a review of current knowledge

... Foundation: Altamonte Springs, FL, 97129 Arena, M., M Arnaboldi and G Azzone 2006 Internal audit in Italian organizations Managerial Auditing Journal 21 (3): 275-292 Bailey, A. D., A. A Gramling and ... Australia and Nava Subramaniam Faculty of Business and Law Deakin University, Victoria, Australia ABSTRACT: This paper reviews the recent European and international literature on i nternal audit independence ... internal audit activities; and (v) internal audit as a management training ground For As previously noted, for a detailed review of external auditors’ evaluation of and reliance on the work of internal...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 23:20

... exhibition and non-theatrical sales and distribution at Fox Entertainment Digital Cinema in Ireland 19 Arts Alliance Media VPF proposals Arts Alliance Media (AAM) has achieved a position of ... implementation of the scheme is through a contract between AAM and individual cinemas AAM established a technical headquarters in London and provide a full range of installation, training, maintenance ... cinema The other approach adopts a more political stance and aims to find a way that enables all participants, large or small, to benefit from the roll-out of digital cinema As outlined later...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 14:20

... scale, intensity, form, cost, and legality of these classes In particular, the paper offers a comparative analysis of the trends in private tutoring between 1998 and 2006 where data are available ... and Appraisal.” Review of Educational Research 60 (3): 373–417 Becker, Gary (1993) “Human Capital- A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis with Special Reference to Education- 3rd edition” Chicago: ... number of brothers and sisters are rather comparable and not appear to indicate any strong pattern of gender bias (Models and 6) Conclusion This paper provides an update of the supplementary education...

Ngày tải lên: 30/08/2016, 07:46

... Muittari PA, Nelimarkka O, Seppala T, Kanto JH, Kirvela OA Comparison of the analgesic effects of intrabursal oxycodone and bupivacaine after acromioplasty Journal of Clinical Anesthesia 1999; ... L, Fabre B Pain relief after arthroscopic shoulder surgery: a comparison of intraarticular analgesia, suprascapular nerve block, and interscalene brachial plexus block Anesthesia and Analgesia ... cuff repair, acromioplasty, subacromial decompression and analgesia ⁄ intra-articular, suprascapular, interscalene, subacromial and cervical paravertebral The reference lists of eligible articles...

Ngày tải lên: 30/08/2014, 22:18

... 40-50% of trabecular mass by 90 years of age [58] This results in a decline in the loadbearing capacity of the vertebral body For example, load bearing capacity in a lumbar vertebra can decrease from ... confirmed that spinal intersegmental movement of 2° or more is associated with the development of local microtrauma [29] Instability of the trunk may lead to a biomechanical overload of already weakened ... Diagram of the systems approach that may be applied to explain the multifactorial aetiology underlying osteoporotic vertebral fracture Bone, macroscopic, local and global factors may interact...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 09:49

... Transactions International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing International Journal of Human Factors in Manufacturing Internationa Journal of Operations and Production Management International ... Table Summary of journals on agile manufacturing Agile manufacturin g research Agile manufacturing as a new strategy is captivating the attention of researchers A growing amount of research has ... developed and completed by best practitioners of manufacturing Katayama and Bennett (1999) Japan Analysis based on survey data of how major Japanese companies are changing their strategies Survey administered...

Ngày tải lên: 23/11/2013, 10:01

... especially for older drivers Casualty crash analyses, even those encompassing casualties of all severity, have a sampling bias: the so-called ‘frailty bias’, which exaggerates any apparent age-related ... rates based on US Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) data for 1997, National Highway Transport Safety Administration (NHTSA) (see Table 1.) Table 1: Number of driver fatalities and fatality ... Newstead and O’Hare (2003) As noted by these authors: “… it may not be entirely accurate to label such behavioural adaptations as ‘compensation’ While these changes may reflect a behavioural adaptation...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 18:20

... to access information (Davis 199 8a, Husted) How can information and forms be made more readable? Many researchers understood the principles of clear language that should have made health education ... could affect how much attention patients give to the task of reading (Bjorn); • materials which are more readable according to technical measures, such as readability formulas, may still use unfamiliar ... of clear language It had no illustrations or photographs and was written in a narrative format The main difference between this booklet and the others was that it was produced by a local cancer...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 13:20

... Predicting bank performance with financial forecasts: A case of Taiwan commercial banks Journal of Banking and Finance, 28, 2353—2368 Karels, G V — Prakash, A J (1987) Multivariate normality and forecasting ... stochastic DEA Kao and Liu (2004) formulate a DEA model of interval data for use in evaluating the performance of banks Their study makes advance predictions of the performance of 24 Taiwan banks ... 9—33 Canbas, S — Cabuk, A — Kilic, S B (2005) Prediction of commercial bank failure via multivariate statistical analysis of financial structures: the Turkish case European Journal of Operational...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 06:20

... thematic areas for clarity and appropriateness of thematic research priorities (Task 3a) ; balance among substantive research areas as well as among research activities such as observations, modeling, ... Graduate Fellow JODI BOSTROM, Research Associate NANCY CAPUTO, Research Associate SARAH CAPOTE, Senior Program Assistant iv OCEAN STUDIES BOARD SHIRLEY A POMPONI (Chair), Harbor Branch Oceanographic ... clarity and appropriateness of the thematic research priorities; the balance among substantive research areas as well as research activities such as observations, modeling, and communication of...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 06:20

