This paper deals with construction of confidence intervals for process capability index using bootstrap method (proposed by Chen and Pearn in Qual Reliab Eng Int 13(6):355–360, 1997) by applying simulation technique. It is assumed that the quality characteristic follows type-II generalized log-logistic distribution introduced by Rosaiah et al. in Int J Agric Stat Sci 4(2):283–292, (2008). Discu...

OBJECTIVE To develop a brief French-language, generic, self-administered questionnaire to measure inpatient satisfaction. DESIGN Issues relevant to patients were identified using three open-ended questions designed in accordance with the disconfirmation paradigm. The content of patients' responses was analysed and then supplemented by items taken from published instruments in order to generat...

Regulation of cell differentiation and assembly remains a fundamental question in developmental biology. Now, a report from the Chen laboratory (Ruiz and Chen, 2008) describes an approach that represents a major step toward a more profound understanding of the geometric-force control of stem cell differentiation.

BACKGROUND Sublingual immunotherapy (SLIT) is a safe/well-tolerated alternative to allergen injection immunotherapy for allergic rhinoconjunctivitis (ARC). Patient adherence is essential and patient-related outcome measures including treatment satisfaction are informative/indicative of adherence. OBJECTIVE The aim was to assess treatment satisfaction with five-grass pollen tablet SLIT under r...

[1] R-.C. Chen, D. Spina, W.B. Croft, M. Sanderson, and F. Scholer. Harnessing Semantics for Answer Sentence Retrieval. In Proceedings of ESAIR'15, 2015 [5] D. Metzler and T. Kanungo. Machine Learned Sentence Selection Strategies for QueryBiased Summarization. In Proceedings of SIGIR 2008 Learning to Rank Workshop, 2008 [7] L. Yang, Q. Ai, D. Spina, R.-C. Chen, L. Pang, W.B. Croft, J. Guo, and ...

background: this study aimed at determining the job satisfaction level of the staff in shahroud university of medical sciences (sums), northern iran, and its influential factors. methods: in this descriptive study, conducted in 2008, the participants were 384 workers in sums selected through simple random sampling procedure. the participants received a 33-item questionnaire in a likert format (...

AIMS AND METHOD To develop a scale to measure social satisfaction in people with substance use disorders and to test its psychometric properties. The rationale is that social satisfaction is more universal and relevant to treatment planning than assessing social problems. The new Social Satisfaction Questionnaire (SSQ) was derived from an existing social problems questionnaire and validation wa...

This study was conducted to examine the influence of interpersonal relationship and faculty workload on job satisfaction among academicians in public universities in Malaysia. By using systematic random procedures data was collected from 320 lecturers from four public universities in Kelantan, Malaysia through self-administered research questionnaires. Data was analysed using descriptive analys...

OBJECTIVES To develop a patient satisfaction system for disablement services centres and to report on how the initial findings have been used in audit to improve their quality of care and services. DESIGN Interview survey of randomly selected users attending in three centres: Birmingham (centre X), Oxford (centre Y), and Cambridge (centre Z) to establish core topics for developing a patient s...