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A Procedure For Initiating Process Control, Kim Ingrid Melton

Doctoral Dissertations

The purpose of this research is to develop a procedure to initiate process control. Traditional methods of process control do not allow testing until an initial group of samples (usually 20 or more) is drawn. In addition, the testing for control worth respect to the process average is dependent on evidence that the variability in the process is stable.

The procedures developed and studied here allow immediate testing on the process average without assuming that the process is in control with respect to variability. Through the use of a sequential testing procedure, data from a current sample is tested to …

A Theoretical Framework For A Combined Social-Ethical Analysis, Michael Macdonald Burgess

Doctoral Dissertations

Current normative analyses and recommendations in medical ethics do not sufficiently analyze the social context of concrete ethical problems. This results in impractical or ineffective policy recommendations or case responses which reinforce the social context which created the ethical problem. A social analysis is possible which displays how the social context directs the communication and action of physicians and patients, and in turn reinforces and further establishes these influential social factors. Such a social analysis provides a means of integrating short-term case-responses with long-term institutional policy and structural change. The latter, on this analysis, is the more ethically "complete", and …