A Sample of Quality Assurance Methods

EPMA WDS Quality Assurance: Materials and Methods

The chief product of an analytical laboratory quality assurance (QA) program, ultimately, is confidenceconfidence that the analysis of any specimen sent to any laboratory participating in the program will be consistent, correct within tolerance, and interchangeable with equivalent analyses of related specimens performed by any other laboratory in the program. In order to maximize confidence, t...

Quality Assurance of Medical Education Products: A Necessity

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Quality Assurance Whose Quality and Whose Assurance?

Government involvement in quality assurance is becoming the trend in many countries, including New Zealand. What values underpin the systems that evolve in each country, and who has given legitimacy to them? In the context of the prevailing ideology of early childhood, this paper unpacks quality assurance in Australia and comments on the assumptions, taken for granted premises and values which ...

Practical methods for the quality assurance of speciation analysis

Using formal methods for quality assurance of interlocking systems

”Formal methods” denotes mathematical techniques making it possible to perform a formal mathematical proof of the compliance – or noncompliance – of a system to its specification. We discuss the views of the Swedish National Rail Administration on the use of formal methods to increase safety and reliability of safety-critical signalling systems. As a study, a formal requirements specification f...