Total quality management (TQM), a management philosophy developed for industrial purposes, is now attracting increasing attention in the field of education. Different interpretations of TQM in industry, however, may result in contrasting outcomes when TQM is applied in schools. Briefly reviews how TQM operates in the industrial context and clarifies how the philosophy of TQM may be translated i...


 Abstract. The international and European experience in creating improving integrated systems the field of occupational safety health on basis research regulatory documents International Organization for Standardization, standards, national standards Ukraine, industry methodical management oil gas complex enterprises is overviewed. implementation features OHSAS 18001 ISO 45001 to create a...

1106 CLINICALCHEMISTRY,Vol. 26, No. 7, 1980 knowledge of the relative precision characteristics of the two compared methods (2-4). When such information is lacking, the best that can be done is probably to put A equal to 1. Unless there is an uncommonly large discrepancy in precision between the two methods, this will be more realistic in comparison studies than the assumption, implicit in the ...

In the past few years cortisone and A.C.T.H. have been used in the treatment of nephritis. In the nephrotic state these drugs frequently produce a diuresis (Farnsworth, 1950a; Luetscher, Deming and Johnson, 1951). In haemorrhagic nephritis, however, the results have been variable (Thorn, Merrill, Smith, Roche and Frawley, 1950; Heller, Jacobson and Hammarsten, 1951). The present paper reports a...

Parallels are drawn between the industrial and other applications of modern holistic Quality theory and (best) practices and the manner in which universities conduct their teaching, research and management functions. It is concluded that some ancient practices are good from a Quality viewpoint. In contrast some modern developments, particularly some of those forced on universities by government...