Quality Concept - Applicable Aspects for Management of Research Projects

2021 ◽  
Vol 110 ◽  
pp. 3-8
Author(s):  
Daniela Alice Manolescu ◽  
Adrian Ioana ◽  
Daniela Tufeanu ◽  
Claudiu Nicolicescu ◽  
Bogdan Florea ◽  
...  

The notion of quality is defined as the totality of the attributes and essential aspects by virtue of which one is what it is, distinguishing itself from the other things. The article has as its starting point the definition of quality according to SR EN ISO 9001:2015. This standard defines the quality like „the set of properties and features of a product or service that gives it the ability to meet the expressed and implied needs of the customers”. Our article treats three categories of expressed and implicit necessities: the expressed and implied needs of clients, as beneficiaries of Products/Work/Services (P/W/S); the expressed and implied necessities of an efficient production management; the expressed and implicit necessities of society as a whole. In the article we present and analyze the components of quality (decalogue of quality) and the correlations between them. The quality term involves two main aspects (components), namely: utility, expressed by degree of utility (this component quantifies the extent to which the P/W/S meets the customer's needs and consequently sells). Technical component (intrinsic), which refers strictly to the technical characteristics of P/W/S. It is obvious that there is mutual dependence between the two components of the concept of quality (biunivoc).

Author(s):  
Azza A Abubaker ◽  
Joan Lu

A textbook in any e-educational system is an important element that requires a closer look at its components and structure, as well as identifying the barriers that affect the level of learning. This can be achieved in different aspects such as the analysis of textual content or sentence structure which is one of the concerns of linguists. On the other hand, examining the textual content can determine the appropriateness of the education level for students. This type of assessment is part of educators' concerns and by examining and defining the factors that could affect reading a text on screen, this is usually related to the way of displaying text such as font size, colour, background colour, amount of text and the location of the text on the screen. This is a key focus of this research. In this chapter, the concern will be to define the concepts and the structure of an e- document as a starting point to investigate the usability of e-texts as it covers the following: definition of e-document; history of eBook; structure of e-textbook; contribution of e-textbook for education; comparison between reading electronic and paper book; young people and the use of the internet and computer; statistical data for using the internet in Arabic countries; designing an e-textbook.


2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 495-501
Author(s):  
A.M. Chavai ◽  
S.B. Hemgire

Sugarcane is main important cash crop. It is one of major crop of earning foreign exchange. The green tops of cane used as a fodder for cattle. Also sugarcane industry provides employment to a larger number of peoples. Now-a-days sugarcane nursery emerges as a new enterprise mainly in rural society. Nursery techniques involve raising seedlings, management and marketing for economical use. These techniques are useful in increasing success rate and reducing manual work. Also nursery seedlings increase germination percentage, useful for maintaining optimum plant population. The use of inputs like water, fertilizer etc., is also low. Hence, nursery is the starting point for successful planting. Successful nursery growing not only requires knowledge, skill and accuracy in the production but also in the marketing. Therefore, marketing of seedlings seems as a special significance in the sugarcane nursery. Marketing is one of the post production activity, which consistently influences the extent and nature of growing as well as profits to nursery owners. Under the present circumstances, there is a need for development of efficient marketing system along with efficient production management in the whole range of marketing activities including packing, transportation techniques, distribution and product standardization. Keeping the above facts in view, the present study was conducted in the year 2020 at Kolhapur district of Maharashtra State with the objectives; to study personal, socio-economic and psychological characteristics of the sugarcane nursery owners, to analyze the marketing behaviour of the sugarcane nursery owners, to find out relationship between personal, socio-economic and psychological characteristics with their marketing behaviour. The “Ex-post-facto” research design was used for the study .The study was conducted purposively in Kolhapur district of Maharashtra state. From Kolhapur district two tehsils namely Shirol and Hatkangale were selected. Seven villages from each tehsil and then ten respondents from each village were selected by nth method of random sampling to comprise a sample of 140 respondents. The data was collected and analyzed with the help of well-structured interview schedule by personal interview with the sugarcane nursery owners and suitable statistical tools. From the research study it was found that majority (65.01 %) of the sugarcane nursery owners were found to be middle age group (36 to 55 years), 52.16 per cent were educated upto secondary school, most (62.87 %) of the respondents had medium (17-30 years) farming experience, more than half (70.01 %) of respondents had fair irrigation status, half of respondents (52.87 %) had marginal size of land holding (Upto 1.00 ha), most (67.15 %) of the nursery owners had small area under nursery, more than half (57.05 %) of the respondents had medium annual income (Upto Rs.758667). The study also revealed that more than one half (67.87%) were grouped under medium level of sources of information, 60.72 per cent of nursery owners had medium level of innovativeness, 62.15 per cent of respondents were grouped under medium level of risk orientation and 72.15 per cent of respondents had medium level of marketing orientation. It was observed that more than half (57.87 %) of sugarcane nursery owners had medium marketing behaviour. Study revealed that the selected independent variables viz., education, land holding, area under nursery, annual income, irrigation status, source of information, risk orientation and marketing orientation were in positive and strongly significant relationship with their marketing behaviour. Whereas, the variable age had negative and non-significant correlation with marketing behaviour, similarly farming experience had positive and non-significant correlation with marketing behaviour of sugarcane nursery owners.


