* Preliminary: comments welcome. This work has been partially funded by a scholarship from the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. + This work constitutes part of my dissertation at LBS. Thanks are due to my supervisor Henri Servaes and the other members of my transfer committee (Shiva Shivakumar and Michel Habib). I have also benefited from discussions with Abstract This s...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Distinguishing between toxoplasmosis and lymphoma brain lesions in AIDS patients is difficult but clinically relevant. This study was performed to test the hypothesis that diffusion-weighted (DW) imaging with apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) maps can be used to distinguish these two lesions. METHODS The ADC values were calculated in regions of interest placed in 13 ...

This paper describes the development and applications of FRAANK – Financial Reporting and Auditing Agent with Net Knowledge. The prototype of FRAANK presented here provides automated access to, and understanding and integration of rapidly changing financial information available from various sources on the Internet. In particular, FRAANK implements intelligent parsing to extract accounting numb...

this paper examines the dimensions of accountability that the executive must fulfil in the islamic republic of iran and the role of accounting in meeting accountability obligations as they are at present. accountability continues to be interpreted, almost exclusively, in terms of the fiduciary stewardship of resources appropriated by parliament. public sector resource accounting information sys...

The Mexican banking crisis of 1994]1995 has widely been interpreted as the victim of the balance-of-payments crisis, rather than its cause. After all, Mexican banks had been enjoying high capitalization ratios, deemed to be more than sufficient to deal with the increased risk of non-performing loans. This paper, however, suggests that to a large extent Mexican accounting practices } rather than...

This paper is concerned with the inelastic behavior of axially loaded concrete-filled thin-walled steel tubular columns subjected to local buckling. A nonlinear fiber element analysis program accounting for local buckling effects is developed for predicting the ultimate strength and ductility of concrete-filled thin-walled steel tubular columns. The effects of local buckling are taken into cons...

Using a sample of over 600 million φ → K+K− decays collected at the DAΦNE e+e− collider, we have measured with the KLOE detector the absolute branching ratios for the charged kaon semileptonic decays, K → π0e±ν(γ) and K → π0μ±ν(γ). The results, BR(Ke3) = 0.04965 ± 0.00038stat ± 0.00037syst and BR(Kμ3) = 0.03233 ± 0.00029stat ± 0.00026syst, are inclusive of radiation. Accounting for correlations...