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A large number of countries worldwide have established quality assurance mechanisms in Higher Education, ranging from the long-engrained system (United States) to more recent developments in Europe, Latin America and oth...

Background and purpose: A dummy run quality assurance was conducted for a prospective phase II trial of tailored radiotherapy (RT) according to the response after neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) followed by surgery in loc...

Global university rankings have increasingly come to function as a proxy for quality, shaping institutional priorities, internal quality assurance (IQA) practices, and scholarly labour in ways that may conflict with loca...

PurposeCurrent proton beam therapy patient-specific quality assurance (PSQA) methods rely on time-intensive phantom measurements or machine-reported parameters without independent verification. This work presents an inte...

Background and purpose: Deviations in radiotherapy quality can significantly affect clinical trial outcomes, including overall survival. Radiotherapy quality assurance (RTQA) is a systematic process by which a RT plan is...

The paper aims to clarify the process of reaccreditation in Croatia and the standards for quality evaluation and to show the internal structure of the quality assurance system based on the example of a higher educatio...

Subjects / keywords: proton therapy; pencil beam scanning; patient-specific quality assurance; integrated detector system; 3D dose reconstruction; Pencil Beam Scanning (PBS) PSQA

Se exponen los resultados de un estudio que analiza el aporte de la formación por competencias en el marco de los procesos de aseguramiento de la calidad de la educación y su relación con los fenómenos sociales y eco...

Digital badges are competency-based credentials that provide specific information within the metadata. However, there appears to be no research investigating the quality of the information conveyed in the metadata. To be...

The turnover time for aircraft maintenance is crucial for the operational efficiency and profitability of airlines. Quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC) procedures play a role in assuring the safe and reliable...

Virtual Design Engineering is an emerging method of increasing quality of systems. Including Virtual Design as a part of the traditional established Failure Mode, Effects, and Criticality Analysis process greatly enhance...

Abstract The widespread adoption of the cloud continuum paradigm poses significant challenges such as the management of heterogeneous infrastructural devices, the strict security and privacy requirements, and the complex...

We explore the quality of sustainability assurance from the perspective of sustainability reporting preparers and assurance providers. The research design and data collection are guided by framing theory, which involves ...

En sincronía con las publicaciones emitidas por la International Federation of Accountants (IFAC), el Instituto Mexicano de Contadores Públicos, A.C. (IMCP) publica las Normas de Auditoría, para Atestiguar, Revisión ...

Purpose – The paper emphasises the importance of student development and claim that quality assurance processes at the higher education institutions are not responding to the challenges related to the student engagemen...

The article gives a detailed account of the requirements to material assurance engagements on reports by residents of Diia.City legal regime in conformity with International Standard on Assurance Engagements 3000 (ISAE 3...

PURPOSE: To evaluate the impact of continued education provided by an external quality control laboratory on the indicators of internal quality control of cytopathology exams.METHODS: The internal quality assurance indic...

The article researches and substantiates the problem of quality and efficiency of educational institution management, describes the transformation processes that take place in Ukraine at this stage, and reveals the exist...

The current state of development of the Ukrainian state requires further reform of all spheres of life of the Ukrainian community. The democratization of the principles of higher education needs special attention. Since ...

PurposeThis study aims to systematically evaluate the mechanical performance of the novel treatment couch for the uLinac VisionaryTx CT-Linac (United Imaging Healthcare, China).Materials and methodsQuality assurance prot...

Abstract Environmental hazards of micro- and nanoplastics (MNPs) and associated chemicals have been investigated for more than a decade. However, the field of human MNPs health risk assessment is still confronted by many...

The Moroccan Good Practice Guide for Laboratory Analyses (GBEA) provides the normative framework ensuring good practices and quality assurance within clinical laboratories. While some laboratories rely solely on the GBEA...

Introduction Contraceptive data are critical for determining the proportion of women of childbearing age who are protected from unintended pregnancies. These data must be of high quality to assess the performance of,...

Maria Hee Jung Park Frausing,1– 3 Morten Schmidt,2,4 Ole Dan Jørgensen,5,6 Frederikke Nørregaard Jakobsen,7 Frederik Mikkelsen,1,2 Jacob Moesgaard Larsen,8 Charlotte Ellen Larroudé,9 Berit Thornvig Philbert,10 Jens ...