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If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. AbstractEvaluates a short course entitled:``The implementation of managerial techniques in primary and secondary schools'', which was addressed to the headmasters of the primary and secondary schools in Patras, Greece. The course was designed utilizing the principles of total quality and the evaluation is focused on the degree of achievement of the objectives through the analysis of quality factors such as participation, methodology, content, subject knowledge and teaching ability of the course deliverers. The evaluation is based on questionnaires that were completed by the participants at different stages of the duration of the short course. Proposes a list of parameters that have to be considered in designing short courses for adults who already have a long professional experience. Electronic accessThe research register for this journal is available at

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In this paper, a fuzzy neural network applied to in-process error compensation on CNC machine tools is proposed The system is designed by a linguistic nile-based fuzzy controller and trained by a back propagation neural network to adjust and develop the control rules.