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Giudice, Sebastiano D. "Sound quality evaluations using interactive simulation : innovation report." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2009. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/36740/.
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Sound Quality engineering (SQE) is a discipline that should be embedded within Noise Vibration and Harshness (NVH) engineering. Its purpose is to tailor and enhance a vehicle’s sound in order for it to meet and / or exceed the customers’ expectations of the car and of the brand. NVH engineers need to use the opinions of customers, key decision makers in the organisation and those of their colleagues to set objective NVH targets for new vehicles. Their opinions are captured through jury evaluations. Interactive simulation is a new approach to presenting sounds to a jury. It enables assessors to evaluate existing and concept cars generated in real time and before the manufacture of physical prototypes. This document summarises the research carried out for the EngD research programme. Its aim was to develop methodological approaches for setting up evaluations using interactive simulation, optimise its data capture and analysis capabilities and provide insight, to NVH engineers, into how assessors evaluate sound quality. The first stage of the research involved benchmarking how the interactive simulation tool was being used by its developers, and how NVH targets are set within an OEM. This provided the foundation upon which to build the new methodology. The benchmark was compared against methodological approaches used in experimental psychology and in other sensory perception practices. This identified that principles for the design of evaluations had not been considered and appropriate statistical analysis techniques were not being implemented. Therefore it was not possible to ensure if the differences observed in the results were significant or not. It also became apparent that as each assessor was free to drive vehicles however they wished, the NVH engineers would not be able to link the assessor’s subjective impressions with the acoustical stimuli used to form an opinion. This was due to the lack of observational methods that could be applied. In addition, the use of this form of interactivity was novel compared to the approaches available before the introduction of the simulation. Therefore it was not yet understood how it could influence the outcome of the evaluations. An iterative approach was adopted to develop both tools and methods. Following the benchmarking stages, experimental design principles were implemented and a structured briefing method was formulated for the first time. These contributed to the overall methodologies and were also used to ensure the studies conducted as part of this research programme were free from experimental biases. This stage was followed by identifying a statistical analysis framework which can be used to study the assessors’ subjective impressions. These contributions enable the NVH engineer to understand if the differences observed between sounds are significant or not. The next phase was to understand how to best capture subjective opinions. Recommendations for this were based on the purpose of the evaluation. For the benchmarking stages of the NVH target setting process, many cars are often evaluated and therefore the duration of the evaluation can be a concern. However, the desired level of accuracy of the results is not as high as it is for the validations stages, upon which key engineering decisions are based, and also fewer cars are evaluated. Taken together it was possible to recommend the use of scaled interfaces for the benchmarking stages and the paired comparison method for the validation stages. The former takes less time to complete than the latter, which is however more accurate. The data capture capabilities were further enhanced through the development of a driver observation module; this enabled the assessor’s assessment strategies to be recorded. The data collected provided insight into how assessors drove with the aid of new visualisation and analysis techniques developed. Given the availability of these new methods and tools it was then possible to use the simulator to observe the influence of interactivity on the outcome of the evaluation. This demonstrated that assessment strategies can vary depending on the question asked to the assessor. The study indicated that assessors associated the refinement character of a car with driving conditions other than those presented to them in traditional evaluations. Through the research and developments of this EngD programme, NVH engineers can now observe with confidence if differences between sounds are significant and they can see and hear how the assessor made decisions. Therefore they can now link subjective impressions formed with the stimuli evaluated by the assessor, hence an effective way of using the simulator has been proposed.
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Bomeli, Philip Daniel. "Orthodontics and quality of life : a 24-month report /." Connect to resource, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1181061831.
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Rjiba, Hatem. "Essays on the determinants and implications of annual report readability." Thesis, Paris Est, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PESC0124.
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Cette thèse comprend trois essais dont l’objectif est d’étudier les déterminants et les implications de la qualité de l’information narrative des entreprises cotées. L’originalité de ce travail par rapport aux études antérieures réside dans le fait que nous nous intéressons à la dimension qualitative de l’information divulguée. Afin d’appréhender la qualité de cette information nous recourons à des techniques de traitement automatique de langage naturel qui permettent de construire des indices de lisibilité des rapports annuels.Le premier essai étudie l'effet de la complexité textuelle des rapports annuels sur la liquidité des titres. L’utilisation d’un échantillon d’entreprises françaises cotées en bourse sur la période 2002-2013 montre l’existence d’une relation positive entre le degré de lisibilité des rapports annuels et la liquidité des titres. Ces résultats suggèrent que la complexité textuelle de l’information narrative affecte les investisseurs sur le marché des actions.Le deuxième essai étudie l’effet de la lisibilité des rapports annuels sur le coût des fonds propres des entreprises. Nous menons notre étude empirique sur un échantillon d’entreprises américaines cotées en bourse sur la période 1995-2012. Les résultats montrent que les entreprises font face à un coût de financement plus élevé lorsque leurs rapports annuels sont moins lisibles, ce qui indique qu’un degré faible de lisibilité réduit la capacité des investisseurs à prévoir les performances futures de l’entreprise et leur amène par conséquence à demander un rendement de fonds propres plus élevé.Le troisième essai examine l’effet des pratiques de réduction d’impôt des entreprises sur la lisibilité de leurs divulgations financières. La littérature mobilisant la théorie d’agence montre que ces pratiques de réduction d’impôt créent un cadre permettant aux dirigeants d’extraire des bénéfices privés aux dépens des autres parties prenantes. Afin de s’assurer que leurs actions opportunistes ne soient détectées, les dirigeants réduisent la qualité de l’information divulguée, ce qui détériore l’environnent informationnel de l’entreprise en question. En utilisant un échantillon d’entreprises américaines cotées en bourse pour la période 1995-2012, nous constatons que les entreprises qui s’engagent dans des politiques de diminution d’impôt publient des rapports annuels moins lisibles et plus ambigus.Mot Clés: Information narrative; lisibilité des rapports annuels; Risque d’information ; Liquidité; Coût des fonds propres; Optimisation fiscaleThis thesis comprises three separate but interconnected essays that focus on the determinants and economic implications of corporate narrative disclosure. The first essay examines the effect of annual report textual complexity on firms’ stock liquidity. Using techniques from computational linguistics, we predict and find that less readable filings are associated with lower stock liquidity. Our study provides evidence that difficult-to-read annual reports can act as a non-trivial impediment to investors’ ability to process information into useful trading signals. The findings are robust to a battery of sensitivity tests, including endogeneity, use of alternative regression techniques, and use of alternative liquidity and readability proxies.Using a large panel of U.S. public firms, the second essay presents the first evidence highlighting the relation between annual report readability and cost of equity capital. We hypothesize that complex textual reporting deters investors’ ability to process and interpret annual reports, leading to higher information risk, and thus higher cost of equity financing. Consistent with our prediction, we find that greater textual complexity is associated with higher cost of equity capital. Our results are statistically significant and economically important. We also show that disclosure tone exerts a non-trivial bearing on the cost of equity. Our findings are robust to a battery of sensitivity checks, including use of multiple estimation methods, alternative proxies of annual report readability and cost of equity capital measures, and potential endogeneity concerns. Overall, our study contributes to the research examining the relation between disclosure quality and cost of capital.The third essay investigates the effect of firms’ tax avoidance practices on the textual properties of their annual filings. Using a large sample of U.S.-listed firms, we document a positive and statistically significant relation between corporate tax avoidance and annual report textual complexity. In addition, we show that managers of tax-avoiding firms tend to hide their avoidance behavior in more ambiguous language. Our results prove to be robust to the use of numerous alternative proxies of corporate tax avoidance and annual report readability. The findings are also robust to a number of checks, including, using additional control variables, employing alternative regression methodologies, and addressing endogeneity concerns.Keywords: Narrative disclosure; Annual report readability; Disclosure tone; Information risk Stock liquidity; Cost of equity capital; Corporate tax avoidance
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Välme, Emma, and Lea Renmarker. "Accelerating Sustainability Report Assessment with Natural Language Processing." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Avdelningen för visuell information och interaktion, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-445912.
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Corporations are expected to be transparent on their sustainability impact and keep their stakeholders informed about how large the impact on the environment is, as well as their work on reducing the impact in question. The transparency is accounted for in a, usually voluntary, sustainability report additional to the already required financial report. With new regulations for mandatory sustainability reporting in Sweden, comprehensive and complete guidelines for corporations to follow are insufficient and the reports tend to be extensive. The reports are therefore hard to assess in terms of how well the reporting is actually done. The Sustainability Reporting Maturity Grid (SRMG) is an assessment tool introduced by Cöster et al. (2020) used for assessing the quality of sustainability reporting. Today, the assessment is performed manually which has proven to be both time-consuming and resulting in varying assessments, affected by individual interpretation of the content. This thesis is exploring how assessment time and grading with the SRMG can be improved by applying Natural Language Processing (NLP) on sustainability documents, resulting in a compressed assessment method - The Prototype. The Prototype intends to facilitate and speed up the process of assessment. The first step towards developing the Prototype was to decide which one of the three Machine Learning models; Naïve Bayes (NB), Support Vector Machines (SVM), or Bidirectional Encoder Representations of Transformers (BERT), is most suitable. This decision was supported by analyzing the accuracy for each model and for respective criteria in the SRMG, where BERT proved a strong classification ability with an average accuracy of 96,8%. Results from the user evaluation of the Prototypeindicated that the assessment time can be halved using the Prototype, with an initial average of 40 minutes decreased to 20 minutes. However, the results further showed a decreased average grading and an increased variation in assessment. The results indicate that applying NLP could be successful, but to get a more competitive Prototype, a more nuanced dataset must be developed, giving more space for the model to detect patterns in the data.
