The characteristics examined include the following: size, by number of employees; nationality; conviction about the benefits of TQM; type of customer; perceived product value; existence of advice during the process characteristics. A TQM construct was developed to measure the effect of these ...
aFouling factors include: (1) characteristics of the film itself, such as the pore size and distribution, the membrane structure, the physical properties of the film, the film - solute - solvent interaction between; (2) to be treated effluent quality, particularly the type and concentration of...
Rock-Eval pyrolysis and TOC analysis are commonly used to identify the hydrocarbon potential of OM and hydrocarbon generative potential (Espitalié et al., 1977, 1985a). The relevant parameters include S1, S2, S3, hydrogen index (HI), oxygen index (OI) and Tmax. Table 1 summarizes the TOC...
Nearly 100 000 accessions of germplasm resources of 15 different food crops were evaulated for quality characteristics during the period of the 7th, 8th, and 9th Five year plan in China. These crops include rice, wheat, barley, oats, buckwheat, corn, foxtail millet, broom millet, sorghum, ...
Additional outcome metrics include the average degree of the final publications and grant networks. Recognizing that team development takes time and occurs over stages, we exclude metrics reported from the first year to allow teams time to become established. Statistical analysis We use Kendall’s ...
Li was echoed by Liang, who believed that the newly-elected lawmakers are what the Hong Kong people have been looking for, as they are a group of patriots that include elites and representatives from all walks of life, representing the interests of all people in Hong Kong. ...
Only the ALS patients with the diagnostic grades of clinically definite (defined on clinical evidence alone by the presence of UMN and LMN signs in at least three regions) were include in the study cohort39.The medical records of all ALS patients were obtained including accompanying signs and ...
bTrials could include expanded patient populations from those in the accelerated approval indication. See eTable 2 in the Supplement for a detailed description of postapproval confirmatory studies. cTrials were long-term extensions of preapproval studies forming the basis of accelerated approval. dTrial...
As a result, the READY Education app allows us to observe a comprehensive set of information about students that include both (i) institutional data (i.e., demographic, and socio-economic characteristics as well as academic performance), and (ii) their idiosyncratic experience at university ...
the Ministry of Ecology and Environment of the People’s Republic of China issued the newly revised “Ambient Air Quality Standards” in 2012 and “Technical regulation for ambient air quality assessment (on trial)” in 2013. The main substances impacting air quality include both short-lived pollu...