OBJECTIVE Standards terminologies may be large and complex, making their quality assurance challenging. Some terminology quality assurance (TQA) methodologies are based on abstraction networks (AbNs), compact terminology summaries. We have tested AbNs and the performance of related TQA methodologies on small terminology hierarchies. However, some standards terminologies, for example, SNOMED, ar...

PROBLEM Although efforts to integrate health systems science (HSS) topics, such as patient safety, quality improvement (QI), interprofessionalism, and population health, into health professions curricula are increasing, the rate of change has been slow. APPROACH The Teachers of Quality Academy (TQA), Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, was established in January 2014 with th...

The diversification of translation services, tools and quality expectations in an increasingly globalized translation industry has accentuated the significance of translation quality assurance (TQA) processes and their management. This paper focuses on the profile of institutional translation service managers from a holistic TQA perspective. After a short account of their most common duties as ...

TomoTherapy Quality Assurance (TQA) is a software package developed to monitor certain aspects of machine performance. In this study, the TQA quantities or data trends most effective in monitoring energy drifts and magnetron stability were determined respectively. This retrospective study used data collected from three TomoHD units. The TQA modules investigated were Step-Wedge Helical, Step-Wed...

As an essential part of the application field translation, translation quality assessment （TQA） is greatly useful in standardizing market, improving quality, and promoting teaching. This paper explores different kinds TQA models chronologically from qualitative quantitative perspectives, respectively, points out some problems current studies on China. The author, based new trends theory applica...

Q-TRANS, which stands for Query-TRANSlation System, translates formal database queries into English to enhance the usability of both natural and formal language database access systems. Q-TRANS is designed for the database query language SQL, whose query expressions serve as an abstract representation from which an English paraphrase is generated. Q-TRANS is also intended to be part of the Tran...

High-spin oxoiron(IV) species are often implicated in the mechanisms of nonheme iron oxygenases, their C-H bond cleaving properties being attributed to the quintet spin state. However, the few available synthetic S = 2 Fe(IV)═O complexes supported by polydentate ligands do not cleave strong C-H bonds. Herein we report the characterization of a highly reactive S = 2 complex, [Fe(IV)(O)(TQA)(NCMe...

This paper proposes a novel bio-inspired termite queen algorithm (TQA) to solve optimization problems by simulating the division of labor in populations under queen’s rule. TQA is benchmarked on set 23 functions test its performance at solving global problems, and applied six real-world engineering design verify reliability effectiveness. Comparative simulation studies with other algorithms are...

2,4,6-Tri(dimethylaminomethyl)-phenol was synthesized as a trifunctional moiety and incorporated onto poly(2,6-dimethyl-1,4-phenylene oxide) (PPO) to obtain a novel quaternary ammonium functionalized PPO (PPO-TQA). Membranes of the polymer were fabricated and exhibited high conductivity, a low swelling ratio and water uptake.