Author(s):  
Zahia Smail Salhi

Purpose: This article aims to engage in a meaningful discussion of Occidentalism as a discourse that draws its roots from Orientalism. It scrutinizes the limitations of Occidentalism in investigating the East-West encounter from the perspective of Orientals (Arab intellectuals) and the multifarious ways the latter relate to and imagine the Occident. It will cast a critical eye on the multiple and diverse constructions of Occidentalism as a discourse, arguing that unlike Orientalism, which homogenizes the Orient, Occidentalism does not Occidentalize/homogenize the Occident. Methodology: We take as a starting point Edward Said’s definition of Orientalism as a style of thought based upon an ontological and epistemological distinction made between ‘the Orient’ and ‘the Occident’, and we explore the limitations and the possibilities of Occidentalism as a method to construe the colonial mechanisms of misrepresentation of the Other as everything different from the Self. This article compares and contrasts a plethora of existing definitions of Occidentalism as formulated by scholars from both the Arab world and the Occident. Findings: This paper concludes that the Oriental’s encounter with the Occident cannot, and should not, be projected as a reverse relationship, or, as some claim, as an ‘Orientalism in reverse’. Instead, it should be projected as a diverse set of relationships of Orientals who have experienced the Occident in a variety of manners. Furthermore, while Orientalism derives from a particular closeness experienced between the Occident and its Orient, often through real or imagined encounters, Occidentalism is also the outcome of a long cultural relationship between the Orient and its Occident. What differs between the Orient and Occident, however, is the position of power and hegemony, which characterizes the Occident’s encounter with the Orient. Originality: This article takes an all-inclusive view to discuss the term Occidentalism from the perspectives of both the Orient and the Occident. It teases out the limitations of this term. It challenges Orientalist methods of misrepresentation, which continues to blemish the Arab world and its discourse of Occidentalism as a discourse of hatred of the Occident. Furthermore, through the discussion of Alloula’s Oriental Harem, it offers insight into the suggested Occidentalism method, which emphasizes the disfigurations of the Orient while tactfully writing back to the Occident.