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Acker, Melanie S. "Does peer review improve lab report quality in high school science students?" Montana State University, 2011. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2011/acker/AckerM0811.pdf.
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My students are, for the most part, potentially very good writers. However, when I get these students, their lab report writing skills are quite limited, and therefore, are very poor. Focus for doing labs thus far in their science career has been how well they can perform the lab from verbal instructions not written instructions. The students have a difficult time reading and understanding what the protocol wants them to do, and they have an even more difficult time explaining what they performed during the lab activity in a lab report. This project investigated how well the students discussed their course of action after performing the lab activity in a written report. The students were given written lab protocols and were expected to follow the procedure and make observations along the way. The labs were all completed in one 45 minute class period. The students were then given one day in class to work on their lab report following the lab report rubric (Appendix A). Data collection for this project not only included lab report writing, but what the students' comfort levels were in different elements of the lab, how well they reviewed their own work, how well they reviewed other peer's work, and how they felt about the whole lab report writing process throughout the year. Several teachers were also asked to evaluate how well these particular students processed and followed directions in their classrooms as well. The resulted indicated that by implementing a peer review session into the lab report writing process the report score significantly improved. The students who struggled at the beginning of the process were now completing quality lab reports in half the time and the peer review rubrics were being scored with the highest marks. Because of these positive outcomes, I know that peer review is an integral part of the learning process to produce quality lab reports and I will continue to conduct this practice in my classroom in years to come.
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Westergren, Eric, and Linn Hasselgren. "Does stakeholder pressure have an effect on the quality of the sustainability report?" Thesis, Umeå universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-172187.
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Our planet suffers from severe climate change and environmental issues has never been as important as it is now. Countries and communities come together to get involved in environmental questions and to work against a sustainable future. Companies are also expected to take act on this concern and incorporate sustainability into their business practices. To account for this, company’s disclosure a sustainability report and the numbers of companies that do so has increased rapidly the last years. From 2011 to 2013 there was almost a 50% increase of submitted sustainability reports. Since then, sustainability reporting has gone from optional to mandatory as a new law came into place in 2016. However, as companies start to disclosure sustainability reports more than ever before, new issues have arisen. The lack of regulation means that there is no guarantee for quality in the report and studies has shown that the stakeholders demand higher quality and more transparency of the sustainability report. Thus, it could be of importance for companies to produce reports of better quality in order to meet the demands of their stakeholders. Retaining a good relationship is crucial and it affects the growth of the company as it affects competitive advantage and the possibility to manage risks. Previous literature has found evidence that stakeholder pressure has influence on the transparency, which has similarities to quality, of the sustainability reports globally. With this thesis we aim to contribute with additional information to existing literature with a new geographical area, Sweden. We also aim to contribute to understanding of how quality of the sustainability reports can be determined. The critical assessment of the sustainability reports from each stakeholder becomes more important and previous literature has shown that different stakeholders have different effect on transparency in the sustainability reports. First and foremost, the purpose of this thesis is to investigate if the pressure from different stakeholder groups has an effect on the quality of the sustainability report. We intend to do so with the following research question: Does stakeholder pressure have an effect on the quality of sustainability reports? The companies will be split into four different groups based on the industry the company operates within and the sub-purpose is to see if there is any difference in the impact on the quality of the sustainability reports between the different groups. The quality will be determined by adherence level to the GRI G4 framework, how many other standards and guidelines the report is in compliance with and the existence of external assurance. The population is the 127 companies who has their reports available in the GRI database. We have conducted a quantitative study using a linear regression analysis on those 127 companies. The results led us to the conclusion that the relationship between stakeholder pressure and the quality of the sustainability reports cannot be explained by the model used in this thesis. A two-sample t test was conducted for each group of industry to see if there was any difference of the mean of quality if the companies was represented in the industry or not. The results showed us that the mean of the quality was higher for the companies operating in an environmentally sensitive industry.
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Johnson, Keri Renee. "REPORT ON AN INTERNSHIP WITH THE TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY RESOURCE STEWARDSHIP ORGANIZATION." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1058563377.
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Krestov, Pavel, Karel Klinka, Christine Chourmouzis, and Claudia Hanel. "Classification of trembling aspen ecosystems in British Columbia. Full report." Forest Sciences Department, University of British Columbia, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/645.
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This full report presents the first approximation of vegetation classification of trembling aspen ecosystems in interior British Columbia. The classification is based on a total of 186 plots sampled during the summers of 1995, 1997 and 1998. We used multivariate and tabular methods to synthesize and classify ecosystems according to the Braun-Blanquet approach and the methods of biogeoclimatic ecosystem classification. The aspen ecosystems were classified into 15 basic vegetation units (associations or subassociations) that were grouped into four alliances. Communities of the Populus tremuloides – Mertensia paniculata, and Populus tremuloides – Elymus innovatus alliances were aligned with the boreal Picea glauca & mariana order and were distributed predominantly in the Boreal White and Black Spruce zone; communities of the Populus tremuloides – Thalictrum occidentale alliance were also aligned with the same order, but were distributed predominantly in the Sub-Boreal Spruce zone; communities of the Populus tremuloides – Symphoricarpos albus alliance were aligned with the wetter cool temperate Tsuga heterophylla order and the drier cool temperate Pseudotsuga menziesii order and were distributed in the Sub-boreal Spruce, Interior Western Hemlock, Montane Spruce, and Interior Douglas-fir zones. We describe the vegatation and environmental features of these units and present vegetation and environmental tables for individual plots and units.
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Brown, Deana. "Designing a cell phone application to alert and report drinking water quality to South Africans /." Online version of thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/10649.
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Newton, Claudia. "Towards sustainable luxury materials selection : measuring the perceived quality of automotive interior materials : innovation report." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2017. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/109972/.
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Automotive companies are searching for new, innovative materials that attempt to redefine what is traditionally associated as a ‘luxury material’. Market research shows that future customers will demand tangible sustainability in vehicle interiors through the use of eco-friendly materials. However, research has also identified customer scepticism towards the quality of green products sold by luxury brands. The perception of quality is typically determined by peripheral and sensorial product properties such as styling, shape and touch. The uncertainty of new materials compounded by the need to balance sustainability, sensory and emotional appeal mean it is no longer possible to rely on the designers’ intuition and experience to evaluate materials. Rigorous, robust methods which include both objective material assessments and the quantification of subjective, sensory and experiential attributes will maximize the chance of successful adoption by customers. They can also offer further insight, such as demonstrating that the Perceived Quality (PQ) of a cheaper material can be improved just by making the material softer using a foam backing, as was found in this research. To address this, a new process has been developed to measure the perceived haptic quality of soft automotive interior materials. Studies were conducted in the UK and Hong Kong to generate user-defined metrics. Of these metrics, roughness and hardness had the largest impact on PQ, so mechanical testing was conducted to obtain objective measurements of both. The subjective and objective measurements were found to correlate strongly, implying that objective measurements alone could indicate a customer’s opinion of these materials. The final stage of the process introduces a statistical model which uses the objective data to predict PQ scores. This is based around an Artificial Neural Network validated as accurate to within 4.5%. A graphical user interface was designed so practitioners can use the model to predict how customers may respond to a new material or a change in the surface characteristics of an existing material, without needing to conduct the initial customer research. The process has been integrated in part within the sponsor company and has influenced future research and business strategy in this area.
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LIANG, SOPHIE LI. "SPILLOVER EFFECT OF DISCLOSURE REGULATION: EVIDENCE FROM AUDIT REPORT CHANGES IN THE U.K." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2016. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/399745.
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I examine the spillover effects of the 2013 revision to the U.K. audit report standard, the International Standard on Auditing (ISA) 700 (UK and Ireland), from firms subject to the regulation (i.e., Premium companies listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE)), to firms not subject to it (i.e., those listed on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) of the LSE). The new regulation requires increased disclosures in three areas: audit risks, materiality and the scope of the audit. I hypothesize that application of the new rules to regulated clients will result in changes in audit styles and auditor mindsets that would be transferred to other (non-regulated) clients. If so, such effect of the new regulation on audit outcomes – specifically improvement in audit quality - for regulated clients will spill over to non-regulated clients. Because I expect the auditor to be the conduit for the spillover, I examine the difference in changes in audit quality for two groups: (1) AIM clients in audit offices that audit both Premium and AIM clients and (2) AIM clients in audit offices that audit only AIM clients. The results show that AIM firms in the first group (i.e., AIM clients of audit offices that also have Premium clients) experience lower absolute discretionary accruals, reduced propensity to have small positive earnings, and are more likely to receive a modified opinion under the new regulation. However, there is no change in audit quality for the AIM client firms of audit offices with only non-regulated (AIM) clients. These results are consistent with audit quality benefits spilling over from regulated clients to AIM clients, brought about by auditor-level changes. Further analyses indicate that the audit quality spillovers are more prominent for AIM clients with greater audit complexity, AIM clients of large audit offices, and London audit offices.
