BACKGROUND The performance of recommended control measures is necessary for quick and uniform infectious disease outbreak control. To assess whether these procedures are performed, a valid set of quality indicators (QIs) is required. The goal of this study was to select a set of key recommendations that can be systematically translated into QIs to measure the quality of infectious disease outbr...

A four-round Delphi was conducted to determine the degree to which the PMBOK can address the identified critical success factors for software projects. Our findings show that the PMBOK provides a very effective framework for addressing only one critical success factor. Thirteen factors are addressed to a very good degree, five to a good degree, four to a fair degree and two are addressed to a l...

Abstract According to the 12 indicators of social responsibility proposed by the , a fuzzy comprehensive evaluation model of social responsibility of State Grid Corporation of China is built on the basis of Delphi method, and an example is also put forward to demonstrate the feasibility of the model. This approach helps our government of...

Deciding on how to evaluate each students programming skills is one of the largest challenges facing educators who teach object-oriented courses. Traditional assessment of programming education is with Grade. Quite often students get good grades in programming but still facing great challenges or have difficulties to take on real programming jobs. This research focus on how we addressed this ch...

The aim of this study was to compare 2 methods for developing a clinical practice guideline (CPG) on the management of asymptomatic, impacted mandibular third molars. Outcome measures were the mean time invested by the participants for each method, the quality of the CPGs measured using the Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation (AGREE) indicator and observations of the group discu...

A recent theoretical model by Andersson et al. proposes that soft gluons order themselves in the form of a helix at the end of the QCD cascades. The Authors of the model present a measure of the rapidity-azimuthal angle correlation, which they call screwiness. We searched for such a signal in DELPHI data, and found no evidence for screwiness.

This article determines the most important business models that try to achieve the goals of various online education stakeholders. We employed the Delphi method to consult leading experts in online education, asking them to identify existing business models; describe potentially feasible models that are not currently implemented; identify specific categories of stakeholders involved; and identi...