... prior standard, the new standard eliminates the requirement that the auditor assess and attest to the effectiveness of management s ICFR assessment process (PCAOB 2007b) In addition, the new standard ... they are described as the existing standard andthe proposed standard For expositional purposes, I refer here to the two standards presented in the experimental setting as AS2 (the existing standard) ... receives two news articles discussing the possible changes to the auditing standard and to the auditor liability laws The news articles are compilations of actual articles and press releases that...
... Phrase Sense Disambiguation (PSD) model into their Chinese-English SMT system and they found that the POS tag preceding a given phrase, the POS tag following the phrase and bag-ofwords are the ... judge(T)” sentences With our post-editing technique, 7% of 141 I/T responses become R/PR responses and none ofthe R/PR responses become I/T responses This means that R/PR response percentage has an ... the best of a set of outputs from different MT systems through their classification-based approach Others have also proposed using the question-answering context to detect errors in MT, showing...
... There is the publisher 's imprint again Where is it? Are there any other graphics on the back? Where? Where is the book summary and author bio? Where is the price located? What are the font sizes? ... published book Notice the spine There is usually the title ofthe book, the author 's name, the publisher 's imprint, and a picture ofthe front cover (without the text on it) Check the back There ... year and suddenly take off to sell 3000 copies in one month It sthe weirdest thing, but I’ve noticed that my books (at least) will sit there for months and nothing but then they just take off So...
... positions and nearest neighbour distance Eq (22), which contains contribution of different binary alloys consisted of different pairs of elements with the masses M1 and M2 ofthe same bcc structure The ... melting temperatures The threshold value Rm ofthe ratio of RMSF in atomic positions on the equilibrium lattice positions andthe nearest neighbor distance at the melting is contained in χ which ... (6) where, M1, M2 are the masses of atoms of types and 2, respectively Using the relation between u q and u1q [13], i.e., u q = mu1q , m = M / M , and Eqs (5, 6) we obtain the mean energy for the...
... give estimates ofthe degree of u in terms ofthe homogeneous degrees of p and q In the third part ofthe paper, the authors establish Liouville-type theorems of asymptotic type, that is, describing ... Problems but comments on the geometric and probabilistic significance of Harnack s inequalities as well The attention is mainly on classical results and an extensive and thorough list of references ... these conditions imply uniform rectifiability of ∂D and also that they yield the solution to certain symmetry problems Despite the sophisticated hard analysis used by the authors, the paper is...
... produce c The codeword is transmitted through the composite channel Since the permuted-encoded symbols are the codewords ofthe original code H, the decoder decodes the codeword The decoded codeword ... (13) k where k , as defined in (4), is the kth component in the lth sub-block and a∗ is the complex k conjugate ofthe soft symbol estimate The soft symbol estimate ak ofthe symbol sk is given ... process In Section 6, we discuss the BER performance ofthe proposed receiver under phase noise conditions using thecode constructed over Z4 for QPSK signal set In Section 7, we discuss the benefits...
... Bureau ofthe ACF + The Office ofthe Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (OASPE) NCHS gratefully acknowledges the contributions of these programs and agencies, and all others who assisted ... than the last weeks These two tables show similar relationships between consistency of condom use and marital status, marital status and age, and cohabiting status As expected, more consistent ... characteristics ofthe pregnancy are also shown, such as respondent s age at birth and wantedness ofthe pregnancy at time of conception The definitions of variables used in this report, as well as the...
... links from the Internet Like [5], the Internet s robustness against failures can be measured from a snapshot ofthe Internet We call this kind of analysis Static Analysis However, the Internet is ... metrics other than the average diameter We also conducted dynamic analysis ofthe Internet s susceptibility to attacks and faults, and discovered two interesting results; First, the Internet is much ... others is one andthe diameter between any two nodes except the most popular node is two, therefore the average diameter is less than two, andthe network has the smallest diameter of all possible...
... on standard SDS-PAGE [27]; however, this system is useful to confirm the correct migration of Ab peptides and their relative purity as assessed by silver staining In the examples shown, 100 ng of ... as with the studies by Lee et al [21] and Subramanian and Shree [42], there was no rigorous assessment ofthe purity ofthe product or the correctness ofthe sequence In contrast, the purification ... assemblies Although much progress has been made since the sequence of Ab was first determined, high-resolution structural analysis of Ab monomer and its assemblies has been hampered because of the...
... though not the same as, Aronson s (1968, 1999) selfconsistency theory, which discusses self-esteem and dissonance We focused on self-affirmation rather than self-esteem as the latter seems less relevant ... Indeed, Shouten s (1991) research also reveals the strong relationship between aesthetics and sense of self By consciously choosing these kinds of experiential purchases, consumers can influence their ... notions ofthe self Integrating these findings into the framework of self-affirmation provides the basis for our hypothesis Claudia Townsend (ctownsend@bus.miami.edu) is assistant professor of marketing,...
