introduction: six total quality management principles such as committment, client satis faction , staff , managers and continuous improvement of the quality based on deming view regarding tom were evaluated in isfahan university of medical sciences. mathods and materials: this is descriptive suovey study in wich the data were collected by a researcher-made questionnaire the subiects of the stud...

The article is devoted to selecting the methods of finding cause-effect relationships in simulating system “quality education” and determining factors influencing quality education socioeconomic development both university stakeholders. rationale for tools studying cause-and-effect modelling formulated. It shown that it possible use analysis were previously inherent only technical systems. An i...

experimental design techniques for quality improvement "The methods taught in this book are a major contribution to statistical methods as an aid to engineers, as well as to those in industry, education, or government who are trying to understand the meaning of fi gures derived from comparisons or experiments."-W. EDWARDS DEMING Co-written by three recipients of the Deming Medal awarded by the ...

BACKGROUND Vitamin B1 (thiamine-diphosphate) and B6 (pyridoxal-5'phosphate) are micronutrients. Analysis of these micronutrients is important to diagnose potential deficiency which often occurs in elderly people due to malnutrition, in severe alcoholism and in gastrointestinal compromise due to bypass surgery or disease. Existing High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) based methods inclu...

BACKGROUND Measurements of maternal fat mass (FM) are important for studies of maternal and fetal health. Common methods of estimating FM have not been previously compared in pregnancy with measurements using more complete body composition models. OBJECTIVES The goal of this pilot study was to compare multiple methods that estimate FM, including 2-, 3- and 4-compartment models in pregnant wom...