Quality-Aware Tooling


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A Ph.D. dissertation about a concept of software development tools augmented with code quality feedback (based on static analysis).




Listening to God - tools to reduce stress and increase awareness


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The author of this book is uniquely experienced and gifted. He has advanced from drug addiction and crime to martial arts, an encounter with Jesus in a Syrian cave, and a deep schooling in body-soul prayer. He has learned from whatever is true, noble, right and pure in holistic traditions of east and west, including the desert Athletes of Christ and contemporary psycho-somatic research. Øyvind Borgsø teaches us how to de-stress. He is at home in his body and enables us to be at home in our bodies, which are temples of the Holy Spirit. 'Prayer means unblocking all the rooms in my body and soul' he tells us. He unpacks for us the old adage 'to pray is to breathe'. He writes about 'nowness', which some of us know as 'the sacrament of the present moment'. This man of prayer gives us the tools to become supple, replete, and to grow in stature. - Ray Simpson of Lindisfarne




Spatial Data Quality


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As research in the geosciences and social sciences becomes increasingly dependent on computers, applications such as geographical information systems are becoming indispensable tools. But the digital representations of phenomena that these systems require are often of poor quality, leading to inaccurate results, uncertainty, error propagation, and




Computer-Assisted Language Learning: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications


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In a diverse society, the ability to cross communication barriers is critical to the success of any individual personally, professionally, and academically. With the constant acceleration of course programs and technology, educators are continually being challenged to develop and implement creative methods for engaging English-speaking and non-English-speaking learners. Computer-Assisted Language Learning: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications is a vital reference source that examines the relationship between language education and technology and the potential for curriculum enhancements through the use of mobile technologies, flipped instruction, and language-learning software. This multi-volume book is geared toward educators, researchers, academics, linguists, and upper-level students seeking relevant research on the improvement of language education through the use of technology.




The Theory of Culture-Specific Total Quality Management


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This volume is the first to show the influence that culture has on the success of TQM, and uses the case of Chinese companies operating in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan to support the assertion that culture has a greater effect on TQM than has been previously acknowledged. This book will be compelling reading for students, researchers and professionals concerned with cultural diversity and alternative approaches to TQM.




Promoting quality in TVET using technology


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Supercharged Quality


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As customers or consumers, we expect quality products and quality services, getting value for our money. For producers or service providers, it is a challenge to satisfy customers and also take care of other stakeholders. In the last few decades we have seen several quality models and frameworks. Organizations see another challenge in implementing those frameworks effectively. Three basic parameters of quality are products (technology), processes and people. With availability of products and processes, the challenge is to align people for quality programme. This book provides the tools to meet different challenges. Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) uses mechanics of mind to achieve the excellence. It is an add-on to the previous approaches using processes and statistics. This book gives superchargers - persuasion for quality by tapping motivational needs, use of right beliefs and behaviors to support continual improvements, holistic and integrated structure for quality management system and several NLP tools for projects, services and for product manufacturing. Using simple language and not requiring any prerequisite in NLP, this book is a practical guide of how we can use NLP for quality programme, which may be a new initiative or revival of existing quality programme.




Advanced Information Systems Engineering


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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2018, held in Talinn, Estonia, in June 2018. The 37 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 175 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on Process Execution, User-Oriented IS Development, Social Computing and Personalization, the Cloud and Data Services, Process Discovery, Decisions and the Blockchain, Process and Multi-level Modelling, Data Management and Visualization, Big Data and Intelligence, Data Modelling and Mining, Quality Requirements and Software, and Tutorials.




Total Quality Management


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Acclaimed and used in over 200 colleges and universities around the country, Total Quality Management: Text, Cases and Readings has been completely revised and expanded to meet the growing demands and awareness for quality products and services in the competing domestic and global marketplaces. Since the publication of the first and second editions of this book, interest in and acceptance of TQM has continued to accelerate around the world. This edition has been thoroughly revised, updated and expanded. Some of the changes are: A new chapter on the emerging Theory of Constraints Expanded treatment of Process Management Eleven new readings Ten new cases Chapter examples of TQM at 12 Baldrige winning organizations End of chapter recommendations for further reading Revised and updated textual material The Varifilm case is retained as a comprehensive study that illustrates good and not so good practices. Each chapter contains an exercise which provides the reader with an opportunity to apply TQM principles to the practices illustrated in each case. Based on sound principles, this practical book is an excellent text for organizational development programs aimed at practitioners responsible for developing and implementing TQM programs in their own service or manufacturing organizations.




The Mindful Schools Curriculum for Adolescents: Tools for Developing Awareness


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A flexible set of lessons tailored to the developmental needs of adolescents, based on research in behavioral science. Arguably, no student population stands to gain more from mindfulness practice— with its power to enhance emotion regulation, attention stability, and self- awareness— than students between the ages of thirteen and twenty. In this comprehensive curriculum developed at Mindful Schools, Oren Jay Sofer and Matthew Brensilver provide twentyfive brief (twenty- to- thirty- minute) lessons that supply a framework for mindfulness instruction that can be expanded or condensed according to the needs of students. Each lesson includes a “science supplement” with research findings relevant to the practice, and handouts summarizing key aspects of the lesson that can be distributed to students. Users of the curriculum may also be interested in the instructional resource written from a similar perspective by these authors with JoAnna Hardy: Teaching Mindfulness to Empower Adolescents.