Despite extensive growth in recent years, the field of "quality-of-life" appraisal still evokes debate about basic perception of the concept and is accompanied by a plethora of indexes for measurement. One prime reason for the problems is that the measurements have been transferred from two separate sources - medical health status indexes and social-science population indexes - neither of which...

Considerable attention has been devoted to environmental assessment and monitoring, primarily by physical and biological scientists, and more recently by social scientists. However, population growth and global change have resulted in an imperative to assess the resiliency of the environment to adapt to large scale changes and to continue to produce goods and services for future generations (su...

Submitted: Jun 14, 2013; Accepted: Jul 28, 2013; Published: Aug 07, 2013 Abstract: In the article the author justify that the effectiveness of environmental management in business government organizations should be assessed using three interrelated criteria: economic efficiency, social efficiency, eco-efficiency. The system of indicators let the author assess the possible effectiveness of envir...

RESEARCH OBJECTIVE This study examines the perspectives of a range of key hospital staff on the use, importance, scientific background, availability of data, feasibility of data collection, cost benefit aspects and availability of professional personnel for measurement of quality indicators among Iranian hospitals. The study aims to facilitate the use of quality indicators to improve quality of...

This research aims to analyze the determinant factors of effectiveness and sustainability indicators higher education management at Federal University Santa Catarina. The is characterized as a quantitative study inferential nature, with structural equation modeling. Data were collected from survey applied professors employees two teaching centers theoretical basis Baldrige Excellence Model. bri...

When manufacturers implement automated inspection systems that can detect subtle anomalies in the shape of a solder joint, there is a tendency for process indicators to fail inspection and be reported as defects. Data from a test vehicle experiment demonstrates the limitations of inspection machines when programmers subjectively define acceptance criteria. If engineers do not distinguish betwee...

This work presents a new approach to automatically answer definition questions from the Web. This approach learns n-gram language models from lexicalised dependency paths taken from abstracts provided by Wikipedia and uses context information to identify candidate descriptive sentences containing target answers. Results using a prototype of the model showed the effectiveness of lexicalised depe...

Background and aims In many jurisdictions, where gambling services are provided, regulatory codes require gambling operators to apply a duty of care toward patrons. A common feature of these provisions is some expectation that venue staff identify and assist patrons who might be experiencing problems with their gambling. The effectiveness of such measures is, however, predicated on the assumpti...