... that CS/MH obligation and expenditure data will be recorded and traced back to CS/MH allocation data and (2) assess the effectiveness of existing communication methods for sharing global health best ... Page 17 GAO-07-486 Global Health data For centrally managed programs, all four missions provided obligation data; however, only one mission provided expenditure data, one mission provided expenditure ... that they were unable to provide any expenditure data (See app V for mission data. ) Although the Bureau for Global Health provided obligation data for these fiscal years for the CS/MH programs...
... Based on Data Maintained for Collection Purposes Chapter IRS Methodology for Estimating Collectibiky Is Not Reliable Appendixes Tables Figures 10 10 13 Background Objectives, Scope, and Methodology ... provide needed data IRS Methodology for Estimating Collectibility Is Not Reliable Reliably estimating an allowance for uncollectible receivables requires consideration of both historical collection ... (a) categories of assessmentswith similar collection risk characteristics, (b) current and forecast economic conditions, and (c) historical collectiondata In its response, IRS took no exception...
... The collection statute of limita(.ions (section GO2 of the Internal Revenue Code) provides a specific period after assessment for IRS ti) collect delinquent taxes Until November 1990, the collection ... special attention Data in the Master File System are the basis for IRS quarterly reports to Treasury, which include a schedule of accounts receivable The Master File System data will also provide ... uncollectible, it did not formally adopt a methodology for estimating the collectibility of its receivables until 1991 IRS first report to Treasury that incorporated this methodology was for September 30,...
... information on its receivables may mislead those who rely on these data, impair IRS collection efforts, and distort the IRS collection performance IRS has improvement efforts under way that may ... the Master File System and the general ledgers are limited, extensive manual data entry is needed to transfer summary data to the general ledgers Further, IRS systems have not been designed to ... developed a separate receivables data base to perform such analyses However, IRS has had to implement additional controls, such as manual reconciliations, to ensure that the data maintained in both sets...
... similar collection risk characteristics; and considering current and forecast economic conditions, as well as historical collection data, in analyses of groups of assessments Once the appropriat,e data ... reliable data on IRS receivables has made the IRS cumbersome collection procedures even less effective Because IRS cannot readily identify which accounts are valid or which have similar collection ... cumbersome collection process In our December 1992 high risk report4 on IRS receivables, we reported that the IRScollection process was lengthy, rigid, and inefficient Typically, IRS begins its collection...
... other data, allowing the machine to execute program on data without the constant shuttling However, this is almost identical to the 2-tape Turing machine, storing program on one tape and data ... Turing machine takes a pair (m,d) of a Turing machine table m, and input data d, and emulates the machine operating on the data Oddly, universality is subjective Marvin Minksky’s classic 7-state ... non-deterministic discrete machine by a nextstate relation.5 Each state has a collection of next states Given a collection of (observable) states in which the machine might be, the set of states...
... comfortable with what the researcher plans to with the data [1] SMS - a novel method to collect data Recently, an alternative method of datacollection has become available in the form of 'Short ... or setting Requirements for datacollection with SMS With the appropriate software, the researcher can access the SMS captured data via the Internet during the datacollection phase This makes ... the two different datacapture methods 0.1 days (-1 day: 0.9 day) 0.7 days (-4 days: days) 36 days (-175 days: 103 days) Q2: Average difference between the two datacapture methods 0.0 days 0.3...
... WP1.4 participants for data quality control, normalisation and statistical methods for the detection of differentially expressed genes in order to provide some more general data analysis guidelines ... provided the data were RIBFA and the Roslin Institute Detection of differentially expressed genes 635 In this paper three main steps of microarray data analysis will be discussed: data quality ... further background correction was possible on these data Detection of differentially expressed genes 637 2.2 Normalisation of the data 2.2.1 Data quality control Several quality control procedures...
... risks data The proposed method was applied to two breast cancer studies We then proposed a novel method for the joint modeling of the longitudinal biomarker and semicompeting risks data The method ... semicompeting risks data and repeated marker data are simultaneously analyzed Since the proposed methods involve high-dimensional integrations, Bayesian Monte Carlo Markov Chain (MCMC) methods were ... risks data 1.2 Joint modeling of repeated measures and semicompeting data 1.3 Weighted method for randomization-based inference CHAPTER BAYESIAN APPROACH FOR SEMICOMPETING RISKS DATA...
... Bulk DataCollection 2.4.1 Opportunistic Routing 2.4.2 High-Throughput Bulk DataCollection Protocols 2.4.3 Collection Tree Protocol (CTP) 2.5 Methods ... generated bulk data is mandatory for all these applications The state-of-the-art bulk datacollection protocol that specifically targets energy 1.3 Case for Collection of Large Data Objects efficiency ... dissemination protocols; (4) bulk datacollection with a discussion on opportunistic routing, high-throughput collection, and collection tree protocol (CTP); (5) methods for handling channels-quality...
