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Why is reporting quality improvement so hard? A qualitative study in perioperative care.
OBJECTIVES: Quality improvement (QI) may help to avert or mitigate the risks of suboptimal care, but it is often poorly reported in the healthcare literature. We aimed to identify the influences on reporting QI in the area of...
A triangular grid generation and optimization framework for the design of free-form gridshells
Gridshells have been widely used in various public buildings, and many of them are defined over complex free-form surfaces with complex boundaries. This emphasizes the importance of general grid generation and optimization...
Dynamic relaxation Free-form surface Grid generation Grid quality Gridshell /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1700/1706 name=Computer Science Applications /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1700/1704 name=Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2200/2209 name=Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
A triangular grid generation and optimization framework for the design of free-form gridshells
Gridshells have been widely used in various public buildings, and many of them are defined over complex free-form surfaces with complex boundaries. This emphasizes the importance of general grid generation and optimization...
Dynamic relaxation Free-form surface Grid generation Grid quality Gridshell /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1700/1706 name=Computer Science Applications /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1700/1704 name=Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2200/2209 name=Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Blockchain-Enabled Automatic Learning Method for Digital Gaming Systems Based on Big Data
Big data technology helps with any real-world problem involving a large amount of data. The cost of dealing with huge amounts of data is reduced by deploying big data technologies on cloud-based infrastructure. New technologies...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
An Invariant Arginine in Common with MHC Class II Allows Extension at the C-Terminal End of Peptides Bound to Chicken MHC Class I.
Jin Xiao, Wangzhen Xiang, Yongli Zhang, Weiyu Peng, Min Zhao, Ling Niu, Yan Chai, Jianxun Qi, Fei Wang, Peng Qi, Chungang Pan, Lingxia Han, Ming Wang, Jim Kaufman, George F Gao, William J Liu
Dec 17, 2018
MHC molecules are found in all jawed vertebrates and are known to present peptides to T lymphocytes. In mammals, peptides can hang out either end of the peptide-binding groove of classical class II molecules, whereas the N and C...
Determining the skills needed by frontline NHS staff to deliver quality improvement
BACKGROUND: Previous studies have detailed the technical, learning and soft skills healthcare staff deploy to deliver quality improvement (QI). However, research has mainly focused on management and leadership skills...
A Board Level Intervention to Develop Organisation-Wide Quality Improvement Strategies
Estela Capelas Barbosa, Lorelei Jones, Linda Pomeroy, Glenn Robert, Susan Burnett, Janet E Anderson, Steve Morris, Fulop Naomi
Aug 26, 2020
BACKGROUND: Hospital boards have statutory responsibility for upholding the quality of care in their organisations. International research on quality in hospitals resulted in a research-based guide to help senior hospital...
A modified Delphi study to identify the features of high quality measurement plans for healthcare improvement projects.
Thomas Woodcock, Yewande Adeleke, Christine Goeschel, Peter Pronovost, Mary Dixon-Woods
Feb 15, 2020
BACKGROUND:The design and execution of measurement in quality improvement (QI) initiatives is often poor. Better guidance on "what good looks like" might help to mitigate some of the problems. We report a consensus-building...
Published by: BMC medical research methodology
One-Stop Smart Urban Apps and Determinants of Their Continuance Usage
This study aimed to explore factors affecting continual usage of one-stop smart urban apps, which is the key to realise the vision of smart cities. A questionnaire (involved a total of 578 users/citizens) was carried out to test...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
The Use of the Analytic Hierarchy Process in Improving Psychological Empowerment and Employee Performance
The purpose is to further analyze the influence of AI technology on the psychology of employees in the computer industry and truly solve the problems encountered in enterprise management, such as difficult organizational...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
Mapping outcomes in quality improvement and system design activities
BACKGROUND: Whether explicit or implicit, models of value are fundamental in quality improvement (QI) initiatives. They embody the desirability of the impact of interventions-with either foresight or hindsight. Increasingly...
A modified Delphi study to identify the features of high quality measurement plans for healthcare improvement projects.
Thomas Woodcock, Yewande Adeleke, Christine Goeschel, Peter Pronovost, Mary Dixon-Woods
Jan 20, 2020
BACKGROUND: The design and execution of measurement in quality improvement (QI) initiatives is often poor. Better guidance on "what good looks like" might help to mitigate some of the problems. We report a consensus-building...
Long-Term-Oriented Values, Governance Model Preferences, and Dual Innovation in Family Firms
A total of 217 questionnaires were used to empirically test the mechanism and effect of long-term orientation and governance mode preference on dual innovation in family firms. The data analysis shows that family firms'...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
One-dimensional alignment of defects in a flexible metal-organic framework.
Yao Fu, Alexander C Forse, Zhengzhong Kang, Matthew J Cliffe, Weicheng Cao, Jinglin Yin, Lina Gao, Zhenfeng Pang, Tian He, Qinlong Chen, Qi Wang, Jeffrey R Long, Jeffrey A Reimer, Xueqian Kong
Mar 13, 2023
Crystalline materials are often considered to have rigid periodic lattices, while soft materials are associated with flexibility and nonperiodicity. The continuous evolution of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) has erased the...
Published by: Sci Adv
Vessel structural stress mediates aortic media degeneration in bicuspid aortopathy
Fei Li, Shuo Wang, Qi Gao, Xiuyu Chen, Gang Yin, Cuntao Yu, Yuetang Wang, Xu Wang, En Qiao, Zakaria Meddings, Wei Wang, Shihua Zhao, Zhongzhao Teng
Oct 12, 2021
Characterizing Human Collective Behaviors During COVID-19 - Hong Kong SAR, China, 2020.
Zhanwei Du, Xiao Zhang, Lin Wang, Sidan Yao, Yuan Bai, Qi Tan, Xiaoke Xu, Sen Pei, Jingyi Xiao, Tim K Tsang, Qiuyan Liao, Eric HY Lau, Peng Wu, Chao Gao, Benjamin J Cowling
Mar 16, 2023
WHAT IS ALREADY KNOWN ABOUT THIS TOPIC?: People are likely to engage in collective behaviors online during extreme events, such as the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis, to express awareness, take action, and work...
Dynamic Research on Youth Thought, Behavior, and Growth Law Based on Deep Learning Algorithm
Qi Fu
Apr 01, 2023
The growth and development of youth is related to the destiny of the country and the nation, and the cultivation of young people in the new era is of great significance. Youth is a special stage in life, and the ideological and...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
A think-aloud method of investigating translanguaging strategies in learning Chinese characters
Asian scripts that are significantly different from Roman-derived alphabets usually impose difficulties in learning. Translanguaging has therefore been explored as a pedagogical tool for the language classroom, including...
Progress towards understanding protein S-acylation
S-acylation, also known as S-palmitoylation or palmitoylation, is a reversible post-translational lipid modification in which long chain fatty acid, usually the 16-carbon palmitate, covalently attaches to a cysteine residue(s)...
How Does User Social Network Improve Innovation Outcomes on a Virtual Innovation Platform?
Previous studies demonstrate that online interactive relations can help improve users' innovation outcomes, yet few studies have investigated how they influence user innovation. This paper builds a social network based on users'...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
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