... of this report to evaluate these issues Note that emissions intensity can vary by time of day, by season and other factors such as peak vs baseload power (an issue that is addressed elsewhere ... and Greenhouse Gas Emission Factors Associated with Energy use in the USA: Sources, Assumptions, Methodology,” based on Reference Case ofthe EIA 's AEO200, Tellus Institute, 2002 See also: US ... Resources Board (ARB) compiles and publishes annual data on emissions offset transactions139 from 35 districts Figure V-4 contains the reported prices for these offsets.140 The average value of offsets...
... relationship that many people just don’t realise The repercussions of actions and words in the early stages of a relationship can manifest themselves in a relationship for as long as it lasts; which ... to help them feel more secure if the opportunity comes along Sometimes these insecurities will present themselves in the form of asking questions about your ex s This is often because they feel ... in this publication, neither the author nor the publisher assumes any responsibility for errors, omissions, interpretations or usage ofthe subject matters herein This publication contains the...
... agencies and other Treasury entities BPD also issues other specific securities outside ofthe authority of 31 U .S. C §3101, such as HOPE Bonds These securities are not reported on the Schedules of ... year or less Treasury issues marketable notes and bonds as long-term securities that pay semi-annual interest based on the securities' stated interest rate These securities are issued at either par ... responsibility to issue Treasury securities to trust funds for trust fund receipts not needed for current benefits and expenses BPD issues and redeems Treasury securities for the trust funds based...
... websites Of these, 431 games contain study brands (and are the basis for the analysis here).12 These games are not evenly distributed across sites Distribution of Games across Websites Not all ofthe ... size The first, the “low visitors” group, represents 73% ofthe study brands The second, the “high visitors” group, includes all remaining sites These brands constitute 27% ofthe sample.10 The ... instrument was developed to address this broader set of issues The first section focused on general aspects ofthe website; the second centered on specific details about a study brand s presence...
... half of these families compared to the generation of families raising children in the late 197 0s the rich andtherestof us 29 A smaller share going to the majority of families raises questions ... inflation-adjusted terms, the bottom half of Canadian families raising children either earned less or just the same as their predecessors almost 30 years ago As we shall see in the next section, they ... naturally in the labour market are offset by Canada s system of transfers and taxes They may be offset, but the tax and transfer system did not significantly reverse the trend in reduced shares of income...
... processes, so energy use patterns vary across sectors and product lines Figure 1-3 illustrates 2002 use of fuels and purchased electricity among the major sectors ofthe industry Within the industry, ... chemicals to dissolve the noncellulose components (primarily lignin) and separate the fibers Because the process dissolves some ofthe cellulose and hemicellulose fibers along with the lignin, the ... process The flash steam that is generated is used in the presteaming vessel The direct reuse of steam in continuous digesters reduces their fresh steam consumption by a large extent From the blow...
... jazzand blues artists had been smoking marijuana and using variousnarcotics to intensify their music making for several decades, and in theFifties the Beats had extolled marijuana as an assertion ... tragic and brutal event at the Altamont Speedway, just outside of San Francisco The occasion was a free concert featuring the Rolling Stones Following either the example or the suggestion ofthe ... all of them By the middle of 1967, a season known as the Summer of Love, the Haight had started to turn ugly There were bad drugs on the street, there were rapes and murders, and there were enough...
... frequently used or cited In terms ofthe instruments discussed above, the WHI items are most similar to those ofthe PSQI The WHIIRS andthe PSQI use the same time frame (4 weeks or month), and each ... Because it is well known that the chi-square test of significance is sensitive to sample size, we chose a sample size for these analyses based on several considerations Most important, because there ... items), sleep disturbances (9 items), use of sleeping medications (1 item), and daytime dysfunction (2 items).10 Seven of these 18 items correspond to ofthe 10 WHI sleep items, andofthe items...
... changes in the underlying circumstances When a specialist is used, the appropriateness and reasonableness of methods and assumptions are the responsibility ofthe specialist SAS No 73, Using the ... Interest Entities? ofthe returns ofthe assets ofthe silos can by used by the remaining VIE, and essentially none ofthe liabilities ofthe deemed entity are payable from the assets ofthe ... assets will remain on the balance sheet [12] The assets should either be classified separately from other assets not encumbered or the footnotes should disclose the restrictions on the assets for the...
... distinguishing between art and non-art in controversial cases (due to its excessive inclusiveness) Precisely because of its commitment to accommodating the “openness” ofthe concept of art and ... definition fails to bring out the specific features that make artworks what they are He insists that his theory stresses the importance ofthe institutional framework against which works of art are ... that, for the reasons Weitz has given, the issue of what art is cannot be completely separated from the question of what the artworld calls art But I hope to have shown that these two issues should...