Many have hailed the widespread use of generic drugs as one of the most important public-health developments of the twenty-first century. Today, almost 90 percent of our pharmaceutical market is comprised of generics, the majority of which are manufactured overseas. We have been reassured by our doctors, our pharmacists and our regulators that generic drugs are identical to their brand-name counterparts, just less expensive. But is this really true? Katherine...

Important text offers lucid explanation of how to regulate variables and maintain control over statistics in order to achieve quality control over manufactured products, crops and data. Topics include statistical control, establishing limits of variability, measurements of physical properties and constants, and specification of accuracy and precision.

The rules of battle for tracking down -- and eliminating -- hardware and software bugs. When the pressure is on to root out an elusive software or hardware glitch, what's needed is a cool head courtesy of a set of rules guaranteed to work on any system, in any circumstance. Written in a frank but engaging style, Debugging provides simple, foolproof principles guaranteed to help find any bug quickly. This book makes those shelves of application-specific...

"Rebel Health is a field guide to how the underground, patient-led revolution can result in better health and help to heal health care"--

Are you making the biggest leaps every quarter to grow to the next level in one year? Would you like to have a customized system to make the optimal quarterly leaps every quarter in just 4 weeks? Would you like to double your business in a year? In “Becoming a Pioneer” you will discover: ✓ How to make "The Fit Business Leap"? ✓ How to build One Line "Scale-Ready Algorithms"? ✓ How to build the ideal monthly cash flow for your business? ✓...

Conformance to requirements is Quality. Assuring Quality means process by which undesirable elements are removed and those which suit the cost, design, and performance are solely selected. Quality assurance is everybody's job and responsibility of the organization

"Before you decide if your company should go for the certification, you have to ask yourself one important question: Do you really need it?" This book is a complete guide that will not only help you decide on this crucial concern, but also lead you from the beginning of the certification project to the end. This book is not focused solely on one ISO standard, the certification process is the same for any standard, so the book is adapted in such a...

El servicio y la calidad son hoy factores diferenciadores de organizaciones que asumen su éxito desde la perspectiva de los clientes y referentes para elevar sus niveles de competitividad. Esta obra ofrece al lector una orientación teórica y práctica que ayudará a las organizaciones, instituciones y empresas a diseñar, implementar y evaluar los procesos de calidad y servicio. Además, proporciona un capítulo de talleres que sirve de guía...

Quality is not the sole responsibility of QA. If the whole team doesn't take quality seriously, the release of new features will always be delayed or worse, buggy software gets released. I have heard many people referring to QA as just a testing entity, which possibly means QA does nothing within the agile environment other than testing. In addition, speaking of agile software development QA, some people may also think that it is just for monitoring...

El mundo industrial, comercial y de servicios se ha visto envuelto en los últimos años en una alta competencia que obliga a todas las organizaciones a luchar por ocupar un lugar preponderante en las preferencias del cliente, el cual se refleja en sus ventas y utilidades. Uno de los aspectos que ha impulsado esa competencia es el fenómeno de la globalización, el cual ha inducido a las empresas a implementar formas más eficientes y eficaces de...