The design of effective indicators and indicator systems requires a profound understanding of the relevant business context. Numerous relations and dependencies within an indicator system exist, which need to be analysed thoroughly: Many relations are based on implicit assumptions or sometimes not known by the management at all. This is of particular relevance for business success, since improp...

Abstract The purpose of this study was to determine the influence Mobile Instant Messaging with scientific approach on critical-thinking skills physics learning during Covid-19 pandemic. research method used a quasi-experimental non-equivalent control group design. population all eleventh-grade science students Senior High School Bandar Sribhawono. sampling technique purposive technique. instru...

The Management Standards Indicator Tool (MSIT) is a 35-item self-report measure of the psychosocial work environment designed to assist organizations with psychosocial risk assessment. It is also used in work environment research. Edwards and Webster presented a 25-item version of the MSIT based on the deletion of items having a factor loading of < .65. Stress theory and research suggest that p...

BACKGROUND Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) is an important outcome indicator for chronic disease, and particularly in the absence of biological markers for illness, such as with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). The aims of this study were to develop and evaluate a new IBS-specific HRQOL instrument (IBS-HR-QOL). METHODS This methodological study comprised three steps: conceptualization o...

OBJECTIVE to assess patient knowledge of heart failure by home-based measurement of two NOC Nursing Outcomes over a six-month period and correlate mean outcome indicator scores with mean scores of a heart failure Knowledge Questionnaire. METHODS in this before-and-after study, patients with heart failure received four home visits over a six-month period after hospital discharge. At each home ...

Terry L. Sheehan and Richard A. Yost When evaluating the performance of mass spectrometers, one needs to consider the best (or most meaningful) figure of merit to use; options include instrument detection limit (IDL) and signal-tonoise ratio (SNR). In the last 15 years, vendor specifications for SNR have increased from 10:1 to greater than 100,000:1. Does that accurately reflect improvements in...

Airline pilots and similar professions require reliable spatial cognition abilities, such as mental imagery of static and moving three-dimensional objects in space. A well-known task to investigate these skills is the Shepard and Metzler mental rotation task (SMT), which is also frequently used during pre-assessment of pilot candidates. Despite the intuitive relationship between real-life spati...

Tristimulus colorimetry and diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DRS) are white-light skin reflectance techniques used to measure the intensity of skin pigmentation. The tristimulus colorimeter is an instrument that measures a perceived color and the DRS instrument measures biological chromophores of the skin, including oxy- and deoxyhemoglobin, melanin and scattering. Data gathered from these too...

BACKGROUND This study presents an alternative assessment method for establishing the demand for an old age home among a community-dwelling older population. The instrument, called 'orientation towards admission into an old age home', represents the intensity of the need for admission as expressed by older people themselves. Therefore it is indicative of the 'subjective demand'. METHODS Using ...