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... discussed in this section since the user only experiences these kinds of qualities indirectly. Quality in use is the combined effect of the qualityattributes contained in all the selected quality ... on influences process quality effect of software product software productcontext of use depends on depends on influences influences quality in use external quality internal quality ... the qualityin use. External quality is implied by internal quality and internal qualityin turn is implied among other things by process quality. Therefore process and internal quality will...
... on having a “small school” environment with the intellectual resources of a major university, and on maintaining a high quality of life on campus. The university is continually expanding its ... some serious complaints from students about unevenness in the quality of life.” Other future plans include the integration of 800 MHz public safety and paging traffic into the same Unison ... on cellular phones, and Duke’s IT department had begun fielding increasing complaints about inconsistent cellular coverage in certain campus areas. ...
... knowledge management initiatives insoftware engineering.4.1 Needs insoftware engineeringThe field of software engineering have some interesting knowledge related characteristics; software development ... when determining the success in this way of thinking. Thomas Davenport,who is one of the most in uential authors in the domain, suggests to approach knowledgeas an element in a value chain, that ... business needs like decreasing development time, increasing quality and sup-port for making decisions, Rus et al. recognized a number of needs that exist in software projects and software engineering...
... a used onlineduring EACL at www.give-challenge.org. In Section 2, we give an introduction to the GIVEevaluation methodology by describing the experi-ence of a user participating in the evaluation, ... scientificgoals. Then we explain the software architecture behind the scenes and sketch the API that concreteNLG systems must implement in Section 3. In Section 4, we present some preliminary evaluationresults, ... pro-gramming time on the 3D graphics (based on thefree jMonkeyEngine library) and the networkingcode. We could have reduced the effort requiredfor these programming tasks by building upon anexisting...
... as finding that school quality differences do not exist. Second, the findings do not say that spending and resources never matter. Indeed, there is some indication, particularly in developing ... variations in individual performance levels. As shown in Table A4.1, there are data from international student achievement tests on twelve international testing occasions. Containing separate tests in ... Attainment on Individual Incomes Most attention to the value of schooling focuses on the economic returns to differing levels of school attainment for individuals. This work, following the innovative...
... central r ole in determining air quality in Mexico City. It is unlikely that the lack of evidence of an improvement in air quality can be explained by an offsetting increase in industrial activity. ... in gasoline sales or an increase in public transportation use. Instead, the evidence indicates that HNC led to an increase in thetotal number of vehicles in circulation as well as a change in ... Households in the 2005 Mexican National Household Survey of Income andExpenditure report spending $1,053 in vehicle expenditures annually per vehicle including $625 in vehicle purchases, $288 in maintenance,...
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... purposes)Health and Quality of Life OutcomesOpen AccessResearchMeasuring patient's expectation and the perception of qualityin LASIK servicesDeng-Juin Lin1, Ing-Cheau Sheu2, Jar-Yuan ... University of Economics and Business,Taiwan and 8StatSoft Holdings, Inc., Taiwan BranchEmail: Deng-Juin Lin - tccldj@tcmail.doh.gov.tw; Ing-CheauSheu-iris.s88@msa.hinet.net; Jar-Yuan Pai* - jpai00@gmail.com; ... assessing and monitoring service qualityin LASIK serv-ice, and enabling staff to identify where improvements areneeded from the patient's perspective. There were service quality gaps in...
... and in response to changing circumstances [4]. Individualisedmeasures of QoL (IQoL) increase respondents' discretion in selecting the domains most important to their QoLand, in determining ... assessments using the then-test were significantlylower that the Index scores generated using the originalbaseline data (original baseline: 75.0; then-test baseline:69.2, p < .001). When Index ... should be using the same internal criteria forrating T1 as they are now using for rating T2. Differencesbetween the original T1 rating and the retrospective T1 rat-ing indicate response...
... suc-cessful ageing into a single linear multiple regressionanalysis, due to overlap between their items, compro-mising their independence. First, in order to examinetheir contribution to explained variation ... ongeneral well-being, dating back to the 1950s [1].The current, international policy focus on promotionof well-being has stimulated interest inquality of life(QoL) as an outcome indicator. QoL ... was tested. There are inconsistentassociations in the literature between socio-demographicvariables and indicators of well-being, including quality of life, and these were included last (to control...
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