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Alves, Sandra Isabel Rodrigues. "Curricular training report in a contract research organization (CRO)." Master's thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/14881.
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Mestrado em Biomedicina FarmacêuticaThis report describes my experience as a trainee at W4Research, a national Contract Research Organization (CRO). This internship intended to put into practice the skills acquired during the curricular year of the Master in Pharmaceutical Biomedicine. This professional context experience has allowed me to perform activities especially in the implementation of a quality management system and also in medical writing. I was also involved in the design of two observational studies and one socioepidemiological study, and in a clinical trial site feasibility.
Este relatório descreve a minha experiência enquanto estagiária na W4Research, uma Contract Research Organization (CRO) nacional. Este estágio pretendeu pôr em prática os conhecimentos adquiridos durante a parte curricular do Mestrado em Biomedicina Farmacêutica. Esta experiência de contexto profissional permitiu-me desempenhar atividades sobretudo no âmbito da implementação de um sistema de gestão da qualidade e também de medical writing. Estive também envolvida na conceção de dois estudos observacionais e um sócio epidemiológico, e para além disso, participei na fase de feasibility de um ensaio clínico.
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McCoy, Thomasin E. "Child self-report and parent ratings of health-related quality of life in school-aged children born preterm." Diss., University of Iowa, 2010. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/855.
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Recent progress in science and medicine is that regions such as the United States, Canada, Australia, and Western Europe have witnessed dramatic declines in infant morbidity and mortality. The most significant of these declines has occurred among infants born prematurely and low birth weight (LBW)--the cohort that represents the highest proportion of illness and death among infants Despite these medical advances, recent longitudinal studies have provided clear evidence of physical health problems; cognitive and neuropsychological dysfunction; and other social, emotional, and behavioral problems among children born prematurely. A number of studies have indicated that premature and LBW infants are still at risk for psychosocial, physical, and mental problems despite the immediate contributions of post-natal interventions to their increased chance for survival The extant research has demonstrated that children born prematurely and LBW are at risk for problems in health, neuropsychological functioning, learning, academic achievement, behavior, and psychosocial adjustment. Research has further demonstrated that a variety of physical and psychological conditions are associated with poorer QOL among children. However, few studies have examined pediatric QOL among preterm school-aged children. Moreover, existing studies have not explored the relationship between cognitive, academic, and social/emotional functioning and QOL. The current study compared child and parent ratings of health-related quality of life among school-aged children born preterm (n = 26) and full-term (n = 28). Given the increased rates of physical, psychological, and cognitive problems among the preterm population, it was hypothesized that children born prematurely would have significantly poorer proxy-reported and self-reported QOL than children born preterm.
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Simpson, John B. "How implementation of TQM and the development of a process improvement model, within a Forward Support Battalion, can improve preparation of the Material Condition Status Report (DA Form 2406)." Thesis, Monterey, California : Naval Postgraduate School, 1990. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA242968.
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Thesis (M.S. in Management)--Naval Postgraduate School, December 1990.Thesis Advisor: Sessions, Sterling. Second Reader: Kang, Keebom. "December 1990." Description based on title screen as viewed on April 2, 2010. DTIC Identifier(s): Management planning and control, quality control, quality, management, Battalion Level Organizations, TQM (Total Quality Management), quality management, Theses. Author(s) subject terms: Process imporvement model, implementation of TQM. Includes bibliographical references (p. 70). Also available in print.
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Krestov, Pavel, Karel Klinka, Christine Chourmouzis, and Gordon J. Kayahara. "Classification of mid-seral black spruce ecosystems of northern British Columbia. Full report." Forest Sciences Department, University of British Columbia, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/632.
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This full report presents a classification of mid-seral black spruce ecosystems in the Boreal White and Black Spruce (BWBS) and Sub-boreal Spruce (SBS) zones of British Columbia. The classification is based on a total of 122 plots sampled during the summers of 1997 and 1998. We used multivariate and tabular methods to synthesize and classify ecosystems according to the Braun-Blanquet approach and the methods of biogeoclimatic ecosystem classification. The black spruce ecosystems were classified into 8 vegetation units (associations or subassociations) and the same number of site associations. We describe vegetation and environmental features of these vegetation and site units. Vegetation and environmental tables for individual plots are given in Appendices. In addition, we also present the relationships between site index of black spruce and direct and indirect measures of site quality.
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Dalton, William T., Karen E. Schetzina, Matthew T. McBee, Laura Maphis, Hazel Fulton-Robinson, Ai-Leng Ho, Fred Tudiver, and Tiejian Wu. "Parent Report of Child's Health-Related Quality of Life after a Primary-Care-Based Weight Management Program." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/5111.
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Background: Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) has been recognized as an important target and health outcome in obesity research. The current study aimed to examine HRQoL in overweight or obese children after a 10-week primary-care–based weight management program, Parent-Led Activity and Nutrition for Healthy Living, in southern Appalachia.
Methods: Sixty-seven children (ages 5–12 years) and their caregivers were recruited from four primary care clinics, two of which were randomized to receive the intervention. Caregivers in the intervention groups received two brief motivational interviewing visits and four group sessions led by providers as well as four phone follow-ups with research staff. Caregivers completed the PedsQL and demographic questionnaires at baseline and at 3, 6, and 12 months postintervention. Child height and weight were collected to determine standardized BMI.
Results: Caregivers of children receiving the weight control intervention reported no statistically significant improvements in child total HRQoL, as compared to the control group, across the course of treatment (β=0.178; 95% confidence interval, −0.681, 1.037; p=0.687). Additionally, no statistically significant improvements were found across other HRQoL domains.
Conclusions: Future studies examining HRQoL outcomes in primary care may consider treatment dose as well as methodological factors, such as utilization of multiple informants and different measures, when designing studies and interpreting outcomes.
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Ayala, Wilma Lonzame. "Impact of a Standardized Tool on Handoff Quality in Nurse Change-of-Shift Reports." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/3860.
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Within the context of healthcare delivery, human lives are at risk when health care professionals fail to communicate effectively. Audits by The Joint Commission from 1995 to 2005 revealed that 65% of sentinel events occurred as a result of staff miscommunication, prompting the requirement that standardized handoff tools be deployed. Therefore, this project was completed to improve safety in the hospital through implementation of a standardized tool that could enhance the quality of nurse handoff communication. Mohorek & Webb's (2015) linear model of communication, which emphasizes the importance of encoding, transmission, and decoding in the communication process, provided the framework for this project. Participants included 11 registered nurses (RNs) and 14 licensed vocational nurses (LVNs) who completed the pre-and-post intervention survey using the Handover Evaluation Scale. The RNs reflected significant difference in improvement in the perceived quality of handoff following the implementation of standardized handoff tool: pre-test (M = 66.91, SD = 7.27) compared to post-test (M = 80.91, SD = 7.45); t(10) = -5.09, p = 0.000. On the other hand, there was no statistically significant change noted with the LVN group before implementation of standardized handoff tool: pre-test (M = 70.71, SD = 9.72) compared to post- test implementation (M = 73.57, SD = 7.73); t(13) = -1.06, p = 0.309. The findings resulting from this project suggest that there are important differences in provider types when using standardized handoff tools and that more attention to this dynamic is warranted. The social change mandate of protecting the safety of patients is enhanced through effective communication among nurses and was demonstrated in the project.
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Harnik, Adi. "Quality of life among adolescents and young adults with intellectual disabilities: a report on a mixed-methods study." Thesis, McGill University, 2011. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=97143.
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This mixed method study explores the perceived quality of life (QOL) of 16 adolescents and young adults with Intellectual Disabilities as they go through the transition from school into the community. All were either graduates or current students in a specialized transition to work program. In accordance with the WHO definition of quality of life, we examined participants' subjective assessments of their independence, social relationships, and community involvement and compared the graduates' and students' responses. Perceived independence was positively related to IQ, communication, and to socialization skills for both groups. School status influenced community involvement and friendships; graduates were more involved in the community but students reported having a larger social circle. Though participants noted a general overall satisfaction with their lives, all mentioned areas for improvement when asked an open-ended question regarding how they envision their future in term of QOL. These qualitative responses centered around themes of independence, community involvement, and social interactions. Implications for transition services are discussed.Cette étude explore la méthode mixte de la qualité de vie perçue (QDV) de 16 adolescents et jeunes adultes souffrant de retards de développement durant leur transition de l'école à la société. Tous les participants étaient soit des diplômés, soit des étudiants en cours d'un programme spécialisé de transition au travail.Conformément à la définition de la qualité de la vie de l'OMS, nous avons examiné l'evaluation subjective des participants sur leur indépendance, leurs relations sociales et leur participation communautaire, et nous avons ensuite comparé les réponses des diplômés à celles des élèves. La correlation entre l'indépendance perçue et l'IQ, la communication et les compétences sociales, était positive pour les deux groupes. Le statut à l'école influença la participation communautaire et les relations amicales; les diplômés étaient plus impliqués que les étudiants dans la communauté, mais les étudiants ont déclaré avoir un plus grand cercle social. Bien que les participants aient noté une satisfaction globale de leur vie, tous ont mentionné des domaines d'amélioration lorsqu'une question ouverte concernant la façon dont ils envisagaient leur avenir en terme de qualité de vie leur a été posée. Ces réponses qualitatives étaient ciblées autour des themes de l'indépendance, la participation communautaire, et les interactions sociales. Les implications pour les services de transition sont discutées.