... certain portion of the data from the whole data set, or selectively drawing a certain portion of the data from the whole data set It is the latter perception that relates RSS and data reduction together ... as the retained data while the other units in the population are considered as the discarded data Hence, RSS is considered as a data reduction method in general CHAPTER RSS for data reduction ... stage data D(m) is considered as the summary measure on the pth quantile of the CHAPTER RSS for data reduction 22 original data set Let G(m) denotes the distribution of the data in the jth stage data...
... that the method is amenable to quantitative proteomic analysis necessary for biomarker discovery studies Collectively our results demonstrate the great potential of our exudate collectionmethod ... analyzed and interpreted data, wrote the manuscript NLR: Conceived experiments, collected samples CT: carried out analysis of brush biopsy samples, analyzed data PDJ: Conceived data analysis workflow, ... analysis workflow, analyzed and interpreted data BJH: carried out collection and analysis of saliva samples TJG: Conceived experiments, analyzed and interpreted data, wrote the manuscript All authors...
... of 21 Table Summary of variables, datacollection methods and instruments, types and timings of data collected Variables InstrumentData collected Level and data source Time period Structural ... performance: developing methods and theory Implementation Science 2009, 4(24) doi:10.1186/1748-5908-6-61 Cite this article as: Eccles et al.: Instrument development, data collection, and characteristics ... September to December 2009 QOF data National database Performance indicators for diabetes and primary care practice organisation Patients** May 2008 to April 2009 Behaviour data * Involved in care of...
... thực TEMS cho phép giám sát kênh thoại truyền data qua kết nối GPRS, EDGE, chuyển mạch kênh (CSD) chuyển mạch kênh tốc độ cao (HSCSD) Các phiên truyền data, voice kiểm soát phạm vi TEMS TEMS trang ... Chức điều khiển TEMS a Chuỗi lệnh Chuỗi lệnh sử dụng để TEMS tự động test dịch vụ thoại dịch vụ data Nó cho phép ghi lại tất lệnh mà sau sử dụng lại suốt trình đo Driving test - Đối với dịch vụ ... soát việc lựa chọn lại cell cách kiểm soát với Handover việc đo tỉ số C/A C/I - Đối với dịch vụ data, test ứng dụng HTTP, FTP, Email, Ping, SMS, WAP MMS Một điều thật thú vị dùng nhiều phiên,...
... and locate the Entrance method Add a statement to the Entrance method to write the value returned from the ObjectCount method of the Point class to the screen The Entrance method should look like ... purpose of a static class is purely to act as a holder of utility methods and fields A static class cannot contain any instance data or methods, and it does not make sense to try and create an object ... created instance and static methods, and called both of these types of methods You have also implemented instance and static fields You have seen how to make fields and methods accessible by using...
... All of our estimation methods aim to maximize this log-likelihood In many applications, maximizing the log-likelihood leads to exactly the same estimator as the Least-Squares method does, but the ... may use AR(p) specifications if you want to model autocorrelation Keep in mind that your panel data set should have a rather long time series dimension in order to get reliable estimators of ... only one option: Whites HCCM can be produced if you not choose SUR Hypothesis Testing In panel data models (as in single-equation multiple-regression models) we are interested in testing two...
... Methods a Solution by The Gauss and Gauss-Seidel Iteration Methods b The Method of Hotelling and Bodewig c Relaxation Methods for the Solution of Linear Equations d Convergence ... study of numerical methods with a description of methods for manipulating matrices and solving systems of linear equations However, before we begin any discussion of numerical methods, we must ... most reliable and stable direct methods for the solution of linear equations It also provides a method for the inversion of matrices Let begin by describing the method and then trying to understand...
... cancer-related data that motivate this project These data show socioeconomic and racial/ethnic disparities in lung cancer mortality among U.S females for 1995–1999 Although these data help to characterize ... Program (www.seer.cancer.gov) SEER*Stat Database: Incidence—Seer 11 Regs Source: Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program SEER*Stat Database: 11 Registries, Expanded Races Institute, ... have been the general method of choice applied to measuring health disparity A brief guide to health disparity measurement can be found in a recent textbook on epidemiologic methods in health policy...
... project Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Studies of welfare populations : datacollection and research issues : Panel on Data and Methods for Measuring the Effects of Changes in Social ... of methods for adjusting for missing data after the fact—that is, after the data have been collected Their paper focuses on traditional weighting methods for such adjustment and includes methods ... welfare—Statistical methods Social surveys Public welfare—Research—Methodology I Ver Ploeg, Michele II Moffitt, Robert A III Citro, Constance F (Constance Forbes), 1942- IV Panel on Data and Methods for...