A " quality storyboard " is a tool to help facilitate the introduction of a quality improvement process into an organisation.

He saw improvement as often resulting from natural forces within the patient, an improvement that treatment could at best facilitate and at worst interfere with.

The PCF was developed by APQC and its member companies as an open standard to facilitate improvement through process management and benchmarking, regardless of industry, size, or geography.

Article I Section 8 ( 3 ) adds quite a bit to the U. S. Constitution in an attempt to block the Confederate Congress from passing law to " facilitate commerce " with some exceptions allowing for safety and improvement to waterways.

: To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes ; but neither this, nor any other clause contained in the constitution, shall ever be construed to delegate the power to Congress to appropriate money for any internal improvement intended to facilitate commerce ; except for the purpose of furnishing lights, beacons, and buoys, and other aids to navigation upon the coasts, and the improvement of harbors and the removing of obstructions in river navigation, in all which cases, such duties shall be laid on the navigation facilitated thereby, as may be necessary to pay the costs and expenses thereof.

The DVD Forum was created to facilitate the exchange of information and ideas about the DVD format, and to enable it to grow through technical improvement and innovation.

It aims to facilitate " the exchange of views – to contribute to the preservation and improvement of the free society.

Before his term ended, he was also able to facilitate the improvement of San Vicente Road, the Lapayon-Calaboa-Cagamutan Norte Road, and the 3CL at Leganes National High School.

In 1945 the club couldn't raise sufficient funds to facilitate this and the following year improvement works at the Showgrounds delayed the return by another year.

No definite proposals were put forward for the improvement of the housing conditions, and to facilitate matters I was afterwards instructed by the Committee to submit a Representation under the Housing Acts.

In recent years QIOs have undertaken to facilitate continual improvement of health care services within their constituent communities in addition to their original and ongoing statutory audit / inspection role of medical peer review, i. e., akin to the traditional function of quality assurance.

Instantiation and assembly, by promoting modularization, facilitate the capitalisation of good practice and the improvement of given process models .”

Government agencies have found that Lean methods lead to an improved understanding of how their own processes work, facilitate the quick identification and implementation of improvements, and build a culture of continuous improvement.

The Mississippi River Commission was established in 1879 to facilitate improvement of the Mississippi River from the Head of Passes near its mouth to its headwaters.

It will also facilitate coordination of knowledge translation and quality improvement projects across Canada.

For example, the IBM System / 370 used a CPU that was primarily 32 bit, but it used 128-bit precision inside its floating point units to facilitate greater accuracy and range in floating point numbers.

Some IBM compatible keyboards, e. g., the Northgate OmniKey ™/ 102, also featured function keys on the left, which on examples with swapped left Alt and Caps Lock keys, facilitate fingers of a single hand simultaneously striking modifier key ( s ) and function keys swiftly and comfortably by touch even by those with small hands.

The operating systems which run on these architectures make extensive use of this instruction to facilitate process ( i. e., system and user tasks ) and processor ( i. e., central processors ) parallelism while eliminating, to the greatest degree possible, the " disabled spin locks " which had been employed in earlier IBM operating systems.

Both languages were intended to facilitate ease of transition for IBM tabulating machine ( Tab ) unit record equipment technicians to the then new computers.

At Morgan Stanley, Whitney helped to develop A +, a variant of APL, to facilitate the migration of APL applications from IBM mainframes to a network of Sun workstations.

There are a variety of online mentoring technology programs available that can be utilized to facilitate this mentee-driven matching process.

Commercial enterprises were established by foreign companies, and the skills of Miskito turtlemen were utilized to facilitate intensive harvesting of green turtle populations.

Partial colorization has also been utilized on footage shot in color to enhance commercials and broadcast television to further facilitate the director's artistic vision.

Commodity Murabahah is a trade – related transaction utilized to facilitate the origination of Bank Islam Treasury and other Banking products.

The plate-fin heat exchanger is widely used in many industries, including the aerospace industry for its compact size and lightweight properties, as well as in cryogenics where its ability to facilitate heat transfer with small temperature differences is utilized.

The Orthodox Church also defines the concept of oikonomia which is exercised to facilitate salvation or worship, and is exemplified in the New Testament: in Acts 16: 3 St. Paul set aside the usual rule to circumcise Timothy, whose father was a gentile, to placate certain Jewish Christians.

At the time, the concept of virtually endless growth was common, both from the perspective of commercial land development, and from planners seeking to facilitate such growth.

Group rights have historically been used both to infringe upon and to facilitate individual rights, and the concept remains controversial.

Radical corporate transparency, as a philosophical concept, would involve removing all barriers to free and easy public access to corporate, political and personal ( treating persons as corporations ) information and the development of laws, rules, social connivance and processes that facilitate and protect such an outcome.

* To facilitate the transfer and sharing of the developmental experiences among member countries within the region with emphasis on the concept of South-South cooperation.

Corporate transparency, a form of radical transparency, is the concept of removing all barriers to — and the facilitating of — free and easy public access to corporate information and the laws, rules, social connivance and processes that facilitate and protect those individuals and corporations that freely join, develop, and improve the process.

