Download or read book Library Statistics for the Twenty first Century World written by Michael Heaney and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2009 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Federation of Library Associations began a global statistics project in relation to worldwide libraries in 2006. The results are reported here from all over the world and there are several papers specifically on public libraries and university libraries.
Download or read book Library Statistics for the Twenty First Century World written by Michael Heaney and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2009-05-08 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An international collaboration between IFLA, the UNESCO Institute of Statistics and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has developed standards for new library indicators for the twenty-first century. The existing international library statistics were developed nearly 40 years ago. This book presents the first results using the new statistics, and look forward to the next steps. It also contains other initiatives and developments in the fields of library statistics, benchmarking and indicators.
Download or read book V Latin American Congress on Biomedical Engineering CLAIB 2011 May 16 21 2011 Habana Cuba written by José Folgueras Méndez and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 1363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the proceedings of the CLAIB 2011, held in the Palacio de las Convenciones in Havana, Cuba, from 16 to 21 May 2011. The conferences of the American Congress of Biomedical Engineering are sponsored by the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE), Society for Engineering in Biology and Medicine (EMBS) and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), among other organizations and international agencies and bringing together scientists, academics and biomedical engineers in Latin America and other continents in an environment conducive to exchange and professional growth.
Download or read book ASQC Annual Quality Congress Proceedings written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report on Tobacco Control for the Region of the Americas 2022 written by Pan American Health Organization and published by Pan American Health Org. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Report on Tobacco Control of the Region of the Americas 2022 presents the progress of the implementation of the MPOWER technical package during the period of 2018-2021. While there has been significant progress noted, the report also highlights the gaps in the acceleration of the tobacco control agenda both at the global and regional levels. Collectively, 26 of the 35 Member States within the Region are implementing at least one measure of the MPOWER technical package at the highest level of application, accounting for 96% of the Region's population being protected from the harms of tobacco. The report also details how the global COVID-19 pandemic is seen as being one of the most important threats to the tobacco control agenda. The increasing development and accessibility of the category of novel and emerging tobacco and nicotine products add to the challenge of accelerating tobacco control both globally and regionally. Yet, despite these obstacles, the Region of the Americas now ranks the second lowest prevalence of tobacco consumption globally and a 100% smoke-free South America.
Download or read book Quality Management in Vocational Training written by Fernando Vargas Zúñiga and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an outline of relevant standards, namely ISO 9000 on institutional management, ISO 10015 on human resources management, and ISO 17024 on the certification of persons. Gives information about practices in the application of standards by training institutions and supervisory bodies in South America.
Download or read book C mo documentar un sistema de gesti n de calidad seg n ISO 9001 2015 written by López Lemos, Paloma and published by FC EDITORIAL. This book was released on 2015 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En el caso de la norma ISO 9001 (el estándar más utilizado en el mundo para la implementación de sistemas de gestión de la calidad), la nueva versión 2015 ha reducido de forma muy notable los requisitos relativos a la documentación y facilitando que sea la propia empresa quien, en función de su actividad, la complejidad de sus procesos y la competencia de su personal, decida el volumen y extensión de su sistema documental. A lo largo de este libro se abordan temas como la planificación del sistema documental en base al mapa de procesos y al análisis de riesgos, tipos de documentos existentes y cómo elaborarlos o cómo satisfacer con sencillez los requisitos de la norma ISO 9001 relativos a la documentación. Como anexos, se encuentran los tipos de documentos que con más frecuencia se encuentran como soporte a los sistemas de gestión así como una propuesta para estructurar un sistema de gestión"tipo". Escrito en un lenguaje riguroso pero sencillo y plagado de ejemplos y situaciones prácticas, este libro pretende ser una guía útil para las empresas en lo que se refiere al proceso de diseño y elaboración del sistema documental, de forma que el resultado sea una documentación ágil, práctica y adaptada a las necesidades de la organización. https://www.fundacionconfemetal.com/media/wysiwyg/19_Check-Up.pdf
Download or read book Quality is Still Free written by Philip B. Crosby and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 1996 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this total update of his classic, quality guru Philip Crosby revisits and ultimately reaffirms the thinking he introduced in the tradition-shattering Quality Is Free, which has sold nearly 1.7 million copies and has been translated into dozens of languages. Quality Is Still Free offers readers the opportunity to adopt Crosby's penetrating insights for their own enormous benefit. Illustrations.
Download or read book Building Capabilities for Productive Development written by Jorge Cornick and published by Inter-American Development Bank. This book was released on 2018-06-29 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Productive development policies (PDPs) are notoriously hard. They involve a daunting level of technical detail, require public-private collaboration, are in constant danger of capture, and demand time consistency hard to achieve in a politically volatile region. Nevertheless, the potential of PDPs to revitalize the regionâs economic performance and spur productivity growth cannot be ignored. This book takes an in-depth look at 17 cases involving productive development agencies from Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica and Uruguay, identifying key features of institutional design and agency-level practices that make success more likely in this difficult policy arena. Careful study of these experiences might help successful productive development policies gain currency across the region. The cases in this book should not be seen as the exceptions that prove the rule of lackluster PDP performance, but rather as examples that demonstrate the rule can be broken.
