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... Employees Health Fund A Report tothe Governor andthe Legislature ofthe State of Hawaii Conducted by The Auditor State of Hawaii and Deloitte & Touche LLP Submitted by THE AUDITOR STATE OF HAWAII Report ... cooperation and assistance extended by officials and staff ofthe health fund and administration ofthe Department of Budget and Finance Marion M Higa State Auditor This is trial version www.adultpdf.com ... adequacy ofthe financial records and accounting and internal controls, and they determine the legality and propriety of expenditures Management audits, which are also referred to as performance audits,...
... accounting and financial reporting standards is caused in part by the Board’s andthe administrator’s lack of direction and training of accounting staff in current, relevant accounting standards The GASB ... comply with accounting standards Sections 87-29(2) and (3), HRS, require the Board ofthe Health Fund to maintain suitable and adequate records for the fund’s operations and accurate records and accounts ... cost to operate the Health Fund The Governmental Accounting Standards Board ofthe Financial Accounting Foundation (GASB) issues accounting and financial reporting standards for governmental entities...
... standards andthe standards applicable to financial audits contained in Government Auditing Standards issued by the Comptroller General ofthe United States Those standards require that we plan ... for the information and use ofthe Auditor, State of Hawaii, the management and directors ofthe This is trial version www.adultpdf.com 21 Chapter 3: Financial Audit Health Fund, the Governor, and ... presentation The accounts ofthe Health Fund are organized on the basis of funds andaccount groups, each of which is considered a separate accounting entity The operations of each fund are accounted...
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... et al [8] reported from the same database that the order of frequency of malignancies for the upper aerodigestive tract was larynx, nasopharynx, esophagus, oral cavity and hypopharynx Page of ... found witha higher rate of second malignancy (22.7%) than average (4.2%) in autopsy findings, and follicular carcinoma was more frequent among the cancers associated with another tumor (12 out of ... or distant metastasis, surgical resection of both lesions was the therapy of choice Conclusion A patient witha double primary thyroid papillary carcinoma and pulmonary adenocarcinoma was successfully...
... replicated witha delay of approximately days compared tothe wt virus Replication ofthe Q591L mutant was significantly better, witha delay of only one day compared tothe wt virus Of note is that ... (see the text) was passaged onto × 106 fresh MT-2 T cells in the presence or absence of 0.3 mM BME and virus spread was measured for 10 days the rate of appearance of syncytia and CA-p24 antigen ... in the study JPM participated in the study design and coordination BB supervised the study, and participated in its design and coordination All authors read and approved the final manuscript Acknowledgments...
... publications by the Asian Socialist Conference andthe Socialist Interafrican are included, as are the publications ofthe SI Fraternal and Associated organizations with two exceptions, andthe various ... have or had quite a role to play If their efforts were to be analysed and understood, the most important material the publications of these organizations had to be located The material probably ... libraries at that The Social Democratic Group ofthe Latin American Parliament is a fairly new associated organization tothe SI and if the group has published anything it has not found its way to...
... Na3-citrate and Al(NO3)$ 6H2O as surfactant chemicals in the hydrothermal synthesis at 60 C Experimental details Zinc nitrate hexahydrate (Zn(NO3)$6H2O) was used to grow ZnO crystals, and aluminum ... sharp without any indication of an interfacial reaction or any formation of amorphous compounds The SAED pattern showed that the film was c-axis oriented in the substrate normal direction witha ... MN, USA), which was placed into an oven at 60 C for h The lid tothe vessel was sealed to prevent evaporation At the end ofthe period, the vessel was cooled to room temperature to remove the...
... the damaged discoid lateral meniscus is considered to be one ofthe main causes of OCD ofthe lateral femoral condyle Matsumoto et al [10] reported a case with bilateral OCD lesions ofthe lateral ... ofthe osteochondritis dissecans lesion ofthe lateral femoral condyle may cause OCD ofthe lateral femoral condyle Mitsuoka et al [8] reported the case ofa 10-year-old boy who was treated with ... normal articular continuity and contour, but softening of cartilage at the margins ofthe OCD within the lateral femoral condyle without breach or fibrillation was found We performed meniscoplasty...
... indicates the beneficial role ofthe radiotherapy in local control of disease after a total or a near total resection of extracranial MPNSTs [14,33-38] Anghileri et al found adjuvant radiotherapy ... performing the preoperative and postoperative CT and MRI scans and wrote the part ofthe paper concerning the illustrations PN was the pathologist who examined the tissue and wrote the part ofthe pathology ... approved the final manuscript KG conceived the idea ofthe paper, reported the case, performed the literature research and statistical analysis, wrote the paper, was the attendant physician-resident...