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Van, Heerden Aletta Johanna. "A comparative analysis of EIA report quality before and after 2006 in South Africa / Aletta Johanna van Heerden." Thesis, North-West University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/4603.
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On 18 June 2010 new NEMA 2010 EIA Regulations were promulgated and came into effect on 2 August 2010 in order to improve the effectiveness of EIA. The question of effectiveness, therefore still remains. The quality of EIRs under the 1997 regulations in South Africa has been researched, although not as extensively as in other parts of the world. It was concluded that the quality of EIRs in South Africa are generally satisfactory, although a number of problems were identified, e.g. timing of the EIA, the identification of activities which require authorization or not, the consideration of alternatives, the absence of any time limits, the absence of requirements for monitoring and enforcing compliance, and objectivity. The National Environmental Management Act (NEMA), (Act no 107, 1998) was amended and new regulations promulgated in 2006. No research has been published regarding the quality of EIRs produced in South Africa under the 2006 regulations.
Since it was the intent of the new regulations to improve EIA effectiveness, it is necessary that the quality of EIRs produced under the new EIA system be investigated. As in the other studies in South Africa, the Lee and Colley review model was used as basis for the comparative analysis of the EIRs before and after 2006. A sample of 26 EIRs, 11 under the 1997 EIA system and 15 under the 2006 EIA system, obtained from the then Impact Assessment Directorate of the National Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism (DEAT) archives in Pretoria were reviewed. The main conclusions were that the majority of the EIRs under the 1997 system were of an acceptable standard and that the overall quality of the EIRs did not improve after the promulgation of the 2006 regulations. The descriptive and presentational parts of the EIRs were more satisfactorily addressed, while the analytical parts such as impact significance were addressed less satisfactorily. EIR quality appears to be on par with international standards, but there are areas of distinct weaknesses. As the 2006 EIRs included some of the first EIRs conducted under the new regulations, there is potential for the quality to improve over time. However, the areas that still need attention are the identification and evaluation of impacts, impact magnitude and monitoring programmes.Thesis (M.Sc. (Geography and Environmental Management))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2011.
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Kovesdi, Zsófia. "Optimizing wine quality in Australia, Coonawarra wine region: vinification and fermentation control management in Shiraz wine. Internship report." Master's thesis, ISA, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/19578.
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European Master of Science in Viticulture and Oenology - Instituto Superior de Agronomia / Institut National d'Etudes Superieures Agronomiques de MontpellierThis paper presents an internship at Balnaves of Coonawarra winery and describes the specialties of the wine region trough the current technologies both in winemaking and viticulture. The biggest concern of the region is the global warming increasing average temperature and CO2 content in the air which can effect on grape maturity, and increase oenological parameters such as pH, sugar and alcohol level. Thus, temperature influences grape development, especially the breakdown of acids and berry color development. In this study, a Shiraz (Vitis vinifera L.) vintage 2018 harvested with high maturity level and potential alcohol was monitored during alcoholic and malolactic fermentation. Oenological parameter were collected from the date of harvest to investigate the possibility of quality optimization and reduction of microbiological spoilage. To overcome the problem of high sugar media and high pH must corrections were made. The organoleptic results showed minimal difference in the evaluated wines qualities concluding that with using correct winemaking technologies wine quality can be increased in case of overripe grape harvest. This is a promising view on winemaking in climate change; considering Balnaves of Coonawarra winemaking technologies could increase fermentation efficiency and closing the gap for potential spoilage in wine
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Montague, Diane M. "Medication errors in hospitals : to ERR is human, to report is divine." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2001. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/235.
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Fernandes, Taciana de Albuquerque Pedrosa. "Adaptação cultural e validação do JAMAR - Juvenile Arthritis Multidimensional Assessment Report para a artrite idiopática juvenil /." Botucatu, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/132731.
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Orientador: Cláudia Saad MagalhãesBanca: José Eduardo Corrente
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Resumo:Objetivos: Traduzir, adaptar e validar o Juvenile Arthritis Multidimensional Assessment Report (JAMAR) em português para a Artrite Idiopática Juvenil (AIJ). Métodos: A adaptação cultural foi realizada de acordo com normas internacionais. O questionário foi aplicado em avaliação transversal em casos de AIJ, atendidos entre maio e dezembro de 2012. Os dados clínicos, demográficos, exame articular, escala analógica visual global pelo médico, pontuação do Juvenile Arthritis Damage Index (JADI), compilação do JAMAR, dos pais e da criança, foram comparados com controles saudáveis. Compõem o JAMAR uma escala de funcionalidade e uma de qualidade de vida. A pontuação dessas escalas foi analisada pelo coeficiente de correlação intraclasse (ICC) para investigar a confiança entre teste e reteste. O Teste da Mediana foi utilizado para comparação da escala de funcionalidade, escala de qualidade de vida, avaliação global pelo médico, avaliação global, de dor e do bem-estar pelas crianças e seus pais, o Juvenile Arthritis Disease Activity Score (JADAS), o Clinical Juvenile Arthritis Disease Activity Score (cJADAS) e o Juvenile Arthritis Parent/Child Assessment Index (JAPAI/JACAI). O teste Kappa foi utilizada para avaliar o grau de concordância sobre a atividade da doença entre pais, crianças e médico. O teste de correlação de Spearman foi utilizado para associação entre o JAPAI/JACAI e o cJADAS. Resultados: O JAMAR teve 3 traduções diretas e 2 traduções reversas independentes e versão em português de consenso entre tradutores e comitê de especialistas após pré-teste aplicado em dez pares, pais e crianças com AIJ, entre 9,8 e 18,6 anos. A validade foi investigada em 72 pais e 69 crianças com AIJ, 72 pais e 62 crianças saudáveis. Casos de AIJ foram classificados como: oligoarticular persistente (43,4%), artrite relacionada à entesite (19,7%), oligoarticular estendida (14,5%), poliarticular fator reumatoide (FR)...
Abstract: Objectives: Translate and validate Juvenile Arthritis Multidimensional Assessment Report (JAMAR) into Brazilian Portuguese for Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA). Methods: English JAMAR was translated according to international guidelines. The Brazilian-Portuguese version was applied in cross-sectional evaluation in JIA cases treated between May and December 2012. Clinical, demographic and joint assessments, physician global visual analog scale, Juvenile Arthritis Score Damage Index (JADI), with parents and children version in comparison to a healthy control group. The JAMAR components are: functional scales and quality of life scales. The scores were analyzed by intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) for reliability between test-retest. The Median test was used to compare functional and quality of life scales, physician global assessment, pain and overall well-being for children and parents global assessment scales, Juvenile Arthritis Disease Activity Score (JADAS), clinical Juvenile Arthritis Disease Activity Score (cJADAS), Juvenile Arthritis Parent / Child Assessment Index (JAPAI / JACAI) scales. The Kappa test was used to measure the degree of agreement between parents, children and physician about disease activity perception. The Spearman correlation test was used to verify the association between JAPAI / JACAI and cJADAS scores. Results: The Brazilian-Portuguese version of JAMAR was obtained by 3 independent direct translations and 2 reverse translations and a final version by consensus expert committee. The pre-test was applied in ten JIA children of 9.8 to 18.6 years and their parents. Questionnaires from 72 parents and 69 children with JIA, and 72 parents and 62 children healthy were filled out. The JIA cases were classified as persistent oligoarticular (43.4%), enthesitis related arthritis (19.7%), extended oligoarticular (14.5%), polyarticular rheumatoid factor (RF) negative (10.5%), polyarticular RF positive ...
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Fernandes, Taciana de Albuquerque Pedrosa [UNESP]. "Adaptação cultural e validação do JAMAR - Juvenile Arthritis Multidimensional Assessment Report para a artrite idiopática juvenil." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/132731.
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Poxon, John E. W. "Development and use of a hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) model for interactive customer assessment of sound quality : innovation report." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2009. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/36896/.
