Inspection has been identified as one the forms of ‘governing at a distance’ associated with the rise of what has been variously defined as audit culture, audit society, performance management, the evaluative state or the competitive-evaluative nexus (see Strathern, 2000; Power, 1997; Pollitt et al, 1999; Neave, 1998 and Clarke, 2005). It takes its place alongside a battery of other technologie...

Background: Objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) is one of the most preferable means of evaluating cognitive, emotional and psychomotor aspects of nursing students. The present study was designed to determine the reliability and validity of OSCE in evaluating clinical skills of nursing students. Materials and methods: For this descriptive evaluative study, 10 different skills of nur...

Complex software systems often fail because of errors undiscovered in the design stage of the development process. Detecting these errors early in the process would eliminate many downstream problems. The so-called capture-recapture model used by biologists in estimating the size of wildlife populations has also been used to estimate the number of software design errors. However, one simplifyin...

Bureaucratic regulation shapes cities in important ways. Yet certain aspects of how state regulation operates in urban neighborhoods have been understudied in geography and cognate disciplines. This article focuses on one understudied group of state actors: property use, health, and liquor inspectors, part of a wider group of “street-level bureaucrats” who, through their face-to-face contact wi...

INTRODUCTION Often in manufacturing, visual inspectors are used to approve the correctness of a free form surface‟s cosmetic or functional characteristics. While the human‟s adaptive interpretation allows flexibility where standard vision systems fail, the human inspection process remains highly subjective and inconsistent between inspectors. This can be problematic for manufacturing due to the...

This paper reports findings based on an ethnographic study of an occupational group, the road inspectors, at the Swedish National Road AdministrationProduction. We examine current work practice where the inspectors conduct a truly mobile work, since they are constantly on the move. It is not a fact of movement between different work places, seeing that the continuous movement could be understoo...

General inspector errors may consist of accepting defective units of product or rejecting good units of product. It can be said that the human element in the inspection process is the inspector himself, who contributes to inspection errors. Besides some other errors like use of wrong spesifications, wrong measuring instrument, improper filling of documents etc., in some cases the effects of ins...