the manufacturing organizations today are having a competition of supply chain versus supply chain. existing research work fails to relate human metrics with supply chain performance. the authors intend to empirically assess the effects of human metrics on supply chain performance in the context of indian manufacturing organizations. a rigorous literature review has identified 12 variables. the...

daylight in classrooms is a critical factor in school design, in terms of its impact on students’ health, learning and visual performance. providing adequate amount of evenly distributed daylight and glare prevention are important challenges in classroom design. window configuration significantly affects the intensity and uniformity of daylight. this paper aims to investigate the effect of wind...

the type of the applications for which internet is being used has changed over the years. multimedia applications, real-time applications and game playing require quality of service. ieee has proposed ieee 802.11e, a quality of service extension to the wireless lan standard ieee 802.11. in this paper service differentiation ability of 802.11e is evaluated. identical traffic is considered for al...

In this paper, we summarize studies that used ANAM tests to assess the effects of environmental stressors. The findings document performance changes resulting from conditions relevant to military operational medicine. These conditions included radiation exposure, toxins, high altitude, undersea conditions, Marine basic training, advanced military training, and fatigue. The results of these stud...

Comparing Publicly Reported Surgical Outcomes WithQualityMeasures From a Statewide Improvement Collaborative The recent release of a Surgeon Scorecard has accelerated debatearoundthemeritsofpublicly reportingsurgicaloutcomes.1 BasedonMedicare claims from2009 through2013, this scorecard provides the public with surgeon-specific complication rates for8electiveproceduresperformedbynearly 17000surg...

Several object-oriented metrics have been developed and used in conjunction with the quality models to predict the overall quality of software. However, it may not be enough to propose metrics. The fundamental question may be of their validity, utility and reliability. It may be much significant to be sure that these metrics are really useful and for that their construct validity must be assure...