"Quality Control and Assurance: An Ancient Greek Term Re-Mastered" ed. by Leo D. Kounis

This book brings together a collection of international papers that showcase examples of current research and practice in industry and the medical profession. Engineers, researchers and scientists will be assisted in their continuous quest for excelling in qualitative aspects.

Quality control and assurance cover a diverse area of modern life and play, undeniably, an important role.

The Ancient Greek word arete means excellence or virtue and defines the highest qualitative state: a man's effectiveness and skill in goodness (optimum potentiae). Indeed, Ancient Greeks believed that without quality control, specifications are useless and may result to illegitimacy, which in turn may become a threat to society itself.

Contents
Preface
1 The Evolution of Quality Concepts and the Related Quality Management
2 Key Aspects for Implementing ISO/IEC 17025 Quality Management Systems at Materials Science Laboratories
3 Youden Two-Sample Method
4 Using Lot Quality Assurance Sampling to Monitor the Prevalence of Abortions and the Quality of Reproductive Health Care in Armenia
5 A Framework to Manage Quality of Enterprise Content Management Systems
6 Exploring the Relationship of Supply Chain Risk Management to Quality Management
7 ALAMEDA Ecosystem: Centering Efforts in Software Testing Development
8 Improving Quality Assurance in Multidisciplinary Engineering Environments with Semantic Technologies
9 The Use of Control Charts in the Study of Bitcoin’s Price Variability