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Quality Innovation Prosperity

Kvalita Inovácia Prosperita

ISSN 1335-1745

2009

Volume XIII - Number 1 Back to List of Articles    Download Current Issue (PDF, 2.75 MB)    Previous Issues 

PROCESSES ASSESSMENT AND MONITORING IN A CLINICAL LABORATORY
DANA TRÁVNÍČKOVÁ

Keywords: clinical laboratory, quality control, process, accuracy, precission, capability indexes, control charts with classical and moving control limits

Abstract: The basic view of the assessment of the qality of health care is the quality of the medical treatment or procedures. Associated services are also of a great importance. Among these services there are services provided by clinical laboratories. Decision making on diagnosis, prognosis or way of medical treatment is frequently based on the results supplied by a clinical laboratory and their interpretation. The results of analytical measurings from clinical laboratories can have a decisive impact in the field and can influence (even fatally) the patient´s health, quality of life and sometimes the life itself. The choice of an analytical process can influence the test results and therefore it is important to assess the processes capability.

Author: Ing. Dana Trávníčková Laborex, s.r.o. Ostrava, Czech Republic

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BASIC INTERPRETATION OF INFLUENCE OF THE COMPANY PROCESSES’ MANAGEMENT ON THE COMPANY’S FINANCIAL INDICES
DITA BEYROVÁ

Keywords: financial analysis, indicator, quality management

Abstract: The object of this article is to point out an influence of an internal processes control to the financial indicators. Each process owner, although he has no economical education, should be able to interpret the company financial results and to see a connection between the state of his process and the indicator value. In the preface there is summarized basic information about the financial analysis – a data resource used for the financial analysis (including possible modifications), receivers of the outputs from the analysis and constituent methods of the financial analysis. The main part of the article than brings constituent parts of the financial analysis: working capital managing, liquidity analysis, profitability analysis, turnover analysis and indebtedness analysis. Described indicators are not interpreted from the economical point of view only, but the aim is to make it obvious, how is possible for the process owners to influence the indicators value from the perspective of the key processes managing.

Author: Ing. Dita Beyrová Czech Airlines, Czech Republic, e-mail: dita.beyrova @ csa.cz

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THE MARKETING MIX CONTRIBUTION IN IMPROVING THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ROMANIAN HISTORY STRATEGY
RUXANDRA IRINA POPESCU, RAZVAN-ANDREI CORBOS

Keywords: Cultural Institutions, museums, Marketing Mix, strategy, strategic option, goals

Abstract: The National Museum of Romanian History (NMRH) is one of the most important actors in the contemporary Romanian archeology field and leader of the preventive archeology thanks to its big surface and patrimony. Thus, in the context of improving its activity through strategy reshaping, the marketing mix can help develop assets in order to assure NMRH`s leading position. The present paper focuses on the way in which the product policy can mobilize NMRH`s resources in order to build an effective supply, analyses the options for overcoming financing problems (reduced public financing, raising competition for private funds, increasing operational costs, subsidy reduction) and identifies solutions for promotion policies and distribution aimed to effectively inform the target public, as well as other market segments about the cultural products and services NMRH offers.

Authors: Ruxandra Irina Popescu Faculty of Management, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania, e-mails: ruxandra.irina@gmail.com Razvan-Andrei Corbos Faculty of Management, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania e-mails: razvan.corbos@man.ase.ro

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THE QUALITY OF HARDNESS TESTER CALIBRATION
JOZEF PETRIK, PAVOL PALFY

Keywords: calibration, Vickers hardness, uncertainty

Abstract: The objective of submitted work is to compare direct and indirect calibration of the Vickers hardness tester using the analysis of uncertainty. The indirect calibration was carried out according to respective technical standard. The main sources of uncertainty at direct calibration were the deviation of vertex angle of diamond indenter, the deviation of test force and deviation of diagonals of indentations. Repeated calibration carried out by two appraisers leads to the identification of tester non-conformance by both methods. The influence of the vertex angle deviation on uncertainty is more significant than the influence of test force deviation. The uncertainty obtained by indirect calibration is more significant than that it of direct calibration. This work was supported by the Slovak Grant Agency for Science VEGA 1/4141/07.

Authors: Doc. Ing. Jozef Petrík, PhD. Department of integrated management, Technical University of Košice Letná 9, 042 00, Košice, Slovakia, e-mail: jozef.petrik@tuke.sk Doc. RNDr. Pavol Palfy, PhD. Department of integrated management, Technical University of Košice Letná 9, 042 00, Košice, Slovakia e-mail: pavol.palfy@tuke.sk

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SWARM-BASED OPTIMISATION
LENKA RAUDENSKÁ

Keywords: Swarm-based optimization, Bees algorithm, Particle swarm optimization, Ant Colony Optimization, Genetic algorithm

Abstract: Everyday we are facing problem how to solve different problems with maximum affectivity, what is the best composition, which production process is most efficient etc. For solving these and similar problems are used optimization methods. If there is unknown exact algorithm describing the problem, is impossible to solve the problem by traditional optimization methods as numerical, dynamic, linear and non-linear programming or variation methods. In this case and also when exact solution is very extensive are used Genetic algorithm, Optimization statistical methods, heuristic programming, etc. The paper describes above all methods of Swarm-based optimization and comparison of these methods by benchmarking functions.

Author: Ing. Lenka Raudenská Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Brno University of Technology, Technická 2896/2, 616 69 Brno, Czech Republic, e-mail: yraude00@stud.fme.vutbr.cz

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ADJUSTMENT OF SIX SIGMA TOOLS FOR A BETTER CONTROL OF PROCESS TIME
FILIP TOŠENOVSKÝ

Key words: Six Sigma, Box-Cox transformation, control charts, DMAIC cycle, Box-Jenkins theory

Abstract: The article discusses possibilities of changing some of the statistical methods used in Six Sigma in case the problem to be solved by Six Sigma is process time. The article focuses on replacement of control charts with tools developed in the theory of time series, and on regression modelling of non-normal variables, using Box-Cox transformation.

Author: Ing. Filip Tošenovský, Ph.D. The School of Business Administration in Karvina, Silesian University, Univerzitní náměstí 1934/3, 733 40 Karviná, Czech Republic,
e-mail: tosenovskyfilip@opf.slu.cz.

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ENVIRONMENTAL EDIFICATION AT UNIVERSITIES AS A PART OF SLOVAKIA SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
KATARÍNA KORÁLOVÁ, ALENA PAULIKOVÁ

Key words: environmental edification, environmental education, sustainable development, environmental management, environmental engineering, environmental dynamics

Abstract: The submitted work describes the historical development introduction of environmental edification and education at universities in the framework of Slovakia sustainable development. There has been a need to accentuate environmental consciousness and to bring closer a current state in an incorporating of environmental aspects for education process at technical universities. An article emphasizes continuous development of observed problems and introduces the possible future visions from point of reorganization and tending of study fields.

Authors: M.Sc. Katarína Korálová Technical University of Košice, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Park Komenského 5, 041 87 Košice, Slovakia , e-mail: katarina.koralova@tuke.sk Assoc. prof. M.Sc. Alena Pauliková, Ph.D Technical University of Košice, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Park Komenského 5, 041 87 Košice, Slovakia, e-mail: alena.paulikova@tuke.sk

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