Assurance qualitéOn désigne par assurance qualité un moyen d'obtenir confiance dans l'assurance de la qualité c'est-à-dire dans l'aptitude de la société ou de l'organisation à satisfaire le niveau de qualité désiré. Le terme « assurance qualité » qui élide les articles naturellement présents dans la langue française est très commun du fait que le concept a été importé (anglicisme) de la langue anglaise où l'on parle de Quality assurance. Le terme assurance a donc ici la valeur de confiance que lui donne la langue anglaise.
Performance engineeringPerformance engineering encompasses the techniques applied during a systems development life cycle to ensure the non-functional requirements for performance (such as throughput, latency, or memory usage) will be met. It may be alternatively referred to as systems performance engineering within systems engineering, and software performance engineering or application performance engineering within software engineering.
Educational assessmentEducational assessment or educational evaluation is the systematic process of documenting and using empirical data on the knowledge, skill, attitudes, aptitude and beliefs to refine programs and improve student learning. Assessment data can be obtained from directly examining student work to assess the achievement of learning outcomes or can be based on data from which one can make inferences about learning. Assessment is often used interchangeably with test, but not limited to tests.
Mission d'évaluation des politiques publiquesLa Mission d'évaluation des politiques publiques (MEPP) est un service rattaché à la Direction générale de la modernisation de l'État, placé sous l'autorité fonctionnelle du cabinet du Ministère du Budget, des Comptes publics, de la Fonction publique et de la Réforme de l'État et chargé de piloter les structures d'évaluation interne de l'administration. La Mission d’évaluation des politiques publiques doit supporter à l’échelle interministérielle la gouvernance de l'évaluation et la coordination des Comités ministériels d’évaluation (CME).
Qualité logicielleEn informatique et en particulier en génie logiciel, la qualité logicielle est une appréciation globale d'un logiciel, basée sur de nombreux indicateurs. La complétude des fonctionnalités, la correction et précision des résultats, la fiabilité, la tolérance de pannes, la facilité et la flexibilité de son utilisation, la simplicité, l'extensibilité, la compatibilité et la portabilité, la facilité de correction et de transformation, la performance, la cohérence et l'intégrité des informations qu'il contient sont tous des facteurs de qualité.
Unité de soins intensifsvignette|Une unité de soins intensifs (2007). Une unité de soins intensifs ou USI (en anglais, intensive care unit ou ICU) est un service de l’hôpital qui prodigue des soins de suppléance à une défaillance aiguë. Elle est la structure médiane entre les services de réanimation (réa) et les unités de surveillance continue (USC), et prend en charge une défaillance unique sur une durée limitée. Elles constituent avec les USC les unités intermédiaires entre la réanimation et les services de soins généraux hospitaliers.
Quality (business)In business, engineering, and manufacturing, quality – or high quality – has a pragmatic interpretation as the non-inferiority or superiority of something (goods or services); it is also defined as being suitable for the intended purpose (fitness for purpose) while satisfying customer expectations. Quality is a perceptual, conditional, and somewhat subjective attribute and may be understood differently by different people. Consumers may focus on the specification quality of a product/service, or how it compares to competitors in the marketplace.
Neonatal intensive care unitA neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), also known as an intensive care nursery (ICN), is an intensive care unit (ICU) specializing in the care of ill or premature newborn infants. The NICU is divided into several areas, including a critical care area for babies who require close monitoring and intervention, an intermediate care area for infants who are stable but still require specialized care, and a step down unit where babies who are ready to leave the hospital can receive additional care before being discharged.
Business performance managementBusiness performance management (BPM), also known as corporate performance management (CPM) enterprise performance management (EPM), organizational performance management, or simply performance management are a set of management and analytic processes that ensure activities and outputs meet an organization's goals in an effective and efficient manner. Business performance management is contained within approaches to business process management.
Impact evaluationImpact evaluation assesses the changes that can be attributed to a particular intervention, such as a project, program or policy, both the intended ones, as well as ideally the unintended ones. In contrast to outcome monitoring, which examines whether targets have been achieved, impact evaluation is structured to answer the question: how would outcomes such as participants' well-being have changed if the intervention had not been undertaken? This involves counterfactual analysis, that is, "a comparison between what actually happened and what would have happened in the absence of the intervention.
Algorithmic efficiencyIn computer science, algorithmic efficiency is a property of an algorithm which relates to the amount of computational resources used by the algorithm. An algorithm must be analyzed to determine its resource usage, and the efficiency of an algorithm can be measured based on the usage of different resources. Algorithmic efficiency can be thought of as analogous to engineering productivity for a repeating or continuous process. For maximum efficiency it is desirable to minimize resource usage.
Wavelet transformIn mathematics, a wavelet series is a representation of a square-integrable (real- or complex-valued) function by a certain orthonormal series generated by a wavelet. This article provides a formal, mathematical definition of an orthonormal wavelet and of the integral wavelet transform. A function is called an orthonormal wavelet if it can be used to define a Hilbert basis, that is a complete orthonormal system, for the Hilbert space of square integrable functions.
