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Performance Evaluation for a Sustainable Supply Chain Management System in the Automotive Industry Using Artificial Intelligence
2020
Increasing the sustainability of a system can be achieved by evaluating the system, identifying the issues and their root cause and solving them. Performance evaluation translates into key performance indicators (KPIs) with a high impact on increasing overall efficacy and efficiency. As the pool of KPIs has increased over time in the context of evaluating the supply chain management (SCM) system&rsquo
Validity and reliability of the checklist of non-verbal pain indicators in Albanian. First step
2018
Background: in Albania non ci sono strumenti affidabili per valutare la presenza di dolore nei pazienti non-verbalizzanti. L'obiettivo del nostro studio era di fornire una validazione linguistica della checklist in albanese per gli indicatori di dolore non verbale (CNPI). Metodi: dopo la traduzione inversa, abbiamo usato la versione albanese in uno studio trasversale per verificare sia l'affidabilità che la validità di questo strumento in contesti clinici. La Visual Analog Scale è stata adottata come gold standard. Sono stati usati anche il kappa di Cohen e il coefficiente di correlazione di Pearson. La validità costruttiva del CNPI è stata stabilita mediante l'analisi fattoriale esplorativ…
Anthropometric Indicators as a Tool for Diagnosis of Obesity and Other Health Risk Factors: A Literature Review
2021
[EN] Obesity is characterized by the accumulation of an excessive amount of fat mass (FM) in the adipose tissue, subcutaneous, or inside certain organs. The risk does not lie so much in the amount of fat accumulated as in its distribution. Abdominal obesity (central or visceral) is an important risk factor for cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, and cancer, having an important role in the so-called metabolic syndrome. Therefore, it is necessary to prevent, detect, and appropriately treat obesity. The diagnosis is based on anthropometric indices that have been associated with adiposity and its distribution. Indices themselves, or a combination of some of them, conform to a big picture with di…
A posteriori error control for Maxwell and elliptic type problems
2014
Pathways and pedestrian crossings: indicators of quality and safety
2014
Pedestrian mobility can be considered an important feature in a new model of town organization. Enhancing pedestrian mobility could bring new life and activities in the old and historic parts of the town reviving their original identities. The planning of new quarters is often performed considering a wide use of private cars, this resulting in urban highways and long and winding local roads hindering pedestrian mobility and safe-ty. Town social features and mobility purpose, related to pedestrian age, are important elements to define the Pedestrian Safety Indicators. Using a GIS software, an evaluation of risk was carried out along a main urban road in order to study and develop measures to…
Esercizio delle abilità di pensiero critico in insegnanti di sostegno
2019
Il contributo presenta gli indicatori usati per valutare gli esiti di un progetto formativo rivolto a 450 insegnanti, frequentanti il corso di specializzazione abilitante all'insegnamento di sostegno nella scuola primaria e dell’infanzia, che si è svolto da settembre 2017 a giugno 2018 presso l’Università di Palermo. L’obiettivo della ricerca è stato quello di analizzare negli insegnanti in formazione la crescita di abilità di pensiero critico, esercitate durante le attività di tirocinio. La verifica della capacità critica è stata condotta con uno strumento di osservazione costruito ad hoc.
System Dynamics Models To Support Health Care Companies In Managing Clinical Risk
2011
Clinical risk management has gained an increasing relevance because of the higher monetary and no monetary effects of clinical errors on health care companies' performance. For this reason, different risk management techniques from the industrial sector have been adopted by managers of health care companies in order to reduce the occurrences of errors and their relative impacts. However, these methods, based on a linear and static perspective, do not properly support the health care companies' management in the identification and assessment of policies aimed at improving the clinical risk profile without reducing financial performances. Therefore, it is necessary to adopt a systemic and mul…
A NEW INDEX OF POVERTY PERSISTENCE
2008
This paper proposes a new indicator of poverty persistence based on a synthesis of the temporal sequences of the years spent in poverty and non poverty, taking into account the order in which poverty spells follow each other. The index is a measure with cardinal properties and it allows not only the ranking of the individuals according to the duration of their poverty experience but also to measure the distance between any two individuals in the population. The index can be built up at individual level and it is also possible to have an aggregated index at any territorial level. Micro data from a longitudinal survey are needed.
Best practices for teaching boys
2015
Boys are the ones in trouble, they say. They are trailing girls in reading and writing, are more likely to get in trouble or be labelled as learning disabled, and are less likely to go to college. Educators, citing emerging brain research, say that the two sexes learn differently and that schools are more geared to girls than to their ants-in-the-pants counterparts. But they are adopting strategies to help boys succeed, from playing multiplication baseball to handing out stress balls and setting up boys-only schools. Nowadays, there is an urgent call for a more significant presence of male teachers in primary schools. Here are the results of an extensive research concerning gender differenc…
Non-Occupational Exposure to Pesticides: Experimental Approaches and Analytical Techniques (from 2019)
2021
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