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With the increasing adoption and usage of hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) technologies, there is a growing recognition that attributes such as dynamics, driveability and refinement can have an adverse affect on customer acceptance. There are a number of new challenges associated with their refinement, in particular their sound quality. These issues include: understanding customers’ perceptions of new sound sources, such as electric motor/generators (M/G) and electronic switching devices; reduced masking from the internal combustion engine (ICE); the effect that a more advanced control strategy can have on vehicle-level sound (both internally and externally); and the effect of new sound character on customer perception. Given these new challenges for the sound quality of HEVs, the best approach for learning about perceptions needed to be determined. Interactive noise, vibration and harshness (NVH) simulation is well suited to further our understanding of these issues. The process for developing models for interactive NVH simulation of conventional vehicles is well established. However, research was necessary to both enhance this process for the creation of HEV models and to create new assessment methods. This report gives a brief overview of a project to deliver this. The key stages were: classification of unique HEV operations; development of a HEV NVH model; validation of the NVH model to determine its suitability for interactive simulation; leading onto recommendations for the use of new HEV sound quality models for assessment. An interactive HEV model has been successfully created and used in a number of newly created HEV sound quality evaluations. Three assessments were created and carried out which addressed new HEV related refinement issues of varying ICE masking, varying control strategy and the effect of added interior synthesized sound on customer perception. Key findings included: preference for reduced internal combustion engine (ICE) sound in the Toyota Prius and significant differences in perception of the same HEV, over the same drive cycle with varying initial battery state-of-charge (SoC). The process developed and carried out and learning achieved has been documented as a selection of flowcharts and can be used by OEMs or sound specialists as a means for improving HEV sound quality.
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Maharaj, Prajay. "The effect of the composition of the audit committee of a company on the quality of the annual report." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/52435.
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The audit committee of an organisation plays a critical role in the quality of the annual
report, the risk management process and governance within an organisation. The annual
report of an organisation is used by numerous stakeholders including investors to make
investment decisions. The composition of the audit committee with respect to the type of
expertise and experience represented on the committee as well as individual
characteristics of the audit committee members influences the effectiveness of the audit
committee and hence the quality of the annual report and the risk management process.
The investigation conducted by the researcher included an analysis of the audit
committees of twelve South African companies across three industries which were
banking, mining and retail. In addition three Indian companies were also reviewed, one
from each industry and a comparison conducted between the South African and Indian
companies. The analysis looked at the expertise represented on the audit committee, the
diversity of the audit committee, and the functioning of the audit committee. The
researcher analysed the individual characteristics of the members of the audit committee
including the independence, remuneration, tenure and number of directorships of the
members. The outcome of this investigation suggested that the effectiveness of the audit
committee is not only dependent on the composition of the audit committee but also on the
structure of the audit committee meetings and other factors which could include
leadership.Mini Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2015.
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KAO, BIANCA JEAN-AN. "EFFECT OF FAMILY HISTORY OF DEMENTIA AND SELF-REPORT OF SLEEP QUALITY ON COGNITIVE PERFORMANCE IN HEALTHY OLDER ADULTS." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/613111.
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This study sought to identify the effect of family history of dementia and sleep
quality on cognitive performance in a cohort of healthy older adults (n=89). Cognitive
abilities were assessed using a comprehensive neuropsychological battery. The tested
domains included memory, executive function, visuospatial abilities, motor function,
processing speed, and language abilities. Subject family history was obtained by self
report, and sleep quality was quantified using the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI).
Participants were divided into four groups by family history of dementia and sleep
quality. Results indicated no significance effects for memory or executive function, but
effects were found in visuospatial and motor tasks. It was observed that subjects without
family history of dementia and good quality sleep had better performance on visuospatial
tasks, supporting the notion that these factors may have protective functions in cognitive
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Zinchenko, Yulia. "IBM Cognos Report Studio as an Effective Tool for Human Capital Reporting." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-199724.
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Main topic discussed in this diploma thesis is corporate reporting in terms of Human Capital using Business Intelligence tools, specifically IBM Cognos Report Studio. One of the objectives is to show step-by-step methodology of creating complex dynamic report, which includes data structure modeling, layout design and quality check. Another objective is to conduct Cost-Benefit Analysis for a real-life project, which is focused on recreating of Excel-based report in Cognos-based environment in order to automate information flows. Essential part of the diploma thesis is theoretical background of Business Intelligence aspects of data quality and visualization as well as purposes of human capital reporting and description of appropriate KPIs. Objectives are addressed by conducting analysis and research of resources related to topics described above as well as using IBM Cognos Report Studio provided by one of the major companies in financial advisory field. This diploma thesis represents relevant reading for those, who are interested in real-life application of data quality improvement and information flow automation using Business Intelligence reporting tools.
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Sundar, Naveen. "Report of an internship with the Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Sommission (ORSANCO) in Cincinnati, Ohio." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1092161911.
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Van, der Vyver Felicity Brunesia. "The quality of environmental impact reports for explosive industry projects in South Africa / Felicity van der Vyver." Thesis, North-West University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/4184.
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Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is a process that seeks to reduce the negative environmental consequences of listed development activities, which could have a detrimental effect on the environment, in the advance of their implementation, and a requirement of legislation in South Africa. An important element of the systematic EIA process is the submission of an environmental impact or scoping report or an environmental impact report (EIR) to the relevant governmental department, interested and affected parties and/or specialist for review to determine the report's adequacy before a project can be authorised or if further information is required. The information made available in reports to decision-makers with regard to developments with the potential of affecting explosive projects, plays a significant role in the authorisation of the project after the authority review process, which is dependent on the quality of the report. In order to contribute more effectively to sustainable development, more attention must be placed on assessing the quality of ElA's as part of determining how effectively EIA has been functioning in South Africa; hence this study is aimed at assessing the quality of EIA assessment reports of four projects with the potential of impacting on explosive industry projects. The objectives of the study included the review by independent reviewers of the quality of four-selected impact reports using a checklist, analysis of the review process results and provision of recommendations to improve the quality of environmental impact reports for-explosive projects.
Based on the review results it is concluded that the quality of the four reports for-explosive projects.
Based on the review results it is concluded that the quality of the four reports were of an acceptable standard, although certain areas were found poorly performed i.e. improvement with regard to identification of key impacts and considerations of alternatives and mitigation as well as the control and treatment of waste. Otherwise the review method is fairly robust and consistent and therefore can be seen as a reliable indication of EIR quality. The following was recommended to improve the quality of the reports for explosive projects: The use of a quality review checklist for explosive projects by EIA practitioners and authorities to be used as an additional tool to the EIA regulations (DEAT 2002) and the Integrated Environmental Management series (DEAT 2002) can further improve the quality of the El reports for explosive projects.
• The use by EIA practitioners of an explosive review checklist will assist in ensuring that all key aspects are addressed before submission to relevant authorities, i.e. the report contains all pertinent information and is technically sound, the report is set-up clearly and coherently organized and presented so that it can be understood and that it has addressed all the key issues to make a decision about the proposed development. This will further assist in fast-tracking the approval process often delayed by the request of additional information from the applicant as a result of inadequate reports.
• Regular use of the review checklist by EIA practitioners and authorities for ascertaining the quality of the environmental impact reports will contribute to a baseline of EIR quality for evaluating EIA practice for explosive projects under the new regulations promulgated in June 2006.Thesis (M. Environmental Management)--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2009.
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Russell, Claire C. "LONGITUDINAL PREDICTORS OF QUALITY OF LIFE IN ADOLESCENT SURVIVORS OF CHILDHOOD CANCER: A REPORT FROM THE CHILDHOOD CANCER SURVIVOR STUDY." VCU Scholars Compass, 2013. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3160.
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Objective: The impact of childhood cancer on future quality of life (QoL) in survivors is unclear. Current studies focus on comparing outcomes to healthy peers and identifying related treatment and demographic variables, but a shift in our approach is necessary. This study is guided by the Wilson and Cleary Model (WMC) and seeks to identify longitudinal predictors of QoL in adolescent survivors of cancer that explain variance in QoL beyond the impact of treatment and demographic variables. Methods: The Childhood Cancer Survivor Study (CCSS) is a multi-institutional longitudinal study following a cohort of childhood cancer survivors. This study focuses on the CCSS cohort (N = 305) who completed the baseline survey in 1994 and the Teen survey in 2001. The baseline survey assessed parent-report of child’s psychological and physical symptoms, functional status, and health perceptions. The Teen survey utilized the Child Health and Illness Profile – Adolescent Edition (CHIP-AE), a self-report measure assessing QoL in six domains: achievement, resilience, satisfaction, discomfort, disorders, and risk. The primary hypothesis was that psychological and physical symptoms, functional status impairment, and health perceptions as rated by parents at baseline would predict variance in quality of life as rated by adolescents at follow-up after adjusting for demographic and treatment-related variables. Six separate hierarchical regressions were analyzed for each of the QoL domains. Results: The main hypothesis was supported. For each QoL outcome, a significant amount of variance was predicted: achievement, F (6, 259) = 8.90, p < .001, adjusted R2 = .152, resilience, F (12, 209) = 3.47, p < .001, adjusted R2 = .118, satisfaction, F (6, 265) = 8.73, p < .001, adjusted R2 = .146, discomfort, F (7, 273) = 6.75, p < .001, adjusted R2 = .126, disorders, F (9, 212) = 6.47, p < .0001, adjusted R2 = .182, and risk, F (7, 238) = 4.81, p < .001, adjusted R2 = .098. Furthermore, for all outcomes, psychological and physical symptoms, functional status impairment, and health perceptions predicted variance above and beyond the impact of demographic and treatment variables. These factors accounted for an additional 9.5% of the variance in the achievement domain, 6.2% for resilience, 10.8% for satisfaction, 6.5% for discomfort, 12.4% for disorders, and 6.1% for risk. Conclusions: Results suggest that psychological and physical symptoms, functional status and health perceptions should be assessed and targeted in interventions for childhood cancer survivors to promote future positive QoL. Future studies need to continue identifying factors related to positive long-term functioning in diverse samples of childhood cancer survivors.
