In this study we assessed the existing communicable disease surveillance system in health centers of a province in northeastern Thailand. The first part of the study was an examination of medical records from 11 local health centers: 649 were examined for sensitivity, positive predictive value, and representativeness; and 433 were examined for timeliness and data quality. The second part of the...

In December 2004 the three US credit reporting agencies Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion complied with the Fair and Accurate Credit Transaction Act (FACTA) and started providing free copies of their credit reports to any consumers who requested it. The FACTA initiative was overseen by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and was significant in many respects: it was one of the first and largest i...

leave : provided that, if on the first occasion on which he takes leave after January 1st, 1919, he combines with other leave privilege leave to a less amount than stands to his credit, the balance of the privilege leave at his credit will lapse, and he will not be entitled to enjoy it on a subsequent occasion. The total amount of privilege leave to be enjoyed under this clause on the second oc...

Credit cards have many important benefits; however, these same benefits often carry with them many privacy concerns. In particular, the need for users to be able to monitor their own transactions, as well as bank’s need to justify its payment requests from cardholders, entitle the latter to maintain a detailed log of all transactions its credit card customers were involved in. A bank can thus b...

This paper proposes a balance sheet metamodel using Model Driven Architecture (MDA) methodology. In order to do that, we use the international financial reporting standard (IFRS) as a good starting point owing to its wider adoption across countries in preparing balance sheet. The balance sheet is summary of financial position of a financial entity such as credit institutions. The reason for app...

We survey 1,050 Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) in the U.S., Europe, and Asia to directly assess whether their firms are credit constrained during the global financial crisis of 2008. We study whether corporate spending plans differ conditional on this surveybased measure of financial constraint. Our evidence indicates that constrained firms planned deeper cuts in tech spending, employment, and...

enders in the United States have voluntarily shared information about their customers — through credit bureaus — for nearly a century. In this article, Bob Hunt explains how sharing information about consumers’ indebtedness and payment histories can benefit both consumers and lenders. These benefits depend, however, on the accuracy of the information reported and the care taken to ensure that i...

BACKGROUND Shift work and/or sleep quality may affect health. We investigated whether shift work and sleep quality, separately and jointly, were associated with abnormal levels of triglycerides, total cholesterol (TC), and low-and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol in 360 police officers (27.5% women). METHODS Triglycerides, TC, and high-density lipoprotein were analyzed on the Abbott Archi...