... discoveries of fraud and violations of laws and regulations as raised by the head oftheinternalaudit function; (l) approving theaudit charter and the code of ethics oftheinternalaudit function; ... International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board, and the standards ofThe Institute ofInternal Auditors (The IIA) as indicated The diagram does not reflect all ofthe communication channels ... information acquired Theinternalauditfunction in banks 21 The head oftheinternalauditfunction and all internal auditors should avoid conflicts of interest Internally recruited internal auditors...
... internalaudit staff within theinternalauditfunction In addition, a bank may rotate staff from other functional areas ofthe bank to theinternalauditfunction or from theinternalauditfunction ... discoveries of fraud and violations of laws and regulations as raised by the head oftheinternalaudit function; (l) approving theaudit charter and the code of ethics oftheinternalaudit function; ... integrity Theinternalauditfunction in banks Theinternalaudit charter Principle 5: Each bank should have an internalaudit charter that articulates the purpose, standing and authority ofthe internal...
... mixed with sand of deltaic facies and silty clay of lagoonal facies in the central part passing into silty clay of flood plain, oxbow, coastal swamp and peat facies in the direction from the plain to ... and peat facies in the direction from the plain to the modern coastline. The fourth sequence consists of swamp clay, lagoonal clay and peat. In the direction towards the center ofthe plain, each of these sequences appears more and more ... tidal flat silty sand and lagoonal clay and lenses of lacustrine clay of Hanoi Formation, the laterized lagoonal clay of Vinh Phuc Formation, the alternating greenish gray clay and peat bearing swamp clayey ...
... here was gathered in the course of fresh cadaver autopsies carried out in the Department of Forensic Medicine at the Medical University of Sofia, Bulgaria The medico-legal office and local Ethic ... data on the transversus thoracis variations are scarce in literature Data concerning the level of slip attachment and scope ofthe transversus thoracis, irrespective ofthe side examined, have ... right bare area is larger and reaches the level of third rib and intercostal space Conclusions The data from the present study adds some basic information concerning the surgical anatomy ofthe anterior...
... biopsies’ ofthe airway wall are obtained by placing the tip ofthe miniprobe onto the airway wall surface Another advantage of FCFM and its miniprobe is the ability to reach and therefore visualize the ... Mixed Asthma Lamellar Lamellar Healthy, atopic Mixed Mixed Healthy, atopic Mixed Lamellar 10 Healthy, atopic Lamellar Lamellar 11 Healthy, atopic Lamellar Lamellar 12 Healthy, non-atopic Wispy real-time ... Additional oxygen through an intranasal catheter was given to the participant when necessary Immediately after adequate local anaesthetic the bronchial tree was inspected with an autofluorescence...
... commemorating Taba, daughter of Tahapi, an Aramaean lady who was also a convert to Osiris It is rather later than that of Abbâ and his wife, since the Aramaic characters are transitional from the archaic ... depression ofthe Jordan Valley, the Dead Sea, and the 'Arabah The Judaean hills and the mountains of Moab are merely the southward prolongation ofthe Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon, and their neighbourhood ... (5) The name ofthe father of Gilgamesh is rather strangely expressed by the single sign for the vowel a and must apparently be read as A As there is a small break in the text at the end of this...
... study, was the examining physician at the baseline and the follow ups, participated and contributed substantial in the analysis and in the interpretation of data Acknowledgements This research was ... effects of hand-arm vibration exposure below m/ s2 In a study of car mechanics 15% had VWF with an average daily exposure duration of 14 minutes at a value of 3.5 m/s2 and an average total exposure ... we used the age 16 as onset of exposure time In vocational school the two last years are to a major part practice There was no worker that got out of hand-arm vibration exposure and then returned...
... Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2009, 51:53 tor testicular functionof boars and bulls as spermatozoa are not analyzed in terms of their total integrity [2-4] Assessment of sperm plasma membrane ... Veterinaria Scandinavica 2009, 51:53 Acknowledgements The authors thank Mrs R Ijäs for technical assistance and Mr K Ala-Juusela for providing insemination data and the boar stations Pro Agria Jalostuspalvelu ... two-sample analysis, and Spearman rank correlations were calculated The Spearman rank correlations were used to calculate the relationships between the sperm quality traits and fertility Relationship...
... Malaysia Rest of Asia Africa South America Others 1676; 20 % Figure Rubber plantation area in the world in thousand hectares, and percentage ofthe total planted area in the world in the year ... In Thailand, the rubber plantation area is larger than the plantation area of these two crops In the year 2005, the plantation areas of rubber, oil palm and coconut were 680 000 ha, 315 000 and ... forests The natural range of Hevea, ofthe family Euphorbiaceae, covers the Amazon river basin and parts ofthe nearby uplands Within the genus, Hevea brasiliensis (also known as para rubber)...
