Today it is crucial for organizations to pay even greater attention on quality management as the importance of this function in achieving ultimate business objectives is increasingly becoming clearer. Importance of the Quality Management (QM) Function in achieving basic need by ensuring compliance with Capability Maturity Model Integrated (CMMI) / International Organization for Standardization ...

Building on research of psychosocial maturity and self-determination theory, we introduced investigated the concept digital as a novel view young people's technology use. We conceptualized self-determined use technologies supporting psychological growth well-being while shielding potential threats considering needs social environment. To measure maturity, developed Digital Maturity Inventory (D...

at low levels of maturity. The effects of increasing process maturity alone are not easy to determine, because organizations generally make concurrent improvements in other areas that also result in benefits to the development organization. So, a clearer assessment of process maturity effects is needed. Anecdotal case study evidence shows many shortand long-term benefits to improving process ma...

This paper studies early refinancing activities in the corporate bond market and its implications for debt maturity structure. In additional to interest rate reduction, speculative-grade firms constantly extend maturity through early refinancing. Moreover, they take advantage of accommodating credit market conditions to extend maturity on a large scale, leading to pro-cyclical debt maturity str...

BACKGROUND Career maturity is an important parameter as nursing undergraduates prepare for their future careers. However, little is known regarding the relationships between attributions, future time perspective and career maturity among nursing undergraduates. The purpose of this study was to investigate the degree of career maturity and its relationship with attributions and future time persp...

MoneyMarket Mutual Funds, known in Australia as Cash Management Trusts (CMTs), provide potential benefits for retail investors from pooling of funds and superior portfolio (maturity) management skills. The average maturity of CMTassets exhibits significant variation both cross sectionally and over time, but there is significant correlation between the asset maturities of different CMTs. These v...

Different studies even on same shrimp species and heavy metals from locations may be inconsistent with each other. Because of their important a food safety risk, therefore, meta-analysis is required to evaluate the true risk level human consumption for these aquatic organisms. In this study, commercially two species, Penaeus semisulcatus (de Hann, 1844) Metapenaeus monoceros (Fabricius, 1798), ...

Activity patterns of Penaeus merguiensjs, P. esculentus and Metapenaeus endeavouri were studied in response to simulated tidal and day-night cycles in the laboratory. When these cycles were imposed separately, each species was more active at night and near the times of high tide. However, when the tidal and day-night cycles were imposed together, the relative strengths of the responses to the 2...

BACKGROUND Antisocial personality and psychopathic traits have constantly been found to accompany criminal and aggressive behaviors, but little attention has been given to aspects of character maturity and its relation to such behaviors. The present study investigated (1) whether level of character maturity (low, medium, and high) is associated with amount of aggressive antisocial behaviors (AA...