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Kipp, Peter. "The Effect of Expanded Audit Report Disclosures on Users’ Confidence in the Audit and the Financial Statements." Scholar Commons, 2017. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6718.
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I investigate how nonprofessional investors’ confidence in the financial statements and the audit report is influenced by the firm specific details of a critical audit matter (CAM) disclosure in conjunction with the description of the audit procedures engaged to address the CAM in the audit report. Using participants recruited from Amazon Mechanical Turk as a proxy for nonprofessional investors in a 2x2 +1 (control) between-participants experiment manipulating CAM disclosure detail (Detailed/Generic) and the description of the audit procedures engaged to address the CAM (Detail/Generic) I find that greater detail in the description of the CAM results in higher confidence in the accuracy and reliability of the financial statements than a generic description of the CAM, consistent with boundary condition of Support Theory. Further, I find that greater detail in the description of the related audit procedures engaged to address the CAM increases nonprofessional investors’ perceptions of audit quality. Evidence of an effect of CAM and audit procedure disclosure language on investment judgments is also presented. These results have implications for researchers, practitioners, and regulators to carefully consider the language used to disclose CAMs in the auditor’s report.
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Strong, Andrew J. "Development of a Quality Improvement Method for International Manufacturing." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2008. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd2337.pdf.
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Waehrens, Eva Ejlersen. "Measuring quality of occupational performance based on self-report and observation development and validation of instruments to evaluate ADL task performance /." Doctoral thesis, Umeå : Umeå university, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-33848.
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Asano, Midori, Taichi Sugiura, Kiyomi Miura, Shinpei Torii, and Ayako Ishiguro. "Reliability and Validity of the Self-report Quality of Life Questionnaire for Japanese School-aged Children with Asthma (JSCA-QOL v.3)." Japanese Society of Allergology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/7106.
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Burefalk, Strauss Martin, and Samuel Rosko. "Fastställande av lineamentens karaktär med avseende på bergkvalitet enligt Qbas och RMRbas inför tunnel-konstruktion i Solna, Stockholm samt kvalitetsutvärdering av Astrock hyperdata report." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för geovetenskaper, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-295728.
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Sweden's population is increasing every year, which means that cities must adapt their infrastructure to be able to follow the demographic trend. In the current situation, Stockholm plans a major expansion of its metro network where evaluating the bedrock quality is of paramount importance. For the new SL metro connection project Gula linjen that stretches between Odenplan and Arenastaden in Solna, the company WSP has previously done quality surveys of the bedrock in the area and dimensioning of the reinforcements in the planned tunnels. Previous survey of the lineaments and weakness zones in the area has been done by means of core drilling and observations in the field. This study examines if the lineaments in the area are associated to any structures below ground surface in the bedrock by examining rock samples from drill cores. A digital presentation tool called Astrock hyperdata report is evaluated in this study by comparing manual measurements of the orientation of the joints in drill cores and the software´s measurements. The studied bedrock in the drill cores varies in quality from very poor to very good. Further examinations of zones of particularly poor rock quality done in this study suggest that the two identified lineaments have different characteristics. The north-west/south-east lineament which runs parallel to the planned metro route is indicated to represent the surface trace of a water-bearing fracture zone in the bedrock. The lineament with the E/W direction is dominated by structures and fault rocks, such as fault gouge and crushed rock in the drill cores, which indicates a brittle deformation zone. For the Gula linjen project, this information becomes useful as the underground reinforcements such as bolting and grouting have toSveriges befolkning ökar varje år, vilket gör att städer måste anpassas och expandera för att kunna följa den demografiska utvecklingen. I Stockholm planeras i dagsläget en stor utbyggnad av dess tunnelbanenätverk där det sker mycket arbete kring utvärdering av berggrunden för att göra detta möjligt. För Stockholms lokaltrafiks (SL) tunnelbaneprojektet Gula linjen som ska gå mellan Odenplan och Solna har företaget WSP tidigare gjort kvalitetsundersökningar av berggrunden i området samt dimensioneringar av förstärkningar i de planerade tunnlarna. Studier av svaghetzoner och lineamenten i området har gjorts med hjälp av kärnborrning och fältobservationer. Denna studie undersöker om lineamenten som finns i området är kopplade till strukturer längre ner i berggrunden genom att undersöka bergprov i form av borrkärnor. Som komplement har det digitala redovisningsverktyget Astrock hyperdata report använts för att kunna jämföra strukturer i berget med de egna mätningarna i studien. Programmet kommer även att utvärderas i studien. De erhållna värdena från undersökningen på borrkärnorna varierar i kvalitet från väldigt dålig till väldigt bra. Närmare studier på zoner av särskilt dålig kvalitet tyder på att de båda lineamenten karaktäriseras av olika typer av strukturer. Det nordväst-/sydöstliga lineamentet, som går parallellt med den planerade tunnelbanesträckan, domineras av strukturer som tyder på att lineamentet representerar en vattenförande sprickzon under markytan. I lineamentet med öst-västlig riktning dominerar strukturer som tyder på förekomsten av en förkastningszon. För projektet Gula linjen blir denna information användbar då den vattenförande sprickzonen kan innebära att tunnelförstärkning med injektering måste göras för ytterligare skydd mot vatteninträngning.
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McGrath, Noel Anthony. "The use of the CapQOL (capacity to report subjective quality of life inventory) with a chronic schizophrenia sample that reside on care facilities." Thesis, University of Lincoln, 2008. http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/18977/.
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The capacity to report subjective quality of life inventory (CapQOL) is a brief screening tool designed to evaluate ability to appraise subjective QOL, complete related QOL measures and assess cognitive impairment. The purpose of this study was to assess the CapQOL’s test-retest reliability, internal consistency and associations with cognitive impairments (memory and executive functioning) and negative symptoms in a sample of people with chronic schizophrenia that reside on care facilities. The CapQOL, cognitive and schizophrenia symptom assessments were administered to 23 participants (mean age = 43, s.d. = 9.7, male = 13). The CapQOL had good test-retest reliability (rs (21) = .868, p < .01) and internal consistency (α=.850). 43% of the chronic schizophrenia sample were identified by the CapQOL as having the ability to complete a subjective QOL measure (a significantly smaller percentage than a prior study with an early psychosis patient sample). The CapQOL demonstrated a poor agreement with the cognitive assessments (κ-<.40) and a non-significant correlation with negative symptom scores (p>0.05). The main limitation of the study was the sample size that may have affected the range of scores on the measures, the resulting associations with the CapQOL and the number of factors that could be assessed. Further validation studies of the CapQOL are indicated.
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Månsson, Ulrika, and Anna Törnroos. "New legal requirements for sustainability reporting in Sweden : its influence on the content of the reports." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-389423.
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In 2017 changes (SFS 2016:947) for sustainability reporting in Sweden were made in the Annual Accounts Act (SFS 1995:1554). Since the regulation was recently imposed, there is little evidence for how it has impacted the content of sustainability reports. This study explores the use and amount of quantitative versus qualitative information before and after the regulation. This to explore how it has affected the content and thereby the identified quality factors: transparency, comparability, verifiability and assurance. A content analysis was performed where 17 companies from Nordic-Large cap were chosen and their sustainability reports were studied. The result show that the content of the reports differs, this since new information have been added, for example information about risks and policies. However, the content is also similar in many instances between the years, for example in terms of value words and the type of information provided in tables and charts. The factors of quality have been affected by these similarities and differences. Additionally, the study also show that the regulation has not reduced the amount of qualitative information in relation to quantitative information which has had a negative impact on the four quality factors.
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Kruger, Reneé. "A critical analysis of the quality of EIA reports for filling stations in South Africa / Kruger R." Thesis, North-West University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/7375.
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In order to make decisions to approve filling stations, an environmental impact assessment (EIA) needs
to be conducted and evaluated by the competent authority. Although numerous filling stations have been
authorised for operation, the quality of the EIA reports that form the basis for decision making has never
been evaluated. The evaluation of the quality of EIA reports on filling station developments by means of
an adapted Lee–Colley review package formed the basis of this research. The main conclusion was that
the quality of the EIA reports for filling station developments, as reviewed by the adapted review
package, is generally of a poor standard. This means that a decision to approve a new filling station is
generally based on just enough information to the competent authority. The main deficiencies in the EIA
reports related to site description, cumulative impacts and mitigation measures, while the environment
description, identification of impacts, scoping of impacts, assessment of impact significance and
emphasis (impacts) in the reports were of good quality. The results from the reviewed EIA’s correspond
mostly with the literature on the review of EIA reports.Thesis (M. Environmental Management)--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2012.
