Abstract TranslateAbstract Despite extensive research on defining and measuring health care quality‚ little attention has been given to consumers ’ perspectives of high-quality health care. The purposes of this study were to (a) identify the importance to consumers of attributes of health care quality and nursing care quality‚ and (b) examine the relationship of consumer perspectives to health status and selected demographic variables. Exploratory. Consumers (N = 239) were recruited from waiting
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affected Under Armour since the company’s establishment in 1996. Under Armour is most commonly known for its performance apparel‚ footwear‚ and accessories sold worldwide. Though fairly new‚ Under Armour has increased their stock price by more than 20% in the last three months as stated in‚ “Under Armour Through the Lens of Porter’s Five forces.” After introducing a new footwear collection in 2006‚ Under Armour’s net sales skyrocketed making them a force to be reckoned with. Despite Under Armour’s
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Metrics for Software Quality Software quality metrics are a subset of software metrics that focus on the quality aspects of the product‚ process‚ and project. In general‚ software quality metrics are more closely associated with process and product metrics than with project metrics. Nonetheless‚ the project parameters such as the number of developers and their skill levels‚ the schedule‚ the size‚ and the organization structure certainly affect the quality of the product. Software quality metrics can be
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services produced over a specific time period - you can think of it as the size of the economy. Usually‚ GDP is expressed as a comparison to the previous quarter or year. For example‚ if the year-to-year GDP is up 3%‚ this is thought to mean that the economy has grown by 3% over the last year. Measuring GDP is complicated (which is why we leave it to the economists)‚ but at its most basic‚ the calculation can be done in one of two ways: either by adding up what everyone earned in a year (income
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DOING THE RIGHT THING 21 This excerpt is from Michael J. Sandel‚ Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?‚ pp. 21-30‚ by permission of the publisher. The Runaway Trolley Suppose you are the driver of a trolley car hurtling down the track at sixty miles an hour. Up ahead you see ve workers standing on the track‚ tools in hand. You try to stop‚ but you can’t. The brakes don’t work.You feel desperate‚ because you know that if you crash into these ve workers‚ they will all die. (Let’s assume you know
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System 30 (2002) 419–432 www.elsevier.com/locate/system Doing focus-on-form Rod Ellis*‚ Helen Basturkmen‚ Shawn Loewen Department of Applied Language Studies and Linguistics‚ University of Auckland‚ Private Bag 92019‚ Auckland‚ New Zealand Received 17 April 2002; received in revised form 14 June 2002; accepted 17 June 2002 Abstract ‘Focus-on-form’ refers to a particular type of form-focused instruction - the treatment of linguistic form in the context of performing a communicative task
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proper functioning Kaizen requires active participation from everybody at all levels in an organization: from the top management down to the lowest skilled workers‚ since the philosophy assumes that everybody has an interest in improvement‚ not just at work but in all aspects of life. Kaizen is based on three main points: Waste elimination Standardization Management of workplace On elimination of waste‚ Kaizen transpires with the concept of lean manufacturing where efforts are applied to tackle with
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communication is important in the work place • Identify different reasons why people communicate - There are so many reasons why people communicate in a work place but the main reason is that‚ so they can understand each other and they should interact with one another to get the job done as quickly as possible or to get the job done perfectly. E.g. you cleaned the service users’ room during your shift and when the other staff came he cleans the room again. In this case without communication the time you should
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Work Ethic. With this discourse it may be difficult in teaching. I am a very hard worker and put everything I have into any kind of work that I do. I have gained my work ethic through softball and sometimes I expect everybody to work as hard as I‚ and sometimes people don’t. I will get frustrated and my anger will build. I know that as a teacher some students may not work as hard as what I want them‚ and I need to help them in proactive ways. I hope that I can work on this discourse over time.
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are involved in decisions to do with operating the Social Services in the city. They take advice from senior professionals within the Social Services field. Councillors are accountable to people for what they do and they will try to listen to local people at surgeries. Officers These are the full-time professionals who interpret government policies and advise councillors on the best way to deliver services. These people are not accountable to the electorate so they must act in the interests of the
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