cost of quality analysis is emerged as an effective tool for the industrial managers for pinpointing the deficiencies in the system as well as for identifying the improvement areas by highlighting the cost reduction opportunities. however , this analysis will be fully effective only if it is further extended to identify the cost incurred in ensuring quality in all areas of the supply chain incl...

a study was conducted to determine suitable soil properties as soil quality indicators, using factor analysis in order to evaluate the effects of land use change on loessial hillslope soils of the shastkola district in golestan province, northern iran. to this end, forty surface soil (0-30 cm) samples were collected from four adjacent sites with the following land uses systems: (1) natural fore...

current study aims to prioritize four-star hotels through atwo-step procedure: firstly, classifying service quality dimensions (sqds)based on importance-performance analysis and secondly prioritizinghotels based on classified sqds analysing the results. to reach that aim,the customers of three 4-star hotels were considered and asked to statethe quality of the service they expected to receive pr...

introduction: many organizations, especially service oriented ones, relative to their goals and mission, have a special view towards quality phenomena and its management. methods: this paper analyzes medical service quality in one case the internal section of shaheed rahnemoon hospital based on the basis of gap analysis model and servqual technique. a questionnaire was designed and applied to m...

the present study has been conducted to determine the surface water quality of urban area in savar, dhaka, bangladesh by determining some water quality parameters (transparency, temperature, ph, ec, eh, do, tss, tds, ts, bod5, cod, toc, cl-, br-, so4-2, no3-, no2-, po4-3, tp, hco3- and total alkalinity) as well as the status of phytoplankton’s community in the water from two lakes (tiger lake a...

the wide availability of data on air pollutant emissions, the knowledge already achieved on theset of chemical and photochemical reactions in the troposphere, the ability to access real time weatherconditions at the local scale that determine the transport and transformation of gases and aerosol, now make it possible to obtain credible and reliable predictions, retrospective analyses and/or fut...

crested wheatgrass (agropyron cristatum (l.) gaertner.) is a potential source of low-maintenance turf species for use in areas with less water. the main goal of this study was to evaluate turf quality characteristics of 24 crested wheatgrass specimens collected from different locations of iran as low-maintenance turfgrass. the experimental design was a randomized complete block design with 3 re...

pasting is one of the most important properties of wheat starch determining the flour quality and functionality. twenty three new plant type (npt) wheat derivatives along with three checks (pbw 343, hd 2329, and raj 3765) have been studied in multi-location trials to assess the variation and environment induced fluctuations for their starch pasting properties. although all flour pasting charact...

background: fetal electrocardiography is a developing field that provides valuable information on the fetal health during pregnancy. by early diagnosis and treatment of fetal heart problems, more survival chance is given to the infant. objective: here, we extract fetal ecg from maternal abdominal recordings and detect r-peaks in order to recognize fetal heart rate. on the next step, we find a b...