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Download or read book Knowledge Organizations written by Jay Liebowitz and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For knowledge management to be successful, the corporate culture needs to be adapted to encourage the creation, sharing, and distribution of knowledge within the organization. Knowledge Organizations: What Every Manager Should Know provides insight into how organizations can best accomplish this goal. Liebowitz and Beckman provide the information companies need for evaluating and planning the steps and processes that will transform their existing organization infrastructure into a "knowledge-based" organization. This easy-to-read guide includes many vignettes, examples, and short cases of organizations involved in knowledge management.
Download or read book Construction and Building Research written by Carmen Llinares-Millán and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2014-01-31 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many areas of knowledge converge in the building industry and therefore research in this field necessarily involves an interdisciplinary approach. Effective research requires strong relation between a broad variety of scientific and technological domains and more conventional construction or craft processes, while also considering advanced management processes, where all the main actors permanently interact. This publication takes an interdisciplinary approach grouping various studies on the building industry chosen from among the works presented for the 2nd International Conference on Construction and Building Research. The papers examine aspects of materials and building systems; construction technology; energy and sustainability; construction management; heritage, refurbishment and conservation. The information contained within these pages may be of interest to researchers and practitioners in construction and building activities from the academic sphere, as well as public and private sectors.
Download or read book Application of ISO 9000 Standards to Education and Training written by Wouter van den Berghe and published by Communautés européennes. This book was released on 1997 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report brings together European experience on the interpretation and implementation of ISO 9000 in education and training (ET) environments. Chapter 1 discusses the importance of quality concepts in ET and summarizes key concepts of total quality management (TQM) and its relevance for ET. Chapter 2 introduces the ISO 9000 standards. It explains the relationship with quality assurance and TQM and gives an overview of the main principles of the standards: structure of the ISO 9000 family, underlying principles, main components, and certification process. Chapter 3 looks at the context for applying ISO 9000 in an ET environment. It examines the rationale behind adopting the standards: reasons for seeking certification, expected benefits, and different considerations by type of ET organization. Then, it highlights the main interpretation problems, explains the terminology, and proposes a more logical rearrangement of the paragraphs of the standards. Chapter 4 includes a detailed discussion and interpretation of every paragraph of ISO 9001. Practical suggestions for implementing the requirements are provided throughout the text. Chapter 5 discusses implementation issues. It indicates the minimum requirements before launching a certification exercise, summarizes positive and negative messages emerging from implementing the standards in ET institutions, and gives a qualitative overview of the benefits resulting from successful certification. Chapter 6 presents overall conclusions, one of which is that it will be the market which will decide whether the cost of ISO 9000 certification is worthwhile, whether its benefits will outweigh the drawbacks, and whether any other national or international quality scheme is more appropriate. (Contains 60 references.) (YLB)
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Download or read book Entrepreneurship in the Fourth Sector written by María Isabel Sánchez-Hernández and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-06-09 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The fourth sector” is a relatively new sector that consists of for-benefit organizations that combine market-based approaches of the private sector with the social and environmental aims of the public and non-profit sectors. This book examines trends of entrepreneurship in the fourth sector, describes specific ecosystems fostering new ventures around the world, and characterizes the most common and innovative business models. It covers as well the main effects, among others, of technological change, innovation, and institutional behavior on the sector in the last years.
Download or read book OECD Review of Agricultural Policies Colombia 2015 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-27 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This review assesses the performance of Colombian agriculture over the last two decades, evaluates Colombian agricultural policy reforms and provides recommendations to address key challenges in the future.
Download or read book La transicion a las nuevas ISO 9000 2000 y su implantaci n written by Cervera Martínez, Josep and published by Ediciones Díaz de Santos. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La transición a las nuevas normas ISO 9000:2000 conlleva que muchas empresas certificadas o de próxima certificación de sus sistemas de gestión de calidad,se planteen un sinfín de interrogantes sobre cómo enfocar este nuevo proyecto,con qué medios, qué contenidos, qué formación, qué esfuerzos son necesarios en la organización y que plazos pueden ser los más prudentes para conseguir queel proceso de cambio no sea traumático y por tanto tenga una incidencia tenueen sus organizaciones. Este libro pretende dar una respuesta ajustada a las tareas y sus contenidos con elementos gráficos de fácil comprensión y ejemplosde formularios o documentos que se deberían desarrollar para dar un cumplimiento satisfactorio a las nuevas exigencias de la norma ISO 9001:2000. Una de lasdificultades más visibles y palpables de la nueva norma es el "enfoque basadoen los procesos"; cómo se identifican, cómo se definen, cómo se interrelacionan y sin duda cómo documentarlos, todo ello se puede ver en este libro con casos y ejemplos. Este libro puede ser una herramienta útil y de gran ayuda paraaquellos directivos, técnicos de calidad, asesores y auditores de empresas y organizaciones relacionadas con el mundo de la gestión de calidad.INDICE RESUMIDO: Las nuevas normas de gestión de calidad ISO 9000:2000. Principios de gestión de calidad. La gestión orientada al proceso. Indicadores. Auditorías orientadas a procesos. La satisfacción del cliente. La mejora continua. La gestión documental. Guía para la evaluación de la ISO 9001:2000.