Because concept maps are constructed to reflect organization of the declarative memory system, they facilitate sense-making and meaningful learning on the part of individuals who make concept maps and those who use them.

Recently, however, computer technology has been developed that can score essay responses on concept inventories in biology and other domains ( Nehm, Ha, & Mayfield, 2011 ), promising to facilitate the scoring of concept inventories organized as ( transcribed ) oral exams as well as essays.

If the concept of national competitiveness has any substantive meaning it must reside in the factors about a nation that facilitate productivity, and alongside criticism of nebulous and erroneous conceptions of national competitiveness systematic and rigorous attempts like Thompson ’ s need to be elaborated.

Into space with the help of an electric locomotive )", where he discussed the concept of the space elevator as an economic, safe and convenient way to access orbit and facilitate space exploration.

Research is beginning to explore the connection between the concept and modern activism / advocacy, as groups are increasingly using social media to facilitate civic engagement and collective action.

Meanwhile by the summer of 1938 the War Office, Admiralty and Air Ministry had developed the concept of a Central War Room that would facilitate discussion and decision-making between the Chiefs of Staff of the armed forces.

Even though the bondage of his verse is not so great as the writing poet can manage, it is still great enough for him often to be seriously impeded unless he has aids to facilitate rapid composition.

The abdomen is inflated with carbon dioxide gas to facilitate visualization and, often, a small video camera is used to show the procedure on a monitor in the operating room.

While nations often strive for substantive harmony to facilitate cross-national distribution, philosophical differences about the optimal extent of regulation can be a hindrance ; more restrictive regulations seem appealing on an intuitive level, but critics decry the tradeoff cost in terms of slowing access to life-saving developments.

To consolidate these various data models, and facilitate the extract transform load ( ETL ) process, DW solutions often make use of an operational data store ( ODS ).

Aluminum shoes are lighter, making them common in horse racing, where a lighter shoe is desired ; and often facilitate certain types of desired movement, and so are favored in the discipline of dressage.

Libraries often provide quiet areas for studying, and they also often offer common areas to facilitate group study and collaboration.

Most often it is assumed that it was a political decision, intended to bring Mieszko's state closer to the Czechs and to facilitate his activities in the Polabian Slavs area.

On the other hand, positive emotions often facilitate reaching an agreement and help to maximize joint gains, but can also be instrumental in attaining concessions.

Some aspects attributed to the first RISC-labeled designs around 1975 include the observations that the memory-restricted compilers of the time were often unable to take advantage of features intended to facilitate manual assembly coding, and that complex addressing modes take many cycles to perform due to the required additional memory accesses.

It is distinguished from other members of the family by having holes for seven fingers ( the lower one or two often doubled to facilitate the production of semitones ) and one for the thumb of the uppermost hand.

Aluminum shoes are lighter, making them common in horse racing, where a lighter shoe is desired ; and often facilitate certain types of desired movement, and so are favored in the discipline of dressage.

The metal fitting where the blade enters the leather or metal scabbard is called the throat, which is often part of a larger scabbard mount, or locket, that bears a carrying ring or stud to facilitate wearing the sword.

The metal fitting where the blade enters the leather or metal scabbard is called the throat, which is often part of a larger scabbard mount, or locket, that bears a carrying ring or stud to facilitate wearing the sword.

It is often tin-plated to facilitate soldering.

Increasingly, there is evidence that farmers ' pesticide applications are often unnecessary, and even facilitate pest outbreaks.

As chat rooms are often frequented by minors, they can facilitate illegal sexual contact though studies have shown that this is not common, with the American Psychologist journal calling many of the fears ' myths '.

In the very early episodes, he was a wild man, often breaking the law ( such as stealing the Sheriff's patrol car for impounding his in " One Armed Bandits ", reportedly borrowing Luke's car prior to the same episode and using it to " run the sheriff off the road to make him mad " to facilitate the aforementioned theft of the sheriffs car, running moonshine for Boss Hogg in " Mary Kaye's Baby ", seemingly breaking into Boss Hogg's home to retrieve a trophy for an upcoming race in " Luke's Love Story ", and ' borrowing ' the President's Limousine for a joy-ride in " Limo One Is Missing ").

While variables in mathematics usually take numerical values, in fuzzy logic applications, the non-numeric linguistic variables are often used to facilitate the expression of rules and facts.

IM is distinct from chat in that IM is based on clients that facilitate connections between specified known users ( often using a contact list, buddy list, or friend list ).

An alcohol like hand sanitizer can often be used successfully to facilitate the process.

Specialists are often called on to valuate real estate and facilitate transactions.

In order to facilitate overland travel, the mission settlements were situated approximately 30 miles ( 48 kilometers ) apart, so that they were separated by one day's long ride on horseback along the 600-mile ( 966-kilometer ) long el Camino Real, Spanish for " the Royal Road ", though often referred to today as the King's Highway, and also known as the California Mission Trail.

Among other uses, PPP rates facilitate international comparisons of income, as market exchange rates are often volatile, are affected by political and financial factors that do not lead to immediate changes in income and tend to systematically understate the standard of living in poor countries, due to the Balassa – Samuelson effect.