To design potentially successful quality improvement (QI) interventions, it is crucial to make use of detailed breakdowns of the implementation processes of successful and unsuccessful interventions. Process evaluation can throw light on the mechanisms responsible for the result obtained in the intervention group. It enables researchers and implementers to (1). describe the intervention in deta...

During the last half of the twentieth century, the argon-argon method of dating geologic rocks and formations became very popular. This method replaced K/Ar as the method of choice for many types of rocks. This paper explores the fundamental mathematics of the argon-argon dating method and evaluates the impact of the assumed date of the “standard sample” on the calculated argon-argon date. A me...

  Introduction: Attenuation correction is a useful process for improving myocardial perfusion SPECT and is dependent on activity and distribution of attenuation coefficients in the body (attenuation map). Attenuation artifacts are a common problem in myocardial perfusion SPECT. The aim of this study was to compare the effect of attenuation correction using different a...

in this paper, first the available single charting methods, which have been proposed to detect simultaneous shifts in a single process mean and variance, are reviewed. then, by designing proper simulation studies these methods are evaluated in terms of in-control and out-ofcontrol average run length criteria (arl). the results of these simulation experiments show that the ewma and ewms methods ...

educational supervision and evaluation is a mechanismwhich seeks to improve and correct learning process in all aspects andwill lay the foundation for continuous improvement in education quality.the nature of supervision and evaluation is related to all the factorsand individuals involved in educational system and deals with the supervisionof physical situations and the improvement of contents,...

This study endeavors to focus on developing an evaluation method for comparative analysis of process performance before and after reengineering. Business Process Reengineering (BPR) is a relatively recent concept that has stemmed from management and computer science roots. Process performance evaluations are crucial to managers in identifying the benefit of new process after reengineering. Curr...

The creation of new ad-hoc methodologies through the Situational Method Engineering approach needs the process fragments to be defined and available. Thus, it is necessary to previously define and extract such fragments from the global development process. So, it is important to provide the means of documenting the whole process from which fragments will be obtained. This paper presents an expe...

The IIEP has concluded that the ROP is a notable improvement over the previous licensee performance assessment program and should be continued. The reactor oversight process has made progress toward achieving the Agency's four performance goals: 1) maintain safety, 2) increase public confidence, 3) increase regulatory effectiveness and efficiency, and 4) reduce unnecessary regulatory burden. In...

This paper presents and evaluates a novel system for computer generated poetry. Framed within contemporary theoretical trends in the evaluation of computational creativity, we investigate how evidence of generative process influences readers’ opinions of computer generated textual output. In addition to a technical description of our system, we present results from a study asking respondents to...