were a number of schemes which, while highly meritorious as hospital plans, were pre-eminently suited to large and middle-sized hospitals. The designs, the Jury say, exhibited wide variations of merit; a few in fact seemed quite devoid of merit, A number of otherwise interesting plans failed to command approval because the working, and especially the nursing units, were put together in a manner...

Biography Fernando Huesca Ramón has Bachelor studies in Biology and Philosophy from the Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla (BUAP), Master studies in Philosophy from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and is currently finishing a doctorate project with the subject: “Political Economy in Hegel: Capital and ethical life.” His areas of research are Political Economy, Poli...

Studies comparing performance of Usability Evaluation Methods (UEMs) led to three standard metrics, namely, validity, thoroughness, and effectiveness, calculated from lab-based usability test results. The effectiveness metric, E = T x V, was proposed as the ‘figure of merit’ [7] that would give a balanced account of validity and thoroughness. This paper provides an analysis of the formula to ca...