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An Analytic Hierarchy Process Approach To Assess Health Service Quality, Yan Li
An Analytic Hierarchy Process Approach To Assess Health Service Quality, Yan Li
Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA
While improving quality in health care is currently at the forefront of professional, political, and managerial attention, the key dimensions constituting health-care quality have not been fully understood. Also, few valid approaches have been proposed to the measurement of health-care quality. In this research, the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) approach is applied to study the structure of health-care quality and deducted relative importance weights for each of the quality elements. A statistical quality model is derived to assess medical equipment quality which is an important part constituting the general health-care quality. Finally, the application of the AHP model to assess …
Analysis Of Performance Capacity Of Hand Grip Through An Integrated Learning Curve Model, Miguel Torres
Analysis Of Performance Capacity Of Hand Grip Through An Integrated Learning Curve Model, Miguel Torres
Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA
There are few activities or work task in the manufacturing industry that does not involve grip strength. That is why it is in the best interest of the manufacturing industry to have an understanding of the optimum grip strength gain capacity over time that would lead to better performance, accuracy and most of all prevent hand grip related injuries. For that reason, this thesis was concentrated in discovering a possible basic working model for estimating grip strength over time for a specific grip strength activity. The first step was to observe the trend characteristics of the strength gain data over …
Analysis Of Lifting Performance Capacity Through An Integrated Learning Curve Model, Jose Roel Flores
Analysis Of Lifting Performance Capacity Through An Integrated Learning Curve Model, Jose Roel Flores
Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA
Physical fitness specific to job demands is necessary for jobs that require moderate or heavy effort. Fitness training is needed not just when a new job is learned but also when an individual has been away from the job for a few weeks and returns to perform the task. The basic problem is to have a good understanding of the dynamics of performance capacities to establish training and retraining regimes to prevent overexertion. To obtain this, a better understanding of the behavior of performance capacity over time is necessary. A performance capacity training regimen was designed for tasks that required …
Human Reliability Analysis In The Performance Of Advanced Cardiac Life Support Tasks, Lucia Veronica Rosas
Human Reliability Analysis In The Performance Of Advanced Cardiac Life Support Tasks, Lucia Veronica Rosas
Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA
Error reduction in the performance of medical emergency situations is an area of great concern in today's society. This is specially the case when the situation involves a cardiac arrhythmia. These situations are generally categorized as Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) events. The American Heart Association provides the proper procedures that practitioners of ACLS should follow to provide care to patients presenting heart arrhythmia problems. These situations occur inside and outside the hospital, outside the hospital being the most critical ones considering the limitation of equipment and availability of qualified care. Errors made by the practitioners of ACLS in this …
Using Commercial Finite Element Code Called Abaqus In Modeling Hybrid Constrained Layers Damping Beam Structure And Quantitative Determination Of The Stability Of Implant-Bone Interface Using Resonance Frequency Analysis, Daniel Delgado Jr.
Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA
In Chapter 1, it has been demonstrated that the damping treatments for beam and plate structures are effective, and the vibrational behaviors of the systems considered are influenced by many geometrical and material parameters. This has led to an interest in developing advanced “intelligent” structures. In the past, passive and active damping mechanisms have been used to reduce vibration. The uses of passive constrained layers are limited, but it has dissipative qualities for all the modes of the structure; and the uses of active constrained layers are limited to a single mode control. Recent published papers, many have suggested that …