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... other factors It is clear that policy of mandatory rotation of auditors as a way to counter the perception that long-term relationships between auditors and their clients impair auditor independence ... years of the auditor-customer relationship as the new auditor becomes familiar with the customer’s operations (Arel et al., 2005) Therefore, it cannot use the mandatory rotation of auditors as ... firms have top ability to specialize and innovate by technical and technology, thereby increasing the likelihood of breach discovery in the accounting system, and the discovery of errors and manipulation...
... negotiation of meaning between producers and receivers of text is to be seen as an evidence of a translation, a mean of retracting the partway of the translator’s decision making procedures” According to ... combination of tense and a range of auxiliaries which require learners to grasp before being able to understand and use it Furthermore, conditional sentences represent an obstacle to Vietnamese ... ACKNOWLEDGMENTS During the course of fulfilling my graduation paper, I have owned a debt of gratitude to many people First, and foremost, I would like to express my deepest to gratitude to Ms Chu Thi Minh Hang...
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... AF and MP (1st reviewers) and EGS and JGA (2nd reviewers) screened titles and abstracts AF and MP (1st reviewers) and EGS and JGA (2nd reviewers) assessed full texts of the identified studies and ... prior to statistical analysisof the psychometric properties of the instrument Only one defined its conceptual framework after the analysis, and three papers refined the domains after a factor analysis ... regulatory agencies and stakeholders such as patients and physicians, it is only possible to understand the meaning of the effects of health care interventions on PROs if the underlying concepts to...
... are fed to the base terminals of transistors Q1 and Q2 via the resistors R3 and R05 for limiting current The control pulses are insulated from U1 and U2 by using auto-couplers Some forms of pulses ... Centre for Efficiency and Productivity Analysis, School of Economics University of Queensland 2004; E Thanassoulis, Introduction to the Theory and Application of Data Envelopment Analysis, Massachusetts, ... cosωt and comparing the signs of the inputs of these ICs The outputs of function generating block are fed to the positive inputs In(+) of U2A and U4A Their negative inputs In(-) are connected to...
... set of orthogonal basic vectors which can expand a multi-variate random process into a sum of products of these basic orthogonal vectors and single-variant uncorrelated random processes Let consider ... phenomena and POD mode due to series of physical measurements and POD analyses of pressure fields in low-rise buildings Effect of pressure tap positions on the same measured pressure area (uniform and ... [7-8] indicated distortion and wrong interpretation of POD modes due to presence of mean pressure data in the analyzed pressure field It is argued that the POD is appropriate tool to reveal physical...
... width of the potential and D is the dissociation energy In the case of relative vibrations of absorber and backscatterer atoms, including the effect of correlation and taking into account only the ... λ , and the sum is over all atomic shells Numerical results and comparison to experiment Now we apply the above derived expressions to numerical calculations compared to experiment for Zn and ... dependence of 1st (a) and 2nd (b) cumulants for Zn and Cd compared to experiment at 77 K and 300 K [16] Figure demonstrates the temperature dependence of our calculated 3rd cumulant and thermal...
... chemical and physical properties to Program Offices (e.g., Office of Water, Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response, Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances) and Regional Offices ... exposure andrisk Although a wide variety of approaches are commonly used in regulatory exposure andrisk calculations, knowledge of the relevant chemistry of the compound in question is critical to ... pre-calculated and stored in SPARC databases The strength of the electrostatic interaction between S and C depends on the magnitude and relative orientation of the local fields of S and C and the dielectric...
... and ‘Lateral Thinking’, and the work of consultancy firm What If? 42) Forum theatre is a form of theatre developed by Augusto Boal in Brazil, in which actors and non-actors play out stories of ... (understanding the overall processes involving suppliers, producers, and customers of goods and services); knowledge of variation (the range and causes of variation in quality, and use of statistical ... network of cafés will be opened up to non-profit organisations to host and organise events and meetings Proof of concept cafés have been established in London, Istanbul and New York and the first...
