making, team member satisfaction, and decision quality are examine...

192 words] Purpose: To develop a computer based method for the automated assessment of image quality in the context of diabetic retinopathy (DR) to guide the photographer. Methods: A deep learning framework was trained to grade the images automatically. A large representative set of 7000 color fundus images were used for the experiment which were obtained from the EyePACS (http://www.eyepacs.co...

OBJECTIVE To identify factors associated with the quality of primary medical care incentivised under the new UK general medical services contract. DESIGN Cross sectional study. SETTING NHS Ayrshire and Arran area, Scotland. PARTICIPANTS 60 general practices. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Quality scores reflecting the total points achieved on the 10 clinical domains and holistic care. Univariate...

This paper presents the three topologies of three-phase four-wire DSTATCOM for reduction of harmonics, reactive power compensation, increasing power factor, which occur due to a nonlinear load, environment problem and polluted grid. The performances of the above topologies have been compared for the magnitude of source current, power factor improvement, DC-link voltage regulation, and total har...

This paper considers the similarity between two measures of air pollution/quality control, on the one hand, and widely used indicators of life quality and welfare in the US, on the other. We use statistical cluster analysis based on information measures of similarity and distance. The results indicate the clusters of the US macroeconomic and quality of life indicators from 1915 to 1987, which c...

In this paper we examine an existing model of composable internet switches from which statistical guarantees of service can be obtained. We then present some small analysis to show how the model can be implemented so that its assumptions, in this case about Markovian traffic streams, are in fact properties of the implementation. In order to achieve this we need to construct a box which makes th...

WebQual is a method for assessing the quality of Web sites. The method has been developed iteratively through application in various domains, including Internet bookstores and Internet auction sites. In this paper we report on the application of a new version of WebQual to Internet bookstores: Amazon, BOL, and the Internet Bookshop. WebQual draws on previous work in three areas: Web site usabil...

In this paper we investigate the prosody and voice quality of dominance in scenario meetings. We have found that in these scenarios the most dominant person tends to speak with a louder-than-average voice quality and the least dominant person with a softer-than-average voice quality. We also found that the most dominant role in the meetings is the project manager and the least dominant the mark...

Owing to the fact that insufficient data quality usually leads to wrong decisions and high costs, managing data quality is a prerequisite for the successful execution of business and decision processes. An economics-driven management of data quality is in need of efficient measurement procedures, which allow for a predominantly automated identification of poor data quality. Against this backgro...