The international community, including the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), is currently seeking more granular systems of language identifiers than the widely used tags of ISO 639 parts 1 and 2. There is growing need for the more precise identification and annotation of language-based resources. This paper presents a key response to this need, in which the Linguasphere Regi...

Web-based asynchronous store-and-forward telemedicine systems for diagnostic purposes, which enable the consultation of one (or more) distant health care professional(s) by a locally present health care professional concerning a patient‘s diagnosis and treatment can significantly improve healthcare services. Yet, developing high-quality asynchronous store-andforward telemedicine systems (ASFTSs...

The objective of this paper is to examine the EFQM Excellence Model as an enabler of E-procurement adoption and the effect on purchasing performance. The study utilized a cross-sectional telephone survey of a sample of Spanish manufacturing companies using multiple informants. A total of 200 firms responded making a total of 800 responses. Data was analyzed using structural equations modelling....

PURPOSE Health care organizations have to improve their performance for multiple stakeholders and organize integrated care. To facilitate this, various integrated quality management models can be used. This article reviews the literature on the Malcolm Baldrige Quality Award (MBQA) criteria, the European Foundation Quality Management (EFQM) Excellence model (Excellence award models) and the Chr...

Im Aufsatz wird der Frage nachgegangen, inwiefern Records Management (RM) einen gangbaren Weg darstellt, bestimmte Bereiche des Quality Management respektive des Total Quality Managements (TQM) abzudecken, und zwar solcherart, dass die Mitarbeitenden in ihrem Alltagsgeschäft gezielt unterstützt werden. Aus dem Angebot verschiedener TQM-Modelle fiel die Wahl auf das Modell der European Foundatio...

This paper reports the development of a multiple attribute decision making (MADM) modelling framework and methodology for application to the scoring process against the criteria of the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) Model for Excellence. The MADM model is based on the evidential reasoning approach with the focus of the initial development and application on the people managem...

introduction: commitment to abstracting standards has a very significant role in information retrieval. the present research aimed to evaluate the rate of commitment to iso 214 standards among the persian abstracts of approved research projects at school of health management and medical informatics, isfahan university of medical sciences, isfahan, iran.    methods: this descriptive study used a...