Author(s):  
G. C. McVittie ◽  
Edmund Taylor Whittaker

In the existing theories of the expanding universe, the idea of metric or, alternatively, that of distance between two non-neighbouring points is taken as the starting-point. Thus in general relatively metric is the basis. When the metric is found and it is required to compare the predictions of theory with observation, further definitions, giving rise to different kinds of distance, must be made. On the other hand, Milne takes a definition of distance as the basis of his theory. This definition involves two assumptions. Firstly, it is supposed that observers only use the time-measures of their clocks by which to define distance, and secondly they define it is an special relativity. In each relativistic model there is therefore some ambiguity as to what is meant by distance, whilst Milne’s theory is open to the objection that there is no reason why observers should, in fact, adopt his definition of distance. The question therefore arises: up to what point is it possible to construct a theory of the mechanics of the expanding universe without using the ideas of metric and distance at all? We attempt to provide an answer by employing the theory of absolute or distant parallelism, so that we substitute the idea of direction for that of metric (or of distance) as the fundamental notion. The resulting theory is similar to that of Milne and its generalization recently proposed, but differs from them in the use of non-metrical equations. When metric and distance are eventually introduced, their function is merely to interpret, and not to obtain, formulae already found by non-metrical methods. A physical picture of the situation we wish to deal with is as follows. Consider a hydrodynamical fluid consisting of non-interacting particles in a state of continuous flux. We suppose that in this fluid there is a set of observers moving with it and making measurements of the state of the fluid around them. These observers make similar kinds of measurements. Each observer finds that the fluid recedes from him with a velocity proportional to distance from himself, as in the system of the spiral nebulae regarded as forming a “fluid”.


2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-46
Author(s):  
Ihor Pasitschnyk ◽  

The article discusses the problem of classification of notions (Begriffe) by Christian Wolff, particularly in his “German Logic”. Wolff divides notions – as well as representations (Vorstellungen) in general – into obscure (dunkel, obscura) and clear (klar, clara). The clear notions are divided into distinct (deutlich, distincta) and indistinct (undeutlich, indistincta or confusa). And the distinct notions are divided again into complete (ausführlich, completa) and incomplete (unausführlich, incompleta), and on the other hand into adequate (vollständig, adaequata) and inadequate (unvollständig, inadaequata). The aim of the paper is to analyse and to explain these types of notions and in this way to point out the crucial significance of this classification for Wolff’s philosophy. The paper shows that the starting point for understanding of Wolff’s theory of notions in “German Logic” is the correct interpretation of his definition of notion in this work, above all the correct interpretation of the word “Sache”. It is further explained, what it means to have a notion of something by an image and to have a notion of something by bare words. And it is also analysed the difference between obscure, clear (but indistinct), distinct, complete and adequate notions.


2015 ◽  
Vol 105 (11-12) ◽  
pp. 812-817
Author(s):  
F. Klocke ◽  
J. Müller ◽  
P. Mattfeld ◽  
J. Stauder

Produzierende Unternehmen in der Medizintechnik müssen die Anforderungen vieler Interessenspartner erfüllen. Eine kostengünstige Herstellung erfordert die Berücksichtigung dieser Anforderungen bereits in frühen Phasen des Produktentstehungsprozesses. Es wurde daher eine Methodik entwickelt, die auf Basis eines Zielsystems, das als Ausgangspunkt für die Technologieplanung dient, die Berücksichtigung unternehmensspezifischer Anforderungen erlaubt.   Manufacturing companies in medical engineering have to take into account the needs of a variety of stakeholders. Cost-efficient production requires the consideration of these requirements already in the early phases of the product development process. Therefore, a methodology has been developed that enables the consideration of company-specific requirements based on a target system serving as the starting point for technology planning.


2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 66
Author(s):  
Oskar Milik

<p>Studies of online interaction involving identity can be divided into two distinct categories. On the one hand, there is the study of the players, which often asks questions of a psychological or economic nature. On the other hand, there is the study of characters, which looks at issues of language or culture, and critical theory topics such as gender, class, and race online. While these two approaches have created a field of digital games research that provides many valuable resources and research projects, the separation between these topics is also limiting due to the complex and intertwined nature of online and offline interaction in the modern age. This paper presents a new definition of persona as an additional methodological concept that can be used to observe interaction in the online world, particularly as it applies to the presentation of an identity to others. This construct serves as a joint identity of character and player, combining these otherwise separate topics to allow for a greater depth of understanding of the actions and reasoning behind the characters and players of digital games. It is also applicable to other online contexts, such as social networking, livestreaming, and forum use.</p>


