This paper describes the generation of temporally anchored infobox attribute data from the Wikipedia history of revisions. By mining (attribute, value) pairs from the revision history of the English Wikipedia we are able to collect a comprehensive knowledge base that contains data on how attributes change over time. When dealing with the Wikipedia edit history, vandalic and erroneous edits are ...

T study asserted that quality improvement (QI) requires the coexistence of two cultural values of innovation and attention to detail and proposed that their coexistence depends on the implementation of multiple QI practices. A longitudinal QI intervention, with five phases, consisting of multiple QI practices—ISO 9000, QI teams, quality goals, and coaching and communication by top management—wa...

We consider the semiparametric generalised linear regression model which has mainstream empirical models such as the (partially) linear mean regression, logistic and multinomial regression as special cases. As an extension to related literature we allow a misclassified covariate to be interacted with a nonparametric function of a continuous covariate. This model is tailormade to address known d...

this study aimed to empirically develop a reliable and valid model specifically for measuring service quality of sport conferences as sport event tourism. to assess the model which has been established based on the survey, data gathered from 136 of attendees in sport conference. finding of this study showed that participants form their service quality perceptions based on their evaluations of 4...

abstract background: quality of life is a concept, which in recent years is considered as a measure for health in chronic diseases such as kidney diseases. complications of chronic diseases can affect the quality of life in children and their families over time. therefore, empowerment programs are necessary to improve their quality of life. this study aimed to investigate the impact of the fami...

Data quality has emerged as an important and challenging topic in recent years. In this article we are addressing the conceptual model quality since it has been widely accepted that better conceptual models produce better information systems and thus implicitly improve the data quality. Unfortunately there is neither standard nor agreed framework for managing conceptual models quality. This art...

The world wide web coupled with the ever-increasing sophistication of online technologies and software applications puts greater emphasis on the need of even more sophisticated and consistent quality requirements modeling than traditional software applications. Web sites and Web applications (WebApps) are becoming more information driven and content-oriented raising the concern about their info...