noise transmission impairment | NTI [Abbr.]

quality fade

distortion transmission impairment [ DTI | frequency distortion transmission impairment ]

Is quality an outmoded concept in the electronic age? The effect of diminishing resources on quality

non-quality cost reduction

Definition: A group of disorders characterized by qualitative abnormalities in reciprocal social interactions and in patterns of communication, and by a restricted, stereotyped, repetitive repertoire of interests and activities. These qualitative abnormalities are a pervasive feature of the individual's functioning in all situations.

develop quality control framework | set quality control objectives | set QC objectives | set quality assurance objectives

reducer [ reducer fitting | reducing fitting | reducer bushing | tapered reducer | reducing bushing | reducing sleeve ]

Definition: A rare disorder in which the patient complains spontaneously that his or her mental activity, body, and surroundings are changed in their quality, so as to be unreal, remote, or automatized. Among the varied phenomena of the syndrome, patients complain most frequently of loss of emotions and feelings of estrangement or detachment from their thinking, their body, or the real world. In spite of the dramatic nature of the experience, the patient is aware of the unreality of the change. The sensorium is normal and the capacity for emotional expression intact. Depersonalization-derealization symptoms may occur as part of a diagnos ...[+++]able schizophrenic, depressive, phobic, or obsessive-compulsive disorder. In such cases the diagnosis should be that of the main disorder.

Qualitative platelet defects

Sustainable employment growth needs all of the following: an improved access to employment in general; an improved balance between flexibility and security and real opportunities for upward occupational mobility for those in low quality jobs, without making access to the labour market more difficult for those on the margins; a reduction of long-term unemployment without creating a situation based on repetitive spells in unemployment and low quality employment; and improved upward quality dynamics, helping people in low quality jobs ...[+++] and high risk of unemployment to gain employment stability and to improve employability.

As well as setting out the further emission cuts needed, this proposal addresses some of the shortcomings in the implementation of the Union air policy framework and the need for enhanced co-ordination between emission reductions and air quality as well as climate change and biodiversity protection.

(8) This Directive should also contribute to the achievement of the air quality objectives set in Union legislation and to the mitigation of climate change impacts by reducing emissions of short-lived climate pollutants as well as to the improvement of air quality globally.

Meeting victims' needs before, during and after criminal proceedings can considerably reduce the overall cost of crime.[17] This includes tangible costs in the economic and health sector as well as in the criminal justice system, and intangible costs, such as the victim's pain, suffering and reduction of quality of life.