Author(s):  
K. T. Tokuyasu

During the past investigations of immunoferritin localization of intracellular antigens in ultrathin frozen sections, we found that the degree of negative staining required to delineate u1trastructural details was often too dense for the recognition of ferritin particles. The quality of positive staining of ultrathin frozen sections, on the other hand, has generally been far inferior to that attainable in conventional plastic embedded sections, particularly in the definition of membranes. As we discussed before, a main cause of this difficulty seemed to be the vulnerability of frozen sections to the damaging effects of air-water surface tension at the time of drying of the sections.Indeed, we found that the quality of positive staining is greatly improved when positively stained frozen sections are protected against the effects of surface tension by embedding them in thin layers of mechanically stable materials at the time of drying (unpublished).


Author(s):  
Volker Scheid

This chapter explores the articulations that have emerged over the last half century between various types of holism, Chinese medicine and systems biology. Given the discipline’s historical attachments to a definition of ‘medicine’ that rather narrowly refers to biomedicine as developed in Europe and the US from the eighteenth century onwards, the medical humanities are not the most obvious starting point for such an inquiry. At the same time, they do offer one advantage over neighbouring disciplines like medical history, anthropology or science and technology studies for someone like myself, a clinician as well as a historian and anthropologist: their strong commitment to the objective of facilitating better medical practice. This promise furthermore links to the wider project of critique, which, in Max Horkheimer’s definition of the term, aims at change and emancipation in order ‘to liberate human beings from the circumstances that enslave them’. If we take the critical medical humanities as explicitly affirming this shared objective and responsibility, extending the discipline’s traditional gaze is not a burden but becomes, in fact, an obligation.


Author(s):  
Anatolii Petrovich Mykolaiets

It is noted that from the standpoint of sociology, “management — a function of organized systems of various nature — (technical, biological, social), which ensures the preservation of their structure, maintaining a certain state or transfer to another state, in accordance with the objective laws of the existence of this system, which implemented by a program or deliberately set aside”. Management is carried out through the influence of one subsystem-controlling, on the other-controlled, on the processes taking place in it with the help of information signals or administrative actions. It is proved that self-government allows all members of society or a separate association to fully express their will and interests, overcome alienation, effectively combat bureaucracy, and promote public self-realization of the individual. At the same time, wide direct participation in the management of insufficiently competent participants who are not responsible for their decisions, contradicts the social division of labor, reduces the effectiveness of management, complicates the rationalization of production. This can lead to the dominance of short-term interests over promising interests. Therefore, it is always important for society to find the optimal measure of a combination of self-management and professional management. It is determined that social representation acts, on the one hand, as the most important intermediary between the state and the population, the protection of social interests in a politically heterogeneous environment. On the other hand, it ensures the operation of a mechanism for correcting the political system, which makes it possible to correct previously adopted decisions in a legitimate way, without resorting to violence. It is proved that the system of social representation influences the most important political relations, promotes social integration, that is, the inclusion of various social groups and public associations in the political system. It is proposed to use the term “self-government” in relation to several levels of people’s association: the whole community — public self-government or self-government of the people, to individual regions or communities — local, to production management — production self-government. Traditionally, self-government is seen as an alternative to public administration. Ideology and practice of selfgovernment originate from the primitive, communal-tribal democracy. It is established that, in practice, centralization has become a “natural form of government”. In its pure form, centralization does not recognize the autonomy of places and even local life. It is characteristic of authoritarian regimes, but it is also widely used by democratic regimes, where they believe that political freedoms should be fixed only at the national level. It is determined that since the state has achieved certain sizes, it is impossible to abandon the admission of the existence of local authorities. Thus, deconcentration appears as one of the forms of centralization and as a cure for the excesses of the latter. Deconcentration assumes the presence of local bodies, which depend on the government functionally and in the order of subordination of their officials. The dependency of officials means that the leadership of local authorities is appointed by the central government and may be displaced.


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