PURPOSE We examined the relationship between the quality indicator for decline in activities of daily living (ADL) and the use of the Minimum Data Set (MDS) for determining Medicaid skilled nursing facility reimbursement. DESIGN AND METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional analysis using the 2004 National MDS Facility Quality Indicator reports as the dependent variable in a multilevel regressio...

Productive tiller percentage (PTP) is the only available comprehensive indicator of rice population quality. However, productive panicle number (PN) has a great effect on its characterization accuracy. Panicle exsertion an important but difficult to describe morphological index; therefore, it cannot be easily determined. The aims this study were develop heading uniformity (HU), which describes ...

Air pollution has become an essential issue in environmental protection. The Quality Index (AQI) is often used to determine the severity of air pollution. When AQI reaches red level, proportion asthma patients seeking medical treatment will increase by 30% more than usual. If can be predicted advance, benefits early warning achieved. In recent years, a scholar proposed α-Sutte indicator which s...

This article introduces some techniques to estimate and to improve the numerical quality of computations performed using different computer arithmetics. A general methodology is introduced and it is applied to the fixed-point and floating-point formats. We show how to globally measure the quality of the implementation of a formula with respect to some quality indicators. In the case of the floa...