... 2011, The paranasal sinuses have been thought to contribute to voice resonance, to humidify and warm the inspired air, to increase the olfactory membrane area, to absorb shock tothe face and head, ... including Alaskan Eskimos (25% in males and 36% in female) and Canadian Eskimos (43% in males and 40% in female) [21,22] According tothe literature, the frequency ofa bilateral absence ofthe frontal ... frontal sinus aplasia was defined as the absence of frontal bone pneumatization with no ethmoid cells extending above a line tangential tothe supraorbital margin Frontal sinus aplasia was also...
... evaluated the efficacy and safety of one such Laser for the treatment of pathological frenulum, keratoses, angiomas and telangiectases PATIENTS AND METHODS The treatment withthe 980nm Diode Laser ... had healed without leaving any macroscopically visible scars [Fig.2b,3b], after the appearance for half a day of erythema with moderate serum secretion and microcrasts for 5-7 days In all oral ... pigmentation [7] Furthermore, to avoid exaggerated fluences and thermal damage tothe surrounding tissues, and in accordance to J .A Parrish's view [6] that exogenous chromophores are able to "target,...
... the atmosphere, enabling plants and animals to leave the oceans, and survive and evolve on land ♦ Between 450 million years ago and 350 million years ago, land plants and amphibian animals began ... and some of these evolved into soft-bodied worm-like animals witha variety of organs, and still later into the first hard-shelled creatures capable of leaving fossils ♦ Oxygen continued to accumulate ... last 40 years, largely because they can take decades to break down once released into the air ♦ At low altitudes, they act as “greenhouse” gases and contribute to global warming ♦ At high altitudes,...
... trihalomethane from water, along with other effects The Kanamachi Purification Plant of Tokyo, for example, introduced facilities (ozonation and BAC) witha capacity of 260,000 m3/day in 1992 and ... Morioka, T., Motoyama, N., Hoshikawa, H., Murakami, A. , Okada, M and Moniwa, T (1993) Kinetic Analysis On The Effects Of Dissolved Inorganic And Organic Substances In Raw Water On The Ozonation Of ... standards value of 0.01 mg/L in Japan An appropriate treatment must therefore be applied to maintain bromate value below this standards value Bromate formation with ozone was investigated to obtain...
... Studies Abderrahman (2000) studied the water demand management in Saudi Arabia, while Mayer et al (1999) and White (2000) both studied on water demand management in Colorado, USA and in Sydney, Australia, ... contributed to such reduction was the relocation of large-scale factories in Tokyo such as Toyosu Gas, Ebisu Brewery, Kirin Beer and others tothe outskirts of Tokyo Another major factor was the reduction ... Special meeting was arranged in order to discuss the WCP The committee concluded that the basis ofthe promotion was to raise self-awareness to custom over the habit of water users andto stimulate...
... Standards Institute (ETSI), and EIATIA are only a few ofthe standards bodies you might be familiar with One key component of having a standards-based packet infrastructure is the ability to have ... video and data-sharing a major part ofthe protocol Applications require significant work if they are to be scalable with H.323; for example, to accomplish a call transfer requires a separate specification ... packet layer tothe call-control layer and from the call-control layer tothe application layer, vendors no longer have to develop applications Now, they can simply write to these standard APIs and...
... through the organization, for special areas Withthe approval ofthe IMO, the coastal state may also adopt additional laws and regulations relating to ‘discharges or navigational practices but shall ... ‘regions’ in the context ofthe contemporary law ofthe sea andthe actual cooperation of states as tothe demanding tasks of exploring, exploiting and protecting the seas andthe natural environment ... jurisdiction in the coastal waters As there are no generally recognised coastal states in Antarctica, all provisions based on the existence ofa coastal state and its coastal marine areas have to be interpreted...
... and nimble tore at the string and paper And then an ecstatic scream of joy; and then; alsa! A quick feminine change to hysterical tears and wails [2:25] “ Maybe the hairs of my head were numbered”, ... language text The three main factors guided are the target audience, the purpose ofthe translation andthe text type Pragmatic equivalence: related to implicatures and strategies of avoidance ... lots of Vietnamese readers Apart from The Last Leaf, the readers have known The Gift ofthe Magi as a typical short- story by O Henry It is translated into Vietnamese by many translators and each...