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Talbot, Emily Jane. "Health-related quality of life (HRQL) of children and adolescents following encephalitis and its relationship with everyday memory and executive function : parent/carer report." Thesis, University of Lincoln, 2010. http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/17551/.
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Objective- Following encephalitis, children can experience neuropsychological, psychological and medical consequences, making health-related quality of life (HRQL) of particular interest in this clinical population. To explore this under-researched topic area, this study was designed to investigate whether a relationship exists between the two most frequently reported neuropsychological consequences of childhood encephalitis (parent/carer reported executive function and everyday memory problems) and parent/carer reported HRQL. In addition, it explored to what extent these and other illness specific factors are predictors of parent/carer reported HRQL in children following encephalitis. Design- The study took an exploratory cross-sectional design. Parametric and non-parametric correlations were employed to test the primary hypotheses and consider whether further illness-specific factors were related to parent/carer reported HRQL. Those variables found to correlate significantly with parent/carer reported HRQL were entered into a multiple linear regression to consider how predictive they were of HRQL. Method- Thirty-eight parents/carers of children/adolescents, aged eight – 15 years old, who had a history of encephalitis responded to an invitation to take part. Participants were recruited through the Encephalitis Society‟s database of families with children/adolescents who had been diagnosed with encephalitis at 0910, RES, Research Project, UofN: 4073827, UofL: 07091800 Page 2 of 200 any time during childhood. Each parent/carer completed a Pediatric Quality of Life InventoryTM (PedsQLTM), a Behaviour Rating Inventory of Executive Function (BRIEF), a Children‟s Memory Questionnaire (CMQ), and a demographic/illness specific questionnaire in relation to their child. Parents/carers of potential participants were sent a recruitment pack by post and asked to return the measures in a stamped addressed envelope should they wish to take part. Where possible, children/adolescents were asked to provide their assent to take part and their parent/carer was asked to provide their consent to provide information in relation to their child. Results- Parent/carer reported everyday memory problems and executive function impairment were found to significantly negatively correlate with parent/carer reported HRQL. Further exploratory analysis found that sleep difficulties significantly correlated with parent/carer reported HRQL, while age at time of illness and diagnosis of epilepsy did not correlate significantly with parent/carer reported HRQL. Through a forced entry multiple linear regression analysis, combined parent/carer reported everyday memory, executive function and sleep difficulties were found to account for up to 71% of the variance of parental-reported HRQL, with everyday memory being the most statistically significant predictor. Conclusions- Frequently reported neuropsychological impairments following childhood encephalitis are found to relate significantly to parent/carer reportedHRQL. This indicates important implications for children, and their families, following encephalitis, and suggests areas for specific intervention and rehabilitation. The finding of a significant relationship between parent/carer reported sleep difficulties and parent/carer reported HRQL is consistent with findings in general, and other health condition, populations. The finding of no significant relationship between the variables of age at time of illness, diagnosis of epilepsy and parent/carer reported HRQL is inconsistent with studies in other clinical populations, and warrants further investigation. Consideration of the findings, and their implications for clinical practice, are discussed. Consideration is given to the small sample size and recommendations for further research are proposed.
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Limbers, Christine A. "At what age can children reliably and validly self-report their health-related quality of life? An investigation using the PedsQL(tm) 4.0 Generic Core Scales Database." [College Station, Tex. : Texas A&M University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1190.
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Oliveira, Joana Pereira. "Curricular training report: clinical studies coordination in a clinical research organization vs an investigational site perspective." Master's thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/15780.
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Mestrado em Biomedicina FarmacêuticaThis report describes my experience of nine months as a trainee of a CRO (Eurotrials, Scientific Consultants), as well as a trainee of a clinical research site (Clinical Academic Center – Braga, Association). This document describes the European framework about clinical research and the Portuguese situation compared to similar countries. The activities developed during this internship are also described. These activities are divided in two phases. The first one occurred in Eurotrials, Scientific Consultants, a CRO specialized in clinical research and scientific advice. The first weeks were dedicated to intensive self-training needed to perform CTA tasks. These tasks included qualification, initiation and monitoring activities related to clinical trials, as well as the development of a quality management system. The second phase took place on 2CA-Braga, a clinical research center located in Hospital of Braga. Clinical studies coordination was the main focus of this second phase of my internship, as well as negotiation of clinical studies agreements. I had also the opportunity to participate in “1as Jornadas de Investigação Clínica e Inovação” (1st Clinical Investigation and Innovation Conference) organized by 2CA-Braga. Globally, this internship was a great opportunity to get knowledge and experience in the implementation and management of clinical trials, in a CRO and clinical research site perspectives. These two perspectives provided an interesting overview about the scientific needs of different players involved in clinical research. To conclude, this internship strengthened the knowledge acquired from my academic background, which make me able to face and overcome new challenges in the clinical research area.
Este relatório descreve a minha experiência de nove meses enquanto estagiária numa CRO (Eurotrials, Consultores Científicos) e num centro de investigação clínica (Centro Clínico Académico – Braga, Associação). Este documento começa por analisar o enquadramento europeu da investigação clínica e, posteriormente, a situação portuguesa comparativamente a países similares. De seguida, são descritas as atividades desenvolvidas no âmbito deste estágio, as quais foram divididas em duas fases. A primeira fase desenrolou-se na Eurotrials, Consultores Científicos, uma CRO especializada em investigação clínica e consultoria científica. As primeiras semanas foram dedicadas ao treino e à formação necessários para o desempenho de tarefas como assistente de estudos clínicos. Estas tarefas incluíram a participação em várias atividades de qualificação, iniciação e monitorização de estudos clínicos, assim como o desenvolvimento e aperfeiçoamento de um sistema de gestão de qualidade. A segunda vertente decorreu no 2CA-Braga, um centro de investigação clínica localizado no Hospital de Braga. Nesta fase, o estágio focou-se essencialmente na coordenação de estudos clínicos, assim como, em atividades relacionadas com o processo de revisão/negociação de contratos financeiros. Para além disso, tive a oportunidade de participar nas “1as Jornadas de Investigação Clínica e Inovação” organizadas pelo 2CA-Braga. Globalmente, o estágio traduziu-se numa excelente oportunidade para ganhar conhecimentos e experiência nas tarefas associadas a projetos e serviços no âmbito da implementação e gestão de estudos clínicos, na perspetiva de uma CRO e de um centro de investigação clínica. A integração destas duas perspetivas permitiu-me identificar e confluir necessidades específicas de diferentes players envolvidos na investigação clínica. Concluindo, este estágio permitiu-me aplicar e aperfeiçoar os conhecimentos adquiridos durante a minha formação académica tornando-me capaz de enfrentar e transpor novos desafios na área da investigação clínica.
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Glover, Gloria. "Relationships Between Nursing Resources, Uncompensated Care, Hospital Profitability, and Quality of Care." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/7142.
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The value-based purchase requirement of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act puts pressure on hospital leaders to control cost while improving quality of care. The resource dependency theory was the theoretical framework for this correlational study. Archival data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services collected from 166 acute care urban hospitals for the Fiscal Year 2016. Multiple linear regression analysis was used to determine the relationship between nursing salaries per patient day, cost of uncompensated care as a percentage of net patient revenue, percentage of net income from patient services, and overall patient satisfaction for quality of care received. The multiple regression analysis results indicated the model as a whole to significantly predict overall patient satisfaction for quality of care for the Fiscal Year 2016, F (3,162) = 13.788, p = .000, and R2 = .203. In the final model, all 3 independent variables significantly predicted overall patient satisfaction for quality of care. Nursing salaries per patient day and percentage of net income from patient services were significant positive predictors of overall patient satisfaction for quality of care. Nursing salaries per patient day (� = .366, t = 5.120, p = .000) accounted for a higher contribution to the model than percentage of net income from patient services (� = .169, t = 2.374, p = .019). The cost of uncompensated care as a percentage of net patient revenue displayed a significant negative relationship with overall patient satisfaction for quality of care (� = .176, t = 2.458, p = .015). The implications of this study for positive social change include the potential to enhance the quality of care for patients while maintaining local hospitals' financial viability.
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Horálek, Jan. "Nápravná opatření k výsledkům auditu ve firmě." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2008. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-12296.
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Principal objective of my thesis is to create Report about review of the usability, adequacy and effectiveness of the system of the management of quality and environment in compliance with ČSN EN ISO 9001:2001 and ČSN EN ISO 14001:2005 for the year 2007. The thesis is divided in two parts which contain both theory and Report which rose from the concrete company. The result of my thesis should help to the company to regain the certificate about accomplishment of the requirement of the standard ČSN EN ISO 9001:2001 and ČSN EN ISO 14001:2005.
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Berggren, Marie. "På SoL-sidan : Avvikelsehantering på fem vårdboenden i Uppsala kommun." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för folkhälso- och vårdvetenskap, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-141092.