... local transportation of cials NASA’s General Aviation Program Of ce devised a “General Aviation Road Map” laying out a 25-year strategy for the development of a national small aircraft transportation ... toward such far-reaching goals, NASA and other AGATE and GAP participants began discussing ways to further the SATS concept and build acceptance by FAA, the broader GA community, and state and ... Other Uses of GA Aircraft GA aircraft are used in many ways other than for transportation FAA estimates that less than 30 percent of GA flight hours are for air taxi service and corporate and business...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 06:20

... (in Japanese) IPCS (1989) Environmental Health Criteria 89 Formaldehyde, World Health Organization, Geneva Takeda, M., Saijo, Y., Yuasa, M., Kanazawa, A. , Araki, A and Kishi, R (2009) Relationship ... Indoor Air Quality Indoor Environ., 1, 27–34 (in Japanese) 126) Kishi, R., Saijo, Y., Kanazawa, A. , Tanaka, M., Yoshimura, T., Chikara, H., Takigawa, T., Morimoto, K., Nakayama, K and Shibata, E (2009) ... Environmental Health Criteria 186 Ethylbenzene, World Health Organization, Geneva 84) Saijo, Y., Kishi, Y., Sata, F., Katakura, Y., Urashima, Y., Hatakeyama, A. , Kobayashi, S., Jin, K., Kurahashi,...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 22:20

... that the trade-offs or - 31 relationships between AFQT and years of experience or additional training are linear Rather, the authors note that although the magnitude of the trade-off may vary, ... Table 2.2 Number of Flights and Marginal Products of Yearof-Service Groups .8 Table 2.3 Mission Capable Rate and Marginal Products of Pay Grade Groups Table 2.4 Mission Capable Rate ... more faults falls drastically as average AFQT score fell Another important observation is that the effect of AFQT is additive, meaning that each additional high-scoring team member increases the...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 22:20

... programs Product placements – such as a character drinking a soda or offering it to another character, a can or bottle appearing on a table, or a brand name mentioned in dialogue – occurred in a ... meals, breakfast cereals, candy, snacks, and beverages, as well as fruits and vegetables and dairy products, and the campaigns generally were integrated across promotional formats The focus of ... snacks, and breakfast cereals Animated characters from Cartoon Network programming appeared on labels and packaging for QSR children’s meals, fruit snacks, snack crackers, yogurt, macaroni and cheese,...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 07:20

... associated with the increased activity of carbonic anhydrase, improving the quality of egg shell and the presence of manganese has an activator influence on the calcification and resistance of ... www.arpnjournal.com Arias, J.L., D .A Carrino, M.S Fernandez, J.E Rodrigues, J.E Denis and A. I Capln, 1992 Partial biochemical and immunological characterization of avian eggshell extracellular matrices Arch ... Posstlethwaite, A. E, J.M Seyer and A. H Kang, 1978 Chemotactic attraction of human fibroblasts to type I, II and III collagen and collagen derived peptides Proc Natl Acad Sci USA., 75: 871-875 Romanoff,...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 01:20

... somewhat more mandatory to enable aggregation of results to the agency level The menu approach holds out the advantage of creating potentially comparable performance data that may facilitate aggregating ... very appropriate as an indicator of change, although it may provide a wealth of useful information about performance But qualitative information often can be translated into numerical indicators ... evaluation, etc Results based management at different organizational levels Performance measurement, and results based management more generally, takes place at different organizational or management...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 11:20

... defense of the neonate and the intestinal flora Acta Paediatrica Scandinavica 351(Suppl.):122–125 Pisacane A, Graziano L, Zona G, Dolezalova H, Cafiero M, Coppola A, Scarpellino B, Ummarino M, Mazzarella ... Nagata I, Shiraki K, Tanimoto K, Harada Y, Tanaka Y, Okada T 1992 Mother-to-infant transmission of Hepatitis C virus Journal of Pediatrics 120:432–434 78 Ogasawara S, Kage M, Kosai K, Shimamatsu ... 31 MacMahon B, Lin TM, Lowe CR, Mirra AP, Ravnihar B, Salber EJ, Trichopoulos D, Valaoras VG, Yuasa S 1970 Lactation and cancer of the breast: A summary of an international study Bulletin of the...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 10:20

... Washback indicates “an intended or unintended (accidental) direction and function of curriculum change on aspects of teaching and learning by means of a change of public examinations” Similar ... effect of teaching and learning Types of Washback Generally, washback can be analysed according to two major types: positive and negative, depending on whether it has a beneficial or harmful impact ... goals of teaching and learning, such as the introduction of new textbooks and new curricula Table Summary of Negative washback Classroom settings Educational/societal system Negative Washback...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 12:20

... is a key factor, as a data storage or a data processing unit can be replaced by a miniature transmitter However data forwarding wearables, which typically use RF, Bluetooth, or WLAN, are range-limited, ... complex analysis of mobility data on a local PC They are typically smaller than their data logging and data processing counterparts, as they use a miniature transmission module instead of storage ... lightest wearable option, are suited to the frail and housebound as they analyze the data in real-time and can raise immediate alerts Data-logging wearables are suitable for monitoring multi-parameter,...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 21:20