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Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsBEST PRACTICES FOR HAND HYGIENE COMPLIANCE BY HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS IN THE INPATIENT SETTINGCynthia C. AkpakaThis study discusses the strategies that have proven successful in improving adherence to hand hygiene policies among health care providers working in acute care, inpatient settings. Review of literature suggests that while some efforts to improve hand hygiene compliance have focused on environmental engineering other efforts have focused mostly on broad-based educational and motivational initiatives, such as online educational programs … …American Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 10, Issue 2 · 14 May 2014 · 7,322 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractEmpirical Investigation of Factors that Hamper Pursuing Software Process Improvement: Analyses of Saudi Practitioners’ ViewsMohammad ZarourSoftware product quality is affected by the quality of the process used to develop it. Improving process quality helps software organizations in developing better software products on time and within budget. To achieve these benefits, software organizations are becoming more interested to pursue Software Process Improvement (SPI) initiatives. The failure in pursuing such initiatives is affected by several factors. The … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 14, Issue 1 · 27 Jan 2018 · 7,947 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractAssessing the Impact of Total Quality Management Practices and Quality Culture with Competitiveness of Saudi ContractorsRushami Zien Yusoff, Rabiul Islam, Faihan AlotaibiTotal quality management practices in construction industries can be described as the processes or that aligns the business performance strategy to the business processes in the hopes of achieving customer satisfaction and product and services quality. Quality culture conditions are strongly linked with project outcomes and hence, initiatives undertaken should be incorporated to the organizational cultural changes. The aim of … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 10, Issue 6 · 30 Jun 2013 · 7,709 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractResistance Factors in the Implementation of Software Process Improvement Project in MalaysiaMohd Hairul Nizam Md. Nasir, Rodina Ahmad, Noor Hafizah HassanFor the past two decades, improving the quality of software has become an important agenda in the software industries as they have been assessed according to standards such as the CMM, CMM-I, ISO 9000 SIX-SIGMA and etc. As the result, software process improvement project implementations have been the main targets by most software companies. However, many initiatives are facing variety … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 4, Issue 3 · 31 Mar 2008 · 7,330 accessesView PDF Cite