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En viktig del av den svenska välfärden är kommunens äldreomsorg för personer över 65 år, där Socialtjänstlagen ger rättighet till vårdboende och andra servicetjänster när det behövs. Kommunernas kommunaltjänst ska enligt Socialtjänstlagen vara av god kvalitet. Rapportering av avvikande händelser är en av hörnpelarna i arbetet med att förbättra kvalitet och säkerhet i vården. Avvikelserapportering bidrar till att undvika att negativa händelser upprepas, samt att rutiner förbättras för att höja kvalitet. Genom att ta tillvara möjligheterna med avvikelserapporter kan kvaliteten på vårdboenden förbättras och utvecklas. Denna studie visar på behovet av ytterligare fokus på arbetet med avvikelsehantering gällande omsorg.
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Zochio, Marcelo Ferreira. "Qualidade dos laudos periciais emitidos na Comarca de São Paulo." Universidade de São Paulo, 2010. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/3/3142/tde-18082010-164616/.
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Este trabalho analisa a influência da qualidade na elaboração dos laudos periciais, e seu impacto nas decisões judiciais. Mostra os pontos aos quais o perito deve se ater para que seu laudo atinja o objetivo: transmitir corretamente a mensagem desejada, o resultado da perícia, através de um discurso compreensível para o magistrado, que possui um modo de pensar diferente do profissional tecnológico. Vários fatores influenciam na qualidade do laudo, e um laudo bem elaborado, bem como a proposição dos quesitos, envolve conhecimentos multidisciplinares em sua confecção.This work analyzes the influence of quality in the preparation of forensic reports, and its impact on judicial decisions. It shows the key aspects that the expert should take care for his/her report get to its main objective: to correctly convey the desired message, the result of expertise, in a way that is understandable to the magistrate, who has a different way of thinking that is different from the technology professional. Several factors influence the quality of a forensic report. The development process of a well prepared report and the proposition of the issues of fact to be clarified, involve multi and inter disciplinary knowledge.
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Geiser, Sofia, and Mirja Båtsman. "Quantity over Quality? : A study of a separate sustainability report's effect on financial performance for companies on NASDAQ OMX Stockholm." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-73467.
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The corporate scandals in the beginning of the 21st century caused distrust in the market and a pressure for more disclosure to increase transparency. To broaden the traditional reporting, companies started to voluntarily disclose information regarding soft measures like Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Due to the fast development and popularity of CSR, more companies started to disclose a separate sustainability report to communicate information about these activities. The aim of the report is to provide stakeholders with accurate and transparent information regarding the companies CSR activities, but also to legitimize the business. The main purpose of this research is to investigate if the quantity of information disclosed in the sustainability report affects the financial performance of companies listed on NASDAQ OMX Stockholm. We also aim to investigate whether the existence of a report affects the financial performance. With companies spending an increasing amount of resources on disclosing voluntary information it is important to extend the research regarding CSR and the benefits to financial performance. This research ontological and epistemological positions are objectivism and positivism with a deductive approach. A quantitative method was used to gather sufficient data from existing databases and reports. For the first research question our population is all companies listed on NASDAQ OMX Stockholm on April 12th 2013, and for the second research question our population is the companies with a separate sustainability report in English from the accounting year of 2011. The financial performance data was gathered from the period 2012-04-01-2013-03.31. To answer our research questions and sub- questions, six hypotheses were formulated based on relevant theories and previous studies. Several multiple linear regression analyses were performed to examine the relationship between the existence of the reports, and the quantity of information in them, to the company’s financial performance. Other regressions were performed to establish if the quantity disclosed was affected by industry classification or market capitalization size. Our results show that the neither the existence of a separate sustainability report nor the quantity of information disclosed in it has an effect on stock return. However, both having a separate sustainability and the quantity of information disclosed have a positive effect on stock volatility. Conclusively, companies do not benefit financially from disclosing their CSR activities through a separate sustainability report.
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Cao, Thi Thanh Huyen, and Tina Cheung. "Internal control reporting and accounting quality : Insight "comply-or-explain" internal control regime." Thesis, Umeå University, Umeå School of Business, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-34923.
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Nowadays, there exist two reporting regimes, rules-based and principle-based (comply-or-explain). In the rules-based environment, researchers have studied the relationship between internal control quality and accounting quality. Prior studies have suggested that reports on internal control are an effective way for investors to evaluate the quality of the firm‟s internal control. By having a sound system of internal control, it creates reliance upon the firm‟s financial reporting. Therefore, the condition of internal control has direct connection to the investors‟ decision making. In U.S., where the corporate governance has been known to be typically rules-based, most researches have shown a positive relationship between internal control reporting and accounting quality. In the comply-or-explain reporting regime, there has only been one research as far as we know, that investigates the relationship between internal control reporting and accounting quality. The research took place in Netherlands; their study provided positive association between internal control reporting quality and accounting quality, particularly earnings quality. The result is consistent with other research in rules-based regime. The Swedish code has been enacted for five years and it is in the same regime as Netherlands. However, under current Swedish code, we are not aware of any empirical research that has taken place to address the effectiveness of the code. Therefore, we conducted the study with 152 firms listed on Swedish NASDAQ OMXS to test internal control reporting quality and accounting quality. We used proxies for internal control reporting quality: effectiveness statement of internal control, internal control reporting score and internal control proportion. Simultaneously, we use discretionary accruals as a proxy of accounting quality. Our result showed a negative significant relationship between internal control reporting score and discretionary accruals but this relationship is quite weak and sensitive. It is broken with the presence of one more variable in regression, such as size variable. The result could not give any evidence for relationships between either effectiveness statements or extent of internal control reporting with discretionary accruals. Although, the relationship between internal control reporting score and discretionary accruals is not tight, it still encourage the notion that firms with good internal control report will improve their accounting quality. Our research contributes knowledge to wide-range of concerned parties. Moreover, it also suggests valuable ideas for further studies in the same area.
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Wei, Shu-Ting, and 魏淑婷. "Information Quality of Report for Customer service." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/r6r6da.
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With the globalized expansion of the modern business, multinational corporations need to break the boundaries between different industries or geographic limits. It is very popular to make the vertical integration or horizontal integration. But how shall we make a successful integration to achieve the goal of maximum profit and sustainable business? The quality of information will inevitably play a key part. Literature review indicates that the most critical and difficult part for providing the excellent information is to establish the proper concept and technical framework analysis. Secondly, how the enterprises shall offer the relevant information to their customers fast and accurately in the rapidly changing market. Therefore, the customer service report, the highly connected channel with customer, is selected for the target of this research. This paper explores the resources and elements of the information to figure out which parts of information shall be improved and use the information technology to reform them. The research is based on the printed circuit board industry. It Integrated into Systems development in information systems research and a design science research methodology for information systems research to build system and assess quality of information. The result provide several conclusions as following : the measurement and the mistaken of the information quality, the practical suggestions for using the information system to improve the information quality, the changing relationship with customers in manufacturing industry, the initial stage of industry 4.0,etc. Through this research, it may render different point of view while assisting the improvement of information quality .
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Lai, Cheng-Ang, and 賴政昂. "Do Socially Responsible Firms Report Higher Quality Financial Reports?-Evidence from Taiwanese Listed Firms." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/3evmq4.
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Chang, Hsueh-Sheng, and 張學聖. "The Quality of Financial Report in Juridical Person Entity." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/24671379886761428207.
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Abstract Background：After the carryout of Global Budget Payment System by Bureau of National Health Insurance since July 2002，contentions between hospitals become more fierce，the management and operation method must beyond any of business models. Since the conscience of consumers flying high，requests were called frequently by Funds of Medical Reform to have government hygiene organizations disclose financial reports of hospitals of juridical person and let the information of Health Insurance transparent. Except convey achievements of management and deployments of medical resources, basically financial reports can provide critical information, let staffs of hospital management level, government organizations and outside users consult, and furthermore cited as data resources of research and investigation and basis for allocation of medical resources, all of which have great influence and cannot be disregarded. Objectives：1. Investigate the origins of the editing criteria for financial reports of the medical juridical person and analyze and compare the editing criteria and framework norms for financial reports of the hospitals of juridical person (proclaimed by the Department of Health—DOH ) and generally acknowledged accounting norms for American nonprofit organizations.2.Understand current situations of financial accounting of domestic medical juridical person and their influential effects. Results：1. According to the editing criteria of financial reports for medical juridical person from DOH, we know if medical juridical person disclose their financial reports, they can let their management condition transparent, and after 2006, all of them must completely follow the criteria to editing their balance sheet, revenue and expenditure balance sheet, net value variation sheet, and cash flow sheet. 2. There are little differences of financial reports editing criteria between medical juridical person and American nonprofit organization, but the accounting item definitions of American 5 nonprofit organization are more detailed, and ours investment restrictions are more stringent than those of American nonprofit organization. 3. From financial accounting process status and influential effects of domestic medical juridical persons, we get (1) Superintendent of accounting graduated from graduated or undergraduate schools of accounting are 57.89% and 63.16% respectively. (2)The quality of accounting information and serviceable identities of medical juridical persons before editing criteria of financial reports proclaimed are 100 % agreement, 78.95% to 84.21 % respectively,（3）The entire identity before editing criteria financial reports proclaimed of the medical juridical person is 68.42%.（4）The cognition levels of comparative principles, critical principles, understandable principles, special professional principles are57.89% agreement, 5.26%, 5.26% to 31.58%, 31.58% to 36.84% respectively.