During the process of warranty management for a specific product, many decisions and actions appear affecting aspects as the design quality, used technology, technical complexity, frequency of failures, accessibility, etc. which are important influences on, for instance, the possible expectations to extend the product warranty under reasonable costs.
If one wants to compare the accessibility potentials between classes for a given amino acid (i.e. in a protein folding perspective), one solution is to remove the logarithm of the frequency of the accessibility classes to each potential (additional file 4).
Physician and NP rankings of all resources (print, online/electronic, and health professionals and other) were determined from means of Likert scale ratings (1 = strongly agree, 5 = strongly disagree) for each of the pre-specified characteristics (e.g. frequency of use, accessibility, etc).
The importance of the author of the information (volunteer or professional) is shown to be of less importance to the end-user than the characteristics which describe the information in terms of communication, frequency of updates and accessibility.
Resource ratings were based on the frequency of usage, usefulness, accessibility, credibility, and current/timeliness.
Following academic detailing, physician and NP rankings of pharmaceutical industry representatives were second or third for frequency of use, usefulness, accessibility, credibility, and current/timeliness.
Nurse practitioners and their collaborating physician partners in Nova Scotia were sent a survey in February 2005 to determine the frequency of use, usefulness, accessibility, credibility, and current/timeliness of personal digital assistant (PDA), computer, and print drug information resources.
Analysis of respondent ratings for all resources in the categories print, health professionals and other, and online/electronic resources, indicated that the Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties and pharmacists ranked highly for frequency of use, usefulness, accessibility, credibility, and current/timeliness by both groups of practitioners.
After exclusion of traditional health professionals (i.e. physicians, nurses, pharmacists, allied health) in the health professionals and other category, pharmaceutical industry representatives received rankings for second or third for frequency of use, usefulness, accessibility, credibility, and current/timeliness, based on means and number of respondents using this resource (data not shown).
Only five criteria, "hub port accessibility," "frequency of delays," "records of damages," "efficiency of husbandry services," and "availability of dedicated/own terminal," obtained a higher AvSS in the relay case than in the hub and spoke case.
