background: alcohol use disorders (auds) has been recently prioritized as a health problem in iran. the alcohol use disorders identification test (audit) is an easy-to-use diagnostic tool for excessive drinking. this study was designed to assess the validity and reliability of the persian version of audit questionnaire. methods: participants were 70 individuals with aud (study group) and 70 non...

We use experimental data from a résumé audit to estimate the impact of particular college majors and internship experience on employment prospects. Despite applying exclusively to business-related job openings, we find no evidence that business degrees improve employment prospects. By contrast, internship experience increases the interview rate by 14 percent. The returns to internship experienc...

We take the position that audit mechanisms are essential for privacy protection in healthcare environments. Although audits are used in practice and commercial tools that provide assistance for audits are emerging, we currently lack rigorous models and definitions of properties that can guide the design of appropriate audit mechanisms. We report on our recent result that presents a principled l...

Business process performance evaluation is a key step towards assessing and improving e-business operations. In real-scale scenarios, such evaluation requires the collection, aggregation and processing of vast amounts of data, in particular audit trails. This paper aims at enabling such evaluation by integrating workflow technology with data warehousing. We first present a data model for captur...

Third party audits of product quality — such as consumer product reviews, financial audits, and court decisions — are common. Prior economic analysis finds that more accurate assessments improve welfare, either by facilitating better consumer choices or encouraging producers to improve quality. This paper shows that, when auditors have binding capacity constraints, information available to cons...

In their efforts to implement an effective IT-governance framework, many companies have acquired IS-Audit staff to provide executive management with information on IS-risks. For the purpose of effective communication, it would be helpful to understand how IS-Auditors, ISmanagement and executive management shape their perception of IS-risks, since this forms the basis for their judgement and dec...

The evolution of MIS technology has affected traditional auditing and created a new set of audit issues. This paper focuses on the Continuous Process Auditing System (CPAS) developed at AT&T Bell Laboratories for the Internal Audit organization. The system is an implementation of a Continuous Process Audit Methodology (CPAM) and is designed to deal with the problems of auditing large paperless ...

Requirement engineering calls for continuous possibility to check whether latest changes of significant requirements are met by the target systems. This review is important because the environment of the system, if impacted by changes, may lead to new exposures. Current paper reports on knowledge gained during the attempt to move towards continuous security audit by extending one business proce...