... gene) and quantitative and qualitative assays for b-galactosidase (activation of LacZ reporter gene) BD, pGBT9; BD*, pAS2-1; AD, pGAD424; AD**, pACT2 Activity values are given as mean values ± standard ... pair of primers: 5¢-CAGGATCCCTATGAGCAGC TCCGAGGAAGTCTCCT-3¢ and 5¢-CTGTCGACTTA GTTTTTCGCTCGTAGTGGCATTTTAAAATTGGCT GC-3¢ BamHI–SalI digested PCR fragment was cloned into BamHI–SalI digested pAS2-1 ... from the DNA ofthe cosmid clone #9 [18] using the following pair of primers: 5¢-GACTGCAGTGAAGG GCATCGAGTCCTCGGG-3¢ and 5¢-GAGGATCCGG GACATTCCTTAGCCAGGAGGG-3¢ To make the b-galactosidase expressing...
... DNA pU6LNS (two lac operators at a distance of 183 bp) was reported A B Fig Relative positions ofthe three lac operator sites in the plasmid DNAs (A) Diagrammatic representation ofthe plasmid ... represent chromatin and naked DNA samples of d35 The probe was the same as that in Fig The black dot marks the spot in lane 9, which is an artefact, and asterisks denote the positions ofthe hypersensitivity ... Ellipses indicate the nucleosomes, and solid boxes represent the R3 footprint over the lac operator Arrowheads and arrows mark the positions ofthe lac operators The names ofthe plasmid DNAs are given...
... considerations of space size and realizability on actual data, because we have to check all the combinations of several ten thousands nouns with each verb (i) The only one natural conceptural categories ... equivalent ( D o , Play : ~ - & ) that can be associated in common to a part ofthe structure ofthe categories as in Fig.l, and then find appropriate translation equivalents in detail at the ... level categories (2) To each verb found in the process ofthe association, consults ordinary dictionary of translation equivalents and word usage of verbs and obtain the set of all the translation...
... concept and design SR participated in data integration and data analysis accuracy JM and NK were responsible for statistical analysis and data presentation MM completed the interpretation of data GSM ... consisted ofa systematic sample (k BMI categorization Based on the reported data on body height and mass, BMI values were calculated as the ratio of body mass in kilograms and the square of height ... quality of life, and particularly the physical health ofthe individual, coincide with those of other authors who also found that overweight and obesity have a greater impact on physical rather...
... concept and design and statistical analysis ofthe data, IS collected the data, BL contributed to the concept and interpretation ofthe data, DB contributed to the concept, design, statistical analysis ... categories of dependent variable The significance level was set at p < 05 All analyses were performed using STATA, version 8.2 Results The average age ofthe sample was 43.2 years and the majority ... may indicate that physical and mental health mediates the relationship between job satisfaction and work ability The higher prevalence of physical and mental health problems among the "dissatisfied"...
... Kinshasa, Democratic Republic ofthe Congo Acknowledgements We thank Tshimanga Badinga, Nicole Kutumbakana, Odette Daiku, Mamie Ilaka, Jean-Serges Kalengi Kukemfuka and Jose Kayumba Baye for their ... caregiver, the maternal aunt and primary caregiver ofa 12-year-old girl, described a similar rationale for supporting disclosure at the end ofa study: Their participation in the study will serve as a ... objective ofthe formative study was to develop a culturally appropriate approach for obtaining assent from children aged eight to 17 years to participate in the operational research; the legal age of...
... visual impairment rates and indicators of other eye-care activities, such as number of visits/inhabitant, glaucoma diagnosis campaign, etc Inequality of quality of care could also be a factor ... were available During the 1999 national census a filtering survey called "Everyday Life and Health" was added A total of 2,275 geographical areas were picked at random from the 1990 survey, stratified ... explaining the prevalence rate differences across the regions Unfortunately, such aspects of ophthalmological activity or quality estimates are unavailable in France at a regional level Lastly, the...
... management of patients with ventricular arrhythmias and the prevention of sudden cardiac death–executive summary: A report ofthe American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task ... general anxiety and depression, whereas avoidance had a stronger association to physical health The interpretation ofthe role of avoidance is not straight forward Cardio-protective avoidance has ... study and the editing ofthe article BR contributed to shaping ofthe article and the editing ofthe article GEE contributed to the statistical analyses and the editing ofthe manuscripts KN participated...
... concept and design SR participated in data integration and data analysis accuracy JM and NK were responsible for statistical analysis and data presentation MM completed the interpretation of data GSM ... consisted ofa systematic sample (k BMI categorization Based on the reported data on body height and mass, BMI values were calculated as the ratio of body mass in kilograms and the square of height ... quality of life, and particularly the physical health ofthe individual, coincide with those of other authors who also found that overweight and obesity have a greater impact on physical rather...
... intensity of thinning was set to account for 15–10% ofthe basal area during the first half ofthe rotation period (up to the age of 50 years) and for 10–6% ofthe basal area in the second half of rotation ... (1) The outputs of analysis were residual chronologies (calculated from measured and modelled data) of all individual trees Climate data Mean monthly temperatures (measured at a height of m above ... calculated the long-term mean of monthly average temperatures and total monthly precipitation in accordance with the period of observation (Table 1) Additionally, average temperature and total precipitation...