The Satellite Application Facility for Land Surface Analysis hosted by the Portuguese Meteorological Institute in Lisbon generates and distributes value added satellite products for numerical weather prediction and environmental applications in near-real time. Within the project consortium Météo-France is responsible for the land surface albedo and down-welling short-wave radiation flux product...

The purpose of this study is to test and validate the conceptual operational excellence framework that will be adopted implemented by organizations in Sudanese aviation industry determine if it result improved organizational performance competitive advantage, quantify benefits therein, so doing, cater as many concerns possible raised business owners managers. Many industries, especially industr...

In the light of the introduction of 3G systems, we present a comprehensive study of the performance of GSM and GPRS. UMTS is already in a few countries deployed, on the other hand it is expected that it will be limited to hot-spot areas, while voice calls will be preferably established with existing networks. At the early 80’s, when GSM was introduced it was considered as an overspecified syste...

The findings are presented of a consensus group created to address the standardization of performance measures for emergency medicine. This group, whose members have affiliations with most major organizations interested in emergency medicine performance, benchmarking and quality improvement, was tasked with standardizing definitions pertinent to emergency department performance measures, creati...

This article develops an integrated model of transmitting strategies and operational activities to enhance the efficiency of supply chain management. As the second objective, this paper aims to improve supply chain performance management (SCPM) by employing proper decision-making approaches. The proposed model optimizes the performance indicator based on SCOR metrics. A process-based method is ...

We analyze the operational performance of 202 Turkish rural general hospitals. To help improve performance on both input and output space, we adopt a directional distance approach. We treat a mortality based measure as a “needs indicator”. We derive pure technical, scale and output congestion inefficiency measures and show how they vary across size classes. We show that “reducing mortality” inv...

A fundamental difficulty associated with improvement is the tension between the business perspective requesting and imposing improvements and the claims and values of the current owners of the working practices which are often threatened by change. Neither party easily understands the other. An additional difficulty is to know how to attribute the business and operational performance achieved t...