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- Creator:
- Pace, Teonta
- Description:
- In recent years, the number of medical device recalls for software defects has climbed steadily, with Class II recalls accounting for the majority of total voluntary recalls. Prolonging the time it takes between recall initiation and recall termination could cause significant risk of harm to patients. By implementing the Plan-Do-Study-Act framework to examine medical device recall data, this study utilized risk management tools to analyze risks and root causes associated with prolonged recall times for software related recalls. Through identification of root cause and risks, mitigation strategies are discussed to reduce time to recall. The results of the study indicate that recall events with prolonged recall durations are linked to organizations that struggle with recall management through regulatory compliance. Organizations can benefit from analyzing industry data to identify trending areas of risk within similar systems to mitigate impact of non-compliant policies that lead to prolonged time to recall.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Dominguez Hills
- Department:
- Quality Assurance Program
- Creator:
- Chase, Chrystal
- Description:
- A review of literature highlights the importance of organizational culture and its
relationship to organizational effectiveness. The success of an organization includes the ability to produce quality product without excessive rework or high costs for nonconformity. A gap analysis was generated that compiled ideal characteristics of positive organizational culture. Company XYZ was evaluated using the resulting gap analysis. Standard quality metrics as noted in existing literature were used to examine the relationship between a shift in organizational culture and product quality at Company XYZ. Results confirm a change in organizational culture correspond to significant changes within the business. Results also suggest a negative shift in
organizational culture has taken place. Quality metrics such as total defects and cost of nonconformity have increased post-change. This thesis adds to the collection of works supporting the necessity for managers to recognize and encourage positive organizational culture.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Dominguez Hills
- Department:
- Quality Assurance Program
- Creator:
- Espejel, Miguel
- Description:
- Most organizations question how to optimize performance to remain competitive and maintain customer loyalty. In today’s fierce competition, quality and process improvements are critical to reduce costs and maximize manufacturing performance. Company ABC is challenged with wastes associated with over production, extra processing, non-value-added motion, excessive inventory, and bottlenecks in operations. The company needs cost effective solutions that are easily implemented with a minimal learning curve.
This thesis proposes a Lean manufacturing model using the five principles of Lean applied to a meat packing and distribution company. Lean process improvements facilitate on-time delivery, reduce defects, implement visual management, optimize workplace organization, and improve employee morale. The Lean processes business model is analyzed along with the challenges, obstacles, and lessons learned during its development and implementation. Lean tools and process metrics are used to monitor reduction of internal wastes, avoid bottlenecks, simplify processing steps, improve profitability, and customer satisfaction.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Dominguez Hills
- Department:
- Quality Assurance Program
- Creator:
- Villanueva, Ismenia
- Description:
- Every year, some students in special education programs at traditional high schools transfer to alternative high schools. It is important for students in special education to receive high quality education, but this is also the law under Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Over the years, considerable emphasis in special education has been placed on designing and implementing effective practices such as high quality instruction and smaller class sizes for enhancing outcomes for all learners, including those with disabilities, served in the general education classroom (Vaughn & Swanson, 2015). This research will examine students with Individualized Education Program, who have encountered difficulties at traditional setting high schools and have enrolled in Reliance Educational Academy, an independent study high school in Wilmington, California. The results of this research could be used to improve special education services at Reliance Educational Academy and other independent studies high schools in the future.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Dominguez Hills
- Creator:
- Reed, Jacob
- Description:
- Joyce’s writing has largely been associated with narrative irony. However, a romantic
reading is possible aided by the ideas of Joseph Campbell and Sc hopenhauer. A romantic is one that uses the narrative pattern of romance: a questing hero successfully achieves his or her or goals, often with a psychological transformation, and the overall pattern affirms a positive moral order. An argument is made regarding Campbell’s ideas about myths being rewritten in a more