... profiles and with similar (p > 0.05) values of BS and hardness to textural profile 1, and similar values (p > 0.05) of cohesiveness and springiness to profile 3, and intermediate values of adhesiveness ... mean of each sample and the standard deviation (SD) of the mean Results and discussion 3.1 Physico-chemical analysis Dry matter, fat content (% dry matter), water activity (aw) and pH values of ... According to the folding test (Table 3) samples were assigned to grades 3, and Only 33% of the products did not crack when folded into quadrants and fell into the maximum grade (5) However, 62.5% of...
... rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn's disease and psoriasis [15,17] To investigate the immunomodulatory effects of Panax ginseng, genechip analysis was used to examine the gene expression profile of TNF-α-treated ... quantitative RT-PCR analysis Our results may contribute to the understanding of the molecular mechanisms of the immunomodulatory effect of ginseng and ginsenosides on TNF-α-mediated inflammatory diseases ... as activation of NF-κB and AP-1 in mouse skin andhuman pro-myelocytic leukemia cells [14] Proinflammatory cytokine TNF-α has been shown to play a central role in the pathogenesis of both acute...
... 115–122) of the L3L protein Method 5: MALDI-TOF/TOF MS Direct trypsin digests of the membrane- and core-enriched fractions were also analyzed using MALDI-TOF/TOF MS to take advantage of complementary ... 1607.0 Figure Mass analysisof a distinct peptide from the G3L protein using Method (MALDI-TOF/TOF) Mass analysisof a distinct peptide from the G3L protein using Method (MALDI-TOF/TOF) The membraneenriched ... spectrometers to analyze the in-solution digests: MALDI-TOF/TOF MS and LC-ESI-Q-TOF MS This "shotgun" strategy resulted in a lower number of total spectra and identified a lower number of peptides,...
... 115–122) of the L3L protein Method 5: MALDI-TOF/TOF MS Direct trypsin digests of the membrane- and core-enriched fractions were also analyzed using MALDI-TOF/TOF MS to take advantage of complementary ... 1607.0 Figure Mass analysisof a distinct peptide from the G3L protein using Method (MALDI-TOF/TOF) Mass analysisof a distinct peptide from the G3L protein using Method (MALDI-TOF/TOF) The membraneenriched ... spectrometers to analyze the in-solution digests: MALDI-TOF/TOF MS and LC-ESI-Q-TOF MS This "shotgun" strategy resulted in a lower number of total spectra and identified a lower number of peptides,...
... Specificity of 618F for human MUC16 Specificity of 618F for human MUC16 (A) Purity ofhuman MUC16 isolated from spent media of OVCAR-3 cells as determined by Coomassie Blue (1) and silver staining (2) of ... from Jean McKenzie, and start-up funds from the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology to MSP We are deeply grateful to Kathy Schell for her advice and help and acknowledge the support provided ... flow cytometry we also demonstrated that both 618F and 653F specifically bind to the OVCAR-3 but not to the MUC16neg SKOV-3 or CAOV-3 cells (Fig 4B) The binding of 618F, 653F and VK-8 to the...
... contributors to rural economies in many regions The goal of the project is to improve the efficiency and profitability of rural sawmills in Vietnam and their contribution to rural development and ... goal of the project is to improve the efficiency and profitability of rural sawmills in Vietnam and their contribution to rural development and poverty alleviation A wide range of stakeholders and ... goal of this project is to improve the efficiency and profitability of small rural sawmills in Vietnam and their contribution to rural development and poverty alleviation The starting point was to...
... by 2010, there are to be 21 particleboard factories with a total capacity of 538,000 m3 of product per year and 10 fiber-board factories with a total capacity of 375,000 m3 of product per year ... production capacity of 70,000 air-dried tonnes and two paper lines with a total capacity of 100,000 tpa Two other major pulp mills owned by Vinapimex are Tan Mai and Dong Nai near HCMC and together, these ... million tonnes of paper and 905,000 tonnes of pulp for the year (VET 24/01/2007) Most pulp and paper production in Vietnam serves the domestic market and paper exports reached only 30,000 tonnes...