The USA National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care--organised by the Institute of Healthcare Improvement (Boston USA)--attracts many people from outside North America. At the 1999 meeting 20 countries were represented. A session on "Quality improvement around the world" was included in the pre-conference programme to bring together people working in many countries to explore and compa...

The USA National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care—organised by the Institute of Healthcare Improvement (Boston USA)—attracts many people from outside North America. At the 1999 meeting 20 countries were represented. A session on “Quality improvement around the world” was included in the pre-conference programme to bring together people working in many countries to explore and compare...

The present paper is about French -ité nouns formation. More specifically, we are dealing with their interpretations. A deadjectival noun is a complex noun morphologically coined on an adjectival base. French deadjectival nouns formation (noted A > N) includes at least eight suffixes, as reported in Table 1. Actually, -ité is the most represented suffix in the biggest multivolume French diction...

Principal component analysis (PCA) is a multivariate technique that analyzes a data table in which observations are described by several inter-correlated quantitative dependent variables. Its goal is to extract the important information from the table, to represent it as a set of new orthogonal variables called principal components, and to display the pattern of similarity of the observations a...

transfer table is an essential stage between roughing and finishing rolling stands in a hot-strip rolling mill. high temperature and long time that strip is exposed to air at this stage cause a considerable heat loss that accounts for uneven temperature distribution, non-uniform surfaces, reduced product quality and increased production costs. using thermal shields on the transfer table is cons...

In 1992, I wrote an article on a method of modifying the Decennial US Life Table to accommodate any pattern of excess mortality expressed in terms of excess death rate (EDR), for the specific purpose of calculating the reduced life expectancy, e. I believe this was the first article published in the Journal of Insurance Medicine (JIM) that dealt specifically with life expectancy as an index of ...