accessible and meaningful way. Aspects from Greek and Gaelic myth can be found in both the Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses . The quest of Stephen Dedalus exemplifies Campbell' s ideas, which are strengthened with the ideas from Schopenhauer and Buddhist philosophy.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Dominguez Hills
- Department:
- Humanities External Program
- Creator:
- Flanigan, Kelsey
- Description:
- Students eligible for special education under the criteria of Emotional Disturbance often present disruptive or off-task behaviors in the classroom. The purpose of this study was to determine if the class pass intervention or classroom password or the combination of the two would be a more effective strategy in a high school classroom. The class pass intervention provides the student with a pass from class that they can use to request a break or to keep and use for a preferred activity at a later time. The classroom password is to increase engagement and on-task behavior during academic instruction and reduce disruptive behaviors. The study used a group design with A-B-A-B design to measure the success and effectiveness of the intervention.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Dominguez Hills
- Creator:
- Bradshaw, Khaleah
- Description:
- Colorism is rooted in racism. Because the institution of racism stems from the enslavement of Africans in America, colorism has a history in the United States just as long as slavery itself. Using a color system among women sets the standard of beauty against Eurocentricity, the idea that beauty standards based on beauty in the continent of Europe. The idea that white is right creates a barrier that lighter skinned Black women are more attractive than darker skinned Black women. Skin tone discrimination has caused tension within the Black community for years. The purpose of this study is to examine skin tone discrimination using African-American literature as the backdrop.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Dominguez Hills
- Department:
- Department of Interdisciplinary Studies
- Creator:
- Beggs, Andrew
- Description:
- Albert Camus re-constructs the Greek myths of Sisyphus and Prometheus to symbolize man’s essential condition and the rebellion against that condition. Through the use of symbol and allusion Camus connects The Stranger and The Plague to Greek myth and tragedy. Camus’ tragic heroes are descendants of the tragic heroes of Aeschylus and Sophocles. Meursault, the tragic hero in The Stranger is the absurd man and this connects him to Sisyphus. But his tragic lineage is more comparable to that of Oedipus. They both cross a limit and are fated to a paradoxical existence that is both of their own making and unavoidable. In The Plague the tragic condition of the inhabitants of Oran and their evolution to solidarity mirrors the spirit of Prometheus. In both novels Camus anthropomorphizes the sun and the sea in ways that connect to Greek myth.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Dominguez Hills
- Department:
- Humanities External Program
- Creator:
- Akard, Michael E.
- Description:
- Misconceptions abound regarding the Highland bagpipe. Despite the global presence of this instrument and its popularity for both solo and ensemble work, there is disagreement among scholars and performers regarding piobaireachd and appropriate interpretation of this musical form. To solve that problem, it is necessary to consider the instrument and the music for which it is used in historical context. Understanding how the Highland bagpipe has evolved and the social forces that have influenced both piobaireachd and ceol beag will result in more consistency
among scholars and better informed artistry among performers.
This study uses extensive video, pictorial, and print sources to identify changes in the Highland bagpipe and its music, as well as to reconstruct the social conditions in which they occurred. It also uses case studies to examine the resulting music, particularly piobaireachd, in order to analyze and describe changes in musical form, performance practice, and artistic interpretation.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Dominguez Hills
- Department:
- Quality Assurance Program
- Creator:
- Echols, Angela
- Description:
- Compliance with the U.S. Department of Agriculture wheat flour milling standards and U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulations is not enough to prevent a major recall of wheat flour containing peanut residue that has caused adverse reactions in two children. This thesis expands standard organization-wide total quality management (TQM) principles into an industry-wide perspective. It looks at wheat flour supply chain segments as an interconnected system, working towards the shared aim of providing wheat flour products free from cross-contact with peanuts. Wheat and peanut supply chains are reviewed side-by-side, and TQM tools are used to identify risk and assess cross-contact areas. Regulations and industry best practices are examined for current preventive controls for allergen cross-contact. Recommendations are based on expanded TQM ideologies. This expansion of TQM into the wheat supply chain, while not without its limitations and challenges, can help keep consumer products safe from peanut crosscontact.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Dominguez Hills
- Department:
- Quality Assurance Program