The purpose of assurance activities is to reduce risk, thereby ensuring requirements. However, assurance activities incur costs such as budget, schedule, mass ( e g , radiation shielding), etc. The selection of assurance activities to perform is thus an assurance optimization problem. For example, for a given budget, selection of the set of assurance activities that will minimize risk (i.e., ma...

Do not require Government contract quality assurance at source for contracts or delivery orders valued below $250,000, unless— (1) Mandated by DoD regulation; (2) Required by a memorandum of agreement between the acquiring department or agency and the contract administration agency; or (3) The contracting officer determines that— (i) Contract technical requirements are significant (e.g., the te...

In this paper we discuss how software quality assurance is realized in Rational Objectory. Although much support is given through guidelines and checkpoints, the tool fails to provide clear goals and metrics for quality assessments and it only partially supports the phases in a measurement program.

The popularity of declaring quality assurance seems to be growing significantly in the last decade, including the field of distance studies and elearning. Unfortunately, the implementation of quality assurance mechanisms on the operational level faces considerable problems. In this article we describe different conceptions of quality of distance studies, the stage of research and implementation...

While ultrasound guided prostate brachytherapy has gained wide acceptance as a primary treatment tool for prostate cancer, quality assurance of the ultrasound guidance system has received very little attention. Task Group 128 of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine was created to address quality assurance requirements specific to transrectal ultrasound used for guidance of prostat...

introduction dosimetric accuracy is a major issue in the quality assurance (qa) program for treatment planning systems (tps). an important contribution to this process has been a proper dosimetry method to guarantee the accuracy of delivered dose to the tumor. in brachytherapy (bt) of gynecological (gyn) cancer it is usual to insert a combination of tandem and ovoid applicators with a complicat...

background: health system pharmacies, like other health care professional, practice under a number of mandated stan­dards. basic concepts of quality assurance (qa) standards should be applied to hospital pharmacy practice. the survey re­ported here is to assess qa system implementation and its standard indicators observation in tehran university of medical sci­ences (tums) hospitals' pharmacies...

Government involvement in quality assurance is becoming the trend in many countries, including New Zealand. What values underpin the systems that evolve in each country, and who has given legitimacy to them? In the context of the prevailing ideology of early childhood, this paper unpacks quality assurance in Australia and comments on the assumptions, taken for granted premises and values which ...

The purpose of this thesis is to evaluate the use of Quality Function Deployment (QFD) as a management tool to benefit project managers. The United States building construction of Engineers is one of the largest construction management organizations in the world, annually performing over 3.5 billion dollars worth of work. The project manager has primary responsibility within the construction, t...