At the beginning of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, speculations were, as always, intense about who is going to win, this time around. As the most important sporting event in the football world was about to start, the sheer number of global audiences it gathers was bound to lead to a vast array of biased or unbiased predictions for its final outcome. Needless to say, it most definitely did.
Throughout the years, the healthcare industry has become increasingly more complex due to technological and medical evolution and, as a result, it is characterized today by an overwhelming amount of information. Therefore, hospitals require an efficient information system that will enable the proper management of all these requirements.
The presentation “Uncertainty assessment of performance indicators” was offered, in the third day of the PMA 2014 Conference, by Marcello A. L. Cavallare, Sergio d. Sousa and Eusébio p. Nunes, from University of Minho, Portugal.
In today’s multicultural environment, in which cross-border exchanges take place every minute, translation is an activity that touches almost any business area one can think of. And the more efficient the translation process, the better. But how can an organization providing translation services know whether it is performing well or not, if it is not looking into its outcomes?