This paper considers the consumer's changing definition of quality in relation to meat and the current development of Quality Assurance (QA) schemes to ensure that certain quality standards are met. The key ingredients of QA schemes are food safety, animal welfare and sensory aspects (meat quality) although the latter is not a major feature of many schemes at present. For each of these componen...

The recently published book, Engineering Education Quality Assurance: A Global Perspective (Patil and Gray, Springer 2009) includes a number of chapters by people affiliated with CDIO. These include topics such as CDIO standards and syllabus as essential elements in quality assurance, how they have been used to in national quality assurance schemes, and the history of quality assurance as it ha...

The importance of Nondestructive Testing (NDT) as a Quality Control/ Quality Assurance tool in the industrial domain cannot be over-emphasized. With the rapid advancement in research and technology, the NDT field is becoming larger and more sophisticated day by day. Innovative research in materials science and digital technology is paving the way for more and more new methods in NDT technology....

Object transformation for preservation purposes is currently a hit-ormiss affair, where errors in transformation may go unnoticed for years since manual quality assurance is too resource-intensive for large collections of digital objects. We propose an approach of semi-automatic quality assurance (QA), where numerous separate automatic checks of “aspects” of the objects, combined with manual in...

Axenic rotifers were cultured under synxenic conditions on a bacteria-free artificial diet. The cultures were inoculated either with one of four strains of cultured marine bacteria, or with mixtures of bacteria made up with the same four strains and differing only in the proportions of cells from each strain within the blends. Control cultures were inoculated with bacteria present in Ž . freshl...

The rise of digital platforms is changing organizations, markets and the logic of innovation in the digital economy. In particular, telecommunication companies re-structure their business models to gain control of innovative services and digital platforms. In this light, we aim to advance research on digital platform business models conducting a frameworkbased case study analysis of telecommuni...

While the authors recognise that this survey cannot claim to be representative of the views on Quality Assurance within the SME software sector in Ireland, they provide an interesting overview of attitudes towards this topic. The data is sometimes contradictory and unclear but we use it to explore the issues concerning QA practices in which we and others, including Enterprise Ireland, have an i...

INFLUENCE OF PARTICIPATORY MONITORING AND EVALUATION APPROACHES ON THE PRACTICE OF QUALITY ASSURANCE IN KENYA SECONDARY SCHOOLS ONDIEKI, MORARA GEORGE and MATONDA, NYABIAGE EMMAH Graduate students University of Nairobi P.O. Box 902 Kisii40200 Abstract This study sought to establish whether quality assurance as currently practiced in learning institutions in Kenya is a form of participatory moni...

The market of automated translation quality assurance tools offers quite a limited set of applications with the same well-known functionality as they offered a few years ago. The purpose of this paper is to review the automated translation quality assurance process, to describe several improvements we implemented in Verifika® and to provide measurement of their efficiency. In this paper we will...

Purpose – To provide a view of quality in accounting education from the perspective of a critical stakeholder group – academic accountants. The identification of this view adds to the growing discussions around quality, and how it is assured in higher education. Design/methodology/approach – Applying a framework for defining quality in higher education to an accounting context, a postal survey ...