Though nursing education and training have been widely studied, how to encourage nursing staff to supervise nursing students receives relatively less attention. We aim to partially fill this gap by investigating factors affecting nursing staff’s willingness to supervise nursing students. Eleven factors on general qualification merits and seven factors on teaching merits and preferences are cons...

We consider a manufacturer using a Request For Quotes reverse auction in combination with supplier qualification screening to determine which qualified supplier will be awarded a contract. Supplier qualification screening is costly for the manufacturer, for example involving reference checks, financial audits, and on-site visits. The manufacturer seeks to minimize its total procurement costs, i...

Excellent book is always being the best friend for spending little time in your office, night time, bus, and everywhere. It will be a good way to just look, open, and read the book while in that time. As known, experience and skill don't always come with the much money to acquire them. Reading this book with the PDF statistical procedures for machine and process qualification will let you know ...

Qualification that a leader should satisfy in managing nonprofit organization (NPO) is revealed by integrating the analysis of questionnaire survey and mailing list archives. Questionnaire survey is applied to 104 members in dot-jp, the specific nonprofit organization in Japan. Mailing list archives are analyzed by applying the IDM (Influence Diffusion Model) that measures the influential and i...

Soccer is one of the most popular sports in the world with millions of fans that usually raise interesting questions when the competition is partially completed. One interesting question relates to the elimination problem which consists in checking at some stage of the competition if a team i still has a theoretical chance to become the champion. Some other interesting problems from literature ...

We present a computationally eeective approach to representing and reasoning about actions with many qualiications. The approach involves treating actions as qualiied not by speciic facts that may or may not hold when the action is executed, but instead as potentially qualiied by general constraints describing the domain being investigated. Speciically, we suggest that the result of the action ...

One of the most time consuming activities in new product development is associated with reliability assessment and qualification. This is defined as a process to verify whether the anticipated reliability is indeed achieved under actual life cycle loads for some specified length of time. Reliability assessment and qualification is usually accomplished by testing under accelerated loads to achie...

In this paper, we propose a solution to McCarthy’s qualification problem [lo] based on the notion of possible worlds [3, 61. We begin by noting that existing formal solutions to qualification seem to us to suffer from serious epistemological and computational difficulties. We present a formalization of action based on the notion of possible worlds, and show that our solution to the qualificatio...

Coordinate metrology aims to answer two questions: whether a manufactured part meets design tolerance specifications and how well the manufactured part meets the specifications. Existing methods for analyzing measured coordinate data are not adequate or effective for parts of complex tolerance zones. This paper presents a new approach to dimensional qualification of manufactured parts. In this ...

This article considers that the National Plan of Workers’ Qualification – Planfor established too audacious general objectives: democratization of access to professional qualification; the search of a sustainable development model; and new State’s performance. It also considers that the Plan succeeded in the first and third objectives, while its limits have had great impact on the second one.