evaluation of surface water quality is a complex process undertakingmultiple parameters. converting great amount of parameters into a simpler expressionand enabling easy interpretation of data are the main purposes of water quality indices.the main aim of this study is to plan effective water resources management system forkarun river by combination of ccmewqi and geographic information system ...

In this paper we discuss how software quality assurance is realized in Rational Objectory. Although much support is given through guidelines and checkpoints, the tool fails to provide clear goals and metrics for quality assessments and it only partially supports the phases in a measurement program.

Intense competition among a vast number of group-buying websites leads to higher product homogeneity, which allows customers to switch to alternative websites easily and reduce their website stickiness and loyalty. This study explores the antecedents of user stickiness and loyalty and their effects on consumers’ group-buying repurchase intention. Results indicate that systems quality, informati...

This paper discusses information quality issues concerning consumer data assimilated by telecommunication companies (telcos) in regional and global ventures. First, it describes various problematic and evolving environmental constraints that necessitate the adoption of new integration technologies. Then, it describes the consumer information characteristics and demonstrates that they require ha...

new home buyers in united states are becoming more discriminating in their home buying decision. they are demanding quality construction at reasonable prices. the current state of construction market also gives construction buyers more ammunition to be more discriminate when they choose to purchase homes.  to be competitive and remain in business, housing contractors and developers must meet th...

quality function development (qfd) is a planning tools used to fulfill customer expectation and qfd is a systematic process to translating customer requirement (whats) into technical description (hows). qfd aims to maximize customer satisfactions related to enterprise satisfaction. the inherent fuzziness of relationships in qfd modeling justifies the use of fuzzy regression for estimating the r...

to determine the coverage rate, timeliness and quality of ante-natal care in rural areas under the coverage of health houses in west azerbaijan province, 30 health houses (hh) were randomly selected out of 731 hh in the province. in each hh, using the method of lot quality assurance sampling (lqas) 28 women having recently born babies was selected. data were collected using check-list for facil...

clinical laboratory results play an important role in helping physicians in diagnosis and treatment. in view of the direct effect of the working methods on the quality of data in the laboratory, quality control of data and results in the biochemistry ward of laboratory includes taking into account all the factors and variables relating to all the pre-analytical, analytical and post-analytical s...

background: chronic renal failure and dialysis causes symptoms which can affect the patient's quality of sleep and quality of life. therefore, this study aimed to determine the relationship between sleep qualities, and quality of life in hemodialysis patients in the chaharmahal and bakhtiari province. methods: this was a descriptive-analytical study. the study population consisted of the dialys...

High-quality internal audit is expected to lead to high-quality financial reporting. High-quality financial reporting expresses itself in earning quality. Earning quality has been playing a key role in capital market for a long time. Finance users pay special attention to earning quality because they make their decision based on it. On the other hand